The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-08
End OF this CENTURY
REV. WILLIAM C. POPE SAYS 1T IS
80 DECEMBER 81
NEXT
GL0RIES OF THE NINETEENTH
Rector of the Church of the Good
Shepherd Says 1t Has Seen, Like
the Sixteenth, a Great Awakening
Spiritually, as Well as Great
Progress MaterialIy-The Promise
of the Future.

Rev. w. c. Pope preached yesterday
morning at the Church of the Good Shop
herd, taking his text from Deuteronomy,
Consider the Years Of Many Genera
tons" He said in part:
''The first century began with the year
1 and ended with the year 100 The pres
ent century began with the year 1901 and
will end with the 1900. A review of the
century which has reached it's last year
seems to be the order Of the day.
Mankind from earliest times have
been divided into two classes. In review
ing the century. it will be in accord with
Scriptural precedents IL l touch on the
scientific and social world, as well as on
the religious. The children of grace
cheerfully acknowledge their need Of
nature. 1t would be as we'll if represen-
tatives Of nature as readily felt their
need of grace.
1.-The application of steam and cleo
tricity to machinery belongs to the pres
ent century. Imagine the multitudes of
people that would be relegated to idle
ness If these appliances were annihilated.
Many would die In their birth place, never
having gone more than a few miles away
from It, and their mental horizon would
be correspondingly limited. Domestic and
foreign commerce, as now understood.
would cease to exist, but people general,
ly would eat the products of their own
country and wear homespun garments.
1t is not so long ago that candles were
used, instead of electricity for illurnin-
ating purposes.
"a corresponding advance in social con
ditions is observable. The old aristo-
cratic idea was that the great mass of
mankind are made for the benefit Of a,
few people of wealth. In the beginning
of the century. women, harnessed as
beasts of burden craWled in and out Of
the mines drawing coal cars. Today
man Is recognized as worthy of respect
because he is man. Labor is not fight
ing single-hanGed. Scholars, philan-
thropists, employers, the church, unite to
dignity 1t and ameliorate its conditions.
I'VE now turn to the religious world.
The nineteenth century, as the sixteenth,
has been a century of intellectual and
spiritual awakening. The century in
herited from the last the influence of
VClteire and Wesley. In France they had
no reformation, but instead revolution.
England was affected by the French in
fidelity, and in America, Jefferson and
Franklin, though the first was a member
of the church, and the latter approved Of
it. Yet they were both tinctured with
French ideas. Wesley's life nearly filed
out the whole of the last century, and
was a blessed legacy to the present.
Though the future is full of hopeful
ness, we are not on that account to give
up the struggle and the fight. Every
peace and happiness the Christian world
possesses has been gained by martyrs
When they have suffered and been vic
torious these who opposed and prosecuted
them are willing benefciaries of the new
and better state of affairs. Let no one
lay the soothing JUNCTION to his soul thai
the devil is dead. Every increased degree
of spirituality attained opens up a form
of temptation.
'"rhe future is bursting with peace and
happiness. honor and glory, to come
through the struggles, and battles, and
sufferings, of the saints. because the
Lord God omnipotent reigneth."