Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-30

.renner,a arrest ty inocuIation of one

canine and cancer 2llG consumption are
yet TO be balzed By magnificent medical
Treatment The eyesight Of the doctor
sharpened till ha car look through thick
flesh AID fihd the hiding place Of the
bullet. What advancement in geology,
or the catechism Of the mountains
chemistry or tie catechisn of the ele-
ments; astronomy or the catschism OF
the stars. electrology, or the catechism
Of the iiehtningsl What advancement in
musiet At the beginning Of this century
combining itself 50 far as the great
masses of the people We're concerned, TIC
a few airs drawn out On accordion or
massacred on church bass yiol. now en-
chantingly dropping from thousands of
fingers il. Ilandel's Concerto In B Flat
or Guilmants Sonata Ii q Minor =
Thanks to you, o century, before you die,
for the asylums OF mercy that you have
founded-the blind seeing with their
fingers, the deaf hearing by the motion
of your lips, the born imbecile by skill
fuI object lesson lifted to toIerabIe in
telligeuce Thanks to this century for
the improved condition of most nations.
The reason that Napoleon made such
q successful sweep across Europe at the
beginning Of The century was that most
Of the thrones of Europe were occupied
either by imbeeiles or profligates. But
most of the thrones Of Europe are today
occupied by kings and queens compe-
tent France 3 republic Switzerland a
republic, and about so free constitutions,
I am told, in Europe Twenty million
serfs of Russia manumitted On this
western continent can call the roll of
many republics-Mexico Guatemala,
San Salvador, Costa Rica. Paraguay,
Uruguay, Honduras, New Granada,
Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia,
Chile Argentine Republic, Brazil. The
once struggling village Of Washington
to which the United States government
moved, it's entire baggage and equip
ment packed up in seven boxes which
got lost in the woods near this place.
now the architectural glory Of the con
tinent and admiration of the world
Good Word For Newspapers.
The money power, SO much denounced
and often justly criticised, has covered
this continent with universities and
free libraries and asylums of mercy.
The newspaper press, which at the be-
ginning Of the century was an ink roller,
by hand moved over che sheet Of paper
at time, has become the miraculous
manufacturer of four or five or six hun
dred thousand sheets for one daily news
papers issue. Within your memory, 0
dying century. has been the genesis of
nearly all the great institutions evangel
isticl At London tavern, March z, 1902,
D.;
born. In 1916 American Bible society
was born In 1924 American Sunday
School union was born. In 1910 Ameri-
can board Of commissioners for foreign
missions, which has put its saving hand
on every nation of the round earth, was
born at haystack III Massachusetts.
The National Temperance society, the
Woman's Temperance society and all
the other temperance movements born
in this century. Africa, hidden to other
centuries by exploration III this century
has been put at the feet Of civilization,
to be occupied by commerce and Chris
tianity
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 O slice of
land along the Atlantic coast, now the
whole continent in possession of our
schools and churches and missionary
stations. Sermons and religious intelli-
gence which in other times. if noticed
at all by the newspaper press, were al
lowed only paragraph of three>or four
lines, now find the columns of the secu
lar press il all the cities thrown wide
open, and every week for 90 years, with
out the omission of a single week.
have been permitted to preach one entire
gospel sermon through the newspaper
press I thank God for this great oppor-
tunityi
Glorious old centuryi You shall not
be entombed until we have. face to face,
extolled you. You were rocked in q
rough cradle, and the inheritance you
received was for the most part poverty
and struggle and hardship and poorly
covered graves of heroes and heroines
of whom the world had not beer worthy,
and atheism and military despotism and
the wreck OF the French revolution.
You Inherited the influences that result
ed in Aaron 8urr's treason, and another
war with England, and battle Of Lake
Erie, and Indian savagery, and Lundy's
Lane, and Dartmoor massacre, and dis
sension bitter and wild beyond meas
urement, and African slavery, which
was yet to cost national hemorrhage
of four awful years and million pre-
cious lives. Yes, dear old century, you
had an awful start. and you have done
more than WELL considering your paren-
tage and your early environment. It is
wonder you did not turn out to b1 the
vagabond century Of all time. You had
bad mother and bad grandmother.
Some Of the preceding centuries were
uot fit TO live in-their morals were go
bad, their fashions were SO outrageous,
their irnfratlce was SO dense their IL