Show FAMILY INCIDENTS its a custom in some places at certain seasons of the year to have hava a general turn up and clean out in the household from the garret to the cellar and the kitchen to the parlor from a glance at the distant windows of the family mansion of oar common ancestor we perceive things look a little like what grandmother ra mother used to call beltow topsy the door into the long unfrequented room of japan is half open and brother jonathan has determined to go in and out anyhow it the key is handy very well it if not he be will dispense with a key and have the room b ought into public we and benefit he is in not particular to scrape his boots or doff his hat bat either tor for jonathan has become c a grea great tand and rather rough backwoodsman backwoods man who has his own notions about manners well veil FIFTY MIL MILLIONS LIONS of Is japanese people is too large a branch of the family fancily to remain unknown and be shutout from the absei observation and acquaintance of the rest of the great family so go putting on an all the loidl lordly airs that he could ever think of or bear of he stalks right up to the front door of japan as one having to transact the most moat urgent and weighty business the sovereign of FIFTY MILLIONS must not think to palm off any indifference or neglect upon the representative of ef twenty five millions if he does dark clouds of deep wrath settle down upon jonathans Jona thatis brow and in the language of at the poet his thoughts on awful roll damnation and the dead still no one must suspect him for a moments moment of departing from the favorite doctrine of non interference with all foreign nations national what next why the great folding doors of china are thrown open and behold the tartars and chinese are arc seen jammed and crowded together like two avalanches that have met simultaneously at the base of their towering summits and how bow did we get a sight of this long unopened mansion containing about one half of the population of the whole globe why mess bless you christianity even without any lawful key cey of access to that great abode and out of puri pure benevolence of course with her battering rams smashed in the portico door and dissipated the he former notion of the invincibility of the celestial empire the downtrodden down trodden chinese caught t the sparks from british cannon cannon and spread the fire are of insurrection and sent it through the vast stubblefield stubble field of human beings until the great greatest grea teet ept of all human thrones is just ready to be cast down I 1 what next W why by the game christianity by the same spiritual weapons of cannon and sword has brokon down the partition wall between the birman airman empire and britain oh thou all power ful Christian ityl to briny bring down so many and great nations to the anxious seat in so short a aimel and what is wore more these nations have not been brought rought down to a mere nominal or legal repentance but it is an genuine sorrow leep deep as deah what next why turkey the long and peaceful easeful abode of the prophet and his system is too great an offense offence to the pure eyes of christendom and mr cobden the popular member her of the british house of if commons says that turkish institutions are deservedly on the wane and cannot bear a huxta juxta parallel with christianity therefore let christian europe swallow up ture turkey i Y and let christian greeks emerge into the liberty of un trammelled holiness 7 v see his speech at edinburgh j what next why christian austria unwilling wiffing un to 9 be outdone by her pious neighbors has resolved ved to disfranchise all jews in her empire and forbidden them the right to hold real escatel poor turks and besl pity that you ado inov w that all things were done away 2 especially the everlasting COVENANTS and th the e PROMISES praxis its and ADOPTION and the this is an age of progress therefore stand back turks and jews and all ye heathen and more especially prophets mid and apostles god and holy angels tor for we have halve a more ready access to the intelligence of other spheres than through you I 1 what next among the family incidents why some serious kitchen difficulties among the servants of brother jonathan some hundreds and thousands thousand of these darkey darkens are running away to canata canada yearly and jesuitical priests are sowing discord under the profession of school teachers rs and mechanics and one of the largest theological institutes in the northern states is wd said to have bare contri contributed bated dollars the last year to sit ah the runaways in their perilous exit to canada now w what ti is 9 going tob to be e d done on e with this domestic c institution ins tiba the greatest might must determine who has the strongest right the more territories and states either party parly has consequently so many more delegates and representatives the ile great stride between the fin north and sooth is whose power shall overbalance the other rach each grasps grappe jor for territory in order to carry the ascendancy I 1 although it is written that a house divided against I 1 I 1 itself cannot stand nd yet jet that maxim is easily 1 disposed of as having been done away when apostles and prophets were rejected cuba northern mexico and the sandwich islands together with I 1 the canadas must be annexed spain france I 1 and england to the contrary notwithstanding still brother jonathans motto is at all times 1 I 1 i noninterference interference non the same rolls flippantly from I 1 the lips of the be autocrat while he takes T turkey u akey by ithe the throat and says that of n za subjects jec to desire annexation I 1 what next A little more trouble in ane kit I 1 chen the indians indiana filthy copper heads to be finding fault when we want to christianize and save their souls its about as provoking as it was to the chaplain on board a cunard steamers steamer when the ship hands were slow to come to prayer one sunday cried D n you why dont you come 1 so 10 prayer pray eilt governor ross boss of the cherokee nat nation ion has issued a timely and most solemn PROTEST to the general government that in their scramble for nebraska to pull it into pieces they should not violate their sacred pledge to his nation by infringing upon indian territory well what next perhaps we shall be blamed already for talking so much about family matters but as WP mean it only for the family and by no means to go abroad we will wind up by saying that hat after the day of turning and overturning is past we look for the reign of him flim whose right it is to reign in peace and righteousness |