Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-08-13

The sea Of myster.' is to he scattered.
| YcS. hut the great sea of hate" is also
| 10 disappear nn the millcnnial dawn.
| That sea of blood shall forever disap-
pear. the drinking Of which turns
| human heart into that of Il wild beasts
when he is willing to tramplc upon and
| destroy his weaker fellows. That sea
Of blood shall he licked up which makes
man fawn mt 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 being he now Salutcs 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 he 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 ut 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 then. The ocean beds
are so broad and long that though the
Australian continent, with an area of
29il.'i2S square les. was discovered
by the Dutch explorers in 1906. it was
practically lost for nearly two CEN
turtles as IL 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
cnt languages. Their c0untenanceS
We're bleachcd by the SHOWS of the
frigid zone or darkiy tanned by the
tropical heats. Because they had no
previous intercourse they associated
themselves i'm clans or banded them
selves together i'm nations. When they
confronted each other, they came not
as friends but as armed foes.
| The "Sea of Hate"
Do you suppose that if Carthage had
been situated only IL few miles from
Rome there woult have ever been a
llamlcar fighting ut Mount EryX or a
llamilcar's greater son. Hannibal, be-
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Zania. in 2U2? The reason Carthage
hated Rome and Rome hated Carthage
was because they were separated by a
'.sca of hate called the Mediterra-
mean. two thousand miles long and
seven hundred miles wide. The "sea
of separation became. like the Dead
sea. Il ''sca 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 IN At
lantic ocean three thousand miles wide?
Why. the American colOnists were of
the same blood as those who lived on
English shores. he children of the
Virginia planters and of the Massa
chusctts aristocrats We're all sent over
to the English schools to be educated
But no. England would not treat her
American subject. as she did those
who We're earning their bread on the
London Strand. The sea of separa-
ton 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
or 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 ana 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.
And there WAS no more sea- he
meant practically this: In heaven there
shall he no hate. no bitterness. no fault
findings. 10 bloodshed no Jew hating
Roman. no Roman hating Greek, no
japan fighting Russia and no Spain
sucking the lifcblood of a PROSTATE
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 ''s,'a of hate" so ii may
he also the impossible barrier which
separates friend from friend. Napo-
leon, frctting life away in st. Helena.
or Captain Dreyfus suffering on Dew
lis island. or Victor Hugo. in exile on
the island of Guernsey, We're no more
separated from their friends than was
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