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

tNHttAS hN lI0tIAsNluA ton ana III tflEue
TO get back what she has surrendered.
then the warships Iowa and Indiana
and Brooklyn and Texas and Nesuvius
and Oregon must be sent back TO
southern waters or across to the coast
OF Spain to silence the iusolence. as &C.
cideGiy as last summer they silenced
the Cristobal Colon and Oquendo and
Maria Teresa and Nizcaya. When we
get those islands thoroughly under our
protectorate. for the first time our mis-
Ionaries In China will be safe. The
atrocities imposed on those good men
and women in the so-called Flowery
Kingdom viii never be resumed. for our
guns viii be too near Hong Kong TO al
low the massacre of missionary settle
ments.
On that map must be put the isthmian
canal. begun il not completed. Nolong
voyages around Cape Horn for the
worlds merchandise, but short and
cheap communication 10y water instead
! of expensive communication by rail
train, and more millions will be added
TO our national wealth and the worlds
betterment than have capacity to cal
culate.
On the map which we viii put on the
cradle on the new century we must
have very soon a railroad bridge across
! Bering strut, those Sc miles OF water.
not deep, and they are spotted with
Islands capable of holding the piers of
a great bridge. And what with Amer
lea and Asia thus connected and ST.
berian railway, and 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 civ
ilization and evangeljzation of the
whole world. The old map we used to
study in our boyish days is dusty and
on the top shelf or amid the rubbish OF
the garnet. and so will the present man
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 spot,
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. Bor.
nesian crueltics and Fiji island canni.
balism have given way. and all the
gates of the continents are swung open
with clang that has been positive
and glorious invitation for Christian
ity TO enter. Telegraph, telephone and
| phonograph are TO be consccrated TO
! Gospel dissemination. and. instead of
the voice that gains the attention OF
a few hundred or a 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 ii we allowed the fun blow
OF present evils to fan upon the future.
We ought somehow to cripple or minify
some of these denominations. Alec
holism is to-day triumphant. and are we
10 let the all-devouring monster that
has throttled this century seize upor
the next without first having filed his
accursed hide with singing arrows
enough TO weaken and stagger him?
We have wasted about - wears. How
so? While we have been waiting for
the law of the land TO prohibit intoxl-
cants we have done little to oueucb
the thirst of appetite i'm the palate and
tongue OF a whole generation Where
are the public and enthusiastic meet
ings that used TO bc held 30 years ago
for the one purpose Of persuading the
young and middle aged and old that
strong drink is poisonous and damn
iug' When will we learn that we mus;
educate public opinion up to "a prohib-
TORY law or such n law will not be
passed or If passed win not be exc
cuted? God grant that all state and
national legislatures may build I'M
an mPassabie wall shutting out the
alcoholic abomination Eut while we
wait FOR that let u.s. I'm our homes. i'm our
schools and orr churches and ON our
platforms and boo our newspapers. per
suade The people 20 stop taking alco-
honc sumulaut unless prescribed bv
physicians. and then persuade phr.i-
clans not 70 prescribe 60 iffuaIl the do
minious OF therapeutic there nay be
found some other remedy
OIL save tho young .ran Of to-day and
greet ihe coming ceutury with n idal