The record-union., 1899-12-01

is made to float TO the breeze over the
100000 drink holes and devil dens In
our land. at whose shrine much of the
bone and sinew OF manhood and youth
are inundated, and where 1.OO0,O0O be-
sotted wretches are staggering out into
blacklist night at the rate Of 12O,OO0
annually, beside the waste Of one bill
ion and a half of money every year.
These recruiting stations Of death are
laying hands ON one bright boy in
every fifth home every year. Two mill
ions of them every generation go to
swell this army of the lost. Are these
things to continue always? No. most
assuredly, no: In the name OF God and
humanity, no.
| I push aside the veil, and I see a
healthy public sentiment obtaining
that politicians dare not long disregard
The public conscience of this Christian
nation will be so aroused that our Gov
eminent will cover its face in shame
and go out Of the business of drunk
ard making, and private citizens will
be forced to give up their nefarious
work
! The church has too long been the
DEVILS sanitarium- The demon pushes
them into the gutter, and the church
does her best to- pull them out
| The time will come when every lover
of God and humanity will unite against
the demon, and will arise and choke
the very life out of him. What is left
for us to do is to preach temperance,
sing temperance, pray temperance and
vote temperance, and throw our arms
around the young and save them from
the snare Of the fowler.
| 1t may not be ours, but it will be
the privilege Of near generation to
erect the victor's monument over the
grave of the slaughtered foe and thus
rid the world of the greatest obstacle
that is at present in the way Of the
coming reign of Jesus Christ among
the nations
| The progress of the century in sci
ence, art, philosophy and general learn
ing has been most phenomenal. Astron-
omy is daily revealing new wonders to
us in the illimitable fields of blue. New
worlds are continuously being discov-
cred; natural science in all her branches
has made wonderful acquisitions. To-
| day her discoveries are confirming the
truth of divine revelation and are dis
polling the fog that seemed to gather
at the beginning of the century. Look
for moment at the application of the
sciences in the last half century 70
useful purposes-steam, electricity,
light, heat, etc. Surely, this is a utili-
tartan age.
"A short while ago." says Josiah
Strong, 1.-THE family was a world in
/ tCn1 ;cv q 20 wit n
world consciousness that is rapidly
developing into a world conscience =
Behold you! Steam bridges to-day link
! the nations together and all mankind
are next door neighbors, and nearly all
civilized countries are within speaking
distance Even famine is almost an
impossibility because of our improved
machinery and increased facilities of
transportation.
! Behold the advance in medical
science in the comparatively recent
years. The probabilities are that DR..
Jenner by the use Of his discovered
vaccine matter has saved more lives
in the last fifty years than all the bat
| ties of any one century have destroyed,
at least history tells us that previous to
/ the discovery and application of DR..
tanners smallpox antidote, in Europe
alone 100000 died annually Of the
plague.
How much of suffering has been al
leviated and millions of lives saved by
! the use of anesthetics as discovered by
! Sir James Simpson. Again, the nine
teenth century has been distinctively a
religious century. What wonderful
changes in public sentiment as to per-
sonal freedom and human rights. The
shackles of the slaves have been broken
and the slave trade is considered
piracy throughout the whole civilized
world.
The enemies of Christianity have
risen in their wrath to destroy her from
| the face of the globe, but she heeds
not the swapping of the ours at her
heels, and in divine majesty she moves
on while they die in shame and are
forgotten The spread of Christianity
among the nations is a cause for re-
ioicing. The decree has been Numbered
| forth from the throne of the Eternai
that the nations shall be given the
word of God I see the church with
her auxilaries marching on to glorl-
| Gus victory. Idols are being thrown to
| the moles and the bats and saving light
| Of the gospel is irradiating the dark
ened corners of the world. All other
religions are waning and the Christian
religion is gaining among all the ma
! lions of the earth.
One thing is sure. If Christianity is
| a fable, falsehood has accomplished
more for the worlds good since this
century began than truth in thousands
! of years. Christianity is marching over
the wreck of former systems Of idolatry.
Diana of the Ephesians." the Gods OF
Greece and Rome, the saxon Gods OF
our own ancestors, with the great
Jupiter have gone to the idols grave
ward. The temples of heather worship
are being deserted. At the beginning
of this century there were one hundred
and fifty missionaries, now over 3O,OOO.
The closing of this century will find
over three hundred millions of Christ
ians. Barring, perhaps, architecture ana
| sculpture the world to-day Is far in
advance in all that go to make up
true civilization of what it was in the
Manifest DAYS of Greece and Rome.
"Of making many books there is no
end"
! What would the wise man say were
he with US to-day!
The education Of the masses is fast
becoming the work of nations. AS far
&c soianca ia concerned it is certainly