i THE CENTRE DEMOCR “THE DYI NG + CE NTURY. It Has Brought ¢ to Light Many Great Things. Kits Work, However, Is Not Complete—The Struggle Between Capital and Labor Ought to be Settled by the Gospel of Kindness. Dr. Talmage's most recent sermon at the national eapital was full of inter. est and is of international fmport- ance. His text was lI Kings 20: 1: “Thus saith the Lord: Set thine house fn order; for thou shalt die, and not live." No alarm bell do I ring in the utter- ance of this text, for in the healthy glow of your countenances I find cause only for cheerful brophecy; but I shall ply the text as spoken in the ear of Hezekiah, down with a bad carbuncle, to the nineteenth century, now closing. It will take only four more long breaths, each year a breath, and the century will expire. My theme is “The Dying Century.” 1 discuss it at an hour when our national legislature is about to assemble, some of the mems- bers now here present, and others soon to arrive from the north, south, east’ and west. All the publi¢ conveyances coming this way will bring important additions of public men, so that when on December 7, at high noon, the gav- els of senate and house of representa- tives shall lift and fall, the destinies of this nation, and through it the des- tinies of all nations struggling to be free, will be put on solemn and tre- meudous trial. Amid such intensify Sag circumstances I stand by the ven- erable century, and address it in the words of my text: “Thus saith the Jord: Bet thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.’ Bternity is too big a subject for us to erstand. Some one has said it is a great clock, that says “Tick” in one century and ‘‘Tack” in another But we can better understand Old Time, and they are grandchil- Wit we si who has the dren, the many children, centuries, and they dying nineteen this morning have a piain e of the and many the h century talk are Years lel him som to adjust before he and passes to | We generally wait until people are dead before ’ " them : very palhelic and eloquent with th that before what WArID Cars « e living We curse Charles while he is living, and cudgel into spinal meningitis, and wait until, in the rooms where I have been living the last year, he puts his hand on his heart and cries “Oh! and is gone, and then we make a long procession in his honor, Dr. Sunder- land, chaplain of the American senate accompanying; stopping long enough to allow the dead senator to lie in state in Independence hall, Philadel and halting at Boston state house where not long before damnatory res. solutions had been passed in regard to him, and then move on, amid the toll ing bells and the boom of minute guns until we bury him at Mount Auburn and cuver him with flowers five feet deep. What a pity he could not have been awake at his own funeral, to hear the gratitude of the nation! What a pity that one green i not have been taken from each one of the mort uary garlands and put upoa his table while he was yet alive at the ton! What a pity that out of the great choirs who chanted one little girl, dressed yhia, leaf coul Arling at his Qbsequies in white, mught aot have sung to his living ear a com plimentary solo! The posé-mertem ex- pression contradicted the ante-mortem, The nation eould not have spoken the truth both times about Charles Sumser. Was it before or after h decease it lied? No such injustice shall be inflicted upon this venerable nine teenth century Before he goes we re- cite in his hearing some of the good things he has accomplished What an addition to the world's inte gence he has made! Look at the old schoo house with the snow sifting through the roof and the fiithy tin cup haoging over the waterpail in the corner, and the little victims on the long benches without backs, and the illiterate schoolmaster with his hickory gad, snd then look at our modern { free schools, under men and women enltured and refined to the highest ex- cellence, so that, whereas in our child- we had to be whipped to go to iildren now ery they sannot go. Thank you, venerable cen tury, while at the same time we thank God ¥ hat an addition to the world's fnvenlions Within our palaces hood school, ec} when century the cotton gin The agricultural machines for plant ing, reaping and threshing Ihe tele graph. The phonograph, capable of from gener typewriter, preserving a human voice sation to generation. The that rescues the world from worse and worse penmanship. And stenography, eapturing