The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio . Syrian vSchool, or an African vStation, as in his own native state. Reci-procity is the great underlying fact of the world today, and the coming cen-tury will experience the larger unfolding of the forces, industrial and socialwhich have now appeared. No person weighing the significense of the facts detailed in these his-torical and estimating the potency of the coming allegorical pro-cession on the morrow, can doubt whether the .sun is rising or .-etting uponour world. Every year is decking itself with greater glory; every


The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio . Syrian vSchool, or an African vStation, as in his own native state. Reci-procity is the great underlying fact of the world today, and the coming cen-tury will experience the larger unfolding of the forces, industrial and socialwhich have now appeared. No person weighing the significense of the facts detailed in these his-torical and estimating the potency of the coming allegorical pro-cession on the morrow, can doubt whether the .sun is rising or .-etting uponour world. Every year is decking itself with greater glory; every year isilluminating the continents with new visions of hope ; every year is realizingnew experiences of freedom, and justice and fraternity. A profound of current events recently deceased, seeing the clear evidences ofhuman advancement, and the great strides of progress crowding on withrapid footsteps, was accustomed to .say, that he would like to live a hundredyears longer, that he might participate in the glories of the grand WW tk ) I --I - ^^^HLXX- ^HH=:Jbi; tmmmem ^l: THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OP HAMILTON, O. 12/ It is not altogether Strange, however, that there should be prophets of€vil among us. They have detected the dark spots on the face of the sun,and with microscopic vision they persist in confirming their view to themblind to the larger fact of the warmth and light of the glorious aje dangers ahead of us, which we do clearly forsee. There is bitterinequality of social condition ; there are grinding despotisms, there are evilsand abuses perpetuated by evil and strong hands. Inventions multiply,science implores, art is cultivated, the means of comfort increased, philan-thropy extends a well-filled hand elemasanary institutions open wide doors,religion ofiers a comforting hope ; but with it all, want remains, muscles andbrains are taxed to their utmost for daily bread, temptation lurks in a thous-and places, spaci


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