Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-12-07

has seen the Morning Star of the Re
deemer, and the geologist has found
the Rock of Ages. and the geometri-
clan has demonstrated that heaven is
the city which .lieth four square, and
the length and the breadth and the
height of it are equal
"Whatw l say to our escort. mo
skeptics2 No infidels? No agnostics
His reply is: Absolutely none. The
last fool who said in his heart there is
no God was buried a half century
ngo without any liturgical service"
In response to my question as to
what had wrought all this change
obliterated all the evil and fully in
augurated all the good-our escort, the
spirit of the twenty-frst century. tells
me that gospelization had directly or
Indirectly done it. 1t was a practical
gospel that had not only changed the
heart, but made the man honest-a
practical religion. which did not ex-
pend all its energy in singing Ely
abroad, thou mighty gospel" but gave
something TO make it fly.
SIN Obliterated.
The good work was helped on by the
fact that II became general habit
among milf.naires and multimillion-
aires to provide churches and schools
and institutions of mercy, not to be
built after the testators were dead,
but built so that they might be present
at the laying Of the cornerstone anC al
the dedication and leave less induce
ment for the heirs at law to prove in
orphans court that when the testators
made their last will and testament
they were crazy. The telegraphic wires
in the air and the cables under the sea
thrill with Christian invitation. Pho
nographS charged with gospel SER
mons stand in every neighborhood.
The 5000, 900 of the worlds inhab-
itants in that century are 5000, 100000
disciples. a
But" say to our escort, the spirit
of the twenty-first century, "you have
shown us much. But what about in
ternational conditions? When we lived
on earth, it was century that bled
Will H1dlCuSO anu SudIOAS uuo AOdi
Bridge and Lucknow and Solferino
and Leipsic and Waterloo and San
Juan" Our escort replies, "Come with
me to this building Of white marble
and glittering DOME" As we pass up
and on we are taken into room where
the mightiest and best representatives
Of all nations are assembled to settle
international controversies. AS we en-
ter hear the presiding officer opening
the council of arbitration, reading the
second chapter. 9t Isaiah: "They shall
beat their swords into plowshares and
their spears. into pruning hooks; ma
tiop shall not lift up sword against ma
ton, neither shall they learn war any
more" Questions which in CUR long
past nineteenth century caused quar-
rel and bloodshed, as when Germany
and France were deciding about Alsace
and Lorraine, as when the United
States and Spain were deciding about
Cuba-such questions in this twenty
first century settled in five minutes,
one drop of ink doing more than once
could have been accomplished by q
river of blood.
But we cannot stay long in this hall
of arbitration, for it is almost time for
US to retrace our way heavenward.
This voluntary exile must soon end.
"But," say to our escort, the spirit
Of the twenty-tirst century, and you
and say to each other, I'VE must go
home now hack again fn heavan We
have staid long enough on this terres-
trial visitation to see that all the best
things foretold in the Scriptures and
which we read during our earthly resi-
dence have come to pass, and all the
Davidic, Solomonic and Paulinian and
Johannean prophesies have been full
filed, and that the earth, instead of
being a ghastly failure, is the might
est success in the universe. a star re-
deemed! A planet rescued! A world
saved! 1t started with 4 garden, and
it is going to close with garden.
What happiness that we could have
seen this old world after it was righted
and before it burned, for its internal
fires have nearly burned out to the
crust, according to the geologist, max
ing it easy for the theologian to believe
in the confagration that the Bible pre-
diets"
The Universal Song.
And now you and have left our es-
cort as we ascend, for the law Of gray-
itation has no power to detain ascend !
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