Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-06-30

diers. shall have no trouble with the
Indians because l intend to buy the
land from them" BUY the land from
the Indiansv' exclaimed King Charles.
what do you mean? Why, 1 have
decided you that tract Of land. 1t is
mine, and I gave it to you. For what,
then, William Penn, did you pay me
$16,OO0?" Il paid you the S16OOO,"
replied the brave Quaker, ito purchase
your good will, not the land That
land, your majesty, does not belong to
you any more than it does to me. The
land Of Pennsylvania does not belong
to you any more than the city of Lon
don would belong to party of Amer
lean Indians who in canoe might be
blown across the Atlantic and land
upon our shores and who then might
go up the Strand waving their toma-
hawks and shouting, The city of Lon
don is ours because we discovered itv''
So William Penn, believing that all
weak and helpless people should be
justly protected crossed the Atlantic
and made his famous agreement with
the Indian chiefs under the Charter
oak" And as a result of that agree
ment the Pennsylvania colonies lived
in peace and happiness because they
were true to the helpless. SO God will
prosper Americas future if the Amer
lean nation is true and faithful in it's
protection and care of the weaker and
helpless nations.
R11f nh no fnCf iccyia Of
America next to scattering the gospel
of Jesus Christ is to prove that it's
people can be true to God in it's days
Of prosperity as we'll as in it's days of
adversely. When people are poor,
weak and helpless, when a troubled
and bleeding and suffering people are
struggling for liberty and for their
very existence, when a collection Of
ex-slaves are following their leader
through the weary journey Of a forty
year tramp through the wilderness, it
is not so difficult for them to pray and
to worship God, but it is difficult for a
people to be true to God unless when
riches come and prosperity comes and
unlimited influence comes they have
an especial grace given to them. 1t is
difficult to be true to God when the
mighty fortresses have been builded
at the mouth of every harbor to keep
out the foreign foe and when the rat
tie of the factory and the whistle of
the steam engine and the blow Of the
hammer and the rasp of the saw are
all playing an accompaniment to the
tune of a national financial success.
Reconsecrate the Nation.
AS the American nation is a govern
ment for the people and by the people,
I would have every one of US this
Fourth of July season reconsecrate our
nation to God by reconsecrating our
own personal lives to his divine serv-
ice. When the ambassador from Ger
many appears at the White House and
presents his official documents, he does
not come as the representative of the
German nation, but as the personal
representative of Emperor William.
The ambassador of England represents
King Edward. The representative of
Italy represents King Victor Emman-
uel. But when Americas ambassador
goes abroad he does not represent the
president or the secretary of state, but
he represents the people-the common
people of America. And as part of the
common people of America we can
here and now begin to reconsecrate
our government to the Lord in it's days
of prosperity by reconsecrating our
selves. o Lord, our God, can any one
have a greater work to do in the evan
gelization of the world than we Amer
leans if we will only consecrate our
lives to thy service?
I selected this text, 1.-The field is the
world" for two reasons = first, be-
cause the five words spoken by Jesus
Christ to his disciples exactly convey
the idea of the worldwide sweep of
Americas future influence in the evan
gelization of the two hemispheres. A
Christian nation has no more right ia
close it's doors and live for itself and
let the rest Of the people Of the world
suffer and die than an individual has
the right to lock and bar the doors OF
his own home and let his neighbors be
murdered in cold blood.
But the second reason why selected
this text is because it always has had
an intense personal interest to me
This was the first text which my IA
Their as a theological student ever
preached upon. When my father was
a young man at New Brunswick semi
nary, he went to visit my uncle, who
was then pastor at Easthampton, N
Y. He went to visit in the same ole
parsonage where the great Lyman
Beecher, the father Of Henry Ware
Beecher, used to live and where man!
Of the famous brothers and sisters Of
Henry Ward Beecher were born. AND
while my father was visiting his brother
n-law the Rev. Stephen Mershon, thu
village minister, asked him to preach
So he preached in the schoolhous
there in the village Of Easthamptol
his first sermon. The schoolhouse Il