Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-11-29
the wilderness hath retreated and the
pillow hath conquered.
Religion the Tree of Life.


the effect of successful or blighted in
dustry. We must, in all our Occupa-
tions. rejoice over the victories of the
pillow today The earth was once cursed
for mans sake, and occasionally the
soil revenges itself on us by refusing
a bounuful harvest. | suppose that
but for sin the earth would be pro-
ducing wheat and corn and sweet fruits
as naturally as now it produces null
iein stalks and Canada thiStleS. There
is hardly hillock between the forests
of Maine and the lagOons of Florida
Jersey and the pines of Oregon. that
has not sometimes shown its natural
and total depravity. The thorn and
thistle seem to have usurped the soil.
and nothing but the rebellion of the
pillow can uprOot the evil supremacy.
But God is good. Now, if one of our
seasons partially proves a failure. the
earth seems to repent of 1t the next
summer in more munificent supply.
Praise God for the great harvests
that have been reaped this last year,
Some of them, injured by drought or
insects or freShets, were not as boun-
tiful as usual, others, far in excess of
what have ever before been gathered,
while higher prices will help make up
for any decreased supply Sure sign of
agricultural prosperity we have in the
fact that cattle and horses and sheep
and swine and all farm animals have
valne. Twenty million swine siaugh-
tered his last year. and yet so many
hogs left. Enormous paying off Of
farm mortgages has spoiled the old
speeches of the calamity howlers. II
the ancients in their festivals present
ed their rejoicings before Ceres. the
goddess Of corn and tillage, shall we
neglect to rejoice in the present of
the great God now? From Atlantic to
Pacific let the American nation cele-
brate the victories of the pillow
Growth of National Industry
Railroads OF fabulous length have
been completed over which western
trains rush past the swift footed deer,
making The frightened birds to dart
into the heavens at the cough of the
smoke pipes and the savage yell of
the steam whistle. In hot haste oar
national industry advances. her breath
the air of ten thousand furnaces. her
song the song Of amounted factories.
her fONstep the fash of wheel buck
cts and the tread of the shaft and
the stamp of foundries. Talk about
antediluvian longevity. | think the
average of human life is more now
cal facilities men work so much faster
and accomplish so mush more in a life
time that man can afford to die now
at forty as we'll as one of old at 900.
think the average OF human life in
point of accomplishment is now equiv
alent to about 500 years, as near as
can calculate it. In all our occupa-
tiCns and professions we teel the eff
feet of crippled or enlarged me-
chanical enterprise. We all have stock
in every house that is 5uilded and in
every public conveyance that is con-
structed and in every ship that is
sailed. When we see the Woodworking
men of the land living in comfortable
abodes, with Injuries upon their tables
that once even kings could not afford.
having the advantage of thorough ed
ucation, of accomplishment and art.
we are all ready at this season to unite
with them in praise to God for his
goodness.
You shall yet see American labor
rising up with a stronger arm and a
stOuter heart and a swarthier frame
New cities will be built Commerce
on the lakes will take new wings
Where now stand unbroken forests
great capitals of business and affiuence
will rise and streams that have idled
away 5000 years will be harnessed to
to toll and sweat like the Chatta hoo
chez and the Merrimac. At one of our
great dry docks we shall yet build he
model ocean steamship. 1t will come
together under the chorus of a thou
sand American hammers. She will
star. amid a great national hurrah and
move far out at sea as though an is
land had been unanchOred with its
forests of masts, or as if some one had
said in Scripture phrase unto a noun
tain. BE thou cast into the sea" The
volcano in her heart will sprinkle on
the sea a baptism of fire, and as she
goes up the channel of st. George
among the shipyards of the old world
and among the wheels of Liverpool and
Manchester shall be announced the
skill and the glory of the American
hammer.
Advance i'm Literature.
But. considering the youth of our
nation and the fact that compare
lively few persons devote themselves
entirely to literature. | think We have
great reason TO thank God for the
progress of our American literature
past such men as Bancroft and Pres
colt, as essayists Irving and Emerson,
as jurists Story and Marshall and
Kent, as theologians Edwards and
Hodge, as poets Pierrepont and
Sprague and Longfellow and Bryant.
as sculptors Powers and Crawford and
Palmer. as painters such men as West
and Cole and Inman and Kensett? And
among the living Americans what gal
axies of intellectual splendor and
power! Edward Eggleston and Will
Carlton and Mark Twain and John
Kendrick Bangs and Marion Harland
and MarQarpt SanQctar and STOCKTON