The sun., 1895-01-20

hardly have too many. The coming century will
be i'm patient with incompetent teachers. but the
very degree of its impatience on the one hand
will be the degree of its appreciation on the
other. Men will do willingly homage to the
teachers who can bring them within clear sight
OF all the kingdoms of God-righteodsness
purity, music beauty, and eternal love.
As to churches. n wonderful change will take
place. Little Bethels and lions. born TO blush
unseen" will be swept off the face of the earth.
Small tests of faith. sectar.an standards of
orthodoxy pedantries. whims. and theological
crazes will all disappear, and men will gather in
adoring love around the Christ of God. There
will be a grand church in the twentieth century
In that holy dav opinion will be nothing ac-
counted of compared with sincere love and pas
sionate devotion to the service of the poor. the
weak. and the weary who need a word In season.
In that day men will not know that there ever
was so great an anomaly & as State church.
placed by the unseen arm Of the living God. and
outward glitter will disappear under the dawn
and loveliness The church of the triumphant
Saviour will in very deed be established. for she
shall have granite for her foundations and sal
walton for her walls.
The great freedom which is coming upon all
SECTIONS OF the one church VIII not be the free e.
the freedom of eternal law, the law which
makes astronomic music and keeps the oceans
within their appointed lines.
Men will set their faces flint against the
crime OF violating. even in vain attempt the
solemn and rHythmc order of God:
In the twentieth century the Christian concep-
tiOn of thought and service i'll be cleansed Of
ndesd @ ou and Ssny Of ahe old
heresies will pass out of the mind Of the world,
because men will not be professionally engaged
in keeping them green and blooming by constant
Now men take long journeys to the cemeteries
of the opening Christian centuries. exhuming
putrescent heretics. making their CHASTITY jaws
repeat their fCetd commonplace then argu-
them back into their antiGuated shrolds. A
hideous way of making q living. But the twen
tieth century will want TO know the present
truth, and not to hear the lies men used to tell
two thousand years ago.
In Great Britain Dr. Parker prophesies great
political changes at the close OF the twentieth
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners will all be
paid off, and their millions will have gone to the
reduction of the rational debt. LeasehOlds will
have become freenolds. The land will no longer
be the monopoly of men who never paid for it.
Men will not be great by title. but by character
He who does most good will be crowned as the
of Lords OF six referees. Vestry locusts and
County. Council vampires, will have died OF
starvation. ana have been buried ''unwept. un-
honored and unsung." The tax gatherer will
no longer be shadow on the door step hut the
welcome presence OF en- honest messenger sent
by honest nciGh bors
1t will be n century Of tea and water drinking.
The public house. having been built by the devil.
Dir. Parker believes 1t will go to the devil. The
twentieth century will zee the passing away OF
this chief il, tragedy Of pertitlon For in faaey,s
the dist leries, breweres drunkeries falling in
one terrific crash, while there goes up TO heaven
the shout, The house Of Bncchus-that street.
corner god Of London-has fallen into hell"
Science will be no longer hostile to religion.
religion hostile to science. For he says there
never should have been any controversy between
them: The God Of the Bible is the God Of
the life. and moulded the stars, and made the
whole house we live in; He that built all things
is God. Religion may have TO change her forms
an haFt tVpV nj nor har
erence for Lod or her glad obedience to His will.
So long as the sky is above the earth man will
for his highest nature and noblest impulses.
Littl lc dogma must give way to inmeasurable
majestic and Increasing faith: and shrunken
self must yield tn the divine claims ofman.
m @ s snny s psd D rf1s ana in
well rewarded. a CHASTITY Paternoster row
skeleton will no longer go mp and down among
gratuitiously for his magazine on the ground
that they may be doing more good than they
The twentieth century will see great change
In the matter OF public companies. They nre, one
pcctuses cunningy plotted swi indies. DR.. Parker
wishes 1t tn 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
Liherator swindlof Every man connected with
that business ought, IN his opinion, tu be pub
licly hoggcd. ACCOMPLISHMENT could equal the
crime. He says this, "as minister who knows
To he expressed In words"
The position of woman in the twentieth CEN
tury Will be in happy contrast to that which she
now occupies. They will know mathematics
and natural philosophy enough % build Sec
ond Brooklyn Bridge and yet will laugh. and
dance. and joke. and even take hand in the
kitchen.
Dr. Joseph Parker congratulates the babies of
century. and finds in the circumstances OF his
present life regret that he will not see much
OF the glorious twentieth century, which will
soon dawn upon an nnErateful world.