The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-11-29
OUR NATION
WILL ENDURE
DR.. HurIbut DiScOurSeS on Sub
jeCt at Thanksgiving Service.

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jeCt at Thanksgiving Service.
Seven Reasons Given for his Argu-
ment--History Reviewed Hand of
Providence the Divine Power in
Human History.
Union Thanksgiving services were held
in the South Street Presbyterian Church
yesterday morning; the Rev. Albert
Erdman, DID,, presiding. Prayer was
offered by Rev. s. 2. Batten, and the
Scriptures were read by Rev j. B.
Beaumont
MIR. Eaton sang an aria, IA New
Heaven and New Earth" (Holy City,
Gaul. Mr.. Muir rendered as an organ
voluntary, a march by Moulson.
The sermon was preached by the Rev.
Jesse L. Hurlbut, DID, of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church. in part as fol-
lows, from the text, Deut. 33 81
There is one question which has
been asked many times since the days
of 1776. It is the question: How
long will the American Republic en-
dure? 1t has been asked in our own
land, sometimes in deep anxiety,
sometimes in glorious hope It has
been asked abroad, in tones of sym
pathy hy peoples struggling for their
own liberty, in tones of scorn by their
rulers. The hope of the world for
freedom and popular government is
bound up with the fate of this Repub-
lie; and it is no wonder that our ex-
pertinent, wrought on so vast scale,
is watched by the world with the
deepest interest. Let us consider that
question to-day: Will the American
Republic live? and let us obtain, if
we can, some ground upon which to
base an intelligent answer.
If we are to reason from the past,
we might judge that tnis nation will
NOT endure; for the shores of his
tory are strewn with the wrecks of
dead nations. Other great lands be-
sides ours have risen, and shone, and
fallen, leaving only memory among
men. Alexander led his army to the
conquest of the earth and won an
empire extending from the Adriatic
Sea to the Indus River; but in ten
years after his early death it was in
ruins. Rome won the world around
the Mediterranean, but she had her
decline and her fall. Charlemagne
built up Holy Roman Empire in
Central Europe, but it's power soon
passed away it lived only as shad-
ow for ten centuries, and then it was
laid in it's grave. Is there any rea-
son to believe that this titanic empire
in the west will live when others have
died?
Let me in the opening of our dis
cussion, state the creed which rev.
erently aid steadfastly believe con-
cerning our beloved land. believe
that if the sun shall look down upon
this earth at the opening of the thir-
tieth century after Christ, thousand
years from the present; it shall shine
not upon many nations, but upon one
nation OF many states occupying this
broad belt of empire on the American
continent. / believe that a Thousand
years from now the sun shall smile
upon thousand millions of people,
united. peaceful, self-governing,
prosperous. powerful-the mightiest
| nation upon the face of the earth.
believe that the flag of that nation
shall be the same banner that floats
above us to-day. know not how
many white stars shall shine in its
blue feld-uhere is room there for two
hundred. ButI believe that it, will
have thirteen stripes, and that it will
represent. then, what it represents
now, government of the people, by
the people, for the people. The
American Republic is destined to
endure, and the American flag to float
as long as nations live and banners
wave.
First. Let us consider tho fact of
situation. Take down your map of
the world, spread it out, and You will
see, if you have read history Alright,
that without solitary exception all
the great enduring nations of earth 8
history have been found in one belt
of the earth's surface and that, the
middle Of the North Temperate Zone.
There never has arisen strong, self
reliant nation in the tropics; there
never yet has arisen one in the polar
circle, or in the far north. You may
recall two nations, one in the south,
the other in the north, one in the
long ago past, the other in the present,
which appear to be exceptions to this
principle Egypt and Russia; yet
neither of these nations affords real
argument Egypt lies very near the
tropics, and it did continue long as
nation, but its continuance was due
| to cause which we shall notice un-
der the head of boundaries" more
over it was never conquering land /;
on the contrary it was conquered by
foreign powers over and over again.