The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-15

HtLlalayaS. Inc eNiiS tnat boou Peo
ple we're in the nineteenth century try
ing to destroy have been overcome by
celestial forces. What human weapon
ry failed to accomplish, has been done
by omnipotent thunderbolts.
The good work was helped on by
the fact that II became general habit
among millionaires and multi-million-
aires to provide churches and schools
and institutions of mercy, not to be
built after the testators were dead, but
so that they might be present at the
laying of the cornerstone, and at the
dedication, and leave less inducement
for the heirs at law to prove In
orphans court that when the testators
made their last will and testament
they were crazy. The Geographic wires
in the air, and the cables under the
sea, thrill with Christian invitation
Photographs charged with gospel SER
mons stand in every neighborhood'
The 100000. 900 of the worlds in
habitants in that century are 5,OOO,-
5000 disciples.
But" say to our escort, the spirit
of the twenty-first century, you have
shown us much; but what about IN
ternationaI conditions? When we lived
on earth it was a century that bled
with Marengo, and Challons, and Lodi
Bridge, and Lucknow and Solfertno,
and Leipsic, and Waterloo, and San
Juan" Our escort replies: Come
with me to this building of white mar
bic ana gathering dome" AS we pass
up and on we are taken into room
where the mightest and best repre-
sentatives of all nations are assembled
to settle international controversies.
AS we enter l hear the presiding officer
opening the council Of arbitration.
reading the second chapter of Isaiah:
They shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into
pruning hooks; nation shall not lift
up sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more" Questions
which in our long-past nineteenth
century caused quarrel and bloodshed,
as when Germany and France were de-
Gliding about Alsace and Lorraine, as
when the United States and Spain were
| deciding about Cuba-such questions
in this twenty first century settled in
fve minutes, one drop Of ink doing
more than once could have been ac-
complished by river of blood.
And now you and I have left our
escort as we ascend, for the law OF
gravitation has no power to detain
ascending spirits. Up through i'm
mensities, and by stellar and lunar and
solar splendors, which cannot be de-
scribed by mortal tongue, we rise
higher and higher, till we reach the
shining gate as it opens for our re-
turn, 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 sum- Prophetic, apostolic,
sanity inquiry. And standing on the
steps of the house with many man
sions, we cry aloud the news: Hear
it, all We glorfied Christian workers
OF all the past centuries. We found
your work on earth was successful.
whether on earth you toiled with knit
ting needle, or rung a trowel on ris-
ing wall or smote a shoe last, or en-
| dowed university, or swayed a scep-
ter; whether on earth you gave a cup
OF cold water in the name of dis
c1ple, or at some pentecost preached
1000 souls into the kingdom. In that
world we have just visited the deserts
are all abloom, and the wildernesses
are bright with fountains. Sin is ex-
tirpated. Crime is reformed. Disease
is cured. The race is emancipated.
The earth is full of the knowledge Of
| God, as the waters cover the sea-
The redeemed of the Lord have come
TO Zion with songs and everlasting joy
upon their heads The Lord God
Omnipotent reigneth, and the king
doms of the world have become the
kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ
Let the harpers of heaven strike the
| glad tidings from the strings of their
harps, and the trumpeters put them
in the mouth of their trumpets, and
the orchestras roll them into the grand
march of the eternities, and all the
cathedral towers of the great capital
of the universe chime them all over
heaven"
And now look up and see the cast
ing down of the bejeweled and radiant
crowns at the sacred feet of the en-
throned Jesus. Missionary Carey is
casting down before those feet the
crown of India saved. Missionary judi
son is casting down the crown of Bur-
nah saved. Missionary Abeel cast
ing down the crown of China
saved. David Livingstone cast
ing down at those feet the crown of
Africa saved. Missionary Brainerd
casting down the crown of this coun-
try's aborigines saved. Souls that went
up from all the denominations in
America in holy rivalry, vneking which
could soonest cast down the crown OF
this continent at the Saviors feet, and
America saved.
But often you and l who were COM