Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-01-09


We are all telling it, each in his own
way--some by voice, some by pen, some
by artists pencil, some by harp and
some by song; mother telling II to
child, teacher telling it TO Sabbath
class, reformer telling it to outcast,
preacher telling it to assemhlage. The
story of the Lovelest of Heaven coming
down to this SCARED and blasted island
of a world. He was ordered back from
its shores and struck through with
lances of human hate as soon as he
landed Shepherds dog baying on the
hills that Christmas night was better
treated than this rescuer of race, yet
keeping right on, brambles on brow.
feet on spikes, fagellated with whips
that had Jumps of lead fastened to
them, through midnight without lap
terms, through storms without shell
ter, through years that got blacker I'M
til they ended in MONDAY with the
sun blotted out. Mightiest tale ever
told, and keep on telling it until the
last sorrow is assuaged and the last
animosity is quenched and the last des-
ert is white with the lily and golden
with the cowslip and blue with the
gentian and crimson with the rose.
My text, in referring TO the years, re-
minds me that in IL hours this year will
forever have gone away. Ninety-nine
out of the hundred years of this century
will have disappeared. We have only
one year of the century left. There
ought TO be something especially sug-
gestive in the last year of century.
1t ought to be year of unparalleled in
dustries, of unheard of conservation.
Not a person in any of our audiences
this day can remember the first year
of this century. Not a person in any OF
our audiences to-day will ever again see
the last year of century.
Through medical science the worlds
longevity may be greatly improved in
the future, as it has been in the past.
but it would not be well for people to
live too long. Some of them would,
through their skill at acquisitiveness,
gather too much, and some multi
milionaires would become bllonaires
and trillonaires, and some one would
after awhile pocket hemisphere. No.
| Death is useful in its financial limita-
tions. and then all have enough sorrows
and annoyances and sufferngs by the
time they become nonagenarians OF
centenarians to make it desirable tc
quit Besides that, it would not be fail
so long to keep so many good old peo
! Il 80 ic
ranged that those who stand by the
deathbed of the nineteenth century
will not be called to stand by the death
bed of the twentieth century.
Oh, crowd this last year with prayers
with hosannas. with kind words, witt
helpfulness. Make the peroration O
the century the climax Of Chrstlikt
deeds. Close up the ranks of God ant
during this remaining 10 months
charge nightly against the host o
Abaddon. Have no reserve corps. lie
swiftest gospel cavalry gallop, ant
heaviest moral artillery roll, an'
mightiest evangeIistic batteries thun
der on the scene. Let ministers of tn
Gospel quit all controversy with eacl
other. and in solid phalanx march on
for the worlds dfsinthrallment. lie
printing presses, secular and religious
make combined movement to instruc
and emancipate the world. On all tn
hills let there be Elijah, praying for l"
great rain" and on every conteste
field Joshuas to see that final victory
gained before the sun goes down. an
every mountain become transfigura
ton and every Galilee o walking plac
for the worlds disenthralment lie
us be Jealous of every month, Of ever
week, of every day that passes withou
something significant and gloriou
) wrought for God and this sin curse
, world. Let our churches be thronge
, with devout assemblages. Let tn
chorals be more like grand marche
than requiems. Let this coming yea
;, see the last wound of Transyaal an
Philippine conflict. and the earth quak
with the grounding arms of the las
regiment ever to be marshaled. and tn
furnaces of the foundries blaze with tn
fires that shall turn the last swords int
plowshares.
And may all those whose lives sha
go out in this last year of century,
many will, meet in the Heavenly worl
;, those who in the morning and noonda
.. of this 100 years toiled and suffere
: for the worlds salvation, to tell the
how much has been accomplished fe
. the glory of Him whose march throug
y the last 10 centuries and through a
- the coming centuries the Scripture
J, describe AS going forth ''conquerir
;. aud to conquer" Oh, the contrast b
= tween that uplifted spectacle of etc
- nal triumph in the presence of God an
>, the Lamb and these earthly scene
where ''we spend our years as ia
y that is foldt"