Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-13

DoNoo ono d0CIS0 HeaDOQy. See now
most OF the merchants at the start
munched their MONDAY luncheon made
up OF dry bread and hunk of cheese,
behind a counter or in a storeroom, as
they started Ii a business which brought
them to the top of influences which en-
abled them to bless the world with
millions of dollars consecrated to hospi-
tails and schools and churches and pri-
vate benefactions, where neither right
hand nor left hand knew what the other
hand did. Going to be a physician?
Read up Harvey and Gross and Sir
Adam Clarke and James Y. Simpson,
the d1scoVerer Of chlorOform as an anas-
thet1c, and Leslie Kelley, who, not
W1thstandlng all the damage done by
his incompetent inlitators, stands one of
the greatest benefactors of the centu-
ries, and all the other mighty physicians
who have mended broken bones, and
enthroned again deposed intellects, and
given their lives to healing the long,
deep cash of the worlds agony. Going
to be mechanic? Read up the inven-
tors of sewing machines and cotton gins
and life saving apparatus, and the men
who as architects and builders and man
ufacturers and day laborers have made
life of 80 years in this century worth
more than the full 100 years of any 9th
er century.
You six young men of Ohio, and all
the other young men, instead of vast
ing your time on dry essays as to how
to do great things, go to the biograph-
ical alcove of your village or city library,
and acquaint 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.
If the Bible be true, or as L had better
put it, since the Bible is beyond all con-
troversy true, the greatest battle is yet
to be fought, and compared with it Sar-
agossa and Gettysburg and Sedan 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 I refer to Armaged6on 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 a
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 consump-
lions and leprOsies are to be transferred
from the catalogue Of incurable disease
to the durable Medical men are now
successfully experimenting with modes
of transferring diseases from weak con-
situations which cannot throw them off
to stout constitutions which are able to
throw them off, Worlds like Mars and
the moon will be within mailing dis
lance, and instead of combining our
knowledge to their canals and their vol
canoes they will signal all styles Of in
telligence to us, and we will signal all
styles of intelligence to them.
Coming times will class our boasted
nineteenth 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 thumbscrews and ancient instruments
of torture Oh, what opportunities you
are going to have, young men all the
world over, under 80. How thankful
you 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 now century comes in, in five or six
years from now. This world was hardly
fit to live III III the eighteenth century.
I do not see how the old folks stood it.
During this nineteenth century the
world has by Christianizing and educa-
tiOnal influences been fixed up until 1t
does very well for temporary residence.
But the twentieth century! All, that
will be the time to see great sights and
do great deeds. Oh, young men, get
ready for the rolling in of that mi9htiest
and grandeSt and most glorious century
that the world has ever seen! Only five
summers mere; 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
a December 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 it's going, for many have re-
ceived from it kindnesses innumerable,
and they will kiss farewell the aged
brow wrinkled with 80 MANY vicissi-
tudes.
Old nineteenth century of weddings
and buria1s, of defeats ana victories,
of nations born and nations dead, thy
pulses growing feebler now, will soon
stop on that 31st night of Deem
berI Rut RIGHT beside it will be the in