The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-01-06

fAbDrg. other men laboreO ana Z dlF
entered into their labors.'
/ tremble when ! think OF the
wealth of this hour. The world has
never been SO rich. All the centuries
have combined to weave a crown Tor
our generation All things are ours.
The price OF cur privileges cannot ue
reckoned. When We compare our lot
with other nations the sense OF opll-
cation overwhems us. Never has
heaven poured out such priceless
treasures for body. mind and soul as
the children Of this century are re-
ceiving. our national territory has
quadrupied in the last hundred years
More than thirty new States have
come into oar glorious union. And
each one OF cur States Is almost like
a foreign country. More than half
our States are each larger than all
ENGLAND We have increased our
population at the rate of half
million every year. We undoubtedly
have nation of the best one hun
drsd million people the world has ever
produced. In material things the last
-Ae4stuEx- Witnessed prosperity
never before realized. We have buiit
above an average Of four cities each
year and while We commenced the
century with hut few towns Uf i'm
portance we now have more than half
n thousand truly magnificent cities.
We entered the last century in an
ox-cart but when the bells rung in
the present one, We rolled ia on Pull
mans. automobiles and shortly Wit
messed our feFiow men ten thousan nd
feet in the air, enjoying the luxury
OF the eagle We have added three
Thousand miles of railroad every year
mt cost OF one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars per mile for the last
century. over these rails passes more
Fir al afh ar
roads OF the combined world. We
talk 10 one another from our homes
with hundreds of miles intervening.
Our telegraph wires Will belt the
entire globe more than Atty times, and
one man has discovered for us Gods
invisible wires and SO the message
goes through every known obstacle
and finds it's way AZ the midnight
hour To the storm tossed loved one In
mid ocean.
The material wealth OF our nation
knakes II possible for the ordinary
working man to i've as fuxuriously as
did the king OF few centuries ago
The wealth of our minerals, the coal
In our mountains, the forests fruits
and flowers make for this nation ii
paradise. The mountains. the plains,
the rivers and the seas. give variety
of climate and wealth of beauty sec
ond to no handywork Of our God.
Philanthropy IL realizing the brother
hood of man Censecrated mind and
money have destroyed fifty per cent.
OF the power of disease during the
nineteenth century. The sick how
ever poor, can get the best the world
knows. The aspiring youth can enter
TIE best university. however straitened
his circumstances. During the last
q twenty years something like eleven
hundred million dollars have been
Tn he s,f y
land has done for her people what our
republic has. In Italy only about
twenty per cent. can read or write,
In Russia II IL death for a common
man to call the name OF the czar
Education Is allowed to but few OF her
citizens Thousands are exiled an
nuaIiy to hopeless siberia for trivial
offences. Turkey is full Of opprc--
sion and pays her laboring men about
ten cents per day. China worshlps
her ancestors and so lies in a coffin
more than four thousand years Ola,
India cannot feed her starving poor
And beg you TO notice that those ma
fions OF the East that are enjoying
she largest national blessings have
borrowed much from US
When VIC look out upon our blessed
Inheritance and ask the cause what
10 we find
We find a nation born in humble
dependence on God. There was n mar
sent from God whose name was George
washington. He taught his band tc
play march for his barefooted sol
diers IN the words;
Although We are strangers,
We have a good guide:
The heart cheering promise
IL, the Lord will provide" ...
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pendente men began to seek religious
freedom. Pilgrim fathers had brought
over hearts that :hrobbed with desire
Tor the rights OF conscience Roger
Williams had said that religious free
dom and liberty OF conscience could
not exist without separation Of church
End state. John Quincy Adams said
that such a thing as separation Of
church and state could not be thought
Of. But The spirit Of prosecuted men
found II otherwise. Baptist preac cheers
were not born 10 remain I'm jail In Bed
: ford. England, nor In Hanover county
Virginia, for the crime Of preaching
the gospel" The blood OF the martyrs
must bear seed But the son into which
this heroic blood Was spilled WAS SO
cold that II required centuries hasase- a
hlossomed into New Testament
churches. The eternal promises OF
GOD Kept the seed alive until the full
ness OF time came, and now we have
realized the dream OF men Of vision in
centuries long since gone.
As we stand upon our heritage lei
fIs uncover our heads Let us write the
names OF our heroes upon the hearts II
our children and let us bow the knee Ia
our fathers God and consecrate our
beings to the enrichment of all that is
great and good
But hear a note of Warming
Lord God Of hosts. be with US yet
Lest we forger. lest we forget"
Inherited wealth Is the most danger
GUS thing on earth. II viii take All
the good that is in us and all the multi
piled influences of the church 20 keep
alive the proper appreciation Of our
possessions. Rome had magnihcence
and fell III shame Greece mad culture
and saerificed the virtue OF her dsugh-
tiers 10 the claims of idolatrS- We
THE OLD