Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-04

the greatest German re1Orm0rS. Anu
we go into the Methodist church just
in time to sit down at a love feast and
give audible amen when the service
stirs us. At least so kinds of churches
in the twenty-frst century, as there
were $50 different kinds of churches
in the nineteenth century.
80 spirit of the twenty-frst cen
fury, will you not show us something
of the commercial life of your timer
He answers, Tomorrow l will show
you ALL" And ON the morrow he takes
us through the great marts Of trade
and shows us the bargain makers and
the shelves on which the goods lay on
the tierces and hogsheads in which
they are contained. l notice that the
fabrics are of better quality than any
thing 1 ever saw in our nineteenth cen
fury, for the factories are more skiIlful,
and the wheels that turn and the
looms that clack and the engines that
rumble are driven by forces that were
not century ago discovered.
Honesty Everywhere.
The prices of the fabrics indicate a
reasonable profit, and the firm in the
counting room and the clerks at the
counter and the draymen at the door
way and the errand boy on his rounds
and the messenger who brings the
mail and the men who open the store
In the morning, as well as those who
close it at night, all look as if they
were satisfied and we'll treated. No
swallowing up of small houses of mer-
chandise by great houses. No ruinous
underselling until those in the same
line are bankrupt and then the prices
lifted. No unnecessary assignment to
defraud creditors. No overdrawing of
accounts. No abscondings. No sharp
practice. No snap judgments. But the
manufacturer right in his dealings
with the wholesaler, and the wholesal-
er with the customer. No purchasing
of goods that will never be paid for.
All right behind the counter. No repe-
tition of what Solomon describes when
he writes, cit is naught, it is naught,
saith the buyer; but when he is gone
his way, then he bOasteth."
But what is yonder row of build
ings, majestic for architecture The
spirit of the twenty-first century says,
"Those are our legislative halls and
places of public trust, and, if you
would like it, l will show you the po-
litical circles, the modes of preferment,
the styles of election, the character
of public men in this century" THANK
you" | reply. 81 can easily under
stand how gospelization would i'm
prove individual life and social life
and commercial life, but l would like
to see what it can do for political life"
LET me tell you," says the spirit of
the twenty first century, that l have
read about political chicanery and cor
ruption of more than a hundred years
ago-the nineteenth century, in which
you lived here-but the low political
caucus has gone from the face of the
earth, and. the stuffed ballot box, and
the bribery by money and by promise
of office, and the jobs got through legis-
latures and congresses by lobbyists.
The last corrupt judge of election was
buried so years ago, the preacher Off
ciating at the obseQuies taking for his
text Proverbs Y, Z, The name of the
wicked shall rot or Jeremiah xii, 10,
He shall be buried with the burial of
an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond
the gates of JeruSalem.'
"Our laws are good and we'll exc
cuted. Men do not in our century have
W w dUc GILL uccp al S1uSH
in order to gain office"
End of InfdeIity.
AS in company with our escort we
pass down from the heights on which
these buildings stand, l see q dis |
mounted cannon planted on the side of |
the hill, and l go to examine it, and l
read the inscription, cut in letters of
bronze; '"This is the last gun that was
fired in the last battle of the last war |
that will ever be fought. Presented |
by the last regiment of war just before
disbanding. Glory to God in the high |
est, and on earth peace, good will to |
men," Then l look up, and our escort |
says: DO you see that large structure |
on our right? That was Fortress but |
now it is college, and instead of guns |
aiming out Of the portfolios are looking |
the students Of higher literature and |
a wiser science and a grander civiIiZa-
ton than the world ever before imag- |
ined. And those students are taught |
by a profeSsOrate Of men as renowned |
for piety as for science. Arch2olO-
gists hammer and biologists crow
bar and chemists laboratory and |
explorers journey have joined in
confirmation of the truth of the
Holy Scriptures until there is not
an unbeliever in all the earth.
The astronomer through his telescope
has seen the Morning Star of the Re
deemer, and the geologist has found
the Rock of Ages, and the geometri-
clan has demonstrated that heaven is
the city which 'lieth four square, and
the length and the breadth and the
hoiOht if aOna1'H
"Whatw | say to our escort ssNO