The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-05-25

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| started in business which
brought them to the top OF
influences which enabled them to
bless the world with millions OF
dollars consecrated to hopitals, and
schools, and churches, and private
benefactions, where neither right hand
nor left hand knew what the other
hand did. Going to be physician?
Read up Harvey, and Crosse, and Sir
Adam Clarke, and James Y. Simpson,
and the discoverer of chloroform as an
anaesthetic. and Leslie Kelley, who,
Notwithstanding all the damage done
by his incompetent imitators, stands
one OF the greatest benefactors OF the
centuries; and all the other mighty
physicians who have mended broken
bones, and enthroned again deposed In
tellects,and given their lives to healing
the long, deep cash of the worlds
agony. Going to be mechanic? Read
up the inventions of sewing machines,
the cotton gins. and life-saving APP
paratus, 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-instcad of wasting your time on
dry essays rs to how to do great
things, go to the biographical alcove OF
your village or city library, and ac-
quaint 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 had better
put it, since the Bible is beyond all
controversy true, the greatest battle is
yet to be fought, and compared with
it Saragossa, and Gettysburg, and Sc
dan were child's play with toy pistols.
We even know the name of the lat
tie, though we are not certain as to
where it will be fought. refer to
Armageddon. The greatest discover
les 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
turned into food like the potato and
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 lcprosies arc to be
transferred from the catalogue of in
durable diseases to the durable. Medi-
cal men are now successfully expert
menting with modes of transferring
diseases from weak constitutions which
can not throw them off to stout con-
situations which are able to throw
them off. Worlds like Mars and the
moon will be within hailing distance,
and, instead of continuing our knowl-
edge to their canals and their vol
canoes, they will signal all styles of
intelligence to us, and we will signal
all styles of intelligence to them. Com
ing times will class our boosted nine-
teenth century with the dark ages.
Under the power of gospelization tho
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 OPP
portunities you are going to have.
youug men all the world over,
under thirty. 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 tho
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. l
do not sec how the old folks stood it.
During this nineteenth century the
world has by Christianizing and educa-
tional influences been fixed up until
it does very well for temporary resi-
dence. But the twentieth century,
All. that will DO the time to sec
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 seeni 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.
I 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 tenn.
pestueus; whether the SHOWS will be
drifting, or the soft winds will breathe
upon the pillow Of the expiring cen.
tenarian. But millions will mourn its
going. for many have received from II
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 vic.
tories; Of nations born and nations
dead; thy pulses growing feeblcr now,
will soon stop on that thirty first night
OF December. But right beside 1t will
be the infant century, held up for bap-
tism. Its smooth brow will glow with
bright expectations. The then more
than one billion seven hundred mil
lions inhabitants of the earth will hail
its birth and pray for its prosperity.
It's reign will be for one hundred
years. and the most of your life
think will be under the sway
OF its scepter. Get ready for 1t.