Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-09-21

ervatrsn. One was barbarian and 4
Savage; and never pretended TO be any
thing uut q barbarian and savage. The
other pretended to be representative of
a Christian nation. Notwithstanding all
this the general disgust with war and
tho substitution Of diplomatic skill for
the cIittering edge Of keen steel is a 81 gn
unnistakable that ''the day is at hand. :"
Distance Conquered.
I find another ray of dawn in the
compression of the worlds distances.
What q slow, snaillike, almost impossi-
BILE thing would have been the world s
rectiication with 1, 400, 900, 600 of pop
ulation and no facile means of COM
munication. But now, through teleg-
raphv for the eye and telephone in
timacy FOR the ear and through steam
boating and railroading, the %, 900
miles Of the worlds circumference are
shriveling up into insignificant brevity.
HongkOng is nearer to New York than
a few years ago New Haven was. Bonn
bay, Moscow, Madras, Melbourne, with
in speaking distance. Purchase a tele-
grarhic chart and by the blue lines see
the telegraphs Of the land and by the
red lines the cables under the ocean.
You see what opportunity this is going
to give for the final movements of
Christianity. A fortress may be months
or years in building, but after it is con-
structed it may do all its work in 20
minutes Christianity has been planting
its batteries for 19 centuries and may
go on III the work through other eentu-
ries, but when those batteries are thor
oughlv planted those fortresses are fully
built. They may all do their work in "a
hours The world sometimes derides the
church for slowness Of movement Is
science any quicker? Did it not take
science 1852 years to find out SO simple
q thing as the circulation Of the human
blood? With the earth and the sky full
of electricity, science took 5, 800 years
before it even guessed that there was
any practical use that might be made of
this subtle and mighty element. When
good men take possession of all these
scientific forces and all these agencies
of invention, I do not know that the re-
demption of the world will be more
than the work Of half a day. Do we not
read the queen S speech at the prOrOgu-
ing Of parliament the day before i'll
London? If that be SO, is it anything
marvellous to believe that in 81 hours
a divine communication can reach the
whole earth? Suppose Christ should de-
scend on the nations--,nany expect that
Christ viii come among the nations
personally. Suppose that tomorrow
morning the Son Of God from hover
ing cloud should descend upon these
cities. Would not that fact be known all
the world over III "a hours? Suppose he
should present his gospel in few
words, saying: Il am the Son of God.
I came to pardon all your sins and to
heal all your sorrow. To prove that [ am
a supernatural being, [ have just de-
scended from the clouds. Do you believe
me, and do you believe me now?" Why,
all the telegraph stations Of the earth
would be crowded as none of them were
ever crowded just after a shipwreck.
I tell you all these things to show you
it is not among the impossibilities OF
even the inlprobabilities that Christ
will conquer the whole earth, and do it
instanter, when the time comes. There
are f0retokeDings in the air. Something
great is going to happen. I donot think
that Jupiter is going to run us down, or
that the axle of the world is going to
break, bat [ mean something great for
the worlds blessing and not for the
worlds damage is going to happen. [
think the world has had it hard enough.
Enough the famines and plaques.
Enough the Asiatic choleras Enough
the wars. Enough the shipwrecks.
Enough the confagrations. I think our
world could stand right we'll a process
sion Of properties and triumphs. Bet
ter be OF the lookout. Better have your
open toward the heavens
and the lenses of your most powerful
telescopes we'll polished. Better have all
your Leyden jars ready for some new
pulsation Of might influence. Better
have new fonts Of type in your printing
offices to set UP some astounding good
news. Better have some new banner
that has never been carried ready for
sudden professions. Better have the
BELLS in your church towers we'll hung
and rope within reach, that you may
ring out the marriage Of sthe Kings
Son. Cleanse all your courthouses, for
5he Judge of all the earth may appear.
Let all your legislative halls be gilded
'or the Great Lawgiver may be about to
come. Drive off the thrones of despotism
al the occupants, for the King Of heav-
9n and earth may be about to reign. The
darkness Of the night is blooming and
into the lilies of morning
cloud and the lilies reddening into the
'oses Of stronger day-ft garlands,
whether white or red, for him on whose
head are many crowns. ''The day is at
land :"
From Desert to Garden.
One more ray of the dawn I see in
'acts chronological and mathematical.
Come now, do not let US do another
stroke of work until we have settled one
natter. What is going to be the final