The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-12-04

so much and have so much that God can.
not teach or help them. In those lower
depths are splendid fellows in the rough.
York City Hall. He asked . boy to black
| his boots. The boy came up to his work
provokinQly slow and had just begun when
large boy showed him aside and began the
Ing bully. and the boy replied: "Oh, that's
oil right. ain going to do It for i'm. You
SEQ he's been sick In the hospital more'n a
month. so US boys turn In and give i'm
reporter. Eyes. sir. When they ain't got
no Job themselves and Jim gets one they
turn In and help I'm, for he ain't strong yet,
you see" How much percentage does he
give you?" said the reporter. The boy re-
piled: ~ don't keep none OF 1t. ain't no
such sneak rs that. All the boys give up
what they git on his job. I'd like to catch
any feller sneaklng on sick boy, would Z"
The reporter gave him a twenty-five cent
piece and said, "You keep ten cents for
yourself and give the rest to JIM" "Can't
do 1t, sir. It's his customer. Here, Jim"
Such big souls as that strew all the lower
to dod this would be the last full century Of
the worlds sin and but little work of
eTAngelzation would be left for the next
century. Before this century expires let
there be q combined effort TO save the great
cities Of America AMI Great Britain and OF
all Christendom. What an awful thing 1t
would be for you
dying century, to beQueath to the COM
Ing century, as yet innocent and unscarred
with a single sin or burdened with a single
sorrow, tho blasphemy, the lawlessuess, the
atheism. the profligacy and the woes Of great
cities still uneyangelized. What we ought to
see, dying century, is q revival Of religion
that would wrap the continents In confa9ra-
tions OF religious awakening, and that would
make legislation and merchandise and alI
styles Of worldly business wait awhile at the
telegraph offices and the telephone offices
hay mill NnIIt
story Of cities and Nations born in a day.
Nearly all the centuries closed with some
thing tremendous. Why may not this century
close In the salvation Of America? 1 do not
know whether our theological friends, who
have studied the subject more than have
are right or wrong when they say Christ
will como in person to set up His kingdom
In this world; but though We would be over
wholmei with our unworthineSS I would like
to see Christ descend from heaven in one OF
tho clouds Of this morning, and planting His
feet on this earth, which He came centuries
ago to save. declare His reign of love and
mercy and salvation on earth begun. And
what more appropriate place. say 1t rev.
orentially-:or such a divine landing than
the capital OF a continent never cursed by
the tyrannies and superstitions Of the Old
World?
What has this dying nineteenth oentury to
tell us before he %oes? We all love to hear
scptuaSenarians. octogenarians, nonagenar-
ians and centennrians talk. We gather
arOunu tno arincnhlr ana listen I'LL IL Is lar
on into the night and never weary OF hear
ing their experiences. But Lord LynIhurst.
at lightweight years OF age, pouring into the
ears OF the House OF Lords in a four hours
address tho experiences of lifetime, and
ApolloniuS, at 100 years OF age, recounting
his travels to thrilled listeners. and Charles
MacSlin, at 107 years OF age, absorbing the
attention of his hearers, and Ralph Farnham =
OF our country, n lot years. telling the
Prince of Wales the story Of Bunker Hill, can
rSute such interest this diving nantan-
aran II no will only speak.
Tell us, nineteenth century. before
you go In Il score OF sentences, some Of the
things you have heard aud seen. The
veteran turns upon US and says: 81 saw
Thomas jefferson riding In unattended
from Monticello. only few steps from
whore you stand, dismount from his horse :!
and hitch the b-idle to post, and on yoVe
der hill take the oath OF the presidential
office. l saw yonder capital ablaze with
wars incendiarsm. I saw tho puff Of the
first steam engine in America. I heard the
tnunders of Waterloo, Of Sepastopol and
Sedan and Gettysburg. 1 was present ut
all the coronations of the kings and queens
and emperors and expresses now In the
worlds palaces. have seen two billows
roll across this continent and from ocean
to oceau-a biliow OF revival Joy in 1857
and billow Of blood In 1854. L have seen
four generations OF the human race march
across this world and disappear. 1 saw
their cradles rocked and their graves dug,
death knes Of near hundred years.
have clapped my hands for millions OF Joys
and wrung them in millions OF agonies. /
saw Nacready and Edwin Forrest act and
chime Of Longfelow's rhythms, and before
anyone else saw theri read the first line Of
Bancrofts history and the first verse OF
Bryants "Thanatopsis" ana the first word Of
Victor HuGo's almost supernatural romance.
heard the music Of all the grand marches
and the lament of all the requiems that for
nigh ton decades made the cathedral WIN
dows shake. 1 have seen more moral and
spiritual victories than all OF my predeces-
sors put together For all you who hear or
read this valedictory have kindled all the
domestic hrcsides by which you ever sat and
reused all the halloos and roundelays and
merrimentS you have ever heard and un-
rolled all the pictured sunsets and starry
banners of the midnight heavens that you
have ever SaZod mt. But ere go take this
ADM milton and benediction of n dying CEN
tury. The longest lifc like mine, must
close. Opportunities gone mover come back,
ns could prove from nigh a hundred years
of observation. Tho eternity that will soon
tako mo will soon take you. The wicked
1.-Two not ont half thor days, "a have seen
in 10000 instances.
The only influence for making the world
happy is an inilucncc that l, the nineteenth
century, Inherited from tho first century Of
the Christian era--the Christ Of all tho CEN
turcs. BE not deceived by the fact that l
hit'e iVei 50 ion:, Tor century iS q large
wheel that turns 100 smaller wheels, which
are tho years. and each ono OF those years
turns 365 smaller wheels. which are the DAYS
auI each one OF the 3G5 days turns 2f smaller
Wheels, which are tho hours, each ono o;
those q hours turns 90 smaller wheels which
arc tho minutes, AM those 80 minutes turn
still smaller wheels, which are the seconds
And all Of this vast machinery is in perpetual
motion and pushes Us on and on toward tho
great eternity whose doors will, ut 12 O'Clock
OF tho winter night between tho year 1900
AMI the year 1901 open before me, tho dying
! century. quote from the three inscriptions
over three doors Of tho cathedral of Milan.
over ono door, amid Il wreath Of sculptured
roses. l read. "A!l that which plcases us Is
| hut for mnmnnt. W OYnr annthnr door.