The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1895-05-23

awhile get your wings out. .o4.,u
Some one Gagged O. Rocky Mountain eagle
and kept him shut up between the wires
until all the, spirit aud. courage had gone
out n it Released one day from the cage
the eagle seemed to want 10 return TO It's
former prison. The fact was that the eagle
had all gone out of him. He kept his wings
down. But after awhile he looked up at me
sun. turning his head first this SIDE and thel
that side, and then spread one wing ahn
then tho other wing. and began 70 niouhi
until the hills were far under his teet, ana
he was out of sight in the empyrean. my
brother, when you leave this life, II by the
grace Of God you are prepared, you VIII
come out of the cage of this hindertng NOR
tality, and looking up to the heavenly
heights you will spread wing for immortal
flight, leaving sun and moon and stars be-
meath in your ascent to glories that never
fado. md spletd5ra which never die Your
Body is the cage. your soul is the tdgle!
Word the next: Fill yourself with biog-
raphies of men who did gloriously in tho
business or occupation or profession you are
about to choose or have already chosen.
Going to be merchant Read up Peter
Cooper and Abbott Lawrence, and James
Lenox and William L. Dodge and George
Peabody. See how most of these merchants.
at the start mttnehed their monday luncheon
made u1 IF dry bread and a hunk Of cheese,
behind d Counter OF iii d ;tQrero0mi as they
started in d business which brodght their to
the top of influences which enabled them to
bless the world with millions OF dollars con-
secrated to hospitals and schools and
churches and private benefactions, wnere
neither right hand nor left hand knew what
the other hand did Goingto be physician?
Read up Harvey and Gross and Sir
Adam Clarke and james Y. Simpson.
the di5Gdtcfef 0f chldfofotni rs aii anasthe-
tic. and Leslie Kelley, Who; Notwithstanding
all the damage done by hisincompetent imi=
tators. stands one OF the greatest benefactors
of the centuries, and all the other mighty
physicians who have mended broken bones.
and enthroned again deposed intellects. ana
given their lives to healing tho long, deep
cash Of the worlds agony. Going to be
mechtnidf Read Up the inventors OF sewing
machines aid cotton gins and life sav1u9 ap-.
paratus; and the men who as architects ana
builders and manufacturers and day laborers
hav6 ttade life of thirty years in this CEN
tllry worth more thar the full 100 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, 90 to the biographical alcove of your
village or city library, and acquaint your
selves with mon who, i'll the sight OF earth
and heaven and hell, did the great things.
Renembef the greatest things are yet to be
ter put it. since the Bible Is beyond all con-
troversy true, the greatest battle is yet to be
fought, and compared with 1t Saragossa and
Gettysburg and Seden were child's play with
toy pistols. We even know the name of the
battle, though we are not certain as to where
it will be fought. 1 refer to Armageddon.
The greatest discoveries are yet to be made.
A scientist has recently discovered in
the air something which will yet rival
electricity. The most of things have not
vet been found out. An explorer has re-
Gently found in the valley of the Nile whole
fleet of ships buried ages ago where now
there is no water. Only six out of the 800
grasses have been turned into food like the
potato and the 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 trans
fcrred from the catalogue of incurable dis
ease to the durable. Medical men are now
successfully experimenting with modes OF
transferring diseases from weak constitutions
which cannot throw them off to stout consti-
buttons which are able to throw them off.
Worlds like Mars and the moon will be with
in Mailing distance. and instead of combining
our knowledge to their canals and volcanoes
they will signal all styles of intelligence to
us, and we will signal all styles of intelli-
gence to them.
Coming 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
rs now we look at thumbscrews and ancient
instruments of torture. Oh, what oppor-
tunities you are going to have, young men
all the world over under thirty. How thank
full you ought to be that you were not born
any sooner. Blessed are the cradles that are
ha;n yad hp CIR 70
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 to live in in the
eighteenth century. lido not see how the old
folks stood it. During this nineteenth century
the world has by Christienizing and educa-
tional influences been fixed up until it does
very well for temporary residence. But the
twentieth century, All, that will be tho
time to see great sights and do great deeds.
Oh, young men. get ready for the rolling in
of that mightiest and grandest and most
glorious century that the world has ever
seem Only five summers more; five autumns
more: five winters more; five springs more,
and then the clock of time will strike the
death of the old century and the birth OF the
new. | do not know what sort of Decem-
Der night it will be when this century lies
down to die; whether it will be starlit or
tempestuous; whether the SHOWS will be
drifting or the soft winds will breathe upon
the pillow of the expiring centenarian. But
millions will mourn its going, for many have
received from it kindnesses innumerable,
and they will kiss farewell the aged brow
wrinkled with SO many vicissitudes.
Old nineteenth century Of weddings and
burials, of defeats and victories, of nations
born and nations dead, thy pulses growing
feebler now. will soon stop on that 31st
night of December! But right beside it will
be the infant century held up for baptism.
Its smooth brow will glow with bright ex-
pectations. The then more than l,700, 000,-
900 inhabitants of the earth will hail its
birth and pray for its prosperity Its reign
will be for a hundred years, and the most of
your life, 1 think, will be under the sway of
its scepter. Get ready for it, Have your
heart right, your nerves right, your brain
right, your digestion right. We will hand
over to you our commerce, our mechanism,
our arts and sciences, our professions, our
pulpits, our Inheritance. We believe in
you. We trust you. We pray for you.
We bless you. And though by the
time you get into the thickest of the
fight for God and righteousness we may
have disappeared from earthly scenes.
we will not lose our interest in your strug-
gle and if the dear Lord will excuse us for
a little while from the temple service and
the house of many mansions we will come