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Jafora the almanmc was born, through astrological study, they knew from steller conjunotions all about ths seasons of the year, Belorsagriculture became an art they were skilled in the raising of erops. Bafors polities beoame a soclence thev knew the tamper of nations, and when- sver they marched, either for pleasure or war, they marched under a three colored flag—topaz, sardine and carbuncle, But the chief characteristic of that tribes of Issachar was thut they understood the times. They wore not like the political and moral incomnatants of our day, who are trying to guide 1893 by the theories of 1828. They looked at the divine indiea- tions in their own particular century. So we ought to understand the times, not the times when America was thirteen colonies, huddled togethar along the Atlantic coast, but the timas when the nation dips one hand in tha ocean on ona side the continent and the other hand in ths ocean on the other side the continent; times which put New York Narrows and the Golden Horn of the Pacific within one flash of slectric telegraphy: times when God is us dirsctly, as positivaly, as solemnly, as tremendously addressing us through the dally newspaper and the quick revolution of events as He aver addressed the ancients or addresses na through the Holy Scriptures. The volos of God in Providence is as important nas the voles of God in typology, for in our own day we have had our Sinais with thun- ders of tha Almighty, and Calvaries of sae- riflce, and Gethsemanes that swoat great drops of blood, and Olivets of ascension, and Mount Pisgahs of! farreaching vision. The Lord who rounded this worid #8000 vaars ago and sant His Son to redeam fit near 1500 years ago has vet much to do with this radiant but agonized planet, May God make us like the children of Issachar, “which were mon that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do.” he grave of this cantury will soon be dug. The cradles of another century will goon be rocked, There {s something mov- ing this way out of the sternitiss, some. It mil~ me, exhilaratea me, enraptures me. will wreaths the oranges blossoms for Hons of waddings., It will beat the for millions of obsaquise, guided banners of brightest the black flags of darkest midnights., The world will play the grand march of its heroes and sqund the rogues’ march of its cowards, Other vroossssions may halt or led by that leader moves steadily on and will soon be here, It will preside over ecoronations and dethronements. I hall it, I bless it, I walcome it, the twentieth cen. tury of the Christian era. What may we expect of {t we prapars for it, tions I propose now to disenss. As in fami. sanctity and kindliness and solamaity and care and hopsefulness, so ought we pravers fully, hopefully, industriously, confidently prapare for the advent of a new century. The ninetesnth century must not treat the twentieth century on its arrival as the sightesnth century treated the ninsteanth, Our century inharited the wresk of revoln. tions and the superstitions of ages. Around its eradie stood the armed assas- sins of Old World tyrannies; ‘the “reign of terror,” bequeathing its horrors; Robes. pierre, plotting his diabolism; the Jacobian club, with its wholesale massacre; the guillotine, chopping its baheadments., The ground quaking with the great guns of Marengo, Wagram and Badajos, All En rope in convulsion. Asia in somparative quiet, but the quistness of death, Alrioa in the clutches of the slave trade. Ameri ean savages in full ery, their scalping knives lifted. Theexhausted and poverty struck peoples of America sweating under tionary War had left them. Washington just gone into the long sleep at Mount Vernon, and the nation in bereavement; Aaron Burr, the champion Hbertine, becoming soon after the Vice-President, The Gov- arnment of the United States only an ex periment, most of the philosophers and statesmen and governments of the earth prophesying it wonld be a disgraceful fall. ure, No poor foundling laid at night on the cold steps of a mansion, to be pieked np in the morning, was soorer off than this eantury at its nativity, The United States Government had taken ogly twelve steps on its journey, its Constitution having been formed in 1730, and most ¢f the nations of the earth laughed at ouf Government in its first attempts to walk algns, The birthday of our ninetesnth century occurred in the time of war. Our small United States Navy, under Captain Trux- ton, commanding the frigate Constitution, was in collision with the French frigates La Vengeance and L'Insurgente, and the first infant cries of this century were drowned in the roar of naval battle, and peihient strife on this continent was the ottest, the parties reading each other with pantherine rage. The birthday pres. ent of this ninetesnth century was vitupern. tion, pubiie unrest, threat of national demolition, and horrors national and inter- national. I adjure you, let not the twen. tieth century be met in that awful way, but with all brightness