from the lips of the awiflest speaker more than 200 words a minute Nover was [ 80 amazed at the facilities of our time as when, a few days ago, I telegraphed from Washington to New York a long and elaborate manuscript, sad as fow minutes after, to show ita scouracy, it was read to me through the long distance telephone, and it was exaot, down to the last semicolon and comma. What hath God wrought! Oh! I sm so glad that I was not born sosner., kor the tallow candle the sleotrie light. For the writhings of the surgeon's table God-given “nes theties, and the whole physicll organ- fam explored by sharpest instcument, and giving not so much pain as the taking of a splinter from under a child's finger nail. From the lumber. ing stage coach to the limited express train And there is the spectroscope of Praunhofer, by which our modern solentist feels the pulse of other worlds Mhsovbing with light. Jenner's arrest by In of one of the world's worst plagues. Doctor Kesley's oman+ eipation for inebriety. Intimation that the virus of maddened canine, and —————— ee dkacer, and consumption are yet to be balked by magnificent medical treat ment, The eyesight of the doctor sharp- ened till he ean look through thick flesh amd find the hiding place of the bullet. What advancement in geology, or the catechism of the mountains; ehemiatry, or the catechism of the elements; astronomy, or the catechism {of the stars; electrology, or the cates chism of the lightnings. What ad- rancement in music. At the beginning of this century, confining itself, so far as the great masses of the people were concerned, to a few airs drawn out on accordion or massacred on church bass viol; now enchantingly dropping from thousands of flagers in Handel's Con- {certo in B flat, or Guilmant's Sonata in D minor, The money power,so much denounced and often justly eriticised, has covered this continent with universities, ana (ree libraries, and asylums of mercy. The newspaper press, which at the be- ginning of the century was an ink-roll- er, by the hand moved over one sheet bf paper at a time, has become the mi- raculous manufacturer of four or five or six hundred thousand sheets for one dally newspaper's issue. Within your memory, O dying eeniury! has been the genesis of nearly all the great in- stitutions evangelistic. At Lohdon Tavern, March 7, 1802, British and Foreign Bible Society was born. In 1516 American Bible Society was born. In 1824 American Sunday-schoal Union was born. In 1810 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, which has put its saving hand on every nation of the round earth, was born at & haystack in Massachusetts. The National Temperance Society, the Wo- men's Temperance Society, and all the other temperance movements born in this century. Afriea, hidden to other centuries, by exploration in this een tury has been put at the feet of civili- zation, to be occupied by ecommerce and Christianity. Glorious ald century! You shall not be entombed until we have, face to face, extolled vou You were rocked in a rough cradle, and the eritance you received was for the most par poverty, and struggle, and hardship and poor covered vs of r \T. BELLEFONTE, PA THURSLAY, DECEMBER 10, 1 806, | the halls, and theaters, and streets and | elds, and slums, and wildernesses of iin and sorrow, Why do Christians who have stuffed themselves with “The strong meat of the word" and gospel viands of Sabbath forenoons want to tome up to a second service and stuff shemselves again? These old gorman- dizers at the gospel feast need to get lito outdoor work with the outdoor gospel that was preached on the banks of the Jordan, and the fishing smacks of lake Galilee, and in the bleak air of Assyrian mountains on Let the Christian souls, bountifully fed in the morning, go forth in the af- «rnoon and evening to feed the multi- tudes of outsiders starving for the bread of which if a man eat he shall never again hunger. Among those tlear down the gospel would make nore rapid conquest than among those who know so much and have so much that God eannot teach or help them. In those lower depths splendid fellows n the rough, like the shoe-black that ¢ reporter saw near New York City aall. He asked a boy to black his boots. I'he boy came up to his work provok- ingly slow, and had just begun when a large boy shoved him aside and began the work, and the reporter reproved iim as being a bully, and the boy re- plied: “Oh, that's all right. Iam go- Ing todo it for "im. You