The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio . erican Citizensmust be trained in American Schools. Herein, more than multiplying ourindustrial agencies, lies the security of our future advancement, and thecharacter of the nation. All children, who aspire to the high privileges andduties of American citizenship must be required by American law to receivethe training of her public schools. But more important than all else is the question concerning our futuremoral and religions condition. In the presence of prevalent immoralities andinfidelity, some despair of the future. We
The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio . erican Citizensmust be trained in American Schools. Herein, more than multiplying ourindustrial agencies, lies the security of our future advancement, and thecharacter of the nation. All children, who aspire to the high privileges andduties of American citizenship must be required by American law to receivethe training of her public schools. But more important than all else is the question concerning our futuremoral and religions condition. In the presence of prevalent immoralities andinfidelity, some despair of the future. We to sympathise with thatsentiment. The signs of the times are altogether favorable. History hasno record of a day, when the moral and religious facts have been so gloriousas they are today, and when the signs have been so hopeful for the future. No one can wisely discuss this subject at the close of the nineteenthCentury, as it was generally discussed in former years. Every movementtnow in morals, as well as in mechanics, has a world wide significance. No. THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF HAMILTON, O. 135:. one lives to day where his father did, and no one thinks along the lines hisfather did. The stroke of a piston, a new thing in history, has broughtabout fraternity, and diffuse knowledge, liberty and religion over all theearth. The Englishman resides in India ; the American makes his home inChina; the Chinaman dwells in America; the German settles down inAfrica; and they all transplant new ideas in their new homes. Old wallsare broken down. Until this present century, there was little travel. Menlived in isolated communities. A river or a mountain secluded tribes andnations. A foreignor was a sight for a gaping crowd; a resident of the nexttown was unknown ; a stranger was not only suspected, he was an enemy. Under such conditions, a nation necessarily had one settled order ofthought; one marked, unchanged moral character for generations; one es-tablished religious dogma for cen
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