Connecticut western news., 1899-12-07


 and surgery. and what time of suf- fering there must have been on those battIefields of Sedan and Gettysburg and South Africa one or two hundred years ago.
 A New World Born.
 Hospitals and almshouses must have been necessity once, but they would be useless now. And you see
 all the swamps have been drained. The sewerage of the great towns has been perfected. And the worlds climate Is so improved that there are no pneu'
 monias to come out of the cold or
 rheumatisms out of the dampness oI levers out of the heat. Consumptions
 banished, pneumonias hanished. diph-
 theria banished. ophthalmia banished.
 neuralgias banished. AS near as l can tell from what 1 have read, our atmosphere of this century is min gling of the two months of May and october of the nineteenth century," And we believe what our escort says, for as We pass on we find health glow ing in every cheek, and beaming in
 every eye, and springing in every step,
 and articulating in every utterance, and you and whisper to each other as our escort has his attention drawn to some new sunrise upon the morning
 sky, and we say, each to the other:
 Who would believe that this Is the l world we lived in over d hundred years ago? Look at those men and women
 we pass on the road. How improved n. h.a.a ,fx-f Yl.la strength. Such gracefulness. Such
 geniality, Faces without the mark of
 one sorrow, Cheeks that seem never to have been wet by one tear! X race sublimated! A new world born" But say to our escort: Did all this
 merely happen so: Are all the good here spontaneously good? How did you get the old shipwrecked world atioat again. out of the breakers into the smooth seas?'' No, no,' responds our twenty first century escort. Do you see those towers? Those are the towers of churches. towers of reforma- tory institutions. towers of Christian schools. Walk with me, and let us en- ter some of these temples" We enter, and l find that the music Is in the ma for key, and none of 1t in the minor. "Gloria in EXcelsis'' rising above .'Glo- ria in Excelsis." Tremolo stop in the organ not so much used as the trumpet stop. More of Ariel than of Naomi. More chants than dirges.
 But say to our twcnty-tirst century
 escort: Il cannot understand this. Have these worshipers no sorrows, or have they forgotten their sorrowsY Our escort responds: Sorrows, Why, they had sorrows more than you could count. but by q divine illumination that the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries never enjoyed they under stand the uses of sorrow and are com forted with a supernatural eondolence such as previous centuries never expe- rienced."
 Prophecy Fulfilled.
 l ask again of the interpreter, Has death been banished from the world?" The answer is, No; but people die
 now only when the physical machinery Is worn out and they realize 1t Is time
 .o go and that they are certainly and
 without doubt going into n world where they will be infinitely better of and are to live in a mansion that awaits their immediate occupancy" But how was all this effected?' l ask our escort. Answer: By floods of gos- pei power You who lived in the vival of religion to be compared with what occurred in the latter part of the twentieth and the early part of the twenty-first century. The prophecy has been fulfilled that a nation shall be born in a day'-that is, 10OO0.00O or 20.OO0,000 or 40.000.0O0 people con verted in 24 hours"
 As you and l see in this terrestrial visitation of the coming centuries that the church has, under God. accom- plished so much, we ask our escort, the
 spirit of the twenty-first century, to
 show us the different kinds of churches. So we are taken in and out
 of the churches of different denomina- tions, and we find that they are just
 as different in the twenty-tirst century ms they were different in the nine teenth, when we worshiped in them. There is unity in them as to the great essentials of salvation. But we enter the Baptist church, and 1t is baptismal
 day, and we see the candidates for
 membership immersed And we go into Presbyterian church and see a group of parents around the baptismal
 font holding up their children for the christening. And we enter the Episco- pal church and hear the solemn roll of
 her llturgies, and her ministers are gowned and surpliced. And we enter
 the Lutheran church, and we hear in the sermon preached the doctrines of the greatest of German reformers. And 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 50 kinds of churches
 in the twenty-first century, as there were 150 different kinds of churches | in the nineteenth century.
 70 spirit of the twenty cen | tury, 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 i the tierces and hogsheads in which | they are contained. l notice that the
 fabrics are of better quality than any
 thing ever saw in our nineteenth cen
 tury, for the factories are more skillful, | 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 we'll as those who