Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-11-28

with all brightness Of temporal and re-
ligious prospects.
First, let Us pat upon the cradle of
the new century new map Of the
world. The old map was black with too
many barbarisms and red with too
many slaughters and pale with too
llany suHarings. Let US see to it that
on that map so far as possible our ooun-
try from ocean to ocean is a Chris
tanned continent-schools, colleges,
churches and good homes in long line
from ocean beach to ocean beach. On
/ that map Cuba must be free. Porto Rico
| must be free. The archipelago of the
Philippines must be free. If cruel Spain
expects by representation and intrigue
to get back what she has surrendered,
then the warships Iowa and Indiana
and Brooklyn and Texas and Vesuvius
and Oregon must be sent back to south
ern waters or across to the coast Of
Spain to silence the insolence as decid-
eddy as last summer they silenced the
Cristobal Colon and Oquendo and Maria
| Teresa and Vizcaya. When we get those
islands thoroughly. under our protecto-
rate, for the first time our missionaries
in China 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 isthmiaH
canal, begun if 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 worlds
| betterment than'I have capacity to cal
culate.
Connecting Links.
| On tie 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
for 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 unhin-
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 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 e 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 q railroad now projected for
the length Of Africa, and Palestine and
Persia and India and China and Burma
intersected with railroad tracks, all /
which will be done before the new cen
fury is grown up, the way will be opc.
to the quick civilization and evangelical
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 tbs
rubbish of the garnet, and SO will the
present map Of the world, however gid
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 enc in Africa, while at 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. Bornesian
cruelties and Fiji island cannibalism
have given way, and all the gates of
all the continents are swung open with
q 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 a 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 CEN
tury we have time in the intervening
years to give some decisive strokes at
the seven Or eight great evils that curse
the world. It 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
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