The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-12-12

/ thO Va AnoudohOa C0nthSp ohS
cancer, and consumption are yet to be
! balked by magnificent medical treat
mont. The cyesight of the doctor
sharponed till he can look through
thick flesh and find tho hiding place
of tho bullet What advancement in
geology, or the catechism Of the noun.
tains; chemistry, or tho catechism OF
tho elements; astronomy, or the
catschism of the stars; electrol-
ogy, or the catechism Of the light
nings. What advancement In music.
at the beginning of this century, con-
fning itself, SO far 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 Handeps concerto In b
fat, or Guilmant's SONATA in d minor.
Thanks : o you, o century! before you
die, for the asylums of mercy that 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
fury for the improved condition of
most nations. The reason that Ma
poleon made such q successful sweep
across Europe at the beginning of the
century was that most of the thrones
of Europe were occupied by inn
beetles or profigates. But most
of the thrones of Europe arc to-
day occupied by kings and queens
competent. Franc republic, Switz-
orland republic, and about fifty free
con stitutions, am told, in Europe.
Twenty million serfs Of Russia manu-
mitted. On this western continent l
can call the roll of many republics
Mexico, Guatemala, San Salvador,
Costa Rica, Paraguay, Uruguay. Hon
duras, New Grenada, Venezuela, Peru,
Ecuador. BOLIVIA, Chilli, Argentine Re-
public, 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 de-
nounced and often justly criticised,
has covered this continent with uni
versities, and free libraries, and asy-
lums of mercy. The newsp aper press
which, at the beginning of the CEN
fury was an ink-roller, by hand moved
over one sheet Of paper at a time, has
become the miraculous manufacturer
of four or five or six hundred thou
NJ staAto co.. loi1u
issue. Within your own memory, o
dying century, has been the gene sis of
nearly all the great institutions evan
gelistic. At London Tavern, March 2,
British and Foreign Is IDLE 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
crs 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
Women's Temperance society, and all
the other temperance movements born
in the century. Africa, hidden to
other centuries, by exploration in this
century has been put at the feet of
civilization, to be occupied by COM
MERGE and Christianity. 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 in
telligence which in other times, If no.
ticcd 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 26 years
without the omission of single week,
l have been permitted to preach one
entire Gospel sermon through the
press. l thank God for
this great opportunity. Glorious old
century. You shall not he entonbed
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 poor
Uncovered graves of heroes and hero
ines of whom the world had not been
worthy, and atheism, and military
and the wreck of the French
revolution. You inherited the influ-
ences that resulted in Aaron Burr's
treason, and another war with England
and battle of Lake Erie, and Indian
and Lundy's Lane and Dart
moor massacre, and discussions, bitter
and wild beyond measurement, and
African slavery, which was yet to cost
a national hemorhage of four awful
years and million precious lives.
Yes, dear old century. you had an
awful start, and you have done more
than well, considering your parentage
and your early environment. 1t is a
wonder you did not turn out to be the
vagabond century of all time. You
had bad mother and bad grand
mother. Some of the preceding CEN
turtles were not At to live in-their
morals were so bad, their fashions