| Show THE conflict IV TO BE CON until arnth and justice triumph Tri sometimes an ala act is done or thought expressed by a person unconsciously it would see leemand mand yet so full of meaning that thai the memory of the act or the words of that expression go ringing and aad echoing down the years like a glo rious chaut chant in the aisles of a cathedral for example a collision of trains takes place on an eastern railroad though many are wounded yet no life is lost except the engineers engineer s he while the PI paler r of death is on oa his bis brow and the mist I 1 st 1 is gathering over his eyes eye S exclaims cjang billang out the signals for the other train the name of william bradley may be soon forgotten but the recital of that heroic act will thrill the hearts of gen generations latious yet vet unborn take another example it was in the spring of 1864 1861 for more than three years the scourge of civil war had bad de aasted the country the terrible conflicts of manassas antietam Autie tam fair oaks gettysburg and stone river kiver had been fought on these and on a hundred other fields on mountain and moorland bv fountain und and flood vast numbers of the flower of american youth both on the union and confederate Conf eders e sides bad lain down in their last long sleep and all over this broad land equally brive women mothers and wives sisters and sweethearts were bowed down in woe and suspense their very breaths were smothered sighs grey haired sires wept over the graves of their stalwart sons almost every household was clad in mourning at this juncture the words of the chieftain possibly tp to some extent unconscious to io himself rang out well fight it out on this line if it takes all summer how it cheered the ake lovers of freedom everywhere and nerved them onto on to trials and eventually to the triumph of a united native land sometimes men aeve uttered thoughts that bad a deeper import than they dreamed pilate sitting on the judgment seat scat asks christ what is truth perhaps little thinking that question would be repeated in all climes and ages so also alpo a journal elated over what seemed a party triumph exclaims the conflict to be continued we accept these borai as true nay more they are prophetic oi of our ultimate triumph and illustrative ot of the words of madame de the world hates truth when socrates having stirred up the esmith of his fellow citizens by his superior teachings was condemned to death and after conversing on the immortality of the soul drank the hemlock he no doubt felt the conflict would be continued galileo tying lying in the dungeons of the i inquisition or when after his recantation t lie he muttered the world moves for all that no doubt believed that human minds also I 1 moved luther nailing his thirty nine thelea to the church of told the same truth to the haughty prelate of rome erasmus by his bis lonely lamp writing out the great thoughts that filled his bis heart doubtless ion longed ed for the time when the conflict of ideas ideas would lead to the emancipation ci of the human mind columbus pleading his bis cause before the haughty court of salamanca and answering the puerile objections of 1 ignorant no bigots was another adother step ij ia the progress of the conflict Coper Bicas po his bis tiny telescope at the crescent of venus while his 0 opponents ponente dared not look through tut that tele scope for fear of being convinced newton amid the scoffs ol of contemporaries unfolded the laws which govern the material universe wilberforce struggling to suppress the slave trade howard spending his life to promote prison reform in fact all reformers in ia every land and age have been but mile posts as it were in the gathof path of conflict and progress how often was scotland overrun but the conflict was continued till at length the object sought for was achieve dand she sat down a peer among the nations how many wrongs has ireland endured but the conflict still goes on la in our own land how many schemes did toe kings of england try in order to enslave the colonists but tile the conflict still continued until the men and women who had been the play laings of petty tyrants the sport and jest of kings and priests had been gathered from many lands and fused into the grandest republic the world has ever seen when at length in the providence of god was brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in libert yand dedicated to the proposition preposition that all men are equal that act was in direct antagonism to the principal government of the world the principles contained in the declaration of independence have con cod linued and are still continuing with unabated force to influence the nations of the earth the breezes from america have fanned tae ane european ti tree ee ot of liberty into verdure the genii of american institutions has infused new life into the decaying civilization of the orient the conflict to be continued why the words of the savior are pregnant with the same idea think not that I 1 come to send peace on earth I 1 come not to send peace but a sword look abroad upon the face of the world how it still groans under an I 1 ever accumulating load of sin and I 1 misery earth osithe lords and he will make good his claim to it it is a blood bought world and he who ransomed rans omed it at so dear a price will one day wear it as the most radiant gem in his bis many jeweled diadem the earth that was bedewed with the saviors Sav lors tears and sweat the earth that was trodden by his hallowed feet the earth that drank his lifes bood and thedice blood of many of his boble prophets h ets apostles and martyrs from proad the days Ys of righteous abel until now shall yet throw off the curse that has so long blighted it and shine forth radiant in glory glor Y there there is a betic import wrapped up in ia that expression the conflict to be continued it is instinct with a bright and glorious future it to is pregnant with hope aud and joy for our world it is anticipatory of the deliverance of nature from the bondage of corruption under which it has groaned and tr availed in pain till ti 11 now we are truly glad to see those who oppose truth admit the correctness of our premises J 11 vv |
