Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-27

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Morning by DR.. George E. Reed,
President of Dickson College.
Big Meetings at Grand Opera
House and at Fourth Street and
Thomson Churches at Night.
To-Day's Programme.
The arrangements for the EpwOrth
League convention have been seriously
interfered with by the weather, which
respects neither persons nor occupa-
tons. The accident by Saturdays
storm to the tent on the Island, in
which the meetings were to have been
held, proved to be more serious than
supposed at first. 1t was not repaired
in time for use yesterday, and conse-
quently the meetings were held else
where.
The morning service was held at the
Fourth Street M. E. church and the
evening service in the Grand Opera
House. The morning services began
with love feast, conducted by Rev.
w. S. Lockard, Of Washington, Pa. A
large congregation was present at the
morning service. The principal ser
vice at $50 was commenced with
short prayer and praise service, Prof.
Black, of Williamsport, Pa, conduct
ing the congregational singing. Rev.
+. n. Lynch, former pastor of the
Chapline Street M. E. church, made the
opening prayer and delivered fervent
and stirring plea. In his prayer he
asked for Divine help to the American
army in Cuba, and prayed earnestly
that EpwOrthians who had enlisted
might be true to the cross as well as
to their flag and country. Rev. George
Edward Reed, D. D., president Of
Dickson College, at Carlisle, Pa,
preached a scholarly and eloquent ser
mon on the subject Of "The Signs of
the Times" The sermon was quite
lengthy but was we'll received.
DR.. Reed thought that the signs of
the times, judged by person Of aver
age sagacity and intelligence, and cog
infant of the condition of affairs at
the present time, indicated that the
coming age in several respects would
be distinguished above the century
will doubtless be an age of phenomenal
material development even in com
parison with the great advance made
in the age just drawing to a close.
Some great minds doubt the possibility
of the great achievements of the pres
ent age being eclipsed, and those Of
this class argue that human effort has
reached its elimination. They do not
regard that the coming century can be
like the closing century, and when we
consider that more progress was made
in the last hundred years than in the
previous 1900 years, it does seem i'm
possible that there can be a greater
century. Yet among scientists there is
a thrill of expectation that we are only
on the threshold Of even greater
achievements in science and discovery.
These men are opening up larger
world than discovered by Columbus,
and Cabot and the men who opened
up the new world to the gaze of the
old world.
Dr. Reed said even in our present
advanced age of discovery and science
there were nations and islands in diff
ferent quarters of the world that we
knew little about China was cited as
an example. Japan. with her guns,
had battered down the walls of China,
ignorance and superstition, and in five
years. the speaker predicted, this vast
field would be fully opened up to the
advent of Christianity and human eff
fort. DR.. Reed declared that the pos
sibility of natural growth and aggran-
Gizement of material wealth in the
world was simply incomprehensiblea and
that we could not even comprehend
the extent of the resources Of our own
republic. He said we often talked of
our nation being composed Of sixty-five
millions of people and that we were
being crowded, and he stated that this
population could be quartered within
one State, and the products necessary
to feed and clothe that number of
people could be produced on that speci-
fed amount of soil.
DR.. Reed, in speaking of the posi-
bilities of the future, mentioned some
of the things that even the present
generation expected to see accom-
plished as am indication of what
might be achieved in the hundred years
of the coming century. The house
wife expected to have her bread made
by electricity, the American merchant
expected to talk with his agent by tele-
phone at Hong Kong, or in some other
part of the world, and in a few years
we expect to see our railroads attain
the speed of 100 miles an hour.
There is no limit to the human mind.
We marvel at the wonderful creations
of fancy in the Arabian Nights, yet we
have men, Ike Edison, who throw out
to the world theories that surpass
these stories of Arabian Nights as
much as the heavens surpass the
earth.
DR.. Reed pointed out that danger at
tended this marvellous progress which
is characteristic of the present times.
To use an aphorism Of Herbert Spencer,
we, in this country particularly, might
become too beastly prosperous" The