The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-11-26

fully convicted of our wickedness, to-day,
ii not converted.
To illustrate: in our own nation we
find the people holding themselves so
free from party obligations that whenever
/ any party goes wrong in the adoption of
measures, or support of men, the people
at this stage of moral development are
ready to defeat that party. few years
ago it was not 50. But now. there exists
such an Independence of thought and
action among the people that. if any
| party goes wrong. it will be righted. The
world IS evidently better politically.
1t has been only a short time, since
the moral perceptions of humanity were
so dull, that mankind looked upon the
slave trade as right and proper; and
/ the men, who first dared to speak
| against slavery, were abused by politi-
clan. priest and people. How is it to-
| day? The entire world is striving to get
/ rid of the curse. Fifty years ago the
/ evil of intemperance was respectable.
| All classes openly INDUCED in it, the
clergy included. How is it to-day? The
best minds in the world are trying to
Danish it from the earth save little
| kept by the government for mechanical
and medicinal purposes. Your writer
may add that there never was a time
when there was so much real, genuine
sympathy and charity for the needy and
suffering now. Calamities like the
Chicago and Boston fires, fifty years ago,
would not have awakened one-tenth part
of the spontaneous outburst of sympathy
and benevolence over the world that
these did. By looking over our papers
we find the people ever ready to help the
starving in the West There never was
time in which hundredth part of the
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question OF educating, elevating and
protecting the laboring class that there
is now. Now, all these things prove that
the world is growing better instead of
worse. Our moral sensibilites are be-
coming uncommonly acute and active
Notwithstanding the truth that wicked
ness and sin darllen the earth as never
before. It is only the expiring struggle
and after the animal death, then comes
the millennial. The signs of the times
indicate that the millennial era is near
at hand. The gospel is being carried
with electric speed to all nations; there
has been rumors of wars, and pestilences
in all lands. 1t is the opinion of your
writer that the millennial will dawn with
the beginning OF the twentieth century.
predicate my conclusions chiefly upon
the prophecies of Daniel, and certain
great historical events 1t is a noticea-
bic fact that God effects great revolutions
or changes every two thousand years.
From the creation of man to the time of
the Hood was about two thousand years;
from the food to the coming of Christ
was about two thousand years; from the
Christian Era to the present time is bor-
dering on two thousand years Then
look soon for the millennial era, but not
the end. 1t may please God to give this
period of peace and happiness more than
two thousand years, however that may
be, we evidently have striking evidences
OF its near approach. Bishop Simpson,
one OF the most spiritually intuitive men
of the M. E. Church of America, declar-
ed in a sermon delivered in Philadelphia
not long since, his firm conviction that
we were near the mlllennial dawn, and
thought many of his congregation would
live to see it.
WINFIELD SCoTT.