The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-03

acter. He who does most good will be
crowned as the king of men. The House
of Commons will consist of fve-and-
twenty members. and the House of
Lords of six referees. Vestry locusts
and county council vampires will have
died of and have been buried
"unwept, unhonored and unsung. The
tax-gatherer will no longer be a shadow
on the doorstep, but the welcome pres
ence of an honest messenger sent by
honest neighbors.
DEATH KNELL OF SALOONS.
It will be a century of tea and water
drinking. The public house having been
built by the devil, DR.. Parker believes
it will go to the, devil. The twentieth
century will see the passing away of
this chief tragedy of perditioh. For in
fancy's quick, glad hearing he catches
the sound of all the distilleries, brewer
les, d~runkeries. falling in one terrific
crash, while there goes up to heaven the
shout: THE house of Bacchus-that
street-corner god of London-has fallen
into hell"
Science will no longer be hostile to re-
ligion, nor religion hostile to science, for
he says there should never ave been
any controversy between them. The
God of the Bible is the God of nature.
He planted the forests and breathed the
life and moulded the stars and made the
WlOlG uOuSG WE i've IL. IlE ltld OQllL
all things is God. Religion may have to
change her form and her way of put
ting things, but not her reverence for
God or her obedience to His will. So
long as the sky is above the earth man
will need religious expressions Of word
and service for his highest nature and
noblest impulses. Little dogma must
give way to Unreasonable truth;
stunted creed must make room for ma
iestic and increasing faith, and shrunk-
on Sa1f must Weld fn the divine claims
of man.
In the coming century, DR.. Parker
says, in literature authors will be paid
and publishers well rewarded. A ghast-
" P-aternoster row skeleton will no
longer go up and down among the
poorer ministers asking them to write
gratuitously for his magazine on the
ground that they may be doing more
good than they are aware.
The twentieth century will see a great
change in the matter of public compan
les. They are, one and all, SO far as DR..
Parker has seen the prospectuses. cun-
ningly plotted swindles. DR.. Parker
wishes to be understood that he makes
no reference to private companies. He
refers to companies got up by company
promoters. For who can tell the misery
consequent upon the Leiberator swim
die? Every man connected with that
business ought, in his opinion, to be
publicly f1ogged. No punishment could
equal the crime. He says this las a
minister who knows family sorrows,
hereby accustomed. too dreadful to be
expressed in words"
The position of woman In the twen-
tieth century will be in happy contrast
to that which she now occupies. h
will know mathematics and natural
philosophy enough to build a second
Brooklyn bridge, and yet will laugh and
dance and joke, and even take a hand
in the kitchen.
DR.. Joseph Parker congratulates the
babies of the year 1895, who will live far
into the new century, and finds in the
circumstance of his present life a re-
greet that he will not see much of the
glorious twentieth century, which will
soon dawn upon an ungrateful world.