see he's been tick in the hospital more'n a month; iw us boys turn in and give im a ift.” “Do all the boys help him?" asced the reporter. “Yes, sir; when they ain't got no job themselves, and Jim gets one, they turn in and help im, for yet, you see.” ‘How much percentage does ho give "" said the reporter. The boy re- { “1 don't none of it I ain't no such as that. All the boys give up what they git on his job. he ain't strong fou? lied: keep sneak Yd like to catch any feller sneaking on s sick boy, I would." The reporter gave him a 25-cent piece, and said You keep ten cents for yourself, and give the rest to Jim." ‘Can't do it, sir; it's his customer. flere, Jim." Such big » s as that trew a ] wer depths of the es, Al 4 1 © ried to God Often Fail | --Some titioner’s, A nat k: some dis a1 AL he n fast developi ‘ 1 1 ha ron to he fan } { { i { 18s) 4 i a st | t1 1 i of “s 1 she alwa hie : { 1 the " ! ‘ Lh} i ( L« { it » L int H 10 ] | : 1 | i ! t ‘ n 4 . " ¢ | ¢ ] 3 af Y havat ‘ y } J 4 ’ J { ‘ ( J { i $ of wv, 1 Fr \! It { ! \ THE CAUSE EXPLAINED. Why So Many Regular Physicians - T0 CURE FEMALE COMPLANTS. — = Hardly One Woman in a Thousand is Can- did Even to Her Own Family Physician Reasons Why Mrs. Success is Greater Than a Regular Prac- LEGAL NOTICE Sy virtue ois w virtue ofa weit of ¥i Fa the Cou { Com Io i ed. there will be ¢ ed 1} i. ATURDAY, DI ’ | ) " ! to 4 re ‘ J i of i Bote of 1 : ' te of 1 : : ' ’ | { I eof § y g Lhe | i y i foe thie { the Ane { 3} furt! L PN | ¥ 1 8 I ea : i past 4 fe x ] t t ye ~ f) it Pinkham’s m : N | A ! * pe too K f ¥ add i er nes. H f 1a aad take . " | iy : } 4 ; ; “rr ) ~ the 1 had | Bellet RPAH 8 (0 - J | ) nn f . " : , { f “ | nm “1 ale p : > “ ¢ cost a national hemorrhage of four aw- ful years and a million precious lives Yes, dear old century, you had an aw- ful start, and you have done more than well, considering your parentage and your early environment It isa won- ler you did not turn out to be the vag- abond century of ail tis You had a bad mother and a bad grandmother But my text Suggests that there are some things that this centu ry ought to do before he leaves “Thus saith the Lord, set thine house im order; for thou shalt die, and not live.” We ought not to let this century go before two or three things are set For one thing, this quarrel between labor and capital Fhe nineteenth century inherited it from the eighteenth cen- tury, but do not let this nineteenth century bequeath it to the twentieth “What we want,” says labor, “to set ight is more strikes and more vig: orous work with and dynamite says capital, "is a the working eclasses npuision to take what wages we choose Lo pay, their needa” ne us in order, as r terch 2 “What tighter grip on snd e we want” without reference to Both judgment quarrel, if you British, Russian, or Ameri Both wrong as sin the { day of f +} cement of ne efiant DO sel ieave it WO ‘ah 1 tics i religion of Jesus Christ ought to come in within the next four years a take the hand of capital and em e and say You have tried every 5 gE elise ar failed; now try the RO} Mf kind He NO more opr pre n and » more strikes I'he Fos f Jesus ¢ rs A sweeten t fs Acer tw § n to the ‘ of the that burn th wo | pw fracxkie in the ears of wrathful ; perity and indignant : while their hands are still clateh ing at each other's throats. Belore this century sighs its last breath 1 would that swarthy labor and easy opulence would come up and let the carpenter of Nazareth join their hands in pledge of everlasting kindness and peace When men and women are dy- ing they are apt to divide among their and another a children memontos, one is given a and ane another a robe, it dies, with an shall last forever, family keepsake, the golden which nearly nineteen hun- dred years ago was handed down from the black rock of the Mount of Heatl “Therefore all things whatso- that men should do to do ye even so to them; for this is watch, amd vase other a picture, and lot this veteran century, before hand over to the human race, impressiveness that that oid keepsake tudes ever ve would you the law and the prophejs’ Another thing that needs to be set in order before the veteran contury quits us is a more thorough and all-embrao- ing plan for the world's gardenization We have been trying to save the world from the top, and it eannot be done that way. It has got to be saved from the bottom. The church ought to be sly a West Point to drill soldiers for outside battle. What if a military