Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-12-01
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guns viii he too near Hong Kong 10 al
low the massacre of missionary settle
ments.
On that map must he put the isthmian
canal, begun If not completed. No long
voyages around Cape Horn for the
worlds merchandise. but short aud
cheap communication by water instead
of expensive communication by rail
train. and more millions will he added
tn our national wealth and the worlds
beticrmrnt than have capacity to cal
| culatc.
On the map which We will put on the
cradle on the new century we must
have very soon a railroad bridge across
lteriug strait. those Ri miles of water.
not deep. and they are spotted with
islands capable of holding the piers of
a great bridge. And what with Amc..
lea and Asia thu,~tonncctcd and 81
hcrian railway. and a railroad Row
projected for the length Of Africa. and
Palestine and Persia and India and
{ lima and Burma intcrsected with rail
| read tracks, all Of which will he done
before the new century i grown up.
The way will I've open to the quick els
ilizltiun and cvaugclilation Of tie
whole world. The old map we used .
study in our boyish days is dusty and
on the top shelf or amid the rubbish Of
the Tarret. and so will the present map
of the world. however gildcd aud beau
tifully bound. he treated, and an en-
| tircly new map will he Put into the
infantile hand of the coming century.
The work of this century has been
tn get ready. All the earth is now free
To the Gospel except two little spots
one in Asia and one in Africa. while al
the beginning of the century there
! stood the Chinese wall and there flannel
the fires and there glittcred the sword,
that forbade entrance to many islands
and large reaches of continent. Dor.
ncsian crueliies aud Fiji island canni-
balism have given way. and all the
gates of the continents are swung open
with clang that has been a positive
and glorious invitation for Christian
ity to enter. Telegraph. telephone and
| photograph are 10 be consecrated 10
Gospel dissemination. and. instead OF
the voice that gains the attention al
a few hundred or a few thousand poo
pie within the church walls, the telc.
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
villa: 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. II would be an assault and
battery upon the coming century by
| this century ii 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 today triumphant, and are we
| to let the aN-devuuring monster that
has throttlcd this century seize upoI
the next without first having filled his
accurscd hide with singing arrows
| enough TO weaken and staggcr him.
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so? While we have been waiting for
the law of the land to prohibit intoXi.
cunts we have done little TO qucEch
tie thirst of appetite in the palate and
tongue of a whole generation. Whera
are the public and enthusiastic meet
ings that used 10 be held 30 years ago
for the one purpose of persUading the
young and middle aged and old that
strong drink is poisonous and damn
| inga When will we learn that we must
educate public opinion up to prohib-
TORY law or such law viii not he
passed or If passed will not he exc
cuted? God grant that all state and
national legislatures may build up
an irCassable wall. shutting out the
alcoholic abonination. Put while we
wait for that let us. in our homes. in out
schools and our churches and on our
platforms ard in our newspapers. per
suaGe the people to stop taking alco-
| holic stimu!ant unless prescribed by
physicians. and then persuade phvsi-
clans not to prescribe il il in all the 20
minors of therapeutics there may he
| found some other remedy.
Oh. save the young man of to-day and
greet the coming century with tidal
wave of national redemption! Do not
put uron the cradle of the twentieth
century mountain of demi Johns and
beer barrels and rum jugs and put to
| its Infant lips wrctchedncss. disease.
murder and abandonment in solution.
| Aye, reform that army CT inebriates.
"Ah," YOU say. at cannot be doue."
That shows that you will be of no use
in The work. 20 We of little faith!"
Away back in early times Pre-; idcrt Da-
Wis, of Princeton college, one day found
man in utter despair because of the
thrall of strong drink. The president
said 10 him: ''Sir, be of good cheer.
You can he saved. Sign the pledge"
"Ah," said the dcspairing victim, 81
have often signed the pledge. but have
always broken my pledge" But"
said the president, Il will be your
strength to keep the pledge. ! will he
your friend ard with loving arm
around you will hold you up. When
your appetite burns. and you feel that
you must crafty it, come to my house.
Sit down with me in the study or with
the family in the parlor. and will be
n shield to you. All that | can do for
you with my books, my sympathy, my
experience, my society, my love, my
money, will do. You shall forget your
appetite and master it," \ look of hope
glowed on the poor mans face, and he
replied: "Sir, will you do all that? -
Surely | will" Then / will over
come" He signed the pledge and kept
il. That plan of President Davis which
saved one man, tried On a large scale,
will save a million men.
Alexander the Great made an i'm
perial banquet at Babylon, and, though
he had been drinking the health of
guests all one night and all the next
day, the second night he had 20 guests,
and he drank the health of each sep
arately. Then. calling for the cup of
Hercules, the giant, a monster cup. he
filed and drank it twice to show his
endurance; but as he finished the last
draught from the cup of Hercules, the
| uiout he 1rorned in n fl from IA bich n a