The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-07
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out, ana tney rohlize IL ls lime TO go ana
that they are certainly and without doubt
going into q world where they will be in
initely better of and are to live in man
sion that awaits their immediate oc.
cupancy." But how was all this effected2"
l ask our escort. Answer: by food Of
gospel power. You who lived In the nine
teenth century never saw revival OF roll
Rlon TO be compared with what occurred
in the latter part OF the twentieth and the
enrly part OF the twenty.nrst century
The prophecy has been fulfilled that IA
nation shall be born in q day'--that is, ton
or twenty or forty million people convert ed
in twenty. y.four hours. In our church his
tory we read OF the great awakening Of
1857, when five hundred thousand souls
were saved. But that was only drop of
the coming showers that since then took
into the kingdom of God everything be-
tween the Atlantic and tho Pacific, be-
tween the Pyrenees and the Himalayas."
The evils that good people were In the
nineteenth century trying to destroy hive
been overcome by celestial forces What
human weaponry failed to accomplish has
been done by omnlpotent thunderbolts.
As you and see in this terrestrial visit
alton OF the coming centuries that the
church has under God accomplished so
much, we ask our escort, the spirit of tue
twenty-hrst century, to show us the differ
ent kinds OF churches. SO we are taken in
and out Of the churches OF different donom-
inations, and we find that they are just as
different In the twenty-flrst century us they
were different In the nineteenth when we
worshiped in them. There is unity IN them
as to tho great essentials OF salvati on But
we enter the Baptist Church, and It is bap-
tismal day, and we see the canddate for
membership immersed. And we 20 into a
Presbyterian Church and see n group OF
parents around the baptismal font holding
up their children for the christening. Aud
we enter the Episcopal Church and hear
the solemn roll of her liturgles and her
ministers are gowned and surpliced. And
we enter the Lutheran Church, and we
hear in the sermon preached tho doctrines
Of the greatest OF German reformers. And
we 80 into the Methodist Church just in
time to sit down ut love feast and give
audible "Amen" when the service stirs us.
At least fifty kinds of churches In the
twenty-hrst century, as there were 100 diff
ferent kinds of churches In the nineteenth
century
80 spirit OF the twenty-nrst century, will
you not show us something OF the CONNER
cal life OF your timep" He answers, 80
morrow will show you ALL" Aud on the
morrow he takes us through the great
marts OF trnde and shows us the bargain
makers and the shelves on which the goods
lay and the tierces aud hogsheads In which
they are contained. 1 notice that the
fabrics are of better quality than anything
ever saw In our nineteenth century, for
the factories are more skillful, and the
wheels that turn and the looms that clack
and the engines that rumble are driven by
force that were not n century ago discov-
cred.
The prices of the fabrics indicate rea-
Bonable profit, and the firm In the count
Ing room and the clerks at the counter
and the draymen at the doorway and the
errand boy on his rounds and the mes
ssnger who brings the mail and the men
who open the store in the morning MS
well as those who close 1t at night all
look rs IL they were satisfied and we'll
treated. No swallowing up of small
houses OF merchandise by great houses,
no ruinous undersofling until those In
the same line are bankrupt and then
the prices lifted, no unnecessary assign
ment to defraud creditors, no over
drawing OF accounts, no abscondings, no
sharp practice, no snap judgments. but
the manufacturer right In his dealings
with the wholesaler, and the wholesaler
with the retailer, and tho retailer with
the customer. No purchasing of goods that
will never be paid for. All right behind
the counter; all right before the counter.
No repetition Of what Solomon describes
when he writes, 1T Is naught, 1t is naught,
saith the buyer. but when ho is gono his
way then he boasteth." 20 spirit of the
twenty first century, how glad ] am that
you showed us these stores and factories
and places OF bargain and salel 1t was not
always so in the nineteenth century when
merchants who are good Mt cipherlng out
other rules in arithmetic never could cipher
out that sum in the rule OF loss and gain.
What shall it profit man II he gain the
whole world and lost his soul?"
But" say to our escort, tho Spirit OF
the twenty-flrst century, and YOU and 1
say to each other, 1--WE 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 tho
t..N, ,vyl,t tai,
earthly residence have como to pass, and
all the Davidic, Solomonic and Paulinian
and Johannean prophecies have been full
filled, and that the earth, instead OF be-
ing CHASTITY failure, is the mightiet sue
cess in the universe A star redeemed A
planet rescuedl A world savei 1t started
with garden, and it is going to close
with garden. What Il happiness that we
could have seen this old world after 1t was
righted and before It burned for its in
ternal fires have nearly burned out to the
crust, according to the geologist. max
ing it easy for the theoogian to be.
lleve In the connagration that the
Bible predicts. One element taken
from the water and that will burn,
and another element taken from tho mir
and that will burn, and surrounding plan
cts will watch this old ship OF world on
fire and wonder il all its passengers got
safely Off. Before that planetary catns-
trophe, HE us back to heaven. Farewell,
spirit OF the twcnty-first 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 must report to the immor-
tails around the throne the transformA-
tlons we have seen, the Victories OF truth
on land and sea, the hemispheres irradi-
ated, and Christ on the throne OF earth, as
He Is on the throne OF heaven"
And now you and have left our escort
as we ascend, for the law of gravitation has
no power to detain ascending spirits. Up
through immensities and by stellar and
lunar and solar splendors, which cannot be
described by mortal tongue, We rise higher
and higher, till we reach the shining gate
us 1t opens for our return, and the ques-
tions greet us from nil sides; "What is the
news? What did you find In that earthly
tower? What havo you TO report In this
city of the SUM" Prophetic, apostolic,
sanity inquiry. And, standing on the steps
OF the house OF many mansions, we cry
aloud the news: "Hear 1t, all ye glorl1ed
Christian workers OF all the past centuriesi
We found your work was successful,
whether on earth you tolled with knitting
needle or rung n trowel on n risiag wall,
or smote shoe last, or endowed univer-
sity, or swayed a sceptor; whether on earth
you gave cup OF cold water In the name
OF disciple, or at some Pentecost preached
5000 souls into the kingdom.
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