Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-12-03

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republic, Switzerland a republic, and about
80 free constitutions, am told, In Europe
Twenty million serfs OF Russia manumit-
)ed On this western continent c2n call
the roll Of many republies-Mexico, Guate-
mala, San Salvador, Costa Rica, Para
quay, 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, its
entire baggage and equipment packed up
in seven boxes, which got lost In the
woods near this place, now the architec-
tural glory Of the continent and admira-
ton Of the world.
A Glorious Century.
The money power, so much denounced
and often justly criticised, has covered this
continent with universities and free libra
ries and asylums Of mercy. The newspaper
press, which at the beginning of the CEN
tury was an ink roller, by hand moved over
one sheet Of paper at time, has become the
miraculous manufacturer of four or five or
six hundred thousand sheets for one daily
newspapers issue. Within your memory,
o dying century, has been the genesis Of
nearly all the great institutions evangel-
istic. At London tavern, March z, 1902,
British and Foreign Bible society was bern.
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 haystack in
Massachusetts,. The National Temperance
society, the Woman's Temperance society
and all the other temperance movements
were born in this century. Africa, hidden to
other centuries, by exploration in this CEN
tury has been put at the feet of civilization
to be occupied by commerce and Christian
ity. The Chinese wall, once an impossible
barrier, now is a useless pile of stone and
| brick. Our American nation at the open
ing of this century only slice Of land
along the Atlantic coast, now the whole
continent in possession of our schools and
churches and missionary stations. Ser
mons and religious intelligence which In
other times, If noticed at all by the news
paper press, were allowed only 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 26 years,
without the omission of a single week,
have been permitted to preach one entire
gospel sermon through the newspaper
press. L thank God for this great Oppor-
tunity. Glorious old century, You shall
not be entombed until we have, face to
face, extolled you You were rocked in q
rough cradle, and the inheritance you re-
ceived was for the most part poverty and
struggle and hardship, and poorly covered
| o.,o,,oa ~ baroao ond horoipoc Of hon, Tho
world had not been worthy, and atheism
and military despotism, and the wreck OF
the French revolution. You inherited the
influences that resulted in Aaron Burr
treason, and another war with England,
and battle of Lake Erie, and Indian saw
agery, and Lundy's Lane, and Dartmoor
massacre, and dissension, bitter and wild
beyond measurement, and African slavery,
which was yet to cost national hemCr-
rhage Of four awful years and million
precious lives.
Yes, dear old century, you had an awful
start, and you have done more than well
considering your parentage and your early
environment. 1t Is wonder you did Iot
turn out to be the vagabond century of al
time. You had a bad mother and bad
grandmother Some of the preceding cen
turies were not fit to live in-their morals
were so bad, their fashions weR so outrage
GUS, their ignorance was so dense, theil
inhumanity SO terrific. Oh, dying nine
,, teenth century, before you go we take thi'
opportunity OF telling you that you are thu
best and the mightiest of all the centuries
of the Christian era except the first, which
gave us the Christ, and you rival that cen
| N,,ux IT, kho Ahokx HOY oil
other centuries put together are giving tn,
Christ to all the world. One hundred ant
J twelve thousand dollars at one meeting
. few days ago contributed for the world
evangelization. Look at what you hav'
done, o thou abused and deprecated cen
tury All the Pacific isles, barred ant
bolted against the gospel when you begar
to reign, now all open, and some Of then
! more Christianized than America. NJ
more, as once written over the churcl
doors in Cape Colony, "Dogs and Hotten
tots not admitted" F" The late Mr. Darwin
contributing s25 to the Southern Mission
!, ary society Cannibalism driven off tn
face of the earth The gates of all nation
wide open for the gospel entrance whel
the church shall give up its intellectual
dandyism, and quit fooling with highe
criticism, and plunge into the work, as a
a life saving station the crew pull out will
the lifeboat to take the sailors of q shiI
, going to pieces in the Skerries. thanl
you, old and dying century. All heayel
thanks you, and surely all the nations o
the earth ought to thank you. Iput be
fore your eyes, soon to be dim for the las
sleep, the facts tremendous take you
wrinkled old hand and shake it in con
graduation. bathe your fevered brow
fountains of eternal victory.
Labor and Capital.
, But my text suggests that there ar
some things that this century ought to d
, before he leaves us. "Thus saith the Lord
Set thine house in order, for thou shal
die and not live." We ought not to lie
this century go before two or three thing
are set In order. For one thing this quar-
rel between labor and capital. The nine
teenth century inherited 1t from the eight
eenth century, but do not let this nine
,, teenth century bequeath 1t to the twen
tieth. "What we want" says labor, ct
set usright Is more strikes and more Wig
Orous work with torch and dynamite.
"What we want, " says capital, lis tight
sr grip on the working classes and com
pulsion to take what wages we choose
pay, without reference to their needs.
Both wrong as sin. Both defiant Unit
the day Of Judgment no settlement of tn
! quarrel If you leave 1t to British, Russiai
or American politics. The religion @
Jesus Christ ought to come In within tn
next four years and take the hand of capi
tai and employee and say: "You have trie
everything else and failed. Now try tn
gospel of kindness. T" No more oppression
and no more strikes. The gospel of Jesu
Christ will sweeten this acerbity, or it vii
go ON to the end of time, and the fires tina
burn the world up will craokle in the ear
of wrathful prosperity and indignant toi
. while their hands are still clutching a
; each others throats Before this centur
sighs its last breath would that swarth
labor and easy opulence would come u