Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-09-26

TO nEnt. but also TO try 10 encoura &c
you by reminding you Of the great
agencies Of our time which are going
to help US In this coming years strHg-
gle
The glorious twentieth century Is
opening wide its doors to let the church
of the Lord Jesus Christ pass forth In
to Gods conflict, aided by scientific
| and social facilities that no other age
possessed, whereby each man can dou-
| BILE and treble and quadruple the
amount OF work which his GRANDPA
| ther or his great-grandfather was able
| to do. 1t is saying to us: Man, IL the
length Of your life Is to be estimated
able to accomplish l will let you live
longer than did Jacob, who died OF old
age at one hundred and forty-seyen, or
Isaac, who lived one hundred and eighty
years, or Abraham, who lived to be
one hundred and seventy-fve years.
or Noah, who lived to be nine hundred
and fifty years, or Methuselah, who
only lacked thirty-one years Of being
one thousand years old. will let you
live SO long that what your ancestors
accomplished in the course of their
| lives will seem to be as nothing to
what you shall be able to accomplish"
| The twentieth century speaks thus not
to one man. but to all.
Advantages of an Inventive Age.
This inventive age has literally dou-
bled and quadrupled and almost in
finitely multiplied the material pro-
ducing power of man. Think Of the
facilities of communication! Suppos-
ing l wish to plead the cause of Christ
with some friend clear across the
American continent. l sit down and
pen my appeal. In few minutes it is
in the postman's hands. A little later
it is in the mail wagon on its way to
the depot Soon 1t is in the mail car
going at lightning speed over the noun
tains and across the alkan deserts and
across the rivers until 1t Is dropped in
the eastern home. It has taken only
few days for that message to reach
its destination in the east, and in a
few days longer an answer comes back
to me that my appeal has been read,
and under Gods blessing it has been
made ecectual to the salvation of a.
soul. Think how many times such an
effort might be multiplied and how
largely the facilities Of communication
might be utilized for the spread Of the
gospel!
You must see that all these increased
advantages Of man can be made to
act and react nightly for good in the
coming campaign Of the church Of
Christ against sin. Matthew Simpson,
the great bishop Of the Methodist
church, once delivered lecture to
show how God ia preparing the way
for the glory Of his coming millennium
In the inventions and the social move
ments Of everyday life The other day
a book came into my hand entitled
THE Romance Of Invention" But no
romance Of inventions has ever been
written which can fully depict the
Christian romance of the uses to which
extension OF Christ's kingdom as Bish-
op Simpson explained them. One item
alone Of that lecture comes to my
mind. l speak 1t in my own language,
as / recall 1t from a blurred memory.
The Methodist orator wanted to show
how every modern facility was appro-
priated and used in the late civil war.
The sewing machine had Just been in
vented. 1t was employed to insure the
soldiers being properly clothed. The
steam engine was utilized to carry the
armies quickly to the scene Of conflict
so that the carnage might sooner end.
The modern improvements in arms
were adopted, and SO the terrible de-
struction Of life In single combats by
the old fashioned ak and spear was
avoided. And as man used modern in
ventions for carrying out his purposes,
80 might God use the terrible curse of
slavery itself for the benefit of the
colored race. The negro torn from his
African home and sold as slave
might be Christianized In the land Of
his bondage and return as a missionary
10 carry the ddings of the gospel to
MS people still on the banks of the
hongo. Can we not believe, as did
Matthew Simpson, that in the inyen-
writer. the telephone, the steamboat
the electric car, in the great foundries
and factories. in improved fire arms
and the wonderful printing press, CIV
Ing birth to newspaper and magazine
the church of the Lord Jesus Christ
can have an increased power spiritu-
ally for the spreading of the gospel of
Jesus in the coming years campaign
against sin?
Enemies From Within.
find the church Of toe Lord Jesus
splendidly equipped materially and
temporarily for this winters campaign
against sin. But. more than that. l find
that there never was a time when the
great evangelical churches were so
thoroughly in accord on the funda-
mental doctrines of Christianity. In the
pulpit and In the pew those doctrines
are held firmly. inteiligently and de-
voutiy, and Christ as the Saviour Of
the world has the whole souled ale