Identifier: handofgodinhis00read (find matches)
Title: The hand of God in history, or, Divine providence illustrated in the extension and establishment of Christianity throughout the world
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Read, Hollis, 1802-1887
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Publisher: Philadelphia : John E. Potter & Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ward^over the Atlantic to America. It is for the mostpart an emigration of the second order: it brings withit ignorance, poverty, superstition, a base counterfeitof Christianity, and all the beggarly elements of civiland religious despotism—mostly vile ingredients, orat best some precious metal with much dross, allborne over the Atlantic to be cast into the crucible ofour burning democracy, that the hay, wood, andstubble may be burned out and a residuum of puregold remain. And toward our west goes yet a thirdstream; starting from the Atlantic shore it courses itsway across the entire continent—beyond the Missis-sippi, beyond the Rocky Mountains—till it meets theland of gold and the placid water of the Pacific, carry-ing with it the industry, the enterprise, the intelligence,the education, virtue, and religion of the AtlanticStates—yea, laden with the rich inheritance of thePilgrim Fathers. And, lastly, another stream is roll-ing back over the Atlantic from the United States to
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THE MIGRATIONS OF MANKIND. 827 Africa. Their burdens have been lightened not only inrheir deliverance, but by the hopes of our blessed religionwith which they were met. In this weary land theyfound the Balm in Gilead; as their sickening souLisunk within them they were here led to the feet of theGreat Physician. In the troubled waters of Bethesdamany wash and are clean. The currents of emigration which are at present di.recting their course, the one to Australia, and princi-pally of the Anglo-Saxon race ; and the other to Siberia,from the more civilized populations of Russia, are per-spectively, no doubt, events of vast magnitude, andwhen Providence shall have consummated his wiseand benevolent plans thereby they will be viewed withadmiration. The one is singularly adding strength andextension to a power which is doubtless destined toplay a most important part in the great conflict of na-tions; and the other is building up, under the auspicesof the at present world-transforming race, s

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