Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-01-07

course Or. 1aln3SG EeuS something
of what he expects the next hundred
years will achieve, and declares that
the outlook is most inspiring; text
II Samuel XIII. 4. "A morning without
Clouds"
What do you expect of this new
century," is the question often asked
of me. and many others have been
piled with the same inquiry. In the
realm of Invention l expect something
as startling as the telegraph and the
telephone and the v ray. In the
realm of poetry / expect as great poets
as Longfellow and Tennyson. In the
realm of medicine / expect the cure
of cancer and consumption. In the
realm of religion l expect more than
one Pentecost like that of 1851 when
100000 souls profesSed to have been
converted. l expect that universal
peace will reign, and that before the
arrival of the two thouSanuth year
gunpowder viii be out of use except
for blasting rocks Or pyrOtechnic en-
teraaiRment. expect that before this
new century has expired the millen-
MUM viii be fully inaugurated. The
twentieth century will be as much
an Improvement on the nineteenth
century as the nineteenth century was
an Improvement OH the eighteenth.
But the conventional length of SER
monic discourse will allow US only
time for one hopeful consideration. and
that viii be the redemption of the
cities
Pulpit and printing press for the most
part liz our day are busy in discussing
IL
but would it not be beautifully encour-
aging to all Christian workers and to
all who are toilinS to make the world
better if we should this morning for Il
little while, look forward to the time
when our cities shall be ravoluti0nized
by the gospel of the Son of God. and
all the darkness of sin and trouble and
crime and suffering shall be gone from
the sky. and it shall be "a morning
without cloudSg'
Every man has pride in the city OF
his nativity or residence if it be a city
distinguished for any dignity or PROV
eSS. Cesar boosted of his native Rome.
Virgil Of Mantua. Lycurgus of Sparta.
DemOStheneS of Athens. ArchinedeS of
Syracuse and Paul of TarSus | should
have suspicion of base heartednesS in a
man who had no especial interest in
the city of his birth or residence-no
exhilaration at the evidence of it's
prosperity. or its artistic embellish-
ments. or its scientific advancement
On the Way 40 Victory.
L have noticed that man never likes
city where he has not behaved well.
People who have & free ride in the
prison van never like the city that fur
Dishes the fehicle When find Argos
and Rhodes and Smyrna trying to
prove themselves the birthplace Of Eo-
mer. conclude right away thar Eo-
mer behaved well. He liked chem. and
they liked aim. We mast not war Old .
iauGIble city pride or with the idea Of
building ourselves up at any time to
try to pull others down Boston must
continue to point to its Eaueuil hall
and to- IT'S superior educational advan-
tages; Philadelphia must continue to
point to its Independence han, and IFS /
mint. and its Girard college; New York
must continIe to eXult in it's matchless
narbor. and it's vast population. and it's
institutions of mercy. and it's ever wild
eniEG commerce: Washington must
continue t. rejoice in the fat that it is
IL
If / should sind n man coming from
any city. having no pride i'll that city,
that city having been the place of his
nativity or ROW being the place of his
residence. / would feel like asking him
night away: What mean thing have
you been doing there: What OUTRAGEOUS
thing have you been guilty OF ,ha. you
do not like the place.
Every city is Influenced by tbs, char
acter OF the men who founded IL
Romulus impressed his life upon Rome.
The pilgrim fathers viii never relax
their grasp from New England VIII
liam Penn left a legacy of fair dealing
and Integrity TO Philadelphia, and you
can now. any day. on the streets of
THAI city. see his CUSTOMS his manners
his morals. his hat. bis wifr'S bonnet
and bis meeting house. So the Hof-
landerS. founding New York. left their
impression on all the following genera
lions. So this capital OF shp nation
is perpetual eulOgy upon the Wash
inGton who founded il.
] thank God for the PLACE of our
residence. and. while there are a thou
sand things that ought 20 be corrected
and many wrongs that ought to be
overthrewn. whiR | thank God for
the past. | look forward shiS morning
30 a glorious future. l think We ought
and / take for granted that you are
I'll Interested in this great work OF
rvangehzing the cities and saving the
world-we ought to toll with thu sun
light in eur faces We are not fighting
In a miserable Bull Run Of defeat We
are Oh the WAY TO final victory We
are not following the rider on the hlark
horse. leading, u> down 30 death and
darkness and doom. but the rider on