The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-05-30
AMERICA IN THE YEAR 1900.

~ OS'ooCI, 100, JOIlil
Adams, writing to a friend, records
inc remarkable prcdiction-rcmarka,
be the whole letter must be called, as
proceeding from man no, quite
.wenty-that "our people, according
10 the exactcst computations, will in
another century become more numer.
Gus than England itself" Fifty wears
from 'bis--tho time is assigned-thc
prediction will be realized. Fifty
years from this, the city of New York
VIII contain population of two mil
lions of souls. A hundred millions OF
people will occupy the soil of our ex.
tended territory. Remote deserts I'm.
known to us in the solitudcs of the
West will be smiling under the cul.
tuTe of happy freemen. Focks of
sheep and herds Of cattle will snppIant
the elk and buffalo. Natural obsta.
Giles to intercourse will he removed,
the Rocky mountains will be tunnel.
ed. and the two oceans will meet to.
gether. The banks of our rivers and
the shores of our lakes will shine with
opulent cities; commerce will whten
our waters, agriculture cover n con.
tlnent with wheat and corn. and places
now unknown to civilized man will
rcsound with all the hum and stir of
busy life. The school house and the
church, those engines and hopes Of
fIecmcn, will be reared fast as the
forest drops before the march of en-.
:crprise. The churches which we
are now planting on our frontier will
then be strong and able to reproduce
and return the benefits they have re.
ceivcd, farther and farther onward,
and the missionary labors commenced
in this generation. in the heart of
Paganism, will develop we know not
what results.
Our thoughts run forward to meet
the men who shall stand in our pul pits
to preach the Gospel of Christ on the
first Sabbath Of The next century,
We W ;lcomc them ere yet they may
be born, to the unspeakable privilege
ofliving in such an epoch of time.
We who write and read, now in adult
life, will take no part on the earth in
the worship OF that day. Our chill.
drcn now in the bud and promise OF
life, will be in our places with heads
sIvcred with the honors of age. On
the morning of that Sabbath the
familiar hymns which we now sing
in our homes and sanctuaries will be
begun in the crowded cities of our
sea board. repeated by millions OF
religious people in towns and cities
through our extended interior, rolled
onward with the progress Of the hours
farther and farther to the West, TILL
with setting Of the sun. they die away
amid the soft murmurs Of the Pacific,
The islands of the sea will catch the
strain, and rs morning breaks again or
the orient, there will be multitudes If
India to re. echo the praise and roll i
onward again round the world. The
day Of universal jubilee will surely
come. Every year bears the worlt
nearer to its promised Sabbath. Gen
crations pass from the earth, but time
does not stop. Man and the world
he inhabits are subject to change, bu
the word of the Lord cndureth for
i. ever. The ROCKS nay be worn ava!
bv the entertainments Of the sea; the
mountains levelled by the attrition o
ages, the stars may lose their light ane
the sun his glory, but the promise o
God standeth sure and ever changeles
on its immovablc foundations. "Ht
shall come down like rain upon thu
mown grass: in His days shall thu
righteous flourish, and abundance o
peace so long as the moon endureth
He shall have dominion from sea Il
sea, and from the rivers unto the end
of the earth. His name shall endure
forever:--His name shall be. contin
ued SD long as the sun. and all nation
shall be blessed in Him. Blessed b.
the Lord God, the God Israel, VIII
only doeth wondrous things. and tles
sed be his glorious name forever, ant
let the whole earth be filled with hi
glory. Amen and Amen" Rey. w
Adams, d. d.
A SERPENT CnARMER.--Dr. J. V
Smith. of Boston, writing from Thebes
(Egypt,) under recent date. 10 the
Boston Medical & Surgical Jour. says
regular Egyptian serpent. charm
or waited upon us. on our return from
the tombs of Bruce and Belzoni. and
inquired for the hakeem, or doctors
whom he understood was in the
company. On presenting myself, he
said he was himself a 'hakeem.' shook
hands, and muttcred to himself a
while. squatted down to a kind OF eel
pot shaped basket, and opening the
cover, thrust in his hand. and drew
out snake resembling an adder. about
,ord in lenpfh. the head Of which he