Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-11-16

therapeutics that have conquered
everything that afflicted nerve or lung
or tooth or eye or iimb-heaithology
complete and universal. The poultice
and the ointment and the panacea and
the catholicon and the surgeons knife
and the dentists forceps and the sci
entist's y ray will have fulfilled their
mission.
Gospel Influences.
The social life of the world will be
perfected In that millennial age
imagine ourselves standing in trout of
a house lighted for levee. We enter
among groups filled with gladness and
talking good sense and rallying each
other ia pleasantries and in every pos.
sible way forwarding good neighbor-
hood; no looking askance, no whis-
pered backbiting, no strut of preten-
sion, no oblivion of some ones pres
ence because you do not want to know
him: each one happy. determined on
making some one else happy; words of
honest appreciation instead of hollow
flattery; suavitieS and genialities in
stead Of inhations and pOmposfties;
equipage and upholstery and sculpture
and painting paid for: two hours of
mental and moral improvements; all
the guests able TO walk as steadily
down the steps of that mansion as
when they assembled them no awaking
next morning with aching head and
bloodshot eye and incompetent for the
days duties; the social life as perfect.
as refinement and common sense and
culture and prosperity and religion can
make it; the earth made better than
it was at the start. and all through
gospelizing influences. directly or in
directly.
l suppose the greatest tidal wave
that ever rolled the seas was tlfiSs
which III 1868 was started by the Pc
ruvian earthquake. At africa, Peru. the
wave was 30 feet high and swung war
ships a mile forward on the land. At
San Pedro. Cal, The wave was G0 feet
high 1t moved on to the Sandwich Is
lands and submerged some of them
and beat against the shores of New
Zealand and rolled up the beach of ia
pan and stopped not until it had en-
circled the entire globe. Oh, what 4
wave! But8the earthquake that shook
the mountain where our Lord died
started higher and swifter and
mightier tidal wave that will roll round
and round the earth until all its rebel
lions and denominations have gone un
der.
That was an exciting scene after the
battle of Bosworth, which was fought
between Richard III and the earl of
Richmond, the king falling and the
earl triumphing, when Lord Stanley
brought the crown and handed it to the
earl, seated on horseback, while the
dying and the dead of the battle were
lying all around. But 1t is a more
thrilling spectacle as we look forward
through the centuries and see the last
armed and imperial iniquity of the
world slain and the crown of universal
victory put upon the conqueror on the
white horse of the Apocalypse and all
nations hail the power of Jesus
name" That the whole earth will be
redeemed Is one of the things long ago
settled in heaven.
Gods Plan OF Salvation,
Another thing decided in that high
place is that all who are adjoined to
the unparalleled One of Bethlehem and
Nazareth and Golgotha will be the sub
jects of supernal felicity without any
taking off. The old adage says that
"beggers must not be choosers.' and
the human race In its depleted state
had better not be critical of the mode
by which God would empalace all Of
us. | could easily think of plan more
complimentary to our fallen humanity
than that which is called the plan of
salvation If God had allowed us to
do part of the work of recovery and he
do the rest; if we could do three-Quar-
ters of it and lie do the last quarter, if
we could accomplish most of it and he
just put on the finishing touches. many
could look with more complacency
upon the projected reinstatement of