The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1901-01-08
NEW YEAR AT HIGH POINT.
Impressive Service at the II E. Church Prof
Crowell on The New Century"
Especial to the News and Obse

| Especial to the News and Obseryer1
! High Point. y. G., Jan. 5.-Impressi-e
services were held Monday night in the
| NJ E. church to commemorate the passing
of the old and the birth of the New Year
| The Closing Century was the subject
| Geo. H. Crowell spoke on The New Cen
| fury"
| Mr.. Crowell began with d very touching
| picture OF the experience OF one passing
through the suffering. death and burial
| of father or mother.
| Said he, "all the charitable deeds and
| loving hindnesses of the lost one rush
/ in on him. On the other hand all his
| disobediences, failures of appreciation and
| refusals Of their wise counsel haunt his
| memory. Though his heart be ever so
sober and stern the fountain of its great
! deep is broken up and pours forth tears
| III profusion. He realizes the bitterness
CT lost opportunity. Likewise in this
| solemn hour. the last hour of the century
when we recount the mighty struggles of
| the century, realize the expansion of our
| continent, the growth of the church, the
| progress of education, the power Of the
press, the studies of material develop
ment and think what mortal glory what
evolution of history; what max
ing of civilizations what lofty
sentiment in education; what love
| for the church: what broth
lost and what improved; We bow our heads
( as in the presence of God, tread lightly
| as on Holy grounds and turn faces
from these sacred scenes and peer in joy,
mingled with sadness upon the plains of
| widening modern thought and mans
| evolving future destiny
Here the speaker agreed that since
eulogies reciting their noble deeds, are
| delivered over the bodies Of great men
| when they die, much more fitting is it to
| speak of the dying century, the Ro-
| mans who clamored for Caesars blood,
| hearing Mark Antony's eulogy, arose, slew
the conspirators and then begged hair
of Caesar for memory, SO, we who have
! been robbed of many joy, many an op-
portunity many possibility, realizing
| the growth of the century in every field
of activity, should be aroused put off
| the old man. and carry a new life and
| loftier ambition, as a memento into the
| Goth Century.
Here the three following propositions
were discussed by the speaker: /. This
| is an age of accumulated energy in ma
| terial progress. 2. 1t is an age of ac
cumulated energy in the power of citizen
ship. 3. 1t is an age of accumulated
energy 10 the church.
Under the first head he said: In the
Goth century We shall fly through the
air, sail in submarine boats, utilize solar
heat il machinery, converse by wireless
telegraphy, preach by means of the phon
ograph and satiate our thirst and hunger
with the chemists pills. This last antici-
pated invention brought forth the poem
on the things to happen in the new CEN
tur-v.
Under the second head the point was
made that though the 10th century fur
nished abundant opportunity for manhood
and womanhood they will not be compared
with those ushered in by the goth.
"Mightier men than Napoleon, Yelling
ton Bismark, Washington, Gladstone,
Lincoln, Lee, Blaine, and Cleveland will
direct the forces of the empire
Mightier d:vines than Coke. Asbury,
Wesley Whitfield, Wightman, Marvin,
Moody, Sturgeon, Talmage and Morrison
will proclaim the glad tidings Of great
joy. Mightier inventors than Stephenson,
Whitney, Morse, Howe, Edison, McCor-
mick and Roentgen will read natures hid
den secrets in science. "Oh, the posi-
bilites of the youth" said he. There is
ancestry for you to pass your citizenship
in high places of the earth, lay down the
duties of your life at the capital Of your
nation and drive your chariot into the
Kingdom of God by way of the stars
The difference between a man sitting
| in high places and newer of wood and
| a drawer of water is a man expanding his
energies to meet times demand, and
contemplate parasite loafing the
streets. The one is conserving energy,
! the other is a waste of God given talent.
Under the third head was shown that
| the influence of Christ had swept along
| through the ages, divergent ever, like
| the headlight of an engine into the dark
| ness upon the mountain side, and now
breaks upon the dawn of the Goth century,
which will project the dealings of God
with the children of men upon the bat
| Elements of heaven.
The speaker then enumerated many
| things indicating that God would wind up
| the Christian dispensation with the next
| century. /. Nearly all the prophecy is full
| filled. 2. The Jews are gathering back
| into Palestine. 8. The Gospel may be
said is carried into all lands and preach
| ed in all tongues. 4. Japan has passed
| a law to observe the Sabbath. beginning
| with the new century. ). China turning
| from ancestral stagnation and cries:
| Come in 0. progress and than Great
Redenner." 6. The United States the
youngest child Of the Anglo Saxon is arbi-
| ter OF the nations and will say to the
powers in the goth century: down with
| the worship of Baal and wickedness and
Up with the Kingdom of God and righte-
BUSINESS.
Closing Mr.. CroWell referred to the fact
that something wonderful had transpircd
every 100 years, and most especially every
1900 years-that the Chronology interest
ing to the evening was: The creation,
1000 years and the flood; 1000 years more
and the birth of Christ; 1000 years more
and then-What? The ultimate triumph of
the church, because the spirit Of Christ
has never been overcome and the circum-
stances now are such as to assure a
speedy triumph