Show wt th the e nineteenth Uen century tury tb the nineteenth century though little more than half h alf run ran out will prove one toile of the most remarkable in the history of the world As distance growls many mandof of what are now n 0 W considered 10 it treat teat events shall like moun mountains afar off fade fado on the eye arid and at len ien lenth length th sink bink out of view tim evall the sword has carye carded ifie new revolutions will throw down t the e af pf existing eman es and ind some ta centuries hence the i horld orld will N ill lil retain no trace of are now playing paying the chief on its stage the menalio men who have immortalized themselves and add their times are who amid the din of machinery or in retreats remote from frum t rom i ne bustle of camps the intrigues of coul coults ts and the noisy combats of public assembles h ve studied the arts not rot ot of i war ar but of peace when the world has lost almost all of wel lington but his name james watt shall live in his inventions his genius shall continue through untold generations to subdue the soil soll bol BOI and triumph over the sea to 0 o employ the hands bands and fill the mouths of mil mii boils Loiis among many peculiar features of oto our urae avre agre one of the most remarkable remal kable kabie is the expansive and the comprehensive cha chaia chaid i act ct r of its benei olence our grandfathers or great ere ers though good people were content to live for far themselves their religion reli rell gion pion was as contemplative rather than active to live a holy life ilfe to rear rr a virtuous and pious family was the height of their ambition their sympathies were confined to a circle so narrow that they remind one of the story told of an honest countryman who N ho away from home attended worship in the church of the parish where he chanced to be the preacher was a great orator the audience were moved to tearsa not so the rustic lie he sat hard and stolid on the bench beneath bim him and replied when asked how bow he lie could possibly sit unmoved by yb such buch cb a nood hood of pathos ob you see I 1 a dont nt belong I 1 0 g to the parish in olden times what did not dot belon belong to the parish the neighborhood or the family t excited little interest with exceptions hardly worth mentioning ment fori ng the cherchi s of christ did nothing for the tho conversion of the er abroad or at homp how though there are now five vessels belonging to missionary societies sailing about their work in the pacific alone formerly no ships left london liverpool glasgow or any other port with missionaries among their passengers Sn gers gerb and bibles part pirt of their cargo foreign agn home city medical missions sabbath evening A apprentice greetice factory and ragged raed schools bible bibie bib e pact tract pastoral Past oraf aid and total abstinence societies these and many other such schemes are the growth and wid glory of our own age thus while science and the arts have made unparalleled progress since sirce heads now gray were black and grown men were boys the church has not lagged behind pressing forward on her higher career she has kept abreast of them in the race another remarkable feature of our era is the acknowledgment and practical application of the power of union of operation cooperation co as better than individual action secrate Se prate the atoms that form forim a hammer and in ia that state of m minute i it division they the would fall fail fallen on a stone stoie lith effect ln than snowflakes snow flakes weld them into one solid mass and swung round by the quarry mans brawny arm they descend on chii tie the tle rock like a thunderbolt standby stand by the falls of niagara and as the waters gathered from a hundred lakies lakes are rolling with the voice olce oice of a hundred dundred thunders over the rocky precipice fancy them divided int into otheir their individual atoms they might gem gein with sparkling 6 dewdrops dew drops vast tracts of field or forest in in c clouds lauds of gold and amber and purple 11 they ey might han ban hang 11 curtains around the gates of or day ilay but where were the onward overwhelm overwhelming ming poi pol er of the majestic majestia nood hood gone and gone the vaunt vaun t mith with ii ith which a new englander met the boast of a neapolitan during a brilliant e eruption r u t of vesuvius s in vius the poor italian h had ad deeo tilo the g glory noory of vesuvius if he be had nothing else eise asey to boast boadt of in his priest ridden country directing the attention of his companion to the he mountain moun MOUD tain as it shot up showers of fiery stones stories and mil I 1 licked ic ked the sky with ione lonz ion lon tons rues of fl rn me and poured streams of glowing lava laza down its rivea riven arn sides he exclaimed you have nothing like that chatin in your country 11 no said the othe with nasal twang but thrust quick and ab chirp rp as ra piers yet I 1 guessie gues swe have a bit of wa vi ater that would put it out in two minutes L jowas with the combined power of maiter matter tin so is is it with the combined power of men they them do in masses what they would not attempt oi 01 attempting could not achieve as individual units bravely and gallantly as our soldiers fouw foug fought oh t at waterloo I 1 doubt if there were twenty men merk on that field who would have stood up singly for seven long iong houis houts s to be shot at like targets yet massed in solid square and column how they stood from morning to sundown facing the foehand boea nd budging not a foot till night cj crowned own their brows with victory the wise man says that two are better than onea one and our lord himself illustrated the advantages of union when he sent forth his disciples two by two tivo seedtime seed time and harvest or pleas for L ragged schools bothom by thomas guthrie D D A lady residing 0 in chicago b who was recently on her way from that place to new york was robbed at michigan city of five thousand three hundred dollars in gold rold |