The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-12-11

by innocuiation of one of the worlds
worst plaques. DIR. Keeley's enamel
patton for inebriety. Intimation that
the virus of maddened canine, and can
Ger, and consumption are yet to be
baked by magnificent medical treat
ment The eyesight of the doctor
sharpened till he can look through
thick flesh and find the hiding place of
the bullet. What advancement in ge-
ology, or the catechism of the noun
tains; chemistry, or the catechism of
the elements; astronomy, or the cate
chism of the stars; electrology, or the
catechism of the lightnings
The money power, so much de-
nounced and often justly criticised, has
covered this continent with UNIVERSE
| ties, and free libraries, and asylums of
mercy. The newspaper press which,
at the beginning of the century was
an ink-roller, by hand moved over one
sheet of paper at a time, has become
the miraculous manufacturer of four
or five or six hundred thousand sheets
for one daily newspapers issue. With
in your memory. o dying century, has
been the genesis of nearly all the great
| institutions evangelistic. At London
Tavern, March 2, 1902, British and
Foreign Bible society was born. In
1916 American Bible society was born.
In 1924 American Sunday School union
was born. In 1910 American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions,
which has put its saving hand on every
nation of the round earth, was
born at a haystack in Massa-
chusetts. The National Temperance
society, the Women's Temper
ance society, and all the other tenn
pearance movements born in the CEN
fury. Africa, hidden to other centuries,
by exploration in this century has been
put at the feet of civilization, to be
occupied by commerce and Christianity.
The Chinese wall, once an impossible
barrier, now is a useless pile of stone
and brick. Our American nation at
the opening of this century only a
slice of land along the Atlantic coast,
now the whole continent in possession
of our schools and churches and mis-
sionary stations. Sermons and religi-
Gus intelligence which in other times,
if noticed at all by the newspaper
press, were allowed only a paragraph
of three or four lines, now find the
columns of the secular press in all the
cities thrown wide open, and every
week for &c years without the omis-
sion of single week, l have been
permitted to preach one entire gospel
sermon through the newspaper press.
l thank God for this great opportunity.
Glorious old century! You shall not
be entomhed until we have, face to
face, extolled you.
o, dying 10Th century! before you go
we take the opportunity of telling you
that you are the best and the mightiest
of all the centuries of the Christian
era, except the first, which gave US
Christ, and YOU rival that century in
the fact that you, more than all the
other centuries put together, are Civ
ing the Christ to all the world. One
hundred and twelve thousand dollars
at one meeting a few days age contrib
uted for the worlds evangelization.
Look at what you have done, o. thou
abused and deprecated century! All
the Pacific Isles, barred and bOlted
against the gospel when you began to
reign, now all open, and some of them
more Christianized than America.
But my text suggests that there are
some things that this century ought to
do before he leaves us. Thus saith
the Lord, set thine house in order;
for thou shalt die, and not live" 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 capital. The 10Th century
inherited it from the 18th century, but
do not let this 10Th century bequeath
it to the Goth. What we want" says
labor, Ito set US right is more strikes,
and more vigorous work with torch and
dynamite. What we want, says CAPT.
tai, lis a tighter grip on the working
classes and compulsion to take what
wages we choose to pay, without refer
ence to their needs" Both wrong as
sin. Both defiant. Until the day of
judgment no settlement of the quarrel
if you leave it 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 employee and say: ''You
have tried everything else, and failed;
now try the gospel of kindness" No
more oppression and no more strikes.
The gospel of Jesus Christ will sweet
en- this acerbity, or it will go on to the
end of time, and the fires that burn the
world up will crackle in the ears of
wrathful prosperity and indignant toll
while their hands are still clutching at
each others Threats. Before this cen
fury signs it's last breath
1 would that swarthy labor
and easy opulence would come
up and let the Carpenter of Nazareth
join their hands in pledge Of everlast-
ing kindness and peace.
Let the Christian souls, bountifully
fed in the morning. go forth in the aft
ernoon and evening TO feed the multi
tudes of outsiders starving for the
bread of which if a man eat he shall
never again hunger. Among those
clear down the gospel would make
more rapid conquests than among those
who know so much and have so much