The conquest of the continent . e Conquest of the Continent Not so thought Seward, as he northward lookedTo that forbidding land of snow and iceWhere mediieval Eussia held her sway,—A solecism on this treaty signed and purchase money givenThe Stars and Stripes at one great bound were setWithin the silence of the Arctic night,Well-nigh upon the apex of the world. And so it came to pass, in Gods good way, That Briton, French and Spaniard—Kussian, too— Each for himself had grasped a goodly share Of what is now our land, but held it fast Only until our nation so had grown That each
The conquest of the continent . e Conquest of the Continent Not so thought Seward, as he northward lookedTo that forbidding land of snow and iceWhere mediieval Eussia held her sway,—A solecism on this treaty signed and purchase money givenThe Stars and Stripes at one great bound were setWithin the silence of the Arctic night,Well-nigh upon the apex of the world. And so it came to pass, in Gods good way, That Briton, French and Spaniard—Kussian, too— Each for himself had grasped a goodly share Of what is now our land, but held it fast Only until our nation so had grown That each new part it could assimilate. When straight the ordering of His providence Placed each in turn within our hands, and made The good and spacious home wherein we dwell. Then praise to Him Who led our fathers forth!And praise to Him Who made the path so plain!Until, to east and west, to south and northStretches the limit of our vast thou our nation, Lord, and grant that weMay win it also for Thy Christ and Thee!. RT. REV. WILLIAM WHITE, THE CONQUEST OFTHE CONTINENT THE FIELD OF CONQUEST PEOFOUNDLY must the student of his-tory be impressed as he notes the stepsof that resistless progress by which ournation enlarged her borders. Led by the Di-vine Hand in paths she had not sought—goingout oftentimes not knowing whither0 m a Tj ^^^ went—she found herself march-ing by giant strides toward the western Northwest Territory, the Louisiana Pur-chase, the Mexican Cession and the Oregon Set-tlement are the four great landmarks of herprogress, and as one reviews them he finds him-self thinking reverently, in the quiet of his ownheart, concerning Him ^who maketh the devicesof the people to be of none effect and castethout the counsels of princes. This is not a matter chiefly of metes and11 12 The Conquest of the Continent bounds, of conventions, treaties and other suchlike dry and dusty affairs; when studied closelythere is in it a marvellous significance. S
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