Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-06-07
liZing heart breaking soul stirring
contest for the freedom of the slave

niZing heart breaking soul stirring
contest for the freedom of the slave
eliminating in our Great Conflict; by
the extension of our rule over the
seas, our absorption into the life Of
the East, and our being forced out in
to the councils Of the world; by the
mistakes and the follies and the
wrongs and the heart-burnings and
the penalties we have endured and
incurred; by the joys and the triumphs
and the victories that have heralded
our advance: by the word that has
gone out to the crowded nations of
the world, and by the response to
that word and the landing here OF
the English and the Irish, the French
and the German, the Scandinavian
and the Russian, the Geek and the
Magyar, the Italian and the Spanish,
the Turk and the Armenian, the
Japanese and the Chinese, host upon
host and host upon host; by these II
becoming, in the wonderful alchf ny
of our national life and institpS .ons,
united and Americans and by the
problems. gigantic and difficult, given
into us, God has been educating us,
along with others, to be teachers, pio-
are being educated for world-patriot-
ism. We are patriots not for Ameri-
ca merely. but for America as for hui
manity. We live in all regions, preach
to all nations, handle all articles of
trade, and look forward with mighty
hope to the great and glorious task
assigned us in saving and renewing
mankind. May the God of all the ma
tions Of the earth keep us simple
hearted, truth loving, unselfish. pitt
full to the weak, ever loyal to His
Kingdom and His righteousness.
''The day is breaking in the East
of which the prophets told,
"And brightens up the sky of time,
the Christian age of gold;
"One might to right is yielding,
battle blade to clerkly pen;
"Earth's monarchS are her peoples
and her serfs stand up as men,"
The one conclusion then, Of the
whole matter is, that the making Of
nations is in the hands of its true and
trusty souls who expel selfiShness by
the love of God, self-will by obedience
to the Divine order and despair OF the
progress of man by loving hope in the
redeeming God. it is Joseph who is
crowned amongst his brethren; Joseph
and not Reuben The first born is
deposed. instability cannot rule, for
it cannot guide. Reuben must give
way to the stronger soul Of the boy he
loves. Cruelty pulls down and de-
stroys. Weapons of violence may keep
off foe, but they do not guarantee
primacy of political power. By faith
Joseph gains his place, and by faith
he holds it after his death, advancing
his formative and inspiring influence
In the life of the people through that
commandment concerning his bones.
For Moses, as we read, honored the
sacred oath Of Israel. The embalmed
body was carefully preserved till the
time of the Exodus, and then it was
taken to the land OF Canaan, and fin
ally laid to rest in the piece Of ground
bought by Jacob at Shechem, under
the shadow OF Mt. Ebal. What work
that coffin wrought can anybody say?
flow that great mans persisting faith
fostered confidence in the re-appear-
ing of God, fed hope, made prophets
indeed, and advocates of brighter
day, no chroniclers tell. 1t was his
tory, was that coffin, the past was
dramatized in that sarcophagus. BY
it, Joseph, being dead, yet continued
to preach the future greatness of
Israel. 1t was a memorial day, and
by it the ancient culture, government
and ideas of Egypt continued to fash
ion the thought and work of the de-
scendants of Jacob. 1t was a witness
of the dead but sceptered spirit. who
still from his urn nouriShed the pat
riot life of his brethren.
Patriotism is fed from three peren-
nial fountains, and becomes, as it is
fed, a. wide and beautiful humanitar-
ianisn1. These fountains are God,
the Home and History.
God is the supreme politician.
He is the maker of nations and of peo-
pies. He is the great elector. He
does not leave US solitary, but sets us
in families, in cities, In nations. in
empires. No part of our life is strange
to Him; He flleth all in all; and faith