The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1901-06-28

are arrayeds against US, and the ~,
order Is. Overcome evil with lgoosa.
Huxsley said: "Clever men are ass
common as blackberries; but a good
man is hard to fnd.p Moral or
! spiritual power comes by association
with God. Jesus says, .Ye shall re-
ceiye power when the Holy Spirit is
come upon you" This is the true
secret Of moral power. To obtain this
! power and retain it, Is to be fitted for
T, life's highest service. How retain this
poweri A boy stands upon an insulated
stool, and is charged with electricity.
touch him anywhere and the spark
flies. If he steps from the stool, COM
ing in contact with the earth, the power
is gone. The Holy Spirit controls the
great battery of heaven; and standing
on the insulated platform. the word of
God, we become filed with the sacred
fire., and TO remain there, is to retain
the power. Thus we may be Strong in
God and the power of his might
think of power as force applied.
Water in stream or lake represents
force; but falling upon the great tur-
bines of Niagara, it becomes power.
Electricity diffused in the atmosphere
represents natural force, condensed
and applied through the motor it be.
comes power that has given to the
world new impetus. The Hely Spirit
is the omnipresent force Divine, but ap-
piled as we have seen, He becomes
power in living men.
Our age is calling for men of power.
/ congratulate you that you have lived
in the nineteenth century.in many re-
spects the most remarkable Of all the
centuries, The movements of this age
are remarkable. both upward and
downward. Upward in the advantages,
inventions, institutions and achieve.
ments. So we have made up our mind
that to live ten years in our century,
were better than to have lived the en-
tire ten centuries allotted to Methuselah.
Creation is the thought Of God ma
terialized. Invention is the thought Of
man materialized. The universe is the
thought of God in material form.
Me chanism is the thought of man in
material form. 1t was left to Trevithick
and Fulton to materialize their thought
into the steam engine. To Lomond
and Morse, the telegraph; to Wheat
stone and Bell the telephone; to Sir
Humphrey Davey and Edison the
electric light; and to Page the motor
All with one exception men of our
century. These inventions with the
printing press are some of the highways
along which the world is fastening in
/ its marvellous progress. Contrast this
If you please with other centuries. In
the matter of the transmission of in
| telligence there had been no advance
made during the entire history of the
world previous to our century. At no
time previous to the middle of the nine
teenth century could communication be
had with China in less than six months.
But if you should give me ten dollars
for missions in China today. l will have
placed it in the hands of the mis-
sionary Yesterday by telegraph. The
battle of New Orleans was fought
three weeks after the. declaration of
peace, because it required that length
of time to get the message from the seat
of government to the seat of war.
Adam, Abraham, Moses or Paul could
have sent message with as great dis
patch as could George Washington.
| Again in the art of illumination:
The smoky oil tallow lamp hanging in
the tent Of the Arab, four thousand
years ago gave as good light as the
tallow dip or oil lamp of our boyhood
days, or the pine knot by the light of
which Abraham Lincoln read law.
But now night is virtually turned
into day in every city and town by the
electric light.
l. In our upward march there is moth
| ing SO gratifying as the progress of
christianity. There have been more
profeSsed conversions to christianity
since the year 1900 than during the
entire eighteen centuries preceding,
by nearly two hundred fifty millions.
| At the beginning Of our century, the
whole number OF bibles in the world
was about four million copies. Since
1904 there have been published more
than three hundred million copies.
| In 1916 the cheapest bible cost two
dollars. Today it is the cheapest
book in the world. The entire bible
ia good print and binding can be
purchased in any market for twenty
five cents.
| The news journal is another marvel
of our century. AS you sit at the
breakfast table you take Ia your hand
the daily paper and in thirty minutes
you go forth feeling acquainted with
the whole world. These, with the
institutions educational, charitable
and reformatory, mark the progress OF
our century upward.