The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-05-24

centuries; and all the other might.
physicians who have mended broker
bones, and enthroned again deposed in
tellects,and given their lives to healing
the long, deep cash Of the world
agony. Going to be mechanic? Reat
up the inventions of sewing machines
the cotton gins, and life-saving ap
paratus, and the men who as archi
tects, and builders. and manufacturers
and day laborers have made life o.
thirty years in this century worth
more than the full one hundred years
Of any other century. You six young
men of Ohio. and all the other young
men-instead Of wasting your time on
dry essays as to how to do great
things, 70 to the biographical alcove OF
your village or city library, and &C.
| quaint yourselves with men who in the
sight of earth, and Heaven, and hell,
did the great things. Remember. the
greatest things are yet to be done. II
the Bible be true, or as had better
put it, since the Bible is beyond all
controversy true, the greatest battle Is
yet to be fought, and compared with
it Saragossa, and Gettysburg, and Sc
dan were child's play with toy pistols.
We even know the name OF the bat
tie, though we are not certain as to
where it will be fought. refer to
Armageddon. The greatest discover,
les are yet to be made. A scientist has
recently discovered in the air some
thing which will yet rival electricity.
The most of things have not yet been
found out. An explorer has recently
found in the valley of the Nile whole
feet of ships buried ages ago where
now there is no water. Only six out
of the eight hundred grasses have been
turned into food like the potato and
tomato. There are hundreds of other
styles of food to be discovered. Aerial
navigation will yet be made as safe as
travel on the solid earth. Cancers and
consumptions and leprosies are to be
transferred from the catalogue OF in
durable diseases to the durable. Medi-
cal men are now successfully expert
menting with modes of transferring
diseases from weak constitutions which
can not throw them off to stout ccn-
situations which are able to throw
them off. Worlds like Mars and the
moon will be within hailing distance.
and, instead of combining our knowl-
edge to their canals and their vol
canoes, they will signal all styles OF
to us, and we will signal
all styles of intelligence to them. Com
ing times will class our boosted nine
teenth century with the dark ages.
Under the power of gospelization the
world is going to be so improved that
the sword and the musket OF our time
will be kept in museums as now we
look at thum b-screws and ancient in
struments of torture. Oh, what OPP
portunities you are going to have,
young men all the world over,
under thirty. How thankful yon
ought to be that you were
not born any sooner. Blessed
are the cradles that are being rocked
now. Blessed are the students in the
freshman class. Blessed those who
will yet be young men when the new
century comes in, in five or six years
from now. This world was hardly fit
10 live in in the eighteenth century. /
10 not see how the old folks stood it.
During this nineteenth century the
world has by Christianizing and educa-
,ional influences been fixed up until
t does very well for temporary resi-
lence. But the twentieth century!
Ali, that will be the time to see |
great sights, and do great deeds. Oh,
7oung men. get ready for the rolling
n of that mightiest and grandest and
most glorious century that the world
las ever seen! Only five summers more;
i've autumns more: five winters more;
i've springs more, and then the clock of
line will strike the death of the old |
century and the birth of the new.
do not know what sort of
December night it will be when
his century lies down to die;
yhether it will be starlit or tenn
oestuous; whether the SHOWS will be
lrifting, or the soft winds will breathe
,pon the pillow Of tho expiring CEN
enarian. But millions will mourn Its
roing, for many have received from it
innumera BILE. and they will
.iss farewell the aged brow wrinkled
With SO many vicissitudes. Old
century Of weddings
md burials; of defeats and VIC
,ories; of nations born and nations
lead; thy pulses growing feebler new,
will soon stop on that thirty first night
Of December. But right beside 1t will
De the infant century, held up for bap-
ism. Its smooth brow will glow with
FRIGHT expectations The then more
han one billion seven hundred mil.
ions inhabitants of the earth will hail