Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-03-02
The Hey is the Twentieth Century

great satisfaction last night.
The chairman in introducing
him said, "Our expectations to-
night are very high, but | am
confident that you will not only
rise to these expectations hut
that you will so far exceed
them that there will be a sur
plus of satisfaction to apply or
any other entertainment that
might be deemed as falling be-
low the recommendations of the
lecture bureau"
DR.. Green delighted the aud
fence as we'll as instructed
them. In the opening of his
lecture he spoke of the freedom
of action which all felt and the
unprecedented and "extem-
peraneous living" of every one,
and yet when the history came
to be written and the whole
chapter of any period was
shown, after the loose ends and
threads were cut off, behold
there was a pattern distinct and
plain for God was back of all
and history was under his con-
troll.
Having made this clear, the
lecturer advanced to speak of
the feeling of observant minds
that with the close of the nine
teenth century an epoch had
ended and with the opening of
the twentieth a new era had
begun. This was plain, first
from the prophecies, and sec
ond from the events. Then he
went on to show that the key
to the situation providence had
placed in the hands of the peo-
pie of the United States. This
was the country of the greatest
inventions. Leaving out the
Invention of printing and the
use of gunpowder, which We're
earlier, he dwelt awhile on all
the surprises of modern in
ventiveness that created that
spirit of modern expectation
that nothing surprised any
longer.
"Imagine the establishment
If your honest grandmother if
she could have been told that
by standing before a wooden
box and holding something like
! vinegar bottle to her ear
she could at Boston talk with
friends in Omaha, your grand
father, if he thought you in
earnest, would put his arm in
yours and lead you to an insane
asylum" The lecturer had
alked to his wife across a
dame of light" 700 feet apart,
md sane professors now spoke
If the possibilities of wireless
Biography, that travellers
could carry in their satchels a
little box in scientific harmony
with a similar box held hum
lreds of miles away, and at a
given moment converse with
each other without any inter
ference from from eavesdrop-
pers. Lieutenant Peary, in his
Efforts to find the north pole
5his year, hoped to utilize Wire
less telegraphy in keeping up
communications with home and
friends.
The immensely of the United
States was dwelt upon as help
ing to understand our limitless
resources for our great work of
coming years. Iowa was big
enough to hold and give a liv-
ing to all the population of the
United States and Texas could
give to every man, woman and
child in the world a lot so by
$50 feet to live upon, or five
lots to any family of five per-
sons. (Your readers will recall
what the lecturer said about
families of five. He was in full
sympathy with the strenuous"
Individual in the White House
on that matter.) The wealth
at the command of the people
of the United States was seen
to be IMMENSE hundred
billions. These words are
Choctaw to most of us"
He illustrated this by saying
that one billion Of minutes had
hardly passed by since Christ
was born, and for one hundred
billions Of money he suggested
that anybody who had it might
take ten-dollar gold pieces and
pile them up ten feet high and
on both sides of you, and that
avenue would be 1913 miles long,
One of the most impressive
passages of the lecture was