Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-05-18

Dodge and George peabody. See how !
most of the merchants at the start
munelled their MONDAY luncheon made |
up of dry bread and q hunk of cheese,
behind counter or in {. storerooln, as
they started in 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 aud phi
waite benefactions, where neither right !
hand nor left hand knew what the other
hand did. Going to be physician?
Read up Harvey and Gross and Sir
Adam Clarke and James Y. Simpson,
the discoVerer OF chloroform as an an8s-
thetic, and Leslie Kelley, who, not
withstanding all the damage done By
his incompetent imitators, 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 world agony. Going
to be a 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
a life of 30 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
he'll did the great things. Remember
the greatest things are yet to be done.
If the Bible be true, or as 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 We're
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. l 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
yet been found out. An explorer has re-
Gently 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 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 c0nsump-
tions and leprosies are TO be transferred
from the catalogue of incurabIe disease
to the durable. Medical men are now
successfully experimenting with modes
Of transferring diseases from weak con- (
stitutions 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 dis
lance, and instead of continuing GU,
knowledge to their canals and their vol
canoes they will signal all styles Of III
teligence to us, and we will signal ally
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 thumbscrews and ancient instruments I
Of torture. Oh, what opportunities you |
are going to have, young men all the |
world over, under 80 How thankful 1
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 he young men when /.
the new century comes i'll, il five o. six /
years from now. This world was hardly /
fit to live in i'll the eighteenth century. /
do not see how the old folks stood it. |
During this nineteenth century the /
world has by ChristianizinS and educa- /
tional influences been fixed up until il .
does very well for temporary residence. /
But the twentieth century! All, that |
will be the time to see great sights and I
do great deeds. Oh, young men, get I
ready for the rolling IN Of that mighticst \
and grandest and most glorious century |
that the world has ever scent Only five |
summers more; five autumns more; five /
winters more; five springs more, and I
then the clock of time will strike the /
death of the old century and the birth I
of the new do not know what sort of I
a December night it will be when this \
century lies down to die: whether it /
will be starlit or tempestuous whether I
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 re-
ceived from it kindnesses innumerable, &
and they will kiss farewell the aged
brow wrinkled with so many vicissi-
tudes.
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 Deem
beri But right beside it will be the in
FAINT century, held up for baptism. It's
smooth brow will glow with bright ex-
pectations. The then more than 700,
100000 inhabitants of the earth will
hail its birth and pray for its prosper
ity. Its reign will be for hundred
years, and the most of your life, 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. Wewill hand over
to You our commerce, our mechanism,
our arts and sciences, our professions,
our pulpits, our inheritance. We believe
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