Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-11-28

| ax.. w Aiee' II cruel Spain
eApeo's oy procrastination and intripue
70 get back what she has surrendersd
'neh the warships Iowa and Indiana
Anu brooklyn and Texas and Vesuvius
sna oregon must be sent back to south.
ern waters or across to the coast NJ
SPAN to silence the insolence as deo;d.
ea!y as last summer they silenced the
Ofistobal Colon and Oquendo and Maria
Teresa and Vizcaya. When we get thosa
lsianos thoroughly under our protector
rate, for the first time our missionaries
10 Chlna will be safe. The atrocities
imposed on those good men and women
IN the SO called Flowery Kingdom will
never be resumed. for our guns will be
too near Hongkong to allow the mas.
sacre OF missionary settlements.
On that map must be put the isthmian
canal begun II not completed. No long
voyages around Cape Horn for the
worlds merchandise, but short and
cheap communication by water instead
OF expensive communication BY rail
train, and more millions will be added
TO our national wealth and the world q
oetterment than have capacity to cal
culate.
Connecting Links.
On the map it must be made evident
that America is to be the worlds civ.
ilizer and evangelizer. Free from the
national religions Of Europe on the one
side and from the superstitions of Asia
on the other side, it will have facilities
Tor the work that no other continent can
possibly possess. AS near as can tell
by the laying on Of the hands Of the
Lord Almighty, this continent has been
ordained for that work. This is the only
country in the world where all religions
are on the same platform, and the peo-
pie have free selection for themselves
without any detriment. When we pre-
sent to the other continents this assort-
ment of religions and give them urkin-
dered choice, we have no doubt of their
selecting this religion of mercy and
Kindness and good will and temporal
and eternal rescue. Hear it'll America
is to take this world for God!
On the map which we will put on the
cradle Of the new century we must have
very soon railroad bridge across Be-
ring strait, those SO miles of water, not
deep, and they are spotted with islands
capable Of holding the piers of a great
bridge. And what with America and
Asia thus connected and Siberian rail-
way, and railroad now projected for
the length Of Africa, and Palestine and
Persia and India and China and Burma
interseoted with railroad tracks, all of
which will be done before the new cen
fury is grown up, the way will he open
to the quick civilization and evangelism
ton Of the whole world. The old map
we used to study in our boyhood 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 sild-
ed and beautifully bound, be treated,
and an entirely 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 at the
beginning Of the century there stood
the Chinese wall and there famed the
free and there glittered the swords that
for babe entrance to many islands and
large reaches of continent Bornesian
crueIties and FIJI island -cannibalism
have given way, and all the gates Of
all the continents are swung open with
a clang that has been a positive and
glorious invitation for Christianity to
enter. Telegraph, telephone and phono-
graph are to be consecrated TO gospel
dissemination, and instead of the voice
that gains the attention Of few hun
dred or few thousand people within
the church walls the telegraph 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 startingl
The Evils of the World.
In preparation for this coming Gen.
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. Alcohol
ism is today triumphant, and are we to
let the all devouring monster that has
throttled this century seize upon the
next without first having filled his &C.
cursed hide with singing arrows enough
to weaken and stagger him? We have
wasted about rs years. How SO? While
we have been waiting fol he law OF the
land to prohibit intoxicants we have
done little to quench the thirst OF appe-
tite in the palate and tongue OF whole
generation. Where are the public and
entbusiastio meetings 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 damnipg? When will we learn that
we must educate public opinion up to
a prohibitory law, or such a law VIII
not be passed or if passed will not be
executed? God grant that all state and
national legislatures may build up
against this evils wall which will be an
impossible wall, shutting out the alco-
hoiic abomination But while we wait
for that, let us, in our homes, in our
schools and our churches and on our
platforms and in our newspapers, per
suade the people to stop taking alcoholic
stimulant unless prescribed by physi'
Clans and then persuade physicians not