Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1895-07-05
OUR FoRTYFIRsT VOL UME

With this number the SENTINEL begins
its forty first volume The hand that laid
Its foundation is Wondering in the tomb
The issues that induced its begetting have
raised to the realms of shade. The puny
struggles that seemed the end-all and aim
all Of human effort in its beginning, have
exposed their punness and persisted from
the earth Life is battle, unceasing. Death
is surcease-half compensation. II at least
affords a rest for the pentu up purpose that
will never fully uprear. What the SENTINEL
began with trying TO help. has in its concre,
iion passed beyond effort. What it wor-
SHIPPED in the abstract then, it holds as
shrine even yet. Instrumentalities are i'm.
perishable. Instruments vary with the hour.
Right is eternal. What it may be right to
do. is creature of the day. The then and
the now of the SENTINEL is q theme that
enkindles reflection while II shapes purpose
Who is on the stage Of action to-day that
was ready worker forty years ago9 What
issue, between man and man, betwixt pur-
pose and effort, that held the stage four de.
cades ago, usurps or even claims it now p
Then war was coming and Lee and Grant
were unnoticed heroes. Slavery was max.
ing It's death struggle and Mrs. Stowe was
the ages heroine, Then, stage coaches still
contested supremacy and telegraph wires
were dreaded as brd-traps. Baalbec was the
worlds wonder and electric force was a
bantling of Franklin's. Archimedes' boast
that If given fucrum he would find lever
10 move the universe, was still the ages
vaunt, and the old Greeks bones had not
ratified with conception Of moving palaces
trayersing the earth, and filling its crowded
cities with moving dwellings in its streets,
without visible :ulcrum. Arts slow hand
had not then yielded to instantaneous pic.
turings, and the spacious armament had kept
its glories a secret from the coming photog-
rapher The east and the west were still
hundreds and thousands of miles apart and
even steam had not reduced the journeyings
between to the minutes that separate them
now.
Forty years agol How little it was
rOtty years ucuCc! 1Cc UiBuces w 40 pi6
ness What will happenp Will there be
more wars? Will there be none to wal
with Win people believer Will all doubt
viii the age be agnostcism and protoplasm
Will il still continue true to faith and God
Will men hug silver and gold Or will theil
emptiness be realized Win economy cease
10 be political and become altogether human
Or will greed continue to gather and labor
go on hungeriDgs Will the educators lead
the van? Or will the schemers hold powell
aud place foreverG Win it be heroic TO know
and feel Or will the grandeur still consist
in knowing little and caring lessr Sug
grslions and quesiionings multiply with
more fertility than proftableness. The SEN
TTEEL does not predict II only assumes
that there will he need Of sentinel then as
now. 1t only hopes to keep pace with the
demand, and continue to receive charitable
appreciation, 81 that il and its successors
may fix on the srgosy Of the coming age its
promise 10 give It's u.ite 10 the end in the
battle for grand achievement and holy emu.
lation.