The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-07-08

w Slob. W WhlCU tHe lHlItu
States government moved its entire
baggage and equipment packed up in
sever boxes which got lost in the
woods ncar this place, now. the archi-
tectural glory of the continent and adj
milation of the world.
The money power, 50 much de-
nounced and often Justly criticised, has
covered the continent with universe
ties, and free libraries and systems of
mercy. The newspaper press which.
at the beginning of the century, was
an ink-roller, by hand, moved over one
sheet of paper at IL time, has become
the miraculous manufacturer Of fOur
or five or six hundred thousand sheets
for one daily newspaper issue. Within
your memory. o, dying century. has
been the genesis of nearly al the great
institutions evangelistic. At London
Tavern, March Z, 1902, the British and
Foreign Bible society was born. In
1916 the American Bible society was
born. lii 1924 the American Sunday
School union was born. In 1910 the
American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions. which has put it's
saving hand OF every nation of the
round earth, was born. at q haystack
in Massachusetts. The National Tcul-
peraLCe society, the WoInen's Temper
ance society. and all the other temper
anco movements born in the century.
Africa, hidden in other menturies by
exploration in this century has been
put ut the feet of civilization, to b. oc.
cupied by and Christianity
The Chinese wall, ODce 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 religious intel
ligence which, in other times. if noticed
at all by the newspaper press. were
allowed only a 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 pre- SIS. | thank
God for this great opportunity. glorious
old century! You shall not be entombed
until we have, face to face, ext0llpd
you. You were rocked in a rough era
die, and h inheritance you received
was for the most part poverty. and
struggle. and hardship, and ~poorly-cOv-
cred graves of heroes and heroinpS of
whom the world had not been worthy.
and atheism. and military despotism,
and the wreck of the French Revolt
ton. You inherited the Influence that
resulted in Aaron Burr's treason, and
another war with England and battle
of Lake Erie. and Indian avage and
Lundy's Lane, and Dartmoor maSsa-
ere, and d~iSsensiOns. bitter and wild
beyond meaSUren ent and African Slay-
cry, which was vet to cost a national
hcmOrrhage of four awful years and a
million precious lives. Yes. dear old
century. you had an awful start. and
you have done more than well. consid-
crtng your parentage and your early
environment. 1t is 4 wonder Won did
not turn out to be the vacabond centu-
ly Of all time. You had Il bad mother
and a bad grandmother. Some of the
preceding centuries were not fit to live
tn-their morals were so bad, their
fashions were so outrageous, their 10
n0rance was so dense, their inhumaDi-
ty So terrific.
o. dying nineteenth century. Before
You go VIC take this opportunity of tell
ing You that o are the best and
the mightiest of all the centuries of
the Christian 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 to-
gether, are giving the Christ to all tho
world. One hundred and twelve tltnu-
sand dollars at Il meeting Il few DAYS
ago contributed for the worlds pvall-
Gelization. Look at what you have done
o, thou abused and deprecated cen
turE..' All the Pacific isles, barred and
bolted against the gospel when you be-
gan TO reign, now ali open, and some
OF them more ChristianiZed than Amer
lea. No more. rs once, written over the
the church doors in Cape Colony. Dogs
1 and EiCttentots not admitted.", The
late Mr.. Darwin contributing SO to
the Southern. Missionary society. Cam
nibalism 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 foOliLg with higher
critftisis il plunge into the work. as
at Il life-Snying station the crew pull
ont with the life boat to take the sail
orS off 4 ship going to pieces in the
SkerrieS,
But my text suggest that there are
some things that this century ought
to do before he leaves us. Thus saieth
the Lord. Set thine house i'll 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 one thing, this quarrel between Ia
Dor and capital. The nineteenth CEN
fury inherited it from the eighteenth
century, but do not let this century be-
queath it to the twentieth, "What we
want says labor, Ito set us right is
more strikes and. more vigorous work
with torch and d~ynamite.' What we.
want" says capital" lis a tighter grip
on the working classes and compul-
sion to take what wages we chose to
pay, without reference to their needs"
Both wrong as sin. Both defiant. In
| til he day of Judgment nc settlement
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
! lfaye tried everything else and failed;
now try the gospel of kindness" No
Hicre. oppression and no more strikes.
'The gospel of Jesus Christ will sweet
EN- this acarhity, or it will go on to the
| end of time, and the fires that burn
the world up will crarkle in the ears
of wrathful prosperity and indignant
toll while their hands are still clutch
ing ut each others: Threats.
Another thing that needs to be set in
order before the veteran century qHits
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