The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-01
HELLO A UNION SERVICE
A Timely Sermon Delivered by
Rev. o. G. Clark.
CREST OF THE CENTURY
He He's Not Dsalt So With Any Ma
tion"-The Marvellous Record o.
Hundred Years-The Hope
o. the Future.

Missoula. Nov. 30.-There was large
attendance at the union Thanksgiving
service at the Christian church this
morning. The sermon was preached
by Rev. O. c. Clark and was as fol-
lows:
TEXTILE hath not dealt so with
any nation.'-Psalm 147-20.
We stand to-day upon the crest Of
the browning century of all time. For
a fully rounded out hundred years We
have lived and chronicled history under
the date of 1900. In single month
these numerals will change and it will
be 1900 under which we live. With a
century behind us and century be-
fore US, it is a fitting time to review
the one and to anticipate the other
We have assembled in response to
the proclamation of our president 20
render to God praise and thanksgiving
for the blessing that has crowned the
year. I am sure that we will be jus
titled in taking a wider sweep in our
review than the events of single year,
the wonderful times in which we live
have come to us so unheralded. The
muniflcent gifts that have been laid at
our feet have been so oft repeated
that we have all unconsciously lived in
times wonderful beyond description.
Let us then this morning take down
our large field glasses and look out over
the century that so soon will be COM
pleted. We will turn back to some
historic way marks that stood upon the
verge of the opening century that we
may fully appreciate the period that
we are considering. 1t is not yet
hundred years within IA days since
General Washington, whose split was
the inspiration of revolutionary times.
died. 1t is but 10 days more than 100
years since the first congress assem-
bled at Washington. John Adams was
then in the presidential chair: Thomas
Jefferson was the vice president. The
population of the United States at the
second census of 1900 was 5,319,I 1872 and
the national revenue was little short
of 100000.
Among the leading questions that
were agitatng the cOlOniSts al this
time which, became laws during Ad-
ans administration, was the alien and
Sedtion law. 1t was the appropriately
of these measures that led to the dr~
feat of the party the following year.
when jefferson was placed in the pres
idential chair. 1t was during this cam
paign that the doctrine Of the individ-
ual states that afterward figured so
prominently in the discussion of the
century was for the first time so clear
ly defined. Ohio did not become state
until 1902. The great Louisiana tract
was purchased from France in 1903 for
s15.000,000. When the bargain was
made Napoleon said prophetically:
This accession of territory strengthens
forever the power of the United States
and / have given to England a mara
time rival that will sooner or later
humble her pride But this accession
was not made till three years after
the opening of the century. All of the
vast region beyond the Mississippi was
IN
years ago.
In 1900 they. We're making their first
trembling experiments for the cduca-
ton of girls in Boston. The extent of
the provision was that girls could enter
the public schools during the summer
term, provided that there were not
boys enough to fill the room The first
champion of female education was not
born until two years before this CEN
fury began. Mary Lyon did not begin
her work at South Hadley until 1887.
To-day the co-education of the sexes is
the pride and glory of the land. Many
of the leading colleges gladly open
their doors to girls and some of the
finest and best equipped institutions of
the land are our young ladies' semi
naries. At the beginning of the century
there were but 20 small, poorly
equipped colleges. To-day there are
but little short of 400, with nearly 4.5OO
itiSAi aNlciS anu iliOlc IMAM OuUUU STU
dents. Our common schools. which
from the first have been the subject of
careful thought Of our people. We're
necessarily in this early day crude and
inefficient. To-day there are enrolled
in our public schools 14,652477 students.
With 4O3,333 cultured and capable teach
ers. The annual expenditures for our
public schools, aside from the payment
OF loans and bonds, amounts to the
enormous sum of $S4, S66. 092 while in
every township it is provided that two
sections of land shall be set aside for
the public schools. Thus the spread of
education keeps pace with settlement.
The great missionary societies
which have characterized the century
and which have gathered into their
treasures S129, 905, TAT since 1920 had not
been organized when the century open
ed. The Sunday school in the United
States overlaps the century only nine
years In 1900 the nominal Protestant
Christians in the world We're estimated
at 21o,OOo,Oo In 1880 there We're more
than 410,000,000. The number had more
than doubled in so years.
"A hundred years ago the chara cter
of the prevailing public entertainment
was such as to make it seem necessary
for Hamilton, one of the wisest and
purest statesmen, to accept the chal-
lenge of the infamous Burr in order to
came in our fathers were using prac-
tically the same methods for producing
light that had been in use for the pre-
ceding 5000 years. They We're striking
lights with flint and steel and using
talloW dips and vegetable oil. Since
then the friction match and the argand
burner for gas and the electric light
have followed each other in succession,
until now our land is all aglow with
the very light of heaven"
Following this Mr.. Clark sketched the
wonderful progress Of science and in
NentiOn; the growth of transportation
facilities and the advancement in ship
building. The growth in territory and
population of the United States was
shown also
From this review we get little idea
OF the wonderful unfolding of the CEN
fury about to close. From a little,
struggling republic, TIE independence
OF which had but recently been ac-
quired, to a powerful nation whose
commerce eclipses and whose armies
and navics defy those of any other ma
ton under the sun. Surely, as we look
at our land from this angle, we are