Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-12-05

churches and missionary stations. Ser
mons and religious intelligence which in
other times II noticed AT all by the news
paper press were allowed only paragraph
Of three or four lines. now find the columns
uf rhc secular press Ia all the cities thrown
wide Open and every week for ri years.
without tie omission If single week. |
have been Permitted 10 preach one entire
gospel sermon through the newspaper
press thank tod for this great oppor-
tunity Glorious old century You shall
not lc cutlmhcd until We have, face to
face. cxtollcd you You were rocked in "a
rough cradle. and the Inheritance you re-
cciVcd was for the most part poverty and
struggle and hardship. aud poorly covered
graves Of heroes and hcrniues OF whom the
world had not been worthy, and atheism
and military dcSputism. and the wreck of
the French revolution You inherited the
influences that resulted in Aaron Burr's
treason, and another war with England,
and battle of Lake Erie, and Indian saw
agcry and I.undy'S Lane and Dartlnoor
massacre and discussion, bitter and wild
beyond measurement. and African slavery,
which was Yet In cost "A national hcmor-
rhage Of four awful years and "a million
precious lives
:
start, and You have done more than well,
considering ynur parentagc and your early
environment 1t Is wonder You did not
turn out IL he the vagahond century of all
time You had Lad mother and a had
grandmother. some of the preceding cen
turtles were not III to live in-thcir morals
were 50 bad their fashions were - outrage
Gus their ignorance WAS 50 dense, their
inhunanity 50 terrific. Oh, dying nine
tccnth century. before you go we take this
opportunity Of tclling you that You are the
best and the mi ghticst Of all the centuries
Of the Christian era except the first. which
gave Us the Christ. and you rival that cen.
fury in the fact that you more than all the
other centuries put together are giving the
Christ tu all the world. One hundred and
twelve Thousand dollars at one meeting
few DAYS ago contributed for the worlds
evangcliZation. Look at what ynu have
done, O thou abused and deprecated CEN
turyl All the Pacific isles, barred and
bclted against the gospel when ynu began
To reign, now all open, and some of them
more Christianizcd than America. No
more as once written over the church
doors in Cape Colony, Dogs and Hottcn-
tots not admitted F." The late Mr. Darwin
contributing SO 10 the southern Mission
AIRY society. Cannihaism driven off the
face of the earth. The gates Of all nations
wide open for the gospel entrance when
the church shall give up its intellectual
dandyism, and quit fooling with higher
criticism. and plunge into the work, as ut
| II life saving station the crow pull out with
the lifeboat ~ take the sailors off ship
going to pieces in the Skerries. thank
you old ard diving century. All heaven
thanks YOU and surely all the nations Of
the earth ought To thank you. put be-
fore your eyes, Snnn To he dim for the last
sleep. the facts tremendous. | take your
wrinkicd old hand and shake it in con-
graduation | battle your fevered brow
and frcshen your parched lips from the
fountains II eternal victory.
Labor and Capital.
But my text suggests that there are
some things that this century ought IN do
befur, Zee leaves us. Thus saith the Lord,
Set house in order, for thou shalt
die AID not live" We ought not to let
this century 20 before two or three things
are set in order For one thing this quar-
rel between labor ard capital. The nine
tccnth century inherited II from the eight
zenith century but do not let this nine.
tcenth century bcqueath IL 10 the TWEEN
ticth. what VIZ want, says labor, to
set us right is more strikes and more Wig
orous work with torch and dynamite.
What We want, says capital, is "a tight
or grip on the working classes and com
pulsion to take what wages we choose to
pay, without reference to their needs.
/ Both wrong as sin. Both defiant. Until
the day of Judgment no settlement of the
quarrel If you leave IL 10 British, Russian
I hn ~
Jesus Christ ought In ccme in within the
! next four years and take the hand If capt
| tai aud employee and say: "You have tried
everything else and failed. Now try tho
! gospel II kindness. No more oppression
and no more strikes. The gospel of Jesus
! Christ will swecten this acerbity, or it will
| 20 on to the end Of time and the fires that
! burn the world up will crackle in the ears
| Of wrathful prosperity and indignant toll
/ while their hands are still clutching at
each hers thrOnts Before this century
| signs its last breath would that swarthy
/ labor and easy opulcncc would come up
and let tie Carpenter Of Nazareth Join
their hands IN pledge OF everlasting kind
ness and peace. When men and women
arS dying they are apt 20 divide among
! th'ir children mcmentos, and one is Civ
| on IA watch. and another vase, and an
| other picture and another robe Let
! this veteran century before il dies hand
! over To the human race, with an impress
/ iveness that shall last forever, that old
1 family keepsake. the golden keepsake
! which nearly nineteen hundred years ago
was handed down from the black rock Of
/ the mount Of bcatitudes, Therefore all
/ things whatsoever yc would that men
! should do To you. do We even so 10 them,
for this is the law and the prophets. -
Another thing that needs to be set in
order before the veteran century quits us
| Is "A more thorough and all embracing plan
| for the worlds gardenization. We have
teen trying To save the world from the
| top, and il cannot be done that way. IL
! has got 20 be saved from the bottom The
church ought TO lie only West Point to
| drili soldiers for outside battle. What If u
military academy should keep its students
from age to age in the mcsSroom and tho
barracks. No, no! They are wanted at
Montezuma and Chapultepec and south
| Mountain and Missionary Ridge. and the
church is TO place for "A Christian 10 stay
very long. lie j. wanted at the front lie
! is needed in tie desperate charge of taking
| the parapets. The last great battle for
| God is not 10 hc fought on the campus Of
"a college or the lawn Of church. II is 10
| he fought at Missionary Ridge Before
/ this century quits Us let rs establish the
| habit Of giving the forenoon Of tie sab
bath to the churches and the afternoon and
/ the evening of the sabbath tn gospel work
| in the halls and thcatcrs and streets and
/ fields and slums. and wildornesScs uf sin
and sorrow. Why do Christians Who have
| stuffed themselves with THE strong meat
/ If bp tstH al mol II.