The Portland daily press., 1876-04-27

helps to vision, to drag down the social secrets
OF numerous worlds, and convey the knowl-
edge of our own among those fiery beds of
nighted flame. Printing with her increasing
velocity shall keep pace and vastly more with
the swelling outpour of population, both of
the land and world, and dash off from their
pressure her worded sheets, till she hurls them
in hours as now in months she casts them.
With gifts and faculties to mold and tune the
language in ways and to force never granted
by all the past, conferred upon her children,
Poetry, that Spirit of Song. who has been since
Eden's garden,-and drenche6, as she has new
er yet been, with all the nature of her God
Will ply her wings and vibrate her plumes solely
tor the OBJECT OF sacred virtues progress The
millions changed at once in purpose, where the
thousands once were taken, NAV come perhaps
from the dark and heated desert to the city of
grand Religions orient reigning, bold blssful
fertile captlves now to Immanuefs inspiration,
VINO were ert and late the barren serfs of Abad-
1ons nideons empire. Altar exhortation, yea,
the public proclaiming of our Savior's healing
lore, Shall rest safely and with vigor in the
voices of myriads of the beautiful, where now
men only give 1t clarion: and these in wondrous
numbers will survey with pressure's trial the
attesting leaps of life and deity read il in re-
motely seated homes, where it surges swim
ming red with the soul-fanes' destinies The
return again of the time centennial shall find
this total commitment unbroken whole and one,
nations and the distinctions called races forever
AoooAocu away upOu lIS UOSOm. tn6 same us
Language, identical its laws, and selisame
us presiding ruler chosen to regulate in its 'front.'
The knowledge of earths retired secret cold
and stately poles, where she balances herself up
on herself as on pivot, and where northern and
southern jourDeying to advance farther must
mount the skies, shall be thrown open
as familiar as the purlieuS of our own
swelling cities. Various methods may be
sought and found to ameliorate the harsh froze
climates of these demesnes, and numerous
ma ha falya tn e.
soil-breasts of their torpid sites: so that Bloom
ing IN az her charms may spring throned amid
those chill frosty langors, and Nature in her
terrain ends may produce as around her Line.
Having mastered the above luminous produc.
ton, the reader will be prepared for the second.
entitled
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
By the time for the setting in of the next
century, now only twenty-four years in the
distance. l suppose that monarchies will be
either entirely gone or so far decayed as to be
wholly or mostly dependent on the elective
franchise. The Man of Sin, designated the
Roman Catholic Church will have vanished
completely and overly from the globe, driven
away like fog-bank around the isle of New.
fen1dland by the increasing vigor and pathos
OF Protestant laundering: crushed down dead
slaughtered and slain by the heavy fatal blows
OF woman's soft prayers and the bravery of her
appeal in mild and sacred pleadings. By th at
time there will have been nearly If not quite
complete closure of the wounds opened by the
Rebellion and its War and not unlikely
some considerable Roadway will have
been made toward the putting out of
races by the blending through intermarrage
OF the whites reds and yellows into one people,
At any rate no doubt by that time large nor
ton of the native Indians will have become
legal citizens, aud hold in their hands the office
and the vote. shoul not be supprized if by
the termination of the twentieth century the
various languages had been nearly broken
down and mingled quite round the earth: nor
90 reckon it at all vain to hope that the ma
lions may have so seen eye to eye as to repose
in large measure under common government
A few years of the now brings forth the
amount OF change wrought by centuries in the
Olden time; and as the human mind goes on to
gain new force in the future, alterations will
become still more rapid.