The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-14

dHtS-ulluNldH NdyS, llELy years before
| Noah was born, and when his grand
father Methusaleh was a promising
| youth three hundred years old;-anG
history is blank of all events, save
that the world was growing very wick
ed. But If We look backward to about
the year A. NJ. 500 we strike the most
remarkable record of the whole ante
dlluVian world, viz, that of the origin
and development of the pastoral life
including the tanning and domestieation
OF animals, the mechanical arts, in
VolVing that vast upward stride, the
escape of man from the "stone age" by
the discovery and working first of
bronze and then of rou and like
grand stride in the fine arts, especially
music (but which necessarily implies
poetry, also) in the invention of the
harp and organ the germs of the
grand piano and cathedral organ of to-
day; the only known record of the orr
gin Of these fundamental arts of civili-
cation; Hercules, Vulcan. and Apollo all
In one family! (See Gen. 4:20-22.)
Again. if we look forward to the next
thousand-year period it brings us to the
calling and migration of Abraham, an
event of no figure In the world then,
though Of worldwide moment to flu
ture ages; but in going on to Abraham
we have passed over the most tremen-
dous event In the history of mankind,
the last geological cataclysm of this
planet, the deluge, the preaching of
which by Noah began nearly five hun
dred years before. The next thousand
year period brings us to the climax of
Old Testament history. the reign of
Solomon. but passes over far greater
man and age in Moses and the Exodus
at the Northumberland point. And
midway between Solomon and Christ
comes Cyrus the Great, the fall of Bah
ylon, and the Restoration Of Judah;
just as five hundred years after Christ
comes the fall of the Roman empire
and the beginning of the great nations
of modern Europe. One thousand A. c..
brings us to the medieval ages Of chiv-
airy and the crusades. an age, indeed,
of vast through misdrected, energy,
and great historic Importance, and too
often under estimated, yet utterly
ecllpsed by the white light of the revival
of learning, the new birth of Europe, the
discovery of America and the blaze of
the reformation, five hundred years
later and five hundred years ago. If
the twentieth century, to whose advent
we are looking forward. accomplishes
for mankind more resplendent,
more world-uplifting and world-revolu-
according to its day and
light, than the fifteenth or the sixteenth
centuries did in their time, 1t will have
to be upandoing all in one word and
all it's hundred years!
We have thus set line of a dozen
stakes along the sixty centuries of
Usher's Chronology that by means of
them we may get surveyors range"
from the past into the future. 1t Is
like triangulating the distance across
an impossible river, or the height of
an unscalable mountain. II requires a
long look, and clear one. and an I'M
shaken faith in our theodolite and our
ogarithms. But Christ verified our
when Abraham used it, and
our logarithms are all yea and Amen
IN Christ Jesus" Heaven and earth
shall pass away, he says. "but my
words shall not pass away" And so |
our range of stakes brings us up to our |
0ftV OUTLOOK OF to-day.
But if our Thousand years. notions
nave not been very satisfactorily and
supported by our historical re-
view, we have nevertheless seen how
he upward-toling march of the ages
las held VIGOROUSLY its way, and how
hat movement is now about to launch
tself with accumulated speed and mo-
nentum into what ought to be, and, by
I'll the actual and mighty factors of thu
present age, seems bound to be, the
most progressive, beneflcent and stu
)endous century of all time! 1t is
therefore, only as acting the part of wise
eaders Of Israel that our bishops, in
he true spirit of modern prophecy,
lave sounded the trumpets for the great
dvance of our hosts to cross over Jor
Ian and enter the Canaan of this TWEEN
leth century; and not, feebly, irresO-
utely. unprepared for its mighty is
ues, but armed in full gospel panoply,
With millions of hearts millions of
lands, and millions Of money ready for
ehovah's campaigns for the conquest
nd salvation of this lost world.
Amovement of such immense breadth
novement must necessarily embrace a
multitude of individual interests just
S a great river will have many cur
ents and channels, and often islands
etween them. So here we have the
nancial, the educational and the spir-
-ual departments, and many divisions
each department. In the financial
apartment we have church and par
image building, and the paying of
ebts on those already built. We have
ur great church benevolentes, our
Missionary, church extension, Freed
lens work, Sunday schools, Bible So
ety, hospitals and all other such work.
ur educational work has, very prop
'ly been considered as of such prima
Y and fundamental importance in it's
slations to all the rest as to require
nat it shall be treated as an independ-
1T department. and entitled to stand
\ par with our combined home church
ork on the one hand, and our com {
med benevoenceS on the other. And
! this view of the compare tive impor-
lnce of our church educational work I
earthly agree 1t is the view of that I
ork which I advocated In our church I
'ess a quarter of century ago, when t
lere were few to second my motion. /
s | then insisted, our colleges and the G
ogcal seminaries are the arsenais and
achine-shops Of the church, where the {
ms and tools of the church must be {