The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-12-11

r.aae. nov lfo architectural glory rel, Gee
continent and elimination oi lha world
iha money power, ao mufn deu0unr-
ami oHea justly criticized. has covered thls
continent with universities aa3 free Hhur
iu aul asylum q. Mercy Ihe naWHpare
pra which 90 tho beginning of eos can
tufy WH. Hn ink rllinf. hY hand moved 0YHf
one sheet of paper 90 ume. uas b come ihf
miraculous manufacture Of four ur lFn uI
alE hundred thousand sheets Tor ono dHllg
newspapers issue. Within your memory
o DYING century. bias been tho gene.H 0i
ucarly am She great Institutions oyansf..
ia.le. AZ London tavern, Narch Z, lsll
ltiish and FOREIGN Bible H0e.riv was born
"a 1916 Amnucan nlnia society wac porn.
Ia 1924 American 8unday-sshool union
Wns born. I'M 1910 American board ot
eomml asloncu for foreign missions. which
has pat lu saving hand On every Nation 90
ihe round earth. was born ai q hnys,n1k Ia
Massachusetts The National Temperance
society. the Womaub Temperance society,
and ~ tho other temperance movements
were born ln glastonbury. Aincn, hidden 30
other centuries. by exploration in lhB cons
fury has been put ut tha ioet of civilization
20 DO occupied by commr1e8 aud Chrlstlun-
ilv The Chinese wall, 0uca an impas1ble
barrier, now lsa useless pile OF stone aud
brick. Our American Nation at the opening
1l this century only % slice oI land along
lhe Atlantic colst, now the whole continent
.n pol as4'on OF our schools aud churches
and missionary stations Sermons and 70.
llglous intelligence which in other times, II
noticed Ht all by the newspaper press, were
allowed only n paragraph OF three or four
lines, now find tho columns of the secular
press In all the cities thrown wide
open, and every week for twenty-sIx
years, without tho omission Of q single
week, / have been permitted 20 preach
1nB entire gospel sermon through the news
paper press. i thank G1i for this great
opportunity. Glorious old century, You
shallnot DO entombed until wo have, face 70
face, oxtollei you. You were rocked ia
rough cradle and the inheritance You re-
ceiyoi was, Tor the most part, poverty and
aetrugglo aud hardship, and poorly covered
lBrave3 Of heroes and hsrolne3 OF whom tho
world had not been worthy, ani atheism aud
military despotism, and the wreck Of tho
French revolution. You inherited the inhu-
oaces that resulted Ga Aaron Burrs treason,
and another war with England and BATH.
| OF Lake Erie, and Indian gayagory, and
| LundY's Lane aud Dartmo0r massacre. aud
| dissenuon, bitter and Wild beyond measure
mont, and African slavery. which was yet TO
cost National hamorrhage o, four awful
| years and q million precious lives.
Yes, dear old century, you had an awful
| start, and you have done more than we'll,
| considering your parentaga and your carly
! environment. II IS a wonder you did not
] turn out 10 be tine vRgabond century of al
/ hmo. You han bad mother aud bad
/ grandmother Some OF the preceding CEN
/ turtles we're not a, 10 live in-their morals
! were so bad, their fashions were 30 outrage
/ GUS, their Ignorance was SO dense, their in
humanityso terrific. Oh, dying nineteenth
| century before you 90 we take this oppOr-
tunity Of telling You that you are the best
and the mightiost OF all the centuries OF tho
Christian era except the 1rst, which gave US
| tho Christ, and you rival that century in the
fact that you more than all the other 1entur-
les put together are giving the Christ to oil
| theWorld. One hundred and twelve thousand
dollars, ct one meeting few days ago con-
| trlbuted for the worlds evangeliZatiou.
Look at what you have done, o thou
abused and deprecated century. All
the Pacific isles, barred and bolted
against the gospel when you began
to reign, now all open, and some OF them
more Christianized than America. No more,
as once written over tho church doors in
Cape Colony, "Dogs and Hottentots not adj
mitted." The late Mr.. Darwin contributing
S25tO the Southern Missionary Society. Can
nibalism driven Off the face Of the earth. The
gates Of all Nations wide open for the gospel
entrance when the church shall give up Il.
higher criticism, and plunge into the work
as at life saving station the crew pull oui
with the lifebOat to take the sailors Off
ship going to pieces in the Skerries. [ thant
you, old and dying century All heaven
thanks you, and surely all the Nations of the
earth ought to thank you. Iput before your
eyes, soon to be dim for the last sleep, tn,
facts tremendous. take your wrlnkled OLE
hand and shake Ii in cOngratulation I bathC
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, Use
thine house in order. for thou shalt die anC
not live" We ought not to Let this century
90 before two or three things are set in order
For one thing this quarrel between la1or ant
capital. The nineteenth century inherited
it from the eighteenth century, but do moi
let this nineteenth century bequeath it c
the twentieth. "What we want" says labor
''to set us right is more strikes and more vig
orous work with torch and dynamite.
"What we want" says capital SIS a tighte
grip on the working classes and compulsiol
TO take what Wagee we choose to pay, with
out reference to their needs" Both Wrony
as sin. Both defiant. Until the day Of judg
ment no settlement of the quarelifyou leav
1t to British, Russian or American politics
The religion Of Jesus Christ ought 10 com
in within the next four years and take th
hand Of capital and employee aud say; "yot
, have tried everything else ana failed. Nov
try the gospel Of kindness" No more op
, preston and no more strikes. The gospel o
Jesus Christ win sweeten this acer
, bity, or it will 20 on t
the end Of time and the fires tina
burn the world up will crackle in the ears O
Wrathful prosperity and indignant toll whit
their hands are still elutching at each other
throats, Before this century signs its las
; breath Iwould that swarthy labor and cas-
opuence would &C me up and let the Carper
ter Of Nazsreth Join their hands in pledge {
{ everlasting kindness and peace. When me
and women are dying they are apt to divid
! among their children memantos. and one
J given a watch, and another vase, an
another a picture, and another u rope. Le
! this veteran century before Il dies hand owe
J to the human race, with an impressivenes
! that shall last forever, that old family keer
) sake, the golden keepsake which nearly l9o
) years ago was handed down from the blac
3 rock Of the mount OF beatitudes, "pherefol
all fhfnpz tvhntaOevnr va would TINT m a