The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-30

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| hgates. But most of the thrones of Eu-
| rope are to-day occupied by kings and
! queens competent. France a republic,
| Switzerland a republic, and about fifty
| free constitutions, | am told, in Europe.
Twenty million serfs of Russia manumit-
ted. On this western continent / can can
the roll of many republics-MeXico, Qua
tenala, San Salvador, Costa Rica, Para
quay, Uruguay, Honduras, New Granada,
Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chill
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 architectural
glory of the continent and admiration OF
the world.
The money power, so much denounced
and often justly criticised has covered
this continent with universities, and free
Libraries and asyums of mercy. The news
paper press which, at the beginning of he
century was an ink-roller, by hand moved
over one sheet of paper at a time, has be-
come 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 institu-
tons eVangelistic. At London tavern.
March Z, 1902 British and Foreign Bible
Society was born. In 1916 American Bible
Society was born In 1924 American Sun
day School Union was born. In 1910 Amer
lean board of commissioners for foreign
missions, which has put its saving hand
on every nation of the round earth, was
born at a haystack in Massachusetts. The
National Temperance Society, the Wo-
mems Temperance Society, and all the
other temperance movements born in this
century. Africa, hidden 10 other centuries,
by exploration in this century has been
put at the feet of civilization, to be occu-
pied by commerce and Christianity. The
Chinese wall, once an impossible barrier
now is a useless pile Of stone and brick.
Our American nation at the opening Of
this century only a slice of land along the
Atlantic coast, now the whole continent in
possession of our schools and churches and
missionary stations. Sermons and relig
ious intelligence which in other times, if
noticed at all by the newspaper 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 twenty-six years
without the omission of a single week, |
have been permitted to preach one entire
Gospel sermon through the newspaper
press. i 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 a
rough cradle, and the inheritance you re-
/ceived was for the most part poverty, and
struggle, and hardship, and poorly cover
ed graves of heroes and herones of whom
the world had not been worthy, and athe-
ism, and military despoti and the wreck
of the French revolution. You inherited
the influences that resulted in Aaron
Burrs treason, and another war with
England, and battle of Lake Erie, and
Indian savagery, and Lundy's Lane and
Dartmoor massacre, and dissension, bit
ter and wild beyond measurement,
A frf1 elo
yet to cost national hemorr-
hage of four awful years and a million
precious lives. Yes, dear Old Century, you
had an awful start, and you have done
more than we'll, considering your parent
age and your early environment 1t is
wonder you did not turn out to be the vag-
abond century of all time. You had a bad
mother and a bad grandmother Some of
the preceding centuries were not fit to
live in-their morals were so bad, their
fashions were so outrageous, their igno-
rance was so dense, their iuhumanity so
terrific. O dying Nineteenth Century! be-
| fore you go we take this opportunity of
| telling you that you are the best and the
mightiest of all the centuries of the Chris
tan era, except the first, which gave us
| the Christ and you rival that century in
| the fact that you, more than all the other
| centuries put together, are giving the
| Christ to all the world. One hundred and
twelve thousand dollars at one meeting
a few days ago contributed for the world $
evangeization Look at what you have
done. thou abused and deprecated cen
turyl 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 the church
doors in Cape Colony, Dogs and Hot
! tentots not admitted" The late Mr.. Oar
4 win fri fuyp n he
| Southern Missionary Society. Cannibal-
| ism driven off the face of the earth. The
! gates of all nations wide open for the Cos
! pei entrance when the church shall give
| up it's intellectual dandyism and quit fool
ing with higher criticism, and plunge into
the work, as at life saving station the
crew pull out with the life boat to take
the sailors off ship going to pieces in
! the skerres. 1 thank you, old and dying
century; all heaven thanks you, and sure
| ly all the nations of the earth ought tc
thank you. l put before your eyes soor
to be dim for the last sleep. the facts
! tremendous. / take your wrinkled ole
hand and shake it in congratulation.
battle your fevered brow, and fresher
your parched lips from the fountains O
| eternal victory.
But my text suggests that there are
| some things that this century ought to dc
| before he leaves us. THUS saith the Lord
Set thine house in ORDER for thou shall
die, and not live" We ought not to lie
this century go before two or three things
are set in order. For one thing, this quar-
rel between labor and capital. The nine
tenth century inherited 1t from the eigh
teenth century, but do not let this nine
teenth century bequeath to the TWEEN
tieth. "What we want" says labor, 1T
set us right is more strikes and more Wig
orous work with torch and dynamite
What we want" says capital sis
tighter grip on the working classes AM
compusion TO take what wages we chons
to 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 it to British Rus
sian or American politics The religion
of Jesus Christ ought to come in With
the next four years and take the han
of capital and employee and say, you hav
tried everything else. and failed; no,
try the Gospel of Kindness" n
more oppression and no more strikes
The Gospel of Jesus Christ will sweete
this acerbity or it will go on to the end q
= time, and the fires that burn the worl
, up will cracke in the ears of wrathf,
prosperity and indignant toll while thei
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