Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-12-11

open. aud every week Tor twenty-siK
years, without the omission OF single
week, l have hs-en permitted % preach
one entire gospel serm1 20 through the news
paper press. / thank Col Tor this great
opportunity. Glorious oh century You
shall not be- entombed until We have, face 10
face. extollel ycu. You were rocked IN a
rough cradle. and the inheritance you re-
ceivel was, for the most part, poverty ami
struggle and hardship, and poorly coyered
graves OF heroes and her1lnes OF whom the
world had not been worthy, an atheism ana
military despotism, and the wreck OF the
French revolution. You inherited the inhu-
ences that resulted in Aaron Burr's treason
and another var with England, and battle
81 Lake Erie, aud Intian sayagery, and
lsundy's Lane, aud DartmOor massacre. ana
diSsenti0n, bitter ani wild beyond measure
ment, aud African slavery. which was vet 70
cost a National hemorrhase OF four awlui
years and million precious lives.
Yes. dear old century, YOU had an awful
start, aud YOU have done more than well,
considering your paren'ase AMI your early
environment. II is a wonder you did not
turn out TO be the vagabOnd century OF all
time. You hau a bad mother and bad
grandmother Some OF the preceding CEN
turtles were not a. TO live in-their morals
were so bad, their fashions were so outrage
Gus. their ignorance was so dense their in.
humanityso terrific. Oh, dying nineteenth
century, before you go we take this oppor-
tunity 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
the Christ, and youriyal that century in the
fact that you more than all the other centur-
les put together arc giving the Christ to all
the world. One hundred and twelve thousand
dollars, a. one meeting few days ago con-
tributed for the worlds evangeliZatiOn.
Look at what YOU have done. o thou
abused ami deprecated century. All
the Pacific isles, barred and bolted
against the gospel wnen you began
to reign, now all Opeu, and some Of them
more Christianized than America. No more,
as once written over the church doors in
Cape Colony. dogs and Hottentots not ad-
mltted.' The late Mr.. Darwin contributing
g25 TO theSouthern Missionary Society. Can
niballsm driven or the face OF the earth. The
gates Of all Nations wide open for the gospel
entrance when the church shall give up its
intellectual dandyism. and quit fOOling with
higher criticism, and plunge into the work,
as at a life saving station the crew pull out
with the lifeboat to take the sailors of a
ship going to pieces in the Skerries. thank
you, old aud dying century. All heaven
thanks you, and surely all tbe Nations of the
earth ought to thank you. put before your
eyes, soon to be dim for the last sleep, the
facts tremendous. Itake your wrinkled old
hand and shake tin concratuation. I battle
your ievered brow and ireshen your parehed
lips from the fountains Of eternal victory.
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
20 before two or three things are set in order
For one thing this quarrel between LABOR and
capital. The nineteenth century inherited
1t from the eighteenth century, but do not
let this nineteenth century urGueath ii TO
the twentieth. "WhRt We want" says labor.
ito set us right IS more strikes and more Wig
orOus work with torch and dynamite"
"What we want says capital, "is q tighter
grip on the working classes and cOnpulsion
to take what wagee We choose to pay, with
out reference to their needs" Both wrong
as sin. Both defiant. Until the day OF iudg-
ment no settlement II tho QHarrelif YOU leave
IT to British, Russian Or American politics
The religion Of Jesus Christ ought to come
in within the next fOar years and take the
hand Of capital aud employee aud say: "You
have tried everything else and failed. Now
try the gospel Of kindness" No more on
preston and no more strikea The gospel 81
Jesus Christ will sweeten this acer-
T"A' ~ WI ~ Oh u
tue emu o, uue' ana the hres 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
throAts, Before this century signs its last
breath would that swarthv labor and easy
opulence would cCme up and let the Carpen-
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