The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-07-11

work The progress has been slow, but
! the fire has been kept dimly burning upon
the sacred altar. 1t was left 10 the mys-
terious christian influence Of the nine
! teenth century, when the human mind
was liberated. II commence anew this Cos
pel work, and its light has blaZrn in every
: land, and the bible has bcrn published in
! every tongue. We are on the eve Of Il
new christian era in the world. Our ma
! ton with its free government and its ag-
gressive christian civilization is in Il posi-
! ton to march forward and convert the
world. With the isles Of the Pacific in our
! possession. with the confidence of the
millions of heat thens in the Fast. and with
our wealth and commerce, and Anglo
Saxon love of liberty. we can raise the
banner of the cross and accomplish the
heaven designed work of having the Cos
pei preachsd to every creature
Our republican government. with these
mighty potentialities for progress, civili-
zation and human freedom, is well fitted
to challenge the admiration of the world,
and to scatter everywhere the blessings of
mans liberty. Standing as the United
| States does today, as the largest export.
ing nation, the wealthiest and most re-
sourceful nation, they can exercise a con-
trolling influence in the affairs of the
world, and ultimately become dominant
i'm them. Their political institutions have
given them this prominence, and if the
people wisely use all the opportunities of
| the present, they will become the great
factor in the worlds future progress and
civilization.
| FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN ?EPURLIC.
| If we patrioticalty utilize orr present
OPPORTUNITIES and fulfil all of our national
obligations, no one can speculate too ro
mantically about our future aS nation.
For one to have looked forward at the
founding of Rome. and predicted ali the
clories Of the Roman empire when in the
zenith of its splendors, he would have been
hailed as dreamer and his prophecies as
fairy tales. For one to have stood on the
barren shores of Britain when Caesar
| landed there with his legions and por-
trayed in story the glorious 5uture of the
| British empire, he would have been mock
cd AZ prophet with a E Stempered i'm
agination. So if one standing on the great
eminence OF time, the beginning of the
twentieth century, should predict the fu-
ture glory of the American republic, it
would BE- only a story half written or
picture dimly painted, with all the splen-
dors of coloring left out. do not believe
that any mind can have even the faintest
conception of what our nation will be and
will accomplish in the coming centuries,
| if we are true to ourselves and our
heaven appointed destiny. When We look
backward to the 4th of July, 171G, and see
thirteen colonies struggling with the
most powerful government on the earth
for independence, and consider the great
odds against rs. and contrast our condi-
tion then and now. we can scarcely credit
the evidence of our own experience. The
progress we have made, the government
we have built up, the nation we have cre-
ated. all seem like fancies, and we are
|
plation. Today seventy-six millions of
| American freemen bow down at the altar
of liberty erected by our forefathers and
pour out their labations of praise. 4 CEN
tury hence, if we are true to constitutional
government and human liberty, two hun
dred millions will gather around the altar.
And as the centuries roll OH thousands OF
millions will celebrate this anniversary,
and their hosa1nahs of freedom will echo
and re-echo throughout the earth, and all
nations will be prepared to take up the
refrain. The day of mans dellverance has
come, liberty aud christianity, now and
| forever.
| The promised land, flowing with milk
and honey. was the encouragement held
out to the Israelites in their desolate wan
derings in the wilderness. Without this
they would haxH faltered and fallen by
the wayside andS never accomplished the
divine purpose of their deliverance from
Egyptian bondage. As Il nation we have
reached a crisis equally as important as
! that which confronted the Israelites, and
the encouragement offered us is the world
as our promised land, where we are to
plant the seeds of freedom and christian
ity and labor to fructify and enrich them.
until they shall grow up and the nations
shall lie down in peace under their shade
The same power which brought the wan
derers at last out of the wilderness Is sus-
tanning us. and if we are true to duty and
destiny it will bring us into the promised
land of our hopes and rewards. Such
contemplation is pewldering, and yet II
we read tho signs of the times correctly,
we are as nation moving on to such
destiny.
The great events in the future Of our
republic can be predicted with some de-
gree of certainty. One of the pre-eminent
events will be union of the English
speaking race, in which AngloSaXon
ideas of liberty and christian civilization
will become predominant, and finally
control the politics. the policies and COM
merce of the world There may not be
any political alliance between the republi-
can United States and monarchical Great
Britain, but there will be unity OF pur-
pose which will link them together in the
bonds of common interest. and race af-
fliation. With such a combination of
resources and power, it will be possible to
disseminate throughout the earth the
spirit of liberty now permeating the entire
Anglo-Saxon race. In time the prophecy
of the last century that Europe would be-
come republican or Cossack will be full
filled.
The Eastern question of to-day is the
beginnin. of the final struggle. With
union of the English-speaking peoples the
despotism of Russia will be destroyed,
and all the nations will be forced into the
crusade for liberating mankind from the
blighting tyranny under which it has suf-
fered for centuries. What an entrancing !
picture-the unity of all the nations in
one common and patriotic purpose. to