The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-05-16


awhile get your wings out.
Some one Gagged n Rocky Mountain q,
and kept him shut up between the Nj
until all the spirit and courage had .
out of Il. Released one day from the 4,
the eagle seemed 10 want TO return to
former prison. The fact was that the !,
had all gone out OF him. He kept his vi
down. But after awhile he looked up an
sun, turning his head first this side and h
that side, and then spread one wing
then the other wing. and began to mo-
until the hills were far under his fee,
he was out OF sight In the empyrean.
brother. when you leave this life, II bv,
grace OF God you are prepared. you ,
come out Of the cage OF this hindering n
tality, and looking up TO the heaye
heights you will spread wing for imno,
flight, leaving sun and moon and star,
meath in your ascent to glories that ne
fade and splendors which never die. \.
body Is the cage. your soul is the eagle
Word the next: Fill yourself with b,
raphies Of men who did gloriously /,
business or occupation or profession YOU
about TO choose or have already ch. /.
Going to bc merchant? Read up y,
Cooper and Abbott Lawrence, and J,,,
Lenox and william +. Dodge and C.
Peabody. See how most OF these merA-.
at the start munched their MONDAY luna.
made up OF dry bread and hunk OF q
behind n counter or In storeroom, a Il
started in business which brought rs,I
the top Of influences which enabled n.
bless the world with millions OF dolhss
secrated to hospitals and schoos
churches and private benefactions. II
neither right hand nor left hand knevs
the other hand did. Going to be n phvs
Road up Harvey aud Gross al
Adam Clarke and James Y. s.
the dlscoyerer Of chloroform as an -
tic. and Leslie Keelcy, who. notwithsvs,
all the damage done by hisincomps-s
tators, stands one Of the greatest he,s,
OF the centuries, and all the othg,.,
physicians who have mended brokl -
and enthroned again deposed inteis-
given their lives 20 healing the ll1 }.
cash Of the worlds agony. Coin. b
mechanic? Read up the inventor, o VA.
machines and cotton gins and life Srzv-U
paratus, and the men who as arcA.,s d
builders and manufacturers and daytH,
have made a life of thirty years 30 "a -
tury worth more than the full lNr-
any other century.
You six young men Of Ohio, ati NuN
'All'I NbNhk Il'lls lll5l'uu VI Nhflg n
time on dry essays as TO how 90 q :,
things, 90 to the biographical ac5u 5ly
village or city library. and acquis, g'g
selves with men who, In the slch FarI
and heaven and hell. did the grss;Aip,y
Remember the greatest things ar utol
done. II the Bible be true. OF n. fhih
ter put it, since the Bible Is bcy0lla.c I'D
troversy true. the greatest battle sytto
| fought. and compared with IL San.. ..a a;
Gettysburg and Seden were chllsthy vi
toy pistols. We even know th.1ile Of 4
battle, though we are not certain rto wa,
| It will be fought. | refer to Awasedl
| The greatest discoveries are yet Q. De mFU
! 4 scientist has recently discovered
| the air something which will 81, A
| electricity. The most of thing. have |
| yet been found out. An explorer ha,
Gently found in the valley OF the Nile ava
| fleet of ships buried ages ago where
! there Is no water. Only six ont Of DE
grasses have been turned int food liks
| potato and the tomato. There are hunl1X
! Of other styles OF food 10 le l.r1u,
Aerial navigation will yet be- made a,
rs travel on the solid earth. Cancers
cousumptiOns and leprosics are to be n
ferred from the catalogue Of iurumhle
ease to the durable. Medical men are
successfully experimenting with mode,
transferring diseases from weak consiitut
which cannot throw them of 10 stout 60
tutions which are able 10 throw then
Worlds like Mars and the moon will be
in hailing distance. and instead Of ,01a
our knowledge to their canals and v0la
they will signal all styles Of intellger
us, and we will signal all style, o. y
gence to them.
Coming times will class our b0as,s
toenth century with the dark ages
the power OF gospeliZation the worlds
to be so improved that the sword .
musket of our time will be kept In n
rs now we look ut thumbscrews and
instruments OF torture. Oh, wha,
tunlties you are going to have, you.
all the world over, under thirty. How.
full you ought TO be that you were NJ
any sooner. Blessed are the cradlesG
being rocked now. Blessed are the Il
in the freshman class. Blessed thls
will yet be young men when the new
comes In, in five or six years from
This world was hardly III to live In
eighteenth century. lido not see howt
folks stood it. During this nineteenthes
the world has by Chrlstianizing and
tional influences been fixed up until Il |
very well for temporary residence. d
twentieth century! All, that will
time to see great sights and do great 4
Oh, young men, get ready for the roll
Of that mightiest and grandest and
glorious century that the world ha,
seen! Only five summers more; five aur
more; five winters more; five spring.
and then the clock OF time will strA
death Of the old century and the birth
new. do not know what sort of b
ber night 1t will be when this centur
down to die; whether II will be star
tempestuous; whether the SHOWS "
drifting or the soft winds will breathe
the pillow Of the expiring centenarian.
millions will mourn its going, for man
received from 1t kindnesses innum,
and they will kiss farewell the aged
wrinkled with so many vicissitudes.
Old nineteenth century OF wedding
burials, of defeats and victories, Of u
born and nations dead, thy pulses gr
feebler now, will soon stop on tina
night OF December! But right beside
be the infant century, held up for ba
Its smooth brow will glow with brig
, pectations. The then more than 10
900 inhabitants Of the earth will h
birth and pray for its prosperity. It's
will be for a hundred years, and the .
your life, think, will be under the s
its scepter. Get ready for 1t. Hav,
heart right, your nerves right, your
right, your digestion right. We will
over to you our commerce, our mech
our arts and sciences, our profession
, pulpits. our inheritance. We bell,
you. We trust you. We pray fol
We bless you. And though b
time you get into the thickest
fight for God and righteousness W,
| have disappeared from earthly
, we will not lose our interest in your