The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-01-26


lip Of a soloist. but mighty harmonies
that roll from outside door 10 chan
eel and from floor to grained rafter
rs though Handel had come out Of
the eighteenth century into the twen-
ty-frst and had his foot on the organ
pedal, and Thomas Hastings had come
out Of the early part Of the ninoir nth
century into the twenty-frst and were
leading the voices Music that moves
the earth and makes Heaven listen.
But ! say TO our tvcnty-frst cen
turv escort: 81 cannot understand
This. Have these worshipers no sor-
rows. or have they forgotten their sor-
rows?" Our escort responds: "Sor-
rowsl Why. they had sorrows more
than you could count, but by a divine
Illumination that the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries never enjoyed
they understand the uses Of sorrow
ard are comforted with a supernatural
coincidence such as previous centuries
never experienced"
ask again Of the interpreter: "IIas
death been banislcd from the world?"
The answer is: NO, but people die
now only when the physical machine
~ is worn out. and they realize it is
time TO 60 and that they are certain
ly and without doubt going into
world where they will be infinitely bet
ter off and are 10 live i'm q mansion
that awaits their immediate occu-
pancy." "But how was all this ef-
fectcd?" 1 ask our escort. Answer:
by floods of Gospel power. You who
lived I'm the nineteenth century never
saw q revival of religion 10 be COM
pared with what occurred in the lat
ter part of the twentieth and the early
part Of the twenty-frst century The
prophecy has been fulfilled that "A
nation shall be born in a day'-that is,
ten or twenty or forty million people
converted in % hours. In our church
history we read of the great awak-
ening of 1857, when 100000 souls were
saved But that was only a drop OF
the coming showers that since then
took into the kingdom of God every
thing between the Atlantic and the
Pacific, between the Pyrences and the
Himalayas." The evils that good peo-
pie were in the nineteenth century
trying TO destroy have been overcome
by celestial forces. What human
weaponry failed to accomplish has
been done by omnipotent thunder
bolts.
As You and ! see In this terrestrial
visitation Of the coming centuries that
the church has under God accomplished
so much. we ask our escort. the spirit Of
the twcuty-frst century, TO show US the
different kinds of churches. So we are
taken in and out Of the churches Of diff
ferent denominations. and we find that
they arc just as different in the twenty
first century as they were different in
the nineteenth when we worshiped IN
them. There is unity in them as 10 the
great essentials Of salvation. But we
enter the Baptist church. and it is bap-
tismal day, and we see the candidates
for membership immersed. And we 60
into a Presbyterian church and see a
group of parents around the baptismal
font holding up their children for the
And we enter the Episco-
pal church and hear the solemn roll OF
her liturgics. and her ministers are
gowned and surpIced. And we enter
the Lutheran church. and we hear In the
sermon preached the doctrines of the
greatest Of German reformers. And we
20 into the Methodist church just in
time 10 sit down at love feast and give
audible "Amen" when the service stirs
us. At least 80 kinds of churches in the
twenty-frst century, as there were $50
different kinds Of churches in the nine
teenth century.
"But what is yonder row of buildings,
majestic for Architectural The spirit |
Of the twenty-frst century says;
''Those are our legislative halls and /
places Of public trust. and if you would |
ike it 7 will show YOU the political cir
cles. the modes Of preferment, the styles /
Of election. the character Of public men |
In this century" Thank YOU re-
ply. 81 can easily understand how Cos
pelization would improve individual life |
md social life ana commercial life, but /
| would Ike to SEQ what it can do for /
political life" "Let me tell YOU" says /
he spirit Of the twenty-frst century, /
that have read about political Chi |
rauery and corruption Of more than 100 +
years ago-the nineteenth century, in /
which you lived here-but the low po-
.itioal caucus has gone from the face OF /
he earth. and the stuffed ballot box, /
md the bribery by money and by prom
Ise Of Office, and the jobs got through
and congresses by lobby /
sts. We have nothing like a Credit Mo-
5ilier scandal, or those harbor and river
appropriations. the most of which never /
improved the harbors or rivers, or
speeches to kin time and prevent ayote,
,r promotion TO high place of political /
accidents, and the only bosses We have
low boss because they have more brain
md purity than those who are bossed.
The money barrel to buy votes and to
lecde who shall be elected did not roll /
nto this century. All those in high Of
ice In township. state and nation are
men superior for intelligence and sa-
7acity and moral equipment and fitness
Tor the posts they occupy. All intrigue
md Machiavelism and temporization
lrc gone.
THE last corrupt judge of election