of temporal and re. ligions prospects. First, let us put upon the cradle of the new century a new map of the world, The old map was black with too many barbar- Isms and red with too many slaughters and pale with too many sufferings. Let us see to it that on that map so far as possible our eountry from ocean to ocean fs a Christianized continent-gochools, colleges, churches and good homes In long line from ocean beach to ocean beach, On that map Caba must be free, Porto Bieo must be free. The archipelago of the Philip. ines must be free, St eruel Spain expects vy procrastination nnd intrigues to ger back what she has surrendere , then the warships lowa and Indiana and Brooklyn and Texas and Vesuvius and Oregon must be sent back to Southern waters or asross to the coast of Bpain to silence the lnsolence as decidedly as last summer they silenced the Cristobal Colon and Oquendo and Maria Teresa and Vizeaya, hen we got those islands thorotmuly under our pro- tectorats, for the first time our missionaries in China will be sale, The atroeities im- posed on those good men and women in the so-called Flowery Kingdom will never be resumed, for our gains will be too near Hong Hong to allow the massacre of mis. sion Jsitiemants, be n that map must put the jsthmisn canal, begun if not compisted. No loun «8 around Cape Horn for the world's yoy merchandise, but short and cheap scmmu- instead of ex iva nication by water communication by rail train, an millions will be added to our national wealth and the world's betterment than I have capacity to ealoulate, Bat made evident t to the world’s eivilizer and res from Hho pasicasl 1 one an ons of Asia en the other side facilites for the work that no oan Josssss, As y on of oN work. > present to the other continents this assore. mant of religicns and give them mnhin- dered choice, we have no doubt of thelr selecting this religion of meroy and kind- ness and good will and temporal and eter. nal rescue, Hear it! Amerion Is to take this world for God! On the map which wa will put on the eradle of the naw century we must have very soon a railroad brides across Baring Strait, those thirty-six miles of water, not deep, and they are spotted with islands capable of holding the plers of a great bridge. And what with America and Asia thus connected and Siberian rallway, and a rafirond now projected for the length of Africa, and Palestine and Persia and Indin and China and Burmah intersected with raiiroad tracks, all of which will be done before the new century is grown up, the way will be open to the qulek civilization and evangslization of the whole world, The work of this century has been to ge ready. All the earth is now free to the Gospel exceapt two little spots, one in Asia and one in Africa, while at the beginning of the century thera stood the Chinese wall and there flamed the fires and thers glit- tered the swords that forbade entrance to many islands and large reaches of contin ent. Bo:nesian erusities and Flji Islands cannibalism have given way, and all the gates of all the continents are swung open with a clang that has been a positive and glorious invitation for Christianity to en- ter. Telegraph, telephone and phonograph ara to be consecrated to Gospel dissemina- tion, and instead of the voles that gains the attention of a few hundred or a few thousand people within the church walls the telegraph will thrill the glad tidings and the telaphone will utter them to many millions, Oh, the infinite advantages that the twentieth century has over what the nineteenth cantury had at the starting! In preparation for this coming century we have time in the intervening years to give some decisive strokes at the seven or eight great evils that curse the world. It would be an assault and battery upon the coming csntury by this contury if we allowed the full biow of present evils to fall upon the future, We ought somehow to eripple or minify some of these abomina- tions, "WMlgoholism is to-day triumphant, and are we to let the all devouring monster that has throttled this century saize upon the next without first having filled his ae- cursed hide with stinging arrows enough to weaken and stagger him? We have wasted about twenty-five years, How so? While wo have besn waiting for the law of the land to prohibit intoxicants we have dons little to quench the thirst of appstite in the palate and tongue of 8 whole gen- | eration, Where are the public and enthu« siastic meatings that used to be held thirty years ago for the ons pursose of peraaad. ing the voung and middie aged and old that strong drink is polsonons and damn. ing? When will wa learn that we sdneate public opinion up to a prohibitory { law, or such a law will not be passed or if { passed will not be executed? Seven or #ight vears ago on the annl- ance Noociety In New York I deplorad the { fact that we had left polities to do that which moral suasion { said that occasion, “II some | i drunkard wandering along this street to. on Or brilliant assemblage and temperancs pledges, and scrap of tare.” I paper for