Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . teen sparse colonies of the hardiest and best of immigrantsalong the Atlantic coast. He beholds a continent marvelously beautiful, withunlimited resources to be developed; its rivers open all parts of the country, andbring all into communication with two great oceans and with the tropic sees a soil inexhaustibly fertile; he sees the mountains (for an angels eye cansearch their treasures) full of gold, silver, copper, iron, and coal. He sees acountry insulated by three thousand miles o
Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . teen sparse colonies of the hardiest and best of immigrantsalong the Atlantic coast. He beholds a continent marvelously beautiful, withunlimited resources to be developed; its rivers open all parts of the country, andbring all into communication with two great oceans and with the tropic sees a soil inexhaustibly fertile; he sees the mountains (for an angels eye cansearch their treasures) full of gold, silver, copper, iron, and coal. He sees acountry insulated by three thousand miles of ocean from all the nations, needingcontiguity with none ^ a Cosmos in itself. Would not this angel-gazer say, My God has assuredly made and endowed this peerless continent for someglorious end. The rest of the world is occupied, and the most of it cursed byoccupation. Here is virgin soil; here is an arena foi a new nation, which,perchance, profiting by the mistakes of the long, dark past, may, by the blessingof God, work out for itself and for humanity a better destiny, io8 THE MARVEL OF NATIONS.
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