The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio . d the republic is destroyed I frel at this momentmore anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before in the midst ofthe war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless. Such were the words of the patriot and seer. The rapid accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few and theequally rapid pauperization of the many by ill advised legislation may invitea conflict between capital and labor. When the fact is stated that 30,000 persons are worth more than 60,000-000 we can account for the fear and trembling of the sainted pa
The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio . d the republic is destroyed I frel at this momentmore anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before in the midst ofthe war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless. Such were the words of the patriot and seer. The rapid accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few and theequally rapid pauperization of the many by ill advised legislation may invitea conflict between capital and labor. When the fact is stated that 30,000 persons are worth more than 60,000-000 we can account for the fear and trembling of the sainted patriot. Weunite our petition with his that this threatened cup of sorrow m .y pass fromus. If this nation the favorite child of Providence shall be called again towade through a sea of blood, and pass through Gethsemanees agony, wehave a christian faith, that it will not only .suruive but take a higher positionamong the nations of the earth. Ours shall be the Mesiah of nations lead-ing them all up to greater heights of national glory, where humanity shall. REV. EDWARD W. ABBEY. THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF HAMILTON, O. 123 build her homes, science her temple, justice her shriners and religion^ofrighteousness her altars. The fifteen minutes allowed me are more than exhausted, and the eventsof the world in the last century remain unenumerated because every day^ofthe one hundred years has been freighted with them. THE FUTUJ^E. BY REV. E. W. ABBEY. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen : WHO could have stood one hundred years ago, at the newly located forton the banks of the Miami, and have predicted the present city ofHamilton, with its 20,000 population, its steaming factories, its busy stores,its comfortable homes, its prosperous schools and churches? Who, then,could have prophesied the Ohio that now is; and the galaxy of forty fourUnited States, the most prosperous and mightiest nation on the globe ?Who, then, could have dreamed of the present industrial and social andmoral condit
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