Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-11-30


giant, he dropped in a tit. from which he
never recovered. Alexander, who had
conquered Sardis and conquered Hall
carnassus and conquered Asia and con
QucrCd she world. could not conquer
himself, and there is a threatening
peril that this good land Of ours. having
conquered all with whom il has ever
gone into battle. may set be over
thrown by the cup of the giant evil of
the land-that Hercules of infamy.
strong drink. Do not let the staggering
oud bloated and cmbruted host of
drunkards go into the next century
looking Tor insane asylums and aims
houses and delirium tremens and dis
honored graves
There are thousands OF married peo-
pie who are unhappy and they ought
never to have welded. They were de-
ceiyed. or they were reckless, or they
were fools, or they were caught by dim
pie, or hung by n curl, or married in
joke, or expected a fortune and it did
not come, or good habits turned TO
brutality, and hence the domestic
wreck, but make divorce less easy and
you make the human race more eau
tious about entering upon lifetime al
lance. Let people understand that
marriage is not an accommodation
train that will let you leave almost any
where. but through train, and then
they will not step on the train unless
they expect 10 go clear through to the
last depot. One brave man this corning
winter. rising amid the white marble of
yonder Capitol hill, could offer n reso-
luton upon the subject of divorce that
could keep out of the next century
much of the free lovism and dissolute-
ness which have cursed this century.
What boon TO the world il Russia
and Germany and England and the
United States could safely disband all
their standing armies and dismantle
| ,heir fortresses and spike their guns!
| What uncounted millions of dollars
would be saved. and. more than that.
what n complete cessation of human
slaughter! What an improvement Of
| the morals OF nations, What.a an adop-
zion of that higher and better manifesto
/ which was set to music and let down
| from the midnight heavens of Bethle-
hem ages ago! The world has got TO
! come to this. Why not make 1t the
| peroration OF the nineteenth century q?
! Are we going to make present TO the
twentieth century OF recSinC hospitals
| and dying armies and hemisphere
| gravcyards? Do you want the hoofs
! OF other cavalry horses on the breasts
of fallen men? Do you want other hnr-
| vest fields quilted with wheels of gun
| carriages? Do you want the Sky glar-
| ing with confagratiou Of other home
steads? All, this nineteenth century
has seen enough of war. Make the de-
| termination that no other century shall
| be blasted with it.
VIII il not be grand If on the first day
of the twentieth century the last will
! and testament of the nineteenth CEN
fury shall he opened and IL shall be
! found TO read: "ln the name of God,
| amen. |, the dying century. do make
this my last will and testament. give
and bequeath 10 my heir. the twentieth
century, peace of nations; swords,
| which | direct to be beaten into plow-
shares, and spears. which must be
turned into pruning hooks; armories.
10 be changed into schoolhouses and
! fortresscs to be rebuilt into churches.
and order that greater honors be put
on those who save life than upon those
who destroy it, And if amid the uni.
versal peace now attained those two
nations, Spain and Turkey. do not stop
their cruelties, let the other nations,
! banded together, extemporize a police
force TO wipe those countries Oft the
map of nations as wet sponge wipes
! from boys slate at school a hard sum
in arithmetic. This last will | sign and
seal and deliver on the 31st day of De.
cember, in the year OF our Lord 1900.
all the civilized nations Of earth and ali
the glorihed nations OF Heaven. witness
ing"
But what we do as individuals. as
churches, as nations as continents. we
must 90 very soon, IL we want the trans
| ition from century to century to be a
worthy transitions. for hear the trum-
/ pets Of the approaching century and the
| gathering hoofs OF the host IL leads on.
IL has been custom i'm all Christian
lands for people TO keep watch night
! as an old year goes out and a new year
comes in. People assemble in churches
/ about ten o'clock OF that last night OF
/ the old year, and they have PRAYERS and
] tt''' ON NUNS stIl.l CON 10 IaIiUfs
/ until .he hands Of Che church clocl, al
/ most reach the figure -. and then all
/ bow in silent prayer. and the scene is
/ nightly impressive. until the clocl, I'm
/ thc tower of The church or the clock i'm
/ The tower OF the city hall strikes H..
i and then ail rise and sing with smiling
/ face and iubi'aut voice the grand dox-
/ ology. and thcrs IS "a shaking Of hnnds
I oil around
I but What q tremendous watch night
| The world i- soon 90 celebrate! This
4 century VIII depart at Do o'clock OF the
I .lst OF December 1f the year 1900.
f What q night that viii be-. whether
+ s,ar.it or moou'it or dark with tcm-
/ pest. IL viii De such % sightuayouand
/ never suH Those who watched the
coming iu cf the nineteenth century
long ago went Go their pillows Of dust.
. Here and there one VIII sec the new
f century arrive who saw this century.
. set tlcy were too iufantile Go appre-
. ci-'e tle arrival But on The watch
night OF which { speak iu $40 ucigbbor-
F hoods ard towns aud cities and conu-
nents audiences viii assent bic and bow
. boz prayer waiting Tor the last breath
f OF the dying century. aud when the
+ clock shall strife ~ there viii DE % so-
.emn'ty and an ovcrwbcImingave such