The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-17

Hamilton, Clay, Benton, Jackson and
host Of Americans were duelists.
cit is more humane world than It was
a century ago. Mems ears were cut of.
They were branded in the foreheads for
certain crimes The violently insane
were strung up by the thumbs and they
were fogged until they became insens1ole.
That was the way they were quieted. It
is more healthy age. Every fifth man
a hundred years ago was dishgured by
smallpox. The mortality in the most
sickly ward in New Orleans is not as
great as it was in the open country then
There are too many bad books and
vile newspapers now. hut II is better
than it was a hundred years ago. II
find the two popular novelists of a CEN
fury ago on the shelves Of minister's IL
brary 1 turn and take good look at the
minister to see what manner or man
he is No one would dare to read Byron
and some of his contemporaries as they
were written from this platform. Thank
God we are not compelled to have white
washed editions Of Whittier and Holmes
and Tennyson and Iongfellow and Thack-
cry and Dickens and George Eliot. The
popular poets and writers of romance of
our time are like white angels compared
with those of a hundred years ago.
1--WE are asking for the thank offerings
of our people to endow our colleges.
hundred years ago they endowed colleges
by lotteries. Harvard library building
was built by a lottery. Union college was
endowed by lottery. Good old ortho-
dox Princeton was endowed by lottery!
According to Justin McCarty, there is
far less profanity than there was hun
dred years ago.
''We have a great deal of the CONNER
cial integrity of the good old times, but
trade was never so honest before. The
statistics of 1890 show that of the money
that changed hands in commercial trans
actions only one thousandth part of one
per cent is lost by dishonesty. We often
hear that Christianity is losing its hold
on the heart and brain of the world.
Within six months the rules of four out
of five of Che mightiest nations on the
face Of the earth have kneeled at the
table of the Nazarene .as though I'M
worthy to take the crumbs that fall from
His table. There are more members Of
Evangelical churches in our state college
now than were in all the colleges Of the
United States a hundred years ago. 1
feel with England's great poet:
Out of the darkness of night the
world races into light 1t IS daybreak
everywhere
THE world Is not only better, but
richer world than it was hundred years
ago. More wealth has been piled up in
this century than in all the milleniums
before&it
"Of the twenty great inventions since
the dawn Of human HISTORY, thirteen be-
long tothe nineteenth century.
at is in view of the UNPARALLELED
mercies of our age that our bishops have
called upon the church to make thank
offering of twenty millions of dollars, and
to seek to win two millions of souls to
the Lord Jesus Christ. And the church
needs the spiritual quickening more than
she needs the gold. Both the revival and
the money are coming. Forty seminaries
and colleges report two million dollars.
Six hundred thousand dollars has been
subscribed for charities and two million
and half on church debts, making a
total Of s5,100,000, or more than a quarter
of the amount desired"