The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-08-23

Sequard is probably a thousand years in
advance of the times. but who knows.
Nothing seems more impossible than the
theory than life under certain conditions,
under any conditions in fact, can be indeii-
nitely continued, but who knows? If it
can be proven, as has been asserted time
and time again, that man may so suspend
animation, or in effect, annul the LAW of
nature as to remain at will in a comatose
state, (eyen if buried under the earth) for
a number of consecutive months, to resume
later the normal condition Of living. why
should he not live on and live ever ?
1t don't seem sense, it does seem the YER
lest nonsense to suppose that the organism
of flesh aud fibre can by any possibility be
made eternal in this life. and yet who
knows?
Who knew a quarter of a century ago.
no longer back than the breaking ont of
the late civil war, that in less than gem
Grafton men would talk to each other aud
IDLY, over tree top and hill, miles and miles
apart, and be recognized by their voice?
Who would have thought it possible at one
time that almost instantaneous communi-
cation could be had from Europe to Amer
lea by wire cable extending across the
bed Of the ocean, and that tie world even
would be girdled by just such medium of
intercourse.
fary
months ago, that an instrument would De
invented to reproduce the exact sound,
tone. voice and all that, of an individual,
years after it had been stored away
gineering would have made possible the
feat of tunnelng mountain seven miles
through, with the workmen engaged on
opposite sides meeting exactly in the cen
ire? That a Brook Ign bridge, and an
Eiffel tower, the fifth of a mile high, should
become possibility? Who would have be-
lieved even that so simple an operation as
riding astride single wheel (bcycle) would
become an ordinary spectacle on the trav-
elled road? Aud yet these are only few
of the many wonderful inventions with
which our age is now SO prolific.
The spirit Of prophecy is upon us and we
predict that not many years hence men will
travel from Boston to New Orleans in less
time than is now required in making the
distance from Woodstown to Woodbury..
That carbon will be stored and carried from
house to house, just as water and gas are
now, and that the coming dwelling will
have no chimney or smoke fiue. That
electricity will be put to unheard of and
unthoaght of uses, and that mon will ride,
drive, travel, and almost fly, (not as the
bird flies but ten times as fast ard with
one-tenth the eifort), to and fro over the
earth
Another dream (for remember these arc
only waking dreams), from the knowledge
we now have Of what the arts and sciences
are capable of doing for man-leveing the
hills and filling up the valleys, spanning
great rivers and girdling the earth with
telegraph wires and railroad tracks, fortell-
ing the storms and winds and measuring
the planets in space-what may not the
next thousand or ten thousand years bring
forth9 We have a thought sometimes that
this earth may be tho heaven of the re-
deemed Who knows? Should the condi.
ton of living be advanced the next one
thousand or ten thousand years in the
ratio of the past one hundred years, would
not old Mother Earth be fair "as the gar
den Of the Lord -
Even now, taking the earth as we have
it, and eliminate from it all sin, take from
its inhabitants every form Of suffering,
sickness, pain and death, Danish all disap-
pointment and all wants of every kind and
wouldn't the millennium have already
come? We think So