The Canton times., 1896-12-11

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,narpest Instruments, and
so much pain as the talking
inter from under child's
nail For the numbering stage
the limited express train. And
is the spectroscope of Fraunho-
by which our modern scientist
sels the pluse of other worlds throb-
Ding with light Jenner's arrest by
inoculation Of one Of the worlds
j worst plaques DR.. Keeley's emanci-
patton for inebriaty. Intimation that
Il the virus of maddened canine, and
cancer, and consumption are yetto be
baked by magnificent medical treat
4 ment. The eyesight' Of the doctor
Il shafpcned till he can look through
i thick flesh and find the hiding place
j of the bullet. What advancement in
| geology, or the catechism of the noun
| tains; chemistry, or the catechism of
the elements astronomy, or the
4 catechism of the stars; clectrol-
! ogy, or the catechism of the light
nings. What advancement in music.
at the beginning of this century. con-
finng itself, SO tar as the great masses
of the people were concerned, to few
| airs drawn out on accordion or massa-
| cred on church bass voil; now en-
| chantingly dropping from thousands
Of fingers in Handel's concerto in b
! fat, or Guilmant's SONATA in minor
| Thanks to you, O century! before you
die, for the asylums of mercy thaty you
have founded-the blind seeing with
their fingers, the deaf hearing by the
motion of your lips, the born imbecile
by skillful object lesson lifted to toler-
able intelligence. Thanks to this CEN
tury for the improved condition Of
most nations. The reason that Ma
poieon made such successful sweep
across Europe at the beginning Of the
century was that most of the thrones
of Europe were occupied by i'm
beetles or profigates. But most
of the thrones of Europe are to-
day occupied by kings and queens
competent France republic, Switz-
erland republic, and about fifty free
constitutions, / am told, in Europe.
Twenty million serfs of Russia manu-
mitted. On this western con ntinent l
can call the roll of many republics
Mexico, Guatemala, San Salvador,
Costa Rica, Paraguay, Uruguay, Hon
duras, New Grenada, Venezuela, Peru,
Ecuador, BOLIVIA, Chill, Argentine Re-
public, Brazil The once struggling
village Of Washington, to which the
United States government moved, it's
entire baggage and equipment packed
up in seven boxes. which got lost in
the woods near this place, now the
architectural glory of the continent
and admiration of the world.
The money power, so much de-
nounced and often justly criticised,
has covered this continent with uni !
versities, and free libraries, and asy-
lums 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 thou
sand sheets for one daily newspapers |
issue. Within your own memory, o
dying century, has been the genesis of
nearly all the great institutions evan
gelistic. At London Tavern, March z,
British and Foreign Bible society was
born. In 1916 American Bible So
ciety was born. In 1924 American |
Sunday-school union was born. In
1910 American Board of Commission
ers 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
Women's Temperance society, and all |
the other temperance movements born |
/ the century. Africa, hidden to
,ther centuries, by exploration in this
eAtury has been put at the feet of |
ivilization, to be occupied by COM
rce and Christianity. The Chinese
I'll, once an impossible barrier, now
useless pile of stone and brick. |
American nation at the opening |
this century only a slice of land
g the Atlantic coast, now the
lie continent in possession of our
1ls and churches and missionary
.ons Sermons and religious in
.gence which in other times, If mo-
d at all by the newspaper press,
allowed only a paragraph
three or four lines, now
the columns of the secular
IS in all the cities thrown wide
and every week for 20 years
ut the omission of single week,
been permitted to preach one
e Gospel sermon through the
paper press. i thank God for
great opportunity. Glorious old
arv. You shall not he entombed
1jwe have. face to face. extolled
You were rocked in a rough
E, and the inheritance you re-
cd was for the most part poverty,
struggle, and hardship, and poor