academy should keep its students from age to age in the messroom and the varracks? No, no! They are wanted at Montezuma, and Chapultepee, aud South Mountaie, and Missionary Ridge, and the church is no place for a Christian to stay very long. He is wanted at she front. He is needed in the desperate charge of taking the parapets. The last great battle for God is not to be fought on the eam. pus of & college or the lawn of a church. It Is to be fought at Mis. Ridge. Before this century quits let us establish the habit of pri ing the forenoon of the Sabbath to the churches and the afternoon and even- ing of the Sabbath to gospel work in n unattended from Monticello, only a {ew steps from ou stand, dis nt { n his horse and hitch the bridie to a post, and on yonder hill lake the 1tial office capitol ablaze with war's I saw the puff of the first ath of the preside: { saw meendiarism. yonder engine in America. | heard the thun- der of Waterloo, ef Sebastopol, and Sedan, and Gettysburg. 1 was present st all the coronations of the kings and jueens, and emperors and empresses in the world's palaces. 1 have seen two billows roll across this conti nent and from ocean to ocean; a bil- ow of royal joy in 1857, and a» Bil blood in 1864 1 have seen four generations of the human race march scross this world and disappear. [saw their cradles rocked and their graves lug. 1 bave heard the wedding bells and the death knellsof near a hundre« vears. | have my hands for millions of Joys and wrung them in mil agonies aow ow of clapped ions of “1 have seen more moral and spir tories than all put together. For all you who hear or this wvaledictory I have kindled sil the domestic firesides by which you ver sat, and the halloos and roundelays and merriments you have ever heard, and all the banners of ritual rie of my predecessors ead roused all unrolled ctured sunsets and starry midnight heavens that you have ever gazed at, ere I go, take this admonition and benediction of a dying the 2 1d sentury. The longest life, lfke mine nust ciose Opportunities gone never some back, as I could prove from sigh 100 years of observation The eternity that wil soon take me will soon take you I'he wicked live not yut half their days, as | have seen n 10,000 instances: The only inflos ence for making the world happy is an influence that I, the Nineteenth inherited from the first con tury of the Christian era—the Christ of sll the eonturies. Be not deceived by the fact that | have lived so long, for as century is a large wheel, that turns + hundred smaller wheels, which are the years; and each one of those years hurns smaller wheels, which are the days; and each one of the 265 days urns 24 smaller wheels, which are the hours; and each one of those 24 hours turns 60 smaller wheels, which sre the minutes; and those 60 minutes turn smaller wheels, which arc the see nds. And all of this vast machinery Is in perpetual motion, and pushes us on and on toward the great cternity whose doors will, at 12 o'clock of the winter night between the year 1900 and the year 1001 open before me the dying santury. ventury, 365 “1 quote from the three inseriptions wer the three doors of the eathedral of Milan Over door, amid a wreath of sculptured roses, I read: “All that which pleases us is but for a moment’ Over another door, around a sculptured cross, I read: “All that which troubles us is but for a moment.” But over the central door I read: “That only is important which is eter- eal.” O Eternity! Eternity! Eternity! My hearers, as the nineteenth cen- tury was born while the face of this aaiion was yet wet with tears because of the fatal horseback ride that Wash. mgton took, out here at Mt Vernon, through a December snow storm. wish the next century might be born st a time when the face of this nation shall be wet with the tears of the lit rral or spiritual ‘arrival of the great Deliverer of Nations, of whom St. John wrote with spoonlyptic pent “And I mw, and behold n white horse; and He shat 2at on him had a bow; and a trown was given unto Him; and He one | went forth conquering and to con. ner,” ’ n 1 ’ " ’ 4 Fe oy? } () ’ f « ry of " f we Wu 1 ' " } 4 P g { 4 + I! . r tho and of tl Ave In ' rm except ¥ N 5 TNO § : a 14 by Mra, Pink e ha eve 5 ad > ' Qa r Lhe ast year is e of the A W r A Or } 8 Vi { grand re ts are } ‘ f she does not ta a A Age Of A { » . vi her ed experi ear training this generous of fer of as A 0F Age i : ! 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