The morning times., 1896-11-30

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the church doors in Cape Colony. dogs
and HottentOts not admitted" / thank
you, old and dying century; all heaven
thanks you, and surely all the nations OF
the earth ought to thank you. l put be-
fore your eyes, soon to be dim for the
last sleep, the facts tremendous. / take
your wrinkled old hand and shake IL IN
congratulation. battle your fevered brow.
and freshen your parched lips from the
fountains Of eteral victory.
SOMETHING TO BE ONE.
''But my text suggests that there are
some things that this century ought to do
before he leaves us. We ought not TO
let this century go before two or three
things are set in order. For one thing,
this quarrel between labor and apital.
The nineteenth century inherited 1t from
the eighteenth century, but do not let this
nineteenth century hequcath 1t to the
twentieth. What we want says labor,
to set us right is more strikes and more
vigorous work with torch and dynamite.
What we want says capital, is ughser
grip on the working classes and compulsion
to take what wages we choose to pay,
without reference to their needs Roth
wrong as sin. Both defiant. Until the
day OF judgment no settlement Of the
quarrel If you leave 1T to British, Russian,
or American politics. The religion of
Jesus Christ ought to come in within the
next -four years and take the hand Of
capital and employe and say: You have
Tried everything else, and failed; now try
the Gospel of Kindness
Let this veteran century, before it dies
hand over TO the human race, with an inn
presslvencss that shall last forever, that
old family keepsake, the golden keepsake
which nearly nineteen hundred years ago
was handed down from the black rock of
the Mount OF Reatitudcs: Therefore all
things whatsoever yc would that men
should do TO you, do ye even SO to them;
for this is the law and the prophets
Another thing that needs to be set in
order before the veteran century quits us
is a more thorough and all-embracing plan
for The worlds sardcnization. We have
been trying TO save the world from the top,
and it cannot be done that way. 1t has
got iG be saved from tile bottom. The
church ought to he only West Point To
drill soldiers for outside battle. The last
great battle for God is not to tie fought
on the campus OF college or the lawn Of
a church. tis to be fought at Missionary
Ridge. Before this century quits us let us
establish the habit of giving the forenoon
of the Sabbath to the churches and the
afternoon and the evening OF the Sabbath
to gospel work in the halls and theaters
anu stFtctS, anu llclfiSi anu hiuilis, dLu
wildernesSes of sin and sorrow.
II am told that throughout all our
American cities the second Sabbath serv-
ice In the ma ioriiy OF churches i sparsely,
yea, dispracefully attended, and Is the
distress OF the ccnsecrated and eloquent
pastors who bring their learning and
picty before pews CHASTITY for their in
occupancy.
Let the Christian souls, bountifully fed
in TO II i,. "a
and evening 10 feed the multitudes of cut
siderS starving for the bread Cf which il
a man cat he shall never again hunger.
Among those clear down the gospel
would make more rapid conquest than
among these who know so much and have
SO much that Gcd cannot teach or help
them
TO SAVE CITIES.
Before this century expires let there be
n com bined effort to save the great cities of
America and Great Britain, and of all
Christendom. What awful thing IL
would lie for you, o dying century! 20 te-
queath to the coming century. as yet In
nocent and unscarrcd with single sin or
burdencd with a single sorrow, the bias
phcmy the lawiessness, the atheism, the
profligacy a nd the woes OF great cities still
uneyaagcIized. What we ought 10 see. o
dying century, is revival OF religion that
would wrap the continents in conilagra-
tionS nf relig gious awakening and that would
make legislation, and merchandise, and all
styles of worldly business wait awhile at
the telegraph Offices and the telephone Of
fees because they are occupied with telling
the story Of cities and nations born in "A
day. Nearly all the centuries closed with
something tremendous. Why may not this
century close in the salvation Of America?
Tell Us, . nineteenth century, before
You go, in score OF sentences, some OF
the things you have heard and seen. The
veteran turns upon us and says: i saw
Thomas jefferson riding in unattended
from Monticello. only few steps from
where you stand, disnuInt from his horse
and hitch the bride to a post, and on
yOnder hill take the oath of the Presidential
office. l saw yCEder Capitol ablaZe wi-h
wars incendiarism. l saw the puff of the
first steam engine in America. i heard the
thunders of Waterloo, OF Sebastopol, AMI
Sedan and Gettysburg. l was present at
all the coronatiunS OF the kings and queens
and enperors and empresses now in the
worlds palaces. l have seen two billpws
roll across this continent and from ocean
to ocean; a hillow OF revival joy in 1857,
and billow Of blood in 1861. l have seen
four generations of the human race march
across this world aud disappear. l saw
their cradles rocked and their graves dug.
/ have heard the wedding bells and death
clapped my hands for millions of joys and
wrung them in millions OF agunies.
Il saw Macready and EDWIN Forrest act
and Edward Payson pray l heard the
first chime Of Loneicl.ow's rhythmS, and
before anyone else saw them l r,ad the
first line of BanCroft's History, and the
first verse Of Bryant's 'Thanatopsis,' and
the first word IF Victor HuCo's almost
supernatural romance. | heard the music
of all the grand marches and TIE lament Of
all the requcms that for nich ten decades
made the cathedral windows shake. l
have seen more moral and spiritual vic
tories than all Of my predecess ors put to-
gether.
My hearers, as the nineteenth century
was born while the face Of this nation was
yet wet with tears because of the fatal
horseback ride that Washington took, out
here al Mount Vernon, thr ough December
SHOWS storm, wish the next century might
be born at n time when the face Of this
nation shall be wet with the tears of the
literal or spiritual arrival of the Great
Deliverer of Nations, of whom st. John
wrote with apCcalyptie pen: And saw,
and behold white horse, and he that
sat on him had a box, and a crown was
given unto him, and he went forth conquer
ing, and to conquer "