Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-10-10

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to disappear on the millennial dawn.
That sea of blood shall forever disap-
pear, the drinking of which turns a
human heart into that of wild beasts
when he is willing to trample upon and
destroy his weaker fellows. That sea
of blood shall be licked up which makes
man fawn at the feet of man only be-
cause. like tigers cub, his claws are
not yet sharp enough and his jaw not
yet strong enough to tear limb from
limb the beng he now salutes as mas
ter and king
But perhaps we had better describe
how the words of my text may mean
the sea of hate" before we make
our application to this truth. God made
of one blood all nations, to dwell upon
the face of the earth He never intend
ed Jews to be antagonistic to gentiles
or human governments to be arrayed
against human governments. He
never intended the dividing walls of
color to separate the white races from
the black, or the yellow skins of the
Asiatics TO be at war with the combin-
ed forces of the civilized world. But
the oceans, perhaps, more than any
other means, have been the cause
which has produced these much to be
deprecated results. Great seas have
flowed in between the continents. For
thousands of years the navigators were
unable to cross them. The ocean beds
are so broad and long that though the
Australian continent, with an area of
2,944, 62S square miles, was discovered
by the Dutch explorers in 1906, it was
practically lost for nearly two CEN
turtles, as pebble might be lost in the
bottom of lake 1t had to be redis-
covered by Captain Cook in I'LL. Thus
widely separated peoples grew up with
separate interests. They spoke differ
ent languages. Their countenances
were bleached by the SHOWS Of the
frigid zone or darkly tanned by the
tropical heats. Because they had no
previous intercourse they associated
themselves in clans or banded them
selves together in nations. When they
confronted each other, they came not
as friends, but as armed foes.
AHC cCa VA
Do you suppose that if Carthage had
been situated only a few miles from
Rome there would have ever been q
Hamilcar fighting at Mount Eryx or a
Hamilcar's greater son, Hannibal, be-
Ing defeated by Scipio the Great at
Zama, in 202? The reason Carthage
hated Rome and Rome hated Carthage
''sea of hate called the Mediterra-
mean, two thousand miles long and
seven hundred miles wide. The "sea
of separation" became, like the Dead
sea, ''sea of blood" Do you sup
pose England would ever have treated
the American colonies as she did dur
ing the eighteenth century had she not
been separated from them by an At
lantic ocean three thousand miles wide?
Why, the American colOnists were of
the same blood as those who lived on
English shores. The children of the
Virginia planters and of the s1assa-
chusetts aristocrats were all sent over
to the English schools to be educated.
But no, England would not treat her
American subjects as she did those
who were earning their bread on the
London Strand. The "sea Of separa
tom became the "sea of hate" and
the bloody Revolutionary war was
merely the echo of the Atlantic's moan
ing waves tapping Plymouth rock and
Dover cliffs.
Do you suppose Rome would have
ever placed her iron heel Of tyranny
upon the neck of the PROSTATE Hebrew
had Jerusalem not been separated from
the capital Of the Caesars by the same
waves which separated Rome from
Carthage? Of course certain nations
have been and are separated from 9TH
er nations by the barriers Of mighty
mountain ranges. The Pyrenees sepa-
rate France from Spain and the mighty
Alps form the northern boundary Of
Italy and the western boundary of
Austria and the southern boundary of
Germany, and shut up Switzerland
as with Chinese wall. But, after all,
the greatest separators of nations al
ways have been the mighty seas. Thus,
when st. John looked off upon the wa
tiers of the Mediterranean and said,
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And there was no more sea- he
meant practically this: In heaven there
snail be no hate, no bitterness, no fault
innings, no bloodshed, no Jew hating
! Roman, no Roman hating Greek. no
Japan fighting Russia and no Snain
sucking the ffeblood of a prostrate
| Cuba. Then love and kindness and
| sympathy and mutual self sacrifice will
| bind the human family together, be-
cause the ''sea of hate" shall forever
| disappear.
But as the ''sea of separation" Is
sometimes the sea of hate,'' so it NAV
| be also the impossible barrier which
separates friend from friend. Napo-
| leon, fretting life away in st. Helena,
or Captain Dreyfus, suffering on Dew
| lis island, or Victor Hugo, in exile on
| the island of Guernsey, were no more
| SeDarated from their friends than was