The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-02-03


+ international. adiure you. let not the
/ twentieth century be met In that awful
way. but with all brightness of tempo
rai and religious prospects.
First. letus put upon The cradle Of the
now century a new map OF the world.
The Old map wa, black with too many
F barbarisms and red with too many
slaughters and pale with TOO many suf-
/ fcrirgs. Let Us see 20 it that on that
map SO far as possible. our country
from ocean TO ocean is Chrisianized
contineut-schools. colleges. churches
and good homes in long line from ocean
beach TO ocean beach. On that map
Cuba must Oc free. Porto REQ must
be free The archipelago of The Phil
/ ippines must be- free. II cruel Spain
expects by procrasiination and intrigue
to get back what she has surrendered,
then the warships Iowa and Indiana
and Brooklyn and Texas and Ncsiyius
and Oregon must he sent back TO
southern waters or across 20 Che coast
of Spain 20 silence the ins0lcncc. as Ce-
cideGly as last summer they silenced
the Cristobal Colon and Oquendo and
Maria Teresa and Vizcaya When we
get those islands thoroughly under our
protcciorate, for the first time our mis-
s'onaries in China will De safe. The
atrocities imposed on those good men
and women ir the so-called Flowery
Kingdom viii never De resumed. for our
guns viii be too near Hong-Korg 10 al
low the massacre of missionary settle
ments.
On that map must be put the isthmian
canal. begun ifnot completed. NO long
voyages around Cape Horn for the
worlds merchandise. but short and
cheap communication by water instead
Of expensive communication by rail
train. and more millions viii be added
to our national wealth and The worlds
betterment than have capacity 10 cal
culate.
On the map vhich'we Will put on the
cradle on the new century we must
have very soon a railroad bridge across
Rcnng strait. those 36 miles Of water
not deep. and they are spotted with
islands capable of holding the piers Of
a great bridge. And what with Amer
ica and Asia thus connected and ST.
berian railway. and a railroad now
projected for the length Of Africa. and
Palestine and Persia and India and
China and Burma intersected with rail
read tracks. an of which viii be done
before the new century is grown up,
the way Will be open TO the quick civ
ililation and ovangelization Of the
whole world The old map we used 10
study I'm our boyish days is dusty and
on the top shelf or amid the rubbish Of
the rarret. and so viii the present map
Of the world. however gilded and beau
tifully bound. be treated. and an en-
tirely new map will be put into the
infantilc hand Of the coming century.
The work Of this century has been
TO get ready. All the earth is now free
to the Gospel except two little spots,
one in Asia and one in Africa, while at
the beginning of tie century there
stood the Chinese wall and there famed
the fires and there glittercd the swords
that forbade entrance TO many islands
and large reaches Of continent BOr-
nesian cruelties and FIJI island canhi-
baism have given way and all the
gates Of the continents are swung open
with q clang that has been q positive
and glorious invitation for Christian
ity to enter. Telegraph, telephone and
phouograph are to be consccrated TO
Gospel dissemination, and, instead Of
the voice that gains the attention Of
a few hundred OF few thousand peo-
pie within the church walls, the tele-
graph will thrill the glad tidings and
the telephone will utter them 10 many
millions. Oh the infinite advantage
that the twentieth century has over
what The nineteenth century had at the
starting.
In pre paration Tor this coming cen
tury we have time in the intervening
years 10 give some decisive strokes at
the seven OF eight great evils that curse
the world. Ii would be an assault and
battery upon the coming century by
this century if we allowed the full blow
OF present evils to fall upon The future.
We ought somehow 10 cripple or minIfy
some of these abominatiOns. Alco-
holism is to-day triumphant. and are we
TO let the an-devouring monster that
has throttied this century seize upon
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accursed hide with stuging arrows
enough 10 weaken and staggcr him?
We have wasted about IS years. Low
so? While we have been waiting for
the law Of the land TO prohibit iutoxl-
cauts we have done little to quench
the thirst of appetite IN the palate and
tongue of whole generation. Where
are the public and enthusiastic meet
ings that used TO be held 30 years ago
for the one purpose of persuadiug the
young and middle aged and old that
strong drink is poisonous and damn
ing? When viii we learn that we must
educate public opinion up TO a prohib-
itory law OF such a law viii not be
passed or If passed VIII not be exc
cuted? God grant that ali state and
national legislatures may build up
an impossible wall. shutting ont the
alcoholic abomination. But while we
wait for that let MS. in our homes. IN Oui
schools and our churches and on our
platforms and in our newspapers per
suade the people TO stop taking alco-