Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . ado . . ,195 The Two Laws . . , . .201 18 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Arapahoe Mountain . . . .211 Gate of the Garden of the Gods . . .216 On the Hudson ....... 220 High Falls, Colorado . . . .226 Grazing . . . . 235 Congressional Library ...... 239 Fortress Monroe ...... 244 The New Astoria Hotel ...... 249 Mountain Horse Trader ..... 254 Signing the Declaration of Independence . . 259 Liberty Bell ....... 267 Independence Hall, Philadelphia . . .271 Declaration of Independence . . .274 Portraits
Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . ado . . ,195 The Two Laws . . , . .201 18 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Arapahoe Mountain . . . .211 Gate of the Garden of the Gods . . .216 On the Hudson ....... 220 High Falls, Colorado . . . .226 Grazing . . . . 235 Congressional Library ...... 239 Fortress Monroe ...... 244 The New Astoria Hotel ...... 249 Mountain Horse Trader ..... 254 Signing the Declaration of Independence . . 259 Liberty Bell ....... 267 Independence Hall, Philadelphia . . .271 Declaration of Independence . . .274 Portraits of Signers of the Declaration of Independence . 275 Portraits of Signers of the Declaration of Independence . 276 Portraits of Signers of the Declaration of Independence . 277 Portraits of Signers of the Declaration of Independence . 278 Lincoln Falls, Colorado . . -279 American Dairy Barn Yard ..... 285 Diagram, Flight of a i6-Inch Shot .... 289 Portrait of William McKinley .... 309 The Temple of Music Where President McKinley Was Assas-sinated . . . .310. The Caravels of Columbus seeking the New World CHAPTER I THE WORLD WONDERS, AND PROPHESIES SUDDENLY a new World Power has arisen upon the horizonof nations. That power is the United States of , we say, even if we date from the very hour of itsbirth; for it is but a little more than one hundred years since thenation known by this name began to exist. Scanning the historyof nations in the past, a hundred years is not, comparatively speak-ing, a very long period. What nation ever made any very greatimpression upon the world in its first hundred years . Take Rome,the great iron Colossus, which for ages bestrode the nations of theearth, — what was Rome when but a hundred years of age. —Scarcely known outside the few provinces of Italy which then com-posed its uncertain territory. It has not been so with this giant which has arisen in a newworld. It pre-empted its own territory, by itself and for itself, outof
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