The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-12-06
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music is in the major key and none OF 1t
in the minor "GlOria in EXcelSls rising
above the organ not so much used as the
trumpet stop. More of Ariel imam Oh
Naomi. More chants than dlrges. MOI
thin song, the words of which no one I'M
derstands on the lip Of sololst, put
mighty harmOnies that roll from OUTSIDE
door to chancel and from floor to grolned
rafter as though Handel had come out OF
the eighteenth century into the twenty
first and had his foot on the organ pedal.
and Thomas Hastings had come out OF
the early part of the nineteenth century
into the twenty-first and were leading the
voices. Music that moves the earth and
makes heaven listen!
But I say to our twenty-frst century
escort: II cannot understand this. Have
these worshipers no sorrows, or have
they forgotten their sorrows?" Our es
cort responds: Sorrows! Why, they had
sorrows more than you could count, but
by divine illumination that the eight
eenth and nineteenth centuries never
enjoyed they understand the uses of sor-
row and are comforted with a supernatu
raj coincidence such as previous centuries
never experienced"
Punishment of Death.
I 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 it is time to
go and that they are certainly and with
out doubt going into a world where they
will be infinitely better off and are to live
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ate occupancy 'But how was all this
effected?" / ask our escort. Answer:
"By floods of gospel power. You who
lived in the nineteenth century never saw
a revival of religion to be compared with
what occurred in the latter part of the
twentieth and the early part of the TWEEN
ty-first century. The prophecy has been
fulfilled that a nation shall be born in a
day'-that is, ten or twenty or forty mill
ion people converted in twenty-four
hours"
AS you and I see in this terrestrial
visitation of the coming centuries that
the church has under God accomplished
SO much, we ask our escort the spirit of
the twenty-frst century, to show us the
different kinds of churches. So we are
taken in and out of the churches of diff
ferent denominations, and we find that
they are just as different in the twenty
first century as they were different i'll the
nineteenth when we worshiped in them.
There is unity in them as to the great
essentials of salvation. But we enter
the Baptist church, and it is baptismal
day. and we see the candidates for mem
bership immersed. And we go into a
cllxrfry oh, of
parents around the baptismal font hold
ing UP their children for the christening.
And we enter the Episcopal church and
hear the solemn roll of her liturgies, and
her ministers are gowned and surpliced.
, And we enter the Lutheran church, and
we hear in the sermon preached the doc
trines of the greatest of German reform
ers. And we go into the Methodist
church just in time to sit down at love
feast and give audible amen" when the
service stirs us. At least fifty kinds of
churches in the twenty-frst century. as
there were 80 different kinds of
churches in the nineteenth century.
Improvement in Trade.
80 spirit of the twenty-frst century,
will you not show us something of the
commercial life Of your time?' He an
swers, Tomorrow [ 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 and the tierces and
hogsbeads in which they are contained.
L notice that the fabrics are of better
quality than anything I 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 forces that
were not century ago discovered.
The prices of the fabrics indicate rea-
sonable profit, and the firm in the count
ing room and the clerks at the COULTER
and the draymen at the doorway and the
errand boy on his rounds and the mes
senger who brings the mail and the men
who open the store in the morning as
well as those who close it at night all
look as if they were satisfied and well
treated. No swallowing up of small
houses of merchandise by great houses,
no ruinous underselling until those in
the same line are bankrupt and then
the prices lifted, no unnecessary as
slgnment to defraud creditors, no over
drawing of accounts, no abscondings, no
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the manufacturer right in his dealings
with the wholesaler, and the wholesaler
with the retailer, and the retailer with
the customer.
Reforms in Politics.
The last corrupt judge of election was
buried fifty years ago, the preacher Off
ciating at the obsequies taking for his
text Proverbs X. Z, The name Of the
wicked shall rot or jeremiah xii, 49,
He shall be buried with the burial of an
ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the
gates Of Jerusalem. Our laws are good
and well executed. Men do not in our
century have to wade chin deep through
moral slush in order to gain office. The
word politics. which in your century, the
nineteenth, often stood for chicanery and
falsehood and billingsgate and moral tur-
pitude and filth, now stands for honor
and justice and truth and righteousness.
Such men as were in your congresses and
parliaments and reichstags pointed out
as exceptions of craftsmanship and pat
rlotism and public spiritedness and elo-
quence and moral power would not be
pointed out now for all our public men