The Monitor-register., 1896-12-04
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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 eouip.
ment packed up in seven boxes which
got lost in the woods near this place.
now the architectural glory of the con-
tinent and admiration of the world
Good Word For Newspapers.
The money power, so much denounced
and often justly criticised, has covered
this continent with universities and
free libraries and asylums of mercy.
The newspaper press, which at the be-
ginning of the century was an ink roller,
by hand moved over one sheet of paper
| at time, has become the miraculous
manufacturer of four OF five or six hun
dred thousand sheets for one daily news
papers issue. Within your memory, O
dying century, has been the genesis of
nearly all the great institutions evangel-
isticl At London tavern, March 7, 1902,
British and Foreign Bible society was
born. In 1916 American Bible society
was born. In 1924 American Sunday
School union was born. In 1910 Ameri-
can 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
Woman's Temperance society and all
! the other temperance movements born
in this century. Africa, hidden to other
centuries, by exploration in this century
has been put at the feet of civilization,
to be occupied by commerce and Chris
tianity.
The Chinese wall, once an impossible
barrier, now is useless pile of stone
and brick. Our American nation at the
opening 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. Sermons and religious intelli-
gence which in other times. if noticed
at all by the newspaper press, were al
lowed only paragraph of three or four
lines, now find the columns of the secu-
lar press in all the cities thrown wide
open, and every week for 26 years, with
| out the omission of a single week. I
have been permitted to preach one entire
gospel sermon through the newspaper
press. I thank God for this great oppor-
tunityl
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
received was for the most part poverty
and struggle and hardship and poorly
covered graves of heroes and heroines,
of whom the world had not been worthy,
and atheism and military despotism and
the wreck of the French revolution.
You inherited the influences that result
ed in Aaron Burr's treason, and another
war with England, and battle of Lake
Erie, and Indian savagery, and Lundy's
Lane, and Dartmoor massacre, and dis
sension bitter and wild beyond meas
urement, and African slavery, which
was yet to cost national hemorrhage
| VI 1OuI awful y 0d15 1Io q AAAAiOh PAO
cious lives. Yes, dear old century, you
had an awful start, and you have done
more than we'll, considering your paren
tage and your early environment. 1t il
a wonder you did not turn out to be the
vagabond century of all time. You hac
bad mother and bad grandmother
Some of the preceding centuries were
not fit to live in-their morals were Sc
bad, their. fashions were SO outrageous
their ignorance was SO dense, their in
humanity so terrific. =.
Years of Progress.
o dying nineteenth centurys befori
you go we take this opportunity of tell
ing you that you are the Best ana en-
mightiest of all the centuries of the
Christian era except the first, which
gave us the Christ, and you -riZAk :thai
century in the fact that you, more thar
all the other centuries put together, art
giving the Christ to all the world. Ont
hundred and twelve thousand dollars a
one meeting few days ago contributes
for the worlds evangelizafioAk Look p
what you have done, o tl1ousa Used 80
deprecated century. All the faciAs
isles, barred and bolted against-t1aGas
pei when you began to reign, nowN u
open, and some of them more Christian
lied than America. No more, as once
written over the church doors in Capt
Colony, "Dogs and Hottentots not ad
mitted." The late Mr.. Darwin con
tributing $25 to the Southern Mis-
slonary society. Cannibalism driven of
the face of the earth. The gates of all
nations wide open for the gospel entrance
when the church shall give up its intel.
lectual dandyism and quit fooling with
higher criticism and plunge into the
work as at life saving station the crew
pull out with the lifeboat to take the
sailors off ship going to pieces in the
skerries. thank you, old and dying
century; all heaven thanks you, and
surely all the nations of the earth ought
to thank you. put before your eyes,
soon to be .dim sfQrs thais1astnsleep, the
facts tremendous take your wrinkled
old hand and shake it in congratufa-
ton. battle your fevered brow and
tains of eternal victory.
Things to Be Done. ~ssS
But my text suggests that there are
some things tiiat this century ought tc
do before he leaves us. ''Thus saith the
Lord, set thine house in order, for thou
shalt die and not live" We ought not
to let this century go before two or three
things are set in order. For.snes tkipg.
this quarrel between labor and capital.
The nineteenth century inherited it from
the eighteenth century, but do not let
this nineteenth century bequeath it tie
the twentieth. "What we want says
labor, "to set us right is more strikes
and more vigorous work with torch and
| dynamite. F" "What we want" says
capital, sis tighter grip on the work.
ing classes and compulsion to take what
wages we choose to pay without refer
ence to their needs" Both wrong as sip.
Both defiant. Until the day of judgment
no settlement of the quarrel, if you
leave it to British, Russian or American
politics. The religion of Jesus Christ
ought to come in within the next -four
years and take the hand of capital and
employee and say: "You have tried
everything else and failed. Now try the
gospel of kindness. No more oppres.
sion and no more strikes. The gospel Of
Jesus Christ will sweeten this acerhity,
or it will go on to the end of time, and
the fires that burn the world up will
crackle in the ears of wrathful prosper
ity and indignant toll while their hands
are still clutching at each others threats.
Before this century signs its last breath
/ would that swarthy labor and easy
opulence would come up and LET the
Carpenter of Nazareth join their hands
in pledge of everlasting kindness and
peace. When mon and women are dy.