The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-12-06

men as were in your congresses and
parliaments and reiehstags pointed out
aB exceptions of statesnanship and
patriotism and public spiritedness and
eloquence and moral power would not
be pointed out now, for all our public
men are thus characterized. Politics
has been swept, garnished, glorifed,
ennobled, until nothing more is to be
desired. Walk through all aldermanic
councils and sheriffalities and guber-
natorial rooms and presidential man
sions and find the truth Of what !, the
spirit of the twenty-frst century, tell
you, who were of the nineteenth CEN
tury and now come down on terrestrial
visitation"
But we cannot stay long here, for
II is almost time for us to retrace our
way heayenward. This voluntary exile
must soon end. And, passing out, we
90 through a national museum, where
we are shown among the curiosities an
enfield rife, a howitzer, a hotchkiss
shell, an ambulance-curiosities of that
age, but, alas! no curiosity to us Of the
nineteenth century, for some Of our
own kindred went down under their
stroke or were carried of the field by
those wheels.
"But," / say to our escort, the spirit
of the twenty first century, and you and
I say to each other, I'VE must go home
now, back again to Heaven. We have
staid long enough on this terrestrial
visitation to see that all the best things
foretold in the Scriptures and which
we read during our earthly residence
have come to pass, and all the Davidic,
Solomonic and Paulinian and johann
mean prophecies have been fulfilled, and
that the earth, instead of being ghast-
ly failure, is the mightiest success in
the universe. A star redeemed. A
planet rescued A world sayedl It
started with garden, and it is going to
close with garden. What a happiness
that we could have seen this old world
after it was righted and before it
burned, for its internal fires have near
ly burned out to the crust, according
to the geologist, making it easy for the
theologian to believe in the confagra-
ton that the Bible predicts. One ele-
ment taken from the water and that
will burn, and another element taken
from the air and that will burn, and
surrounding planets will watch this old
ship of world on fire and wonder ifall
it's passengers got safely off. Before
that planetary catastrophe, HE us back
to Heaven. Farewell, spirit of the
twenty-frst century, Thanks for your
guidancel We can stay no longer
away from doxologies that never end,
in temples never closed, in day that
has no sundown. We mustreport to the
immortals around the throne the
transformations we have seen, the vic
tories of truth on land and sea, the
hemispheres irradiated, and Christ on
the throne of earth, as He is on the
throne of Heaven"
And now you and 1 have left our es-
cort as we ascend, for the law Of grav-
itation has no power to detain ascend
ing spirits. Up through immensities
and by stellar and lunar and solar
splendors, which cannot be described
by mortal tongue, we rise righer and
higher, till we reach the shining gate
as it opens for our return, and the
. questions greet us from all sides:
what is the news? What did you find
in that earthly tower? What have you
to report in this city of the sun?''
Prophetic, apostolic, sanity inquiry,
And, standing on the steps Of the
house of many mansions, we cry aloud
the news: Hear it, all ye glorified
Christian workers Of all the past CEN
turiesl We found your work was sue.
cessful, whether on earth you toiled
with knitting needle, or rung trowel
on rising wall, or smote shoe last
or endowed university, or swayed a
scepter; whether on earth you gave
cup of cold water in the name of a
disciple, or at some Pentecost preached
5000 souls into the kingdom.
an that world we have Just visited
the deserts are all abloom, and the will
dernesses are bright with fountains
Sin is extirpated. Crime is reformed
Disease is cured. The race is emanci
pated. The earth is full of the knowl
edge of God, as the waters cover the
sea- The redeemed of the Lord have
come to Zion with songs and eyerlast
, ing joy upon their heads The LORD
God 0mnipotent reigneth, and the
: Kingdoms of the world have become
the Kingdoms of our Lord Jesui
Christ Let the harpers of HEAVIER
: strike the glad tidings from thestringI
} of their harps, and the trumpeter'
put them in the mouth of their trum
: pets, and the orchestra roll them intC
the grand march of the. eternities, anC
, all the cathedral towers of the greai
capital of the universe chime them al
i over Heaven"
: And now look up and see the cast
: ing down at the bejeweled and radiant
: crowns at the sacred feet Of the en-
: throned Jesus. Missionary Carey Il
: casting down before those feet thu
crown of India saved. Missionary Jud
son is casting down the crown Of Bur
; ma saved. Missionary Abeel casting
! down the crown of China saved. DaviC
. Livingston casting down at those fee
, the crown of Africa saved. Mission
ary Brainerd casting down the crown