The Monte Vista journal., 1897-12-25
REV. MYRoN W. REED
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Denver, Dec. 2O.-The Rev. Myrun
W. Reed preached at the Broadway
theater yesterday morning. His subject
was "Christmas. 1897" but he talked
mostly OF Indians, missionaries and
millionaires. He said:
The remarkable thing In the Bible to
me IL Its indifference as to the matter
OF time. Isaiah Is hopeful as to the
future. He says: "Men shall build
houses and dwell In them and plant
vineyards and eat the fruit thereof"
but the cheerful old prophet does not
fix any date. When man invites me
to dinner and says. Come any time"
I do not go. Now time may be moth
ing to prophet, but It ID good deal
to me. i am not particular about n
new heaven, but would like to See n
new earth with these eyes. :.
Near my house the other day there
was a barn ON fre. When l found
that II was well insured did not weep.
Somebody out Of job will get a few
days work and wages. Fire is one
remedy for overproduction Of barns.
The shop one of my sons worked In
burned down. The resul; will be n
new shop and machinery up-to-date.
Fire IL n good thing. 1t burned up
Professor Swings old church and his
old sermons and Just left him clean
scratch-pad and an unencumbered
head. Before the fire q few people
OF the Westminster Presbyterians In
Chicago knew him and the world had
heard Of him.
Whatever In this sermon is disagree
able or cynical will be the front part Of
L.. ! do not like the melancholy side
OF life, but I see II.
The net result Of the Cuban revOlu-
tiOn for the past year IL nearly mil
lion deaths. War and famine and fev-
er have beaten n "protracted meet
lng's" idea OF hell The only American
who views this butchery with perfect
calm and Indifference is the President
Of the United States.
The newspapers Of the country devot-
ed pages 10 the sadness and death Of
his mother. What would you? ls
there anything remarkable when a per-
son nearly eighty years old dies! Any
! thing to grieve about In three or four
columns OF morning paper? When
we elect a president by votes or by the
assistance OF Mr.. Hanna, do we elect
all his kinfolks? An old Vermonter
used TO know was elected corporal OF n
militia company. He came home very
much eln,ed with his luck and hard
cider. His eldest daughter inquired Of
him: Are we all corporalsy" "Oh,
no." he said, ''only just mother and
me- We do not elect presidents any
more. II is more certain that we do not
elect his mother and sisters and cous-
ins. What are we trying to do In this
JefYersonian country! We need an
american Thackeray. When 1t comes
to fiunkies and lackies We can give any
untion on earth distance.
A man died in city am acquainted
with. He was chiefly remarkable for
stinginess. for hardness, for lack Of
public spirit When ! asked him for
$40 he was pale-nearly tainted. He
wns ms hard and white ms quartz. He
died and the morning papers Of the city
In which he lived reported that a good
man was dead Wolfe LOndoncr made
n good speech the other evening at u
meeting to consider the future. He In.
luireti where the mill!onaires were.
There are no mlllionHires In any
meeting to build up Denver. Why can
not we have library building half NJ
suitable as Omaha or Kansas City or
indianapolis? There Il u whole lot Of
pretcnse In this town. The mercernary.
material, vulgar side sticks out Of any
enterprise and kills It.
| Cannot We ever get through with this
cut-throat competition business.
Now the druggists are Mt II. S.Smc
man thought 1t was about time to
snatch his neighbors job. he clev-
cnih commandment Ii. Thou shaft NOT
do It,
| Let me tell you how this thing
works. I buy bottle Of, We Will say.
"Hos,eiter's Blttern." at cost Of my
druggist. save ten cents and W. loses
ten cents. want to have him take Il
seat Ia the Broadway Temple. Oh.
no. lie has sold me his goods AT no
prof, 10 himself. and hc hears a
4, straight American gospel for no prof,
10 me, and NO we go toward the FOL
slier's home and the l,Oorhousc and the
graveyard
Talk about savage4! There IL not n
paupcr In a poorhousc In all the 10.
lands OF the southern Pacific. Their
only curse has been American whalcrS
and American missionaries. They new
er had the consumption until some
thrifty Yankee introduced the cotton
shirt and Connecticut rules Of living
The history Of clviilxati ton n Infamous.
We have poisoned every native people
We have ever touched.
And have actually taken UP n col.
lection to send a half.nakcd graduate
of u theological seminary to India! The
last one assisted has gone Into the
tea business. Therv are q million
Ralph Waldo Emersopa In India nni
my missionary In fruit to them.
This whole foreign misai0n business
n tho biggest fake on the deck u the
world.
There Is q Methodist bishop ON his
why down Into SOuth Africa with the
good news Of God Who damned nine.
,y-nine ou, of 100. Finest kind Of trip.
] suppose The hisIncss could have beet,
done by letter. but the bishop has gone
nnd his smile With him. II II q sorf Of
n tin smile rtvcted %. never saw an
evangelist without that smile. and
when ] sec II wan, to hit Il. The
fact ls that nlne-teuths of the race arr
doing the hest they eau. There N not
anything 10 smile about.
Ordinarily when . white man kills
= white mas In Colorado. he In arrcs;.
I'd. tried. convicted or acquitted. When
white man kills white man The
government Of thc state does not visit
four weeks and nrnd out Z comuit,.r
of inquiry. People who kill o,ss an.
other arr arrested ~ = rule. "a
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