the Inebriate’s found out audisnce, but only of. Do not leave to can be done now fa 10.000 meetings all over the country, reformatory grest the coming century with a tidal wavs of national redemption! tain of demi) jugs, and put to its infant lips wretohed. solution. briates, dope!” Aye, “ARM reform that army of ine. You say, "it eannot! be That shows that you will be o use in the work. “O ye of little faith Away back nearly times President Davies, of Princeton College, one day found a man in utter despair because of strong drink. The president said to him “Sir, be of good eheer. You can be saved Sign the pledge.” ing vietim, “I have often signed the pledze, jbat I have alwavs broken my pledge! “Bat,” said the president, will bho'd you np. it, come to my house, sit down with me in { san do for you with my books, my sym- pathy, my experience, my soclety, my love, appetite and master 1t.° glowed on the poor man's face, and he re. plied, “8ir, will you do ail that?” i will,” “Then I will overcome.” signed the pledge and kept it. That plan tried on a large scale, will sars a million men, banquet at Babylon, and, ‘hough he had night and all next day, the second night for the cup of Hercules the giant. a mon. ster onp, he filled and drained it twice to i show his endurance; but, as he finished the {inst draft from the cup of Hercules the giant, he dropped in a it, from which he never recovered. Alexander, who had eon- quersd Sardis and conquered Hallearnassus world, could not conquer himself and there is a threatening peril that this good land of ours, having conquered all with whom it has ever gons into battle, may yet be overthrown by the sup of the giant evil of the land that Hercules of infamy, strong drink. Do not let the staggering and bloated and embruted host of drunkards #0 irto the next century looking for insane asylums and almshouses and delitium tre. mens and dishonorad graves, It bas been a custom fn all Christian lands for people to keep watoh night as an old year goes out and a new year comes in, People assemble in churches about 10 o'clock of that last night of the old year, and they have prayers and songs and sermons and congratulations until the hands of the church clock almost reach the figure 12, and then all bow in silent prayer, and the scene is mightily impres- sive until the clock in the tower of the chursh or the eclook in the tower of the city ball strikes 12, and then all rise and sing with smiling face and jubilant voice the grand doxology, and there is a shaking of hands all around, But what a tremendous watoh night the world Is soon to eslebrate! This century will depart at 12 o'clock of the 31st of De. cember, of the year 1900. What a night that will be, whether starlight or moonlit or dark with tempest! It will be such a night as you and I never saw. Those who watched the coming In of the ninetesnth sentury long ago went to their pillows of dust, May we all be living on earth to see the Jolsmltios am join in the songs and i THE SALVATION ARMY. There Is No Discussion of Matters Af fecting Its Welfare, The world, as was to be expected, hag given the salvation army a very mixed reception, says the Contempo- rary Review, It has been satirized, ostracized, eulogized. High and low, learned and unlearned, have opposed or defended jt. Huxley girded at its “corybantic’ religion, and charged full tilt against its soclal wing; Bradlaugh waxed wroth over its “drums and tramplings;" while, on the other hand, Jowett of Oxford praised it in his own judicious way, and Farrar ig still the eloquent champion of much of its work, ‘“Bkeletons” have caricatured and persecuted it, the church of Eng- land has imitated it and royalty blessed jt. And yet, though all tongues wag concerning this new, ro- bustious thing under the sun, really discriminating views of the salvation army are by no means plentiful. With some truth it may be sald that our enemies batter us and our friends flat ter us. And the salvationists, looking through the glasses of our foes, hon- stly fail to see what see, and are sometimes almost as much bewildered the highly our friends. over spectacles of We lo ourselves, trua examine and have wery idea propositions, the strength and ness, the possibilities and dangers the army. What may be alled “public opinion” has no exist- us There Is no matters affecting the organization, such we find In other reli judge for and little of the salvation ence among open the as We cers’ discussion of welfare of of bodies have, indeed, 1 “of are calieq Ohi what councils” and “soldiers’ councils the title Is a misnomer meant is “officers and i " The salvation institution, ination the is deas and name of loyal we all 1 4 the appear have Keep silence concerning ing symptoms and This taelf ing LR may in it unfortunate in 5 const gravest j ynstitute erils RO OCCasion institutions army igh of p41 Carrie Religion and Hations in Kuapsack, Every German dies s a four- t} wiih the rest his personal equipment i ————— Beauty Is Blood Deep. 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