Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-16

1eSSlOn you are ABOUT 10 choose, or nave
already chosen. Going to be mer-
chant? Read up Peter Cooper. and Alb
bot Lawrence, and James Lenox, and
William e. Dodge, and George Pea
body. See how most of the merchants
at the start munched their MONDAY
luncheon made up of dry bread and a
hunk of cheese, behind counter or in
storeroom, as they started in a bust
ness which brought them 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,
where neither right hand nor left hand
knew what the other hand did Going
to be a physician? Read up Harvey,
and Crosse, and Sir Adam Clarke and
James Y. Simpson, the discoverer of
chloroform as an anaesthetic, and Les
lie Kelley, who, Notwithstanding all
the damage done by his imitators,
stands one of the greatest benefactors
OF the centuries; and all the other
mighty physicians who have mended
broken bones, and enthroned again de-
posed intellects, and given their lives
to healing the long, deep cash of the
worlds agony. Going to be mechanic?
Read up the inventors of sewing ma
chimes, and cotton gins, and life-saving
apparatus, and the men who as archi-
tects and builders, and manufacturers
and day laborers have made life of
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--in-
stead of wasting your time on dry es-
says as to how to do great things, go to
the biographical 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. II the Bible be true, or as
| had better put it, since the Bible is be-
yond all controversy true, the greatest
battle is yet to be fought, and COM
| pared with it Saragossa, and Gettys-
burg, 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. / refer
! to Armageddon. The greatest discov-
| cries 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
| fleet of ships buried ages ago where now
! there is no water. Only six out of the
eight hundred grasses have been turn
| ed into food like the potato and the to-
mato. 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
consumption, and leprosies are to be
transferred from the catalogue of incur
| able disease to the durable. Medical
| men are now successfully experiment.
ing with modes of transferring diseases
| from weak constitutions which cannot
| throw them off, to stout constitutions
which are able to throw them off.
Worlds like Mars and the moon will be
within hailing distance, and instead or
combining our knowledge to their can
ais and their volcanoes, they will sig
nal all styles of intelligence to them.
Coming times will class our boosted
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 thumb-screws and ancient in
struments of torture. Oh, what oppor-
tunities you are going to have, young
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 fresh
man 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. | do not see
how the old folks stood it. During this
| nineteenth century the world has by
Outstanding and educational infiu-
ences been fixed up until it does very
we'll 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 mightiest, and
! grandest, and most glorious century
that the world has ever seen! Only hVe
summers more; five autumns more;
five winters more; five springs more,
and then the cloak 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 centenarlan. But
millions will mourn its going, for
many have received from it kindnesses
innumerable, and they will kiss fare
we'll the aged brow wrinkled with so
MANY vicissitudes. Old nineteenth CEN
tury of weddings and bur1als; of de-
feats and victories; Of nations born and
nations dead; thy pulses growing feeb-
Ter now, will soon stop on that thirty
first night of December. But right be-
side 1t will be the infant century, held
up for baptism. It's smooth brow will
glow with bright expectations. The
then more than seventeen hundred
million inhabitants Of the earth will
hail it's birth and pray for its prosperity.
Its reign will be for a hundred years.
and the most of your life think will be
under the sway Of it's scepter. Get
ready for 1t. Have your heart right;
your nerves right; your brain right;
your digestion right. We will hand
over to you our commerce, our mechan-
ism, our arts and sciences, our profess
sions, 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
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