Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-05-09

Ell Iashlon plate. Twenty five wears
yea, 20 centuries-have not change,
human nature particle. Isay this fo
the encouragement of those who thinl
tlat our times monopohze all the abom
nations Of the ages.
one minute after Adam got outsid,
OF paradise he was just like YOU. {
: man! One step after Eve left tho cat,
.tIe was just like you, o wonanl AL
tle faults and vices are many times cen
tonarians. Yea, the cities Sodom. Go
l1orrah, Pompeii, Herculaneum, He'll
Cpolls and ancient Memphis were a,
much worse than our modern cities a.
you might expect from the fact that
the modern cities have somewhat Weld.
ed to the restraints of Christianity.
while those ancient cities were not lin.
tied i'll their denominations.
Great Works Accomplished.
Yea, that generation which passed off
within the last % years had their be-
reavements, their temptations. their
struggles, their disappointments, their
successes, their failures, their gladness-
es and their griefs, like these two gen
erations now in sight, that in advance
and that following. But the 25 wears
between 1869 and 1S94-how much
they saw! How much they discovered
How much they feltl Within that time
have been performed the miracles of
the telephone and the photograph.
From the observatories other worlds
have been seen to heave in sight. Six
presidents of the United States have
been inaugurated. Transatlantic voyage
abbreviated from 10 days to 51%. Chi
cago and New York, once three days
apart, now only "a hours by the vesti-
bule limited Two additional railroads
have been built to the Pacific. France
has passed from monarchy to republic
anism. Many of the cities have nearly
doubled their populations During that
generation the chief surviving heroes
of the civil war have gone into the en-
of the grave. The chief ply
sicians, attorneys, orators, merchants,
have passed off the earth or are in re-
tirement waiting for transition. Other
men in editorial chairs, in pulpits, in
governors mansions, in legislative, SEN
atorial and congressional halls
There are not 10 men or women ON
earth now prominent who were promi-
nent % years ago The crew of this old |
ship of world is all changed. Others
1T the helm, others on the lookout"
others climbing the ratlines. Time is a
loctor who, with potent anodyne, has
out an entire generation into sound |
leep. Time, like another Cromwell, has
oughly prorogued parliament and with
conoclasm driven nearly all the rulers
xcept one queen from their high places.
20 far as l observed that generation,
or the most part they did their best.
ihastly exceptions, but SO far as l knew
hem they did quite well, and many of
hem gloriously well. They were born
t the right time, and they died at the
light time. They left the world better
han they found it. We are indebted to
hem for the fact that they prepared the
7ayfor our coming. Eighteen hundred
nd ninety-four reverently and CRATE
ally salutes 1869. Zone generation
asseth away, and another generation
)meth. F"
There are fathers and mothers here
hom l baptized in their infancy.
here is not one person in this church's
oard of session or trustees who was !
ere when I came. Here and there i'll
lis vast assembly is one person who
card my opening sermon in-Brooklyn, {
1T not more than one person in every
10 now present Of the u persons who i
I've me unanimous call when / came, t
lly three, / believe, are living. !
The Major Key. {
But this sermon is not dirge. It is I
anthem. While this world is appro-
late as temporary stay, as an eter- t
j residence it would be dead fail G
e. 1t would be dreadful sentence if t
r race were doomed to remain here a a
ousand winters and thousand sum- 6
ers. God keeps us here Just long Z
ough TO give us an appetite for heav- Ii
Had we been born in celestial realms g
} would not have been able to appre- II
lte the bliss. IL needs a good many II
lgh blasts in this world to qualify us a
properly estimate the superb climate n
that good land where it is never too Ii
ID or too hot, too cloudy or too glar- tN
:. Heaven will be more to as than tc k
ose supernal beings who were never al
npted or sick or bereaved or tried or
appointed SO you may well take my tV
t ont of the minor key and set it to al
ne tune in the major key. Zone gen al
tion passeth away, and another gen e1
tiOn cometh. al
Nothing can rob us of the satisfaction III
t uncounted thousands Of the gener- nt
IN just past were converted, COMFORT sh
and harvested for heaven by this ba
rch, whether in the present building w
the three preceding buildings in
ich they worshiped. The two great
ans of the previous churches went at
Vn in the memorable fires, but the tw
songs they led year aft fol
year were not recalled or injured ye
re is no power in earth OF hell 10 or
a halleluiah. 1t is impossible 20 ar We
a hosanna What a satisfaction 20 CHS
w that there are many thousands in M,
" ON whose eternal welfare this oo'