Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-12-14

Africa. and Palestine and Persia and
i and Chins and Burmah intersectec
railroad tracks. all of which will be
before the new century Is grown u
way will be open to the quick civil
and evangelization of the whole wori
The work of this century has been
ready. All the earth Is now free
Gospel except two little spots, one &
and one in Africa, while at the begi
OF the century there stood the Chimes
and there famed the fires and there
tered the swords that forbade entran
many islands and large reaches of ed
ent. oInesian cruelties and Fiji Is
cam balism have given way, and al
gates OF all the continents are swung
with claDg that has been a positiv;
glorious invitation for Christianity T.
ter. Telegraph. telephone and phonof
are to be consecrated to Gospel dissef
tion. and instead OF the voice that
the attention OF few hundred or
thousand people within the church
the telegraph will thrill the glad ii,
and the telephone will utter them to
millions. Oh, the infinite advantage
the twentieth century has over what
nineteenth century had ut the starting
In preparation for this coming cen
we have time in the Intervening yea
give some decisive strokes at the seve
eight great evils that curse the world.
would be an assault and battery upor
coming century by this century IL
allowed the full blow Of present evil
fall upon the future. We ought some
to cripple or minify some of these abOm
tions. Alcoholism is to-day triumph
and are we to let the all devouring mon
that has throttiei this century seize
the next without first having file hi
cursed hide with stiuging arrows emo
to weaken and staSger him? We
wasted about twenty-hve years. How
While we have peen waiting for the In
the land to prohibit intoxIcants we !
done little to quench the thirst of appf
In the palate and tongue of "a who;c.
Grafton. Where are the pu Bile and ent
siastic meetings that used to he held r
years ago for the one ur.ose, esN-'
ing the young ana middl7%
that strong drink is poisoA
ing? When will we learn ~ p II
edncate public opinion M to ar.5hibit
law, or such law will not he passe I o
passed will not he executed?
Seven or eight wears ago on the az
ver-ary platform of the National Tenn
auce Society in New York [ dep!Orsi
fact that we had lett politics to do t
which moral sussion only could do .
said on that occasion. .If some p.
6iohE ihi7 SLUT
night should see the lights kindled by
brilliant assemblace and should come
and finding the character OF the meeti
should ask for temperance pledge. II
he might sign il aud begin a Lew career
do not believe there is in all this hous,
temperance pledge, and vol would have
take out "a torn letter envelope or loo
scrap OF paper for the inebriate's sigr
surr." I found out afterward that tn,
VAS one such temperance pledge in
but only one that | could he
OF. Do not leave to politics that whi
can he done now in 10000 reformato
meetings all over the country.
Oh, save the Young man of TODAY u
greet the coming century with a tidal wa
of national redemption, Do not put up
the cradle OF the twentieth century amou
tain of demijC hns aud heer barrels and RI
jugs, and put TO its infant lips wretche
ness. disease, murder and abandonment
solution. Ave, reform that army OF IT,
briates. 'Ah," you say, "it cannot
done!" That shows that You will be of
use in the work. 30 we of little faith
Away back in early times Presld.av&AS
OF Princeton College, one day found "a "a.
in utter despair because of the thrall &,
strong drink. The president said to hir
''Sir, be of good cheer. You can be save
Sign the pledge" "Ah," said the despai
ing victim, II have often signed the pl-dg
but I have ALWAYS broken my pledge
But" said the president, 81 will be yo,
strength to keep the pledge. I will be yol
friend, and with a loving arm around yo
will hold you up. When your appetii
burns, and you feel that you must gratii
It, come to nv house, sit down with me
the study or with the family in the parlt
and will be shield to you. All that
.an do for you with my books. my syn
pathy, my experience, nv society, my low,
my money, will do. You snail forget you
appetite and master it," A look of hop
ylowed on the poor mans face, and he n
Piled, "Sir, will you do all that" sure
will Then l will overcome" Ii
signed the pledge and kept it. That pla
)f President Davies which saved one MAJ
ried on u large scale, will save a milliol
men.
Alexander the Great made an impe-ip
banquet at Babylon, and, though he
been drinking the health of guests
hight and all next day, the second
le had twenty guests, and he dram
health OF each separately. Then callinl
or the cup of Hercules the giant, a mon
'ter cup, he filed and drained it twice L
how his endurance; but, as he finished tn
asst draft from the cup of Hercules th
RANT, he dropped in n fit, from which H.
iever recovered. Alexander, who had con
luered Sardis and conquered Halicarnassu
Ind conquered Asia and conquered tn
world, could not conquer himself and ther
8 a threatening peril that this good Ian,
# ours, having conquered all with wi.
t has ever gone into battle, may yet b.
by the cup OF the giant evil o
he land that Hercules of infamv. str IN!
rink. Do not let the staggering an,
'loated and embruted host of drunkard
20 iEtO the next century looking FOR insan
Isylums and almshouses and delirium tre
mems aud dishonored graves.
II has been a custom in all Christian
ands for people to keep watch nig,t>
N old year goes out and ney
omes in. People assemble in churcn.
bout 10 O'Clock of that last night of tn
Id year, and they have prayers and song
md serm ons and congratulations until tn,
Iands OF the church clock almost reacl
he figure II, and then all bow in silen
'rayer, and the scene is nightly impress
i've until the clock in the tower of tn,
hur:h or the clock in the tower OF tn'
ity hall strikes ~, and then all rise ant
ing with smiling face and jubilant voice
ne grand dOxology, and there is a shaking
4 hands all around.
But what tremendous watch night tht
vOrld is soon to celebrate, This century
will depart at II o'clock of the 3lst of De
ember, OF the year 1900. What night
hat will be, whether starlight or moonlit
r dark with tempestl 1t will be such q
light as you and 1 never saw. Those who
ratched the coming In of the nineteenth
entury long ago went to their pillows o.
ust. May we all be living on earth to set
he solemnities and join in the songs ant
hake hands in the congratulations of thai
ratch night; or. IL between this and thai
ny OF US should be off and away, may W,
e inhabitants of that land where "a thou
and years are as one dav," and in th'
resence OF that angel spoken of in the
.pocalypse, who at the end of the worlC
'ill, standing with one foot on the sea AM
he other foot on the land, swear by Hin
hat liveth forever and ever, that time shal
" no longer
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