St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-12-31

| pro3ectorste, for the first time our mis-
sionaries In China will be safe. Tn
atrocities imposed on those good mel
and women in the so-called Flower1
Kingdom will never be resumed, for oul
guns will be too near Hong-Kong to al
low the massacre Of missionary settle
ments.
On that map must be put the isthmia,
canal, begun il not completed. No Ions
voyages around Cape Horn for tn,
! worlds merchandise. but short and
cheap communication by water instead
Of expensive Communication by raj
train, and more millions will be addet
to our national wealth and the world,
betterment than have capacity to cal
cuIate.
On the map which we will put on the
cradle on the new century we must
have very soon a railroad bridge across
Boring strait, those sc miles Of water
not deep. and they are spotted Will
islands capable Of holding the piers Of
a great bridge. And what with Amer
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berian railway, and q railroad now
projected for the length Of Africa, and
Palestine and Persia and India and
China and Burma intersected with rail.
read tracks, all of which will be done
before the new century is grown up
the way will be open to the quick ci :.
ilization and evangelization OF the
whole world. The old map we used t.
study in our boyish days Is dusty and
on the top shelf or amid the rubbish OF
the garnet. and so will the present map
of the world. however gilded and beau
tifully bound, be treated, and an en-
tirely new map will be put into the
infantile hand Of the coming century
The work Of this century has been
to get ready. All the earth is now free
to the Gospel except two little spots
one in Asia and one in Africa, while a!
the beginning of the century there
stood the Chinese wall and there famed
the fires and there glittered the swords
that forbade entrance to many islands
and large reaches of continent. Dor.
nesian cruelties and Fiji island canni-
balism have given way. and oil the
gates Of the continents are swung open
with a clang that has been a positive
and glorious invitation for Christian
ity to enter. Telegraph. telephone and
photograph are to be consecrated 10
Gospel dissemination, and. instead of
the voice that gains the attention of
a few hundred or q few thousand peo-
pie within the church walls, the tele-
graph will thrill the glad tidings and
the telephone will utter them to many
millions. Oh. the infinite advantage
that the twentieth century has over
what the nineteenth century had at the
starting!
In preparation for this coming CEN
fury we have time in the intervening
years to give some decisive strokes at
the seven or eight great evils that curse
the world. 1t would be an assault and
battery upon the coming century by
this century If we allowed the full blow
of present evils to fall upon the future.
We ought somehow to cripple or minify
some of these denominations. Alco-
holism is to-day triumphant. and are we
to let the all-devouring monster that
has throttled this century seize upon
the next without first having filed his
accursed hide with stinging arrows
enough to weaken and stagger him?
We have wasted about IS years. How
so? While we have been waiting for
the law of the land to prohibit intoxi-
cants we have done little to queIch
the thirst of appetite in the palate and
tongue of whole generation. Where
are the public and enthusiastic meet
ings that used to be held 80 years ago
for the one purpose Of persuading the
young and middle aged and old that
strong drink is poisonous and damn
i2g2 When will we learn that we must
Rblic opinion up to prohib-
npch a law viii not be
1kwill not be exc
V all state and
nay build up
tting out the
Rut while we
homes, in our
and on our
papers: per-
liking alco-
scribed by
lade phvsi-
all the do
Re may be