The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1886-10-16


most skillful diplomacy. And what weari
ness and tears and prayers, and heart
aches and agonies that the world know.
not of, have been inwrought with thi,
home influence! I believe truly that there
have been haroines in many a Frankfor,
home, and are to day, whose dauntless
spirits have not been surpassed by the
heroes of the worlds battlefiefds. Raise
your noblest peans to these.
Another quiet but powerful influence IN
moulding the community for good, is that
which has gone out and taken possession
of the fountains of influence outside the
home in the organization Of Sunday and
Mission Schools, and benevolent and re-
lief societies of various kinds. Let who
will offer adulation to the great public
men who have brought name and fame to
our city, I will bear my homage and lay il
at the feet of those noble women who or
ganized here in Frankfort the first Sun
day-school west of the Alleghenies, and
who thus laid the foundations of an insti-
tuition in our midst which has come to be the
very vestibule of the church, through which
the generations enter into the possession
of the covenants and promises and grace
of God. And through this institution, I
believe, they have done more to make the
city desirable habitation for ourselves
and families than the combined influence
of all the eminent men whose names adOrn
the century. And shall we render our tri-
butte to them and bring no incense to
these? All honor, say I, to the founders of
the Sunday-schoOl, and not only the
founders, but to all the noble, earnest
band who have tOiled therein from its be-
ginning till now. And if any of the wo-
men of Frankfort to-day would rear for
themselves such monument as the Sun
day-school is to the names of Mrs. Brown
and Mrs. Love, and like them project their
influence into the coming century to
mould it for good, wo1ld suggest to them
the practicability of the organization of
an Orphans Home, or some such institu-
ton where neglected and homeless chill
dren may be gathered out of associations
which train them up to become paupers
and criminals, and where they may be
brought under influences that will make
them good and useful citizens. It would
be fitting outcome from the jubilations
of the week, and would have telling in
fuence on the morals, prosperity find
good name of the Frankfort of the future.
And then the Church. the Church Of the
living God! Who will sing her blessed
here during the century past?
Her steady witness bearing, shining
through all the years like a lighthouse in
the night-her holy sacraments and ordi-
nances, channels Of Gods grace to human
hearts-her awful truths, increasingly
sounded in the ears of men, appealing to
the purest motives, summoning to nOblest
perfect pattern for human
life held forth in the life of the divine
man-why, it would require an angels
voice and harp to sing worthily her
in Transforming, ameliora-
ting, refining and embellishing society
here. And shall nojubilate be sung
for all this heavenly ministry for a
hundred years in our midst! Shall
It go wholly unmentioned on this
Centennial occasion? Tear down these
church buildings in your city, withdraw
all that their influence has wrought into
human life here, and it would be like tear
ing out the pillars on which the building
rests. Your social order would tumble in
ruins about you. Your material prosper.
i.y would shrink away. Your property
would depreciate. Your homes would lose
their charm. Without the Christian re-
igion, aud her ministries during the past
century, Frankfort to-day would be a
moral plague spot to flee from rather
han the beautiful city it is in the midst
Of the hills in which you can safely build
your homes and rear your children.
Another influence in the development
If community's life is that of charac-
er, which all have of one kind or another.
puts it HE that is slow to
anger is better than the mighty, and he
hat ruleth his own spirit than he that
;aketh CITY," The truly great man,
therefore, according to the Divine stand
.rd, is the man who has fought and con-
luered self, and who holds self in perpet-
lal subsection. Many man has lived
md died here during the past century,
whose name has never appeared in the
public annals of the city, who, in the
Judgment of heaven, was greater than
who commanded the armies of
The nation, but sold himself for gold;
,r Burr, whose sojourn here is heralded
abroad as rejecting honor on the place,
,ut who could not curb his own ambition.
The building up of a good, strong, Chris
ian character is work that acts directly
md powerfully on the life of any COM
nunity. The sum total of individual
worth is the moral character of the
place. How many then in the century
past have thus week by week and year by
year been quietly building their material
nto the edifice We occupy to-day. A few
vears ago an old man died in the Massa-
'husetts' State Prison. For eight years
he had occupied one of its gloomy cells.
His influence had dragged after him into
hat same institution his entire family.
His wife and daughter and seven sons
we're serving out penal sentences there at
he same time. Verify "the iniquities of