The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-01-02


he'll to stand ap ;ose arose and said. I don't
want 20 20 to ibe other place. 5nt TIN viii
ling to stsnd. rather than the preacher shall
stand all alone. So am willing TO stand
M. rather than the pessinsist shall stand all
alone. There xere giants in those days but
there are giants IN the present days There
never was an age in which there were 50
many heroes a. there are in these times ia
which We live. The trouble is, q hands
point in the wrong direction. The present
trouble Is the greatest troable- Did you ever
have a cold day in this town that wasn't The
coolest day in the memory Of tbs oldest IN
habiiants Bat when the books are prodae-
ed. you find how great the mistake.
Men say, Where are The Henry Clays,
the Daniel websters. the Charles Summers
Why do they think Of these men Because
they were phenomenal men in their own
dsy. We to-dsy are 50 near our times We
cannot appreciate their grandeur. just As
the ace of Michael Angelo we're the days OF
painting. 50 we live in the acorn period Of
Of magnificent opportunity. One reason for
the crime in this day may be the license We
give 10 foreigners 10 come into this country.
The time must come when this country
shall not be the dumping ground for the
pauper rubbish Of Europe.
our fathers did not know az much az we
do. - wears ago there were li2 newspapers
IN this country to-day there are over 1900
The reason We have not better newspapers is
because yoa-the people viii not have them
IN Brown University the son Of Dr. Way
land drew out \ PACK Of czrds-rhe students
worried-President Wayland looked grave
The young fellow merely looked down and
said-.Bless me if 1 haven't got on fathers
coaf.
RemeHiber-fo for every evil deeA you read
to-morrow IN your paper theren be twenty
deeds Of heroism that you won't see.
A Baptist coiored preacher was about to
conduct a caapmseting some one took his
hymn book and put a song book in its stead.
He undertook to read q hymn and finally
said, Bredern somebody stole dat Bap-
tist hymbook and pu, a Mefodi's hym book
IA its place
Iheard a man say from the pulpit This
world IS rushing a lightning speed down
! TO the bad. / can't think so-think ofthe
inventions that our fathers didn't have.
The Old times we're never 50 old and
never so good as they are to-day.
Rome rotted when richest. No country
has ever died because Of poverty but be-
cause Of riches.
We sometimes trouble ourselves because
society viii ma! stay put Dead things stay
put. Grave yards stay put. | may lay out a
lot in graves and in hny years they're just
the same Bat living things don't stay put
{ Regarding political iniquits, we forget that
I Young men in Rofae required millions TO
place himself before the people We speak
/ of extravaganza. Think Of Nero's golden
palace. Think Of 100000 spent on a single
wall. Think of the wife OF Nero taxing
with her 800 asses in order that she might
have a coveted bath every morning, and
those asses shod with gold and silver shoes
There are plenty Of men aud women to make
martyrs Of. but where is the government
( that would try to make them. To set up a
stake at ~smitbfeld to-day would alarm
c~hrisiendom. Many persons are born afraid.
Some Of them owe their eowariice 70 a
crushed childhood You and to-day are
the result OF associates from childhood we
are inst what our associates have permitted
Us 10 become. In our homes you and are
writing as with invisible ink, and the page
on which we write is az immortal soul
What influences are you throwing around
your homes?
Les than a hundred years ago there were
more than 223 statutes in England infiicting
the death penalty. I've heard my father say
thar in London in the open streets in the
broad daylight. he saw three persons hang
ing by the neck for forgery, and one Of them
q woman. When people say that the Grim
inals are worse treated than ever before, |
think they are mistaken. When men unfold
the flag Of anarchy | say they ought 10 be
hung. The only place Cor an anarchist is
six Geet vide. Let Us turn to literature. Let
me- quote the tile page of a novel: Life
and Death Of Mol Flanders, ETC. etc.
Who are our n~ovelists to-day Dickens,
aud scott, and fhaekery, etc, etc believe
there jast As much sincere milk OF the
word preached today as there ever was
Thomas Paine said Il took twelve apostles
TO plant the Christian Religion |, single
handed, have o%verthrown it, More Bibles
have been sold since his day than were ever
sold before. More Bibles are sold than are
sold copies of any other book.
Music by Prof Case Adjourned