The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-12-26
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NEVER WENT HOME TILL MORNING.
But much is said of the dishonesty
of to-day. Yet forty years ago the
governor of New York had to disband
The legislature becau.e of its corrup-
ton. And three-tourths of a century
ago Aaron Burr came very near being
made president of the United States.
Is the ministry of to-day anything
like the age when Swift and Sterne
we're its bright lights, two men whose
genius wa only eqraled by their mas
tines? No. the speaker did not be-
lieve it. For our own sakes. too. he
felt glad that in the degenerate DAYS
in which they lived our fathers and
mothers had consented to stay in this
world. 1t is a principle always TO be
remembered when persons growl about
the degeEeracy Of our times that We
can't fret the world up but down. The
deprecatOrs of our own tine Dewail
the prevalence of wars, but. the speak.
ers said, without thought of how
they themselves have been lessened
and their horrors Initigated. If the
sword IS not turning into the plowshare
tie churches should be disn.nded and
retorma.ory institutions 0vcrrhrown.
But, in ruth. we are CROWN. better
and the world is moving on.
One of the great tacrs which goes to
show that the world is progressing.
the speaker said. is the advancing in
fiuences of the Anglo-Saxon 'ace. 1t
is becoming dominant over the earth,
and with it goes the love Of liberty
and obedience 10 law. In IL wake
follows the printing press uithou-
censorship and the scriptures without
forced Interpretation. As it advances
other races recede. Spain once owned
one-eighth OF the world Tcd ay the
Anglo Saxon race, fulfilling the glo-
rious mission for which God ordained
it. holds sway over that much of the
globe
Another fact is he unparalleled devel-
opment of the earth's material resources
The grain fields are more golden
than they were generation ago. " lille
vegetable chemistry has made the
earth itself to think. The wealth of
niineralsand gold alone are well-nigh
sufficient to cause revolution. 1t
can 10 longer be said that there is no
is no royal road to learning.
The school houses in every
village have paved royal
pathway. The rapid advancement OF
the sciences and their useful applica-
lions, the discoveries of explorers, OPP
ening up new geographical regions
for earth's teeming millions. are furth-
er evidences. Civil and religious lib
erty has also advanced, and within
half a century the moral nightmare
that hung over Europe has been sha ken
of. The crashing down Of despotisms
has begun, and with Ane lea for an
example. it will continue till the mill
ions of oppressed have asserted their
rights. But is has been said, Mr..
Talmage continued, that evil times are
upon us because Christianity is dying
out. Is ii? In the first century there
were halt a million christians in the
second, two million in the sixth, TWEEN
tv million in the eighth, thirty mill
ION ; in the tenth, fifty million in the
fourteenth, eighty million in the sew
enteenth. ore hundred and twenty-five
million in the eighteenth, two hun
dred million /; and by the end of the
nineteenth century, the speaker pre-
,licted, there will be three hundred
mi Ion christians He did not think
that looked much as tough Christian
ity was dying out.
Mr.. Talmage then drew a glowing
pic ure of our material prosperity at
the present time. and the fields that
are t" be developed. Taken in connec-
ton with the evidences of increasing
chris ian civilization. he thought there
could he but one answer to the ques-
ton whether the world is growing
! hatfor or yrarSa