Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-01-09

something of what he expects the
next hundred years will achieve, and
declares that the outlook is most in
spring; text, III Samuel, 23:4: "A
orning without Clouds
What do you expect from 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 | expect some
thing as startling as the telegraph and
the telephone and the Y 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. | expect more
than one Pentacost like that of 1857,
when 100000 souls professed to have
been converted. ! expect that uni
versal peace will reign. and that be-
fore the two thousandth year gun
powder will be out of use, except for
blasting rocks or pyrotechnic enter
tainment. / expect that before this
new century has expired the millen-
mum will be fully inaugurated. The
twentieth century will be as much an
| Improvement over the nineteenth CEN
fury as the ninteenth century was an
improvement over the eighteenth.
But the conventional length of SER
monte discourse will allow us only
time for one hopeful consideration,
md that will be the redemption of
the cities
Pulpit and printing press for the
most part in our day are busy in dis
| hD Of h. off ut
this time, but would il not be health
fully encouraging to all Christian
workers and to all who are toiling to
make the world better if we should
this morning for a little while look
forward TO the time when our cities
shall be revoutionized by the Gospel
of the Son of God and all the darkness
of sin and trouble and crime and suf-
fering shall be gone from the sky. and
it shall be "a morning without
clouds ."
Every man has pride in the city Of
his nativity or residence, If it be a
city distinguished for any dignity or
prowess. Caesar boosted of his native
Rome. Virgil of Mantua, Lycurgus of
Sparta, Demosthenes of Athens. Ar
chmedes of Syracuse and Paul of Tar
sus. / should have suspicion of base
heartedness in n man who had no
especial interest in the city of his
birth or residence-no eXhilaration at
the evidence of its prosperity or it's
artistic embellishments or its scien-
titic advancement.
! have noticed that a man never
likes city where he has not behaved
well. People who have n free ride in
the prison van,never like the city that
furnishes the vehicle. When | find
Argos and Rhodes and Smyrna irving
10 prove themselves the birthplace of
Homer. | conclude right away that
Homer behaved well. He liked them.
and they liked him. We must not war
on iaudible 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 Faneuil
hall and 10 it's superior educational
advantages. Philadelphia must con-
tinue TO point 10 its independence
hall and its mint and its Girard col
lege. New York must continue to ex-
ult in its matchless harbor and it's
vast population and its institutions of
mercy and its ever widening com
merce. Washington must continue to
rejoice in the fact that il is the most
beautiful city under the sun.
If ] should find a man coming from
any city having no pride in that city.
that city having been the place of his
nativity or now being the place Of his
residence. would feel like asking him
right away: What mean thing have
|
rageous thing have you been guilty
OF that YOU do not IKE the place."
Every city is Influenced by the char
acter of the men who founded it.
Romuius impressed his life upon
Rome. The pilgrim fathers will never
relax their grasp from New England.
William Penn left q legacy of fair
dealing and integrity to Philadelpbia.
and you can now any day. ON the
streets Of that city. see his customs.
bis manners. his morals. his hat his
wfe's bonnet and his meeting bouee
So the Hoilanders. founding New
York. left their Impression ON all the
following generations So this ram
Iia' of the nation is perpetual eu-
logy upon ,4r Washington who found
cd &C.
thank God for The place OF
our residence. and while there are q
thousand things that ought.to be- cor.
Tecied and many wrongs that ought
TO be otorthrown. while ] thank COS
for the past, J look forward this
morning to glorious future think
$50 ougnt-aud ] take IT, for granted
you arc a' interested iu This great
work Of evangeiizing che cities and
saving The world-Ne ought to toll
WITH The sunlight in our faces. We
are not fighting I'm miserable Bu,I
/ Rup Of defeat We arc ON the way TO
in"f victory We are not following
The rider on the black horse. leading
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