The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-09-10
HUNDRED YEARS HEycF

4 HUNDRED YEARS HEyCF.
This life of ours is fnll of -ave.,..
We rise in the morning, we 90 10 haJ i.
night. we toll and toll. sIepn ans y at
and then we die The Present - 7,
ours, the Past a dream. the Frfnr- -, IS
unfathomable. On the Drink of m. .,'.
stands Man, eating his way ly rpor,,r,..
plodding unconscious of the waste v..ti1'
;n-the wear aud tear OF that evoui.s.-
machine, the human budv. pro,,5 y.
the intellectual and physical acIis,-
Inents OF the past, glorious In the cr-
sciOus sense Of strength ia the-uras,,'.
boastful Of the infinite power which 49,,
has given him, vet oft fOrrp.fp1 ,r ~
source from whence it SPRUNG A.
lives his little span, grubbing. delvi,--
spinning, toi.inC, like the amt Is,..---,
ant, less withal. and grateful. 49,
stands in his matchlcss symmetry s-5
strength, pecring through the G0IlH--
light of reason into the uufatEr,-.lr.
abyss of space, putting a Cirdle r.,,.1
about the earth and digging deeu fl.
its b0wels-thinking dreaming rrIr.-.-
cursiHg-he knows not what q mon.
may bring forth, on when iu the T...-..
of an AL wise Providence. his r,..
lamp shall cease to shine Ola earth
Man for the future can but r.....
from the past. In q hundred vaar. r-
has seen OF heard of many ch9ur,s ....
/ the wondrous. globe he calls his hu,..
Great souls have come and gone. rrga.
sOuls viii come again. IutcUrrt n.s
quickeued the means of laear.rts.....
. lesscned the Adanite curse of t.-f .-'
tellcct viii do so still ; 50 be raa..-.
and so his logic rests upon the rr.t'
/ One hundred years ago the world trs...r,
/ ed in numbering coaches. sailed The So,
/ in slow-gOing ships. To dav ID. f..-.
I horse goes tearing through the land ar4
/ steamers bridge the widest oceans
. Months have changed 20 weeks. -rf
3 weeks 30 hours. One hundred yr.-s
ago the traveller between New York .r4
the Illinois Wilds would have made r.r,
! his mind 60 q three weeks trim fr rr.
! herring wagons and sleepy ferries r-H
/ uncomfortable stages Ia The year If
/ grace lSSo two days and one night. mass
ed in ease and comfort viii see him --fr
I At his journeys end. When his lrgfa.-
I Iy's troops sailed from ihc shores .+
+ England 20 give the cOloni-tsa a lesson
they were Fortunate If three weeks trsz.
ing on the hTOa2 Atlantic brpuHI. Then,
within sight of Newfoundland. TO-
day an eight day passage is a matter of
course.
Without multiplying illustrations. f
is not in the least degree unnatural that
the man Of the hour, peerinE into tf.
mists of dim futurity, should see iu f,s
dark and UniathOEabie depJh still great
er strides toward the goal which his i'm
agination pictures as the Ultima Tl4E
I OF inventive perfection. Electricity has
added its spark to creative immortal
ity. What may not electricity bring
/ forth What motors ill the womb 0f
pregnant Time DO we behold iu the
fragile air ship of to-day the engine that
is TO watt orr pOsteTity with Unth0uglt
of speed from continent to continent :
Are the worlds 10 draw together ere lie
end and men to stride the air and Guide
their baTques through space Shall
tunnels bridge the-seas. and steam go
down before a higher force who
knows what Is to be Already v'f--
. ferings fiji the air with wouler1us me-
ters the busy brains of men are 10
work. Across the sea in fifty hours
SO reads the latest tale life boat
raised 10y gas and sailed by steam.
i hundred years hence Who tina.
Is born to-day shall live to see &c and
. what il he does live. shall he Sp--a
daily balloon TO London. an afternoon
/ trip to Florida : VIII the docks. now
echOinE 10 the hiss of steam. be filed Dos
stTange, uneaTthly shapes. with wing.
and fans, and gaudy bags of gas VII
freight-traiDs. drawn by nOiseless mower
pass swiftly meath the sea. and parcels
dart like lightning round the world
Stranger things than these have hap
I pened within hundred wears. and some
may live TO see still greater wonders
/ and yet we cannot change the face of
! Nature. Man is the same TO-DAY as he
: was hundred years aE0-mgre restless.
|, nervous and ambitious but unchanged
in feeling passion, thought. lie was
/ made in the image and likeness oj Dbl,
Maker, and, however be may GarkeI
and Obliterate that image, Sd shall DE
1 remain and the sea shall change not
neither the dry land-at least to out,
ward and unlettered sense-and the
heavens shall tell the glory of God until
the inevitable hour when all create
I things shall pass away like "a scroll. and
the soul OF man have learned the truth
I OF veal or woe In the never ending
mansions Of eternity.