Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-05-29
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flight, leaving sun and moon and stars be-
meath In your ascent to glories that never
| fade and splendors which never die. Your
body is the cage. your soul is the eagle
| Word the next: Fill yourself with bioQ
raphies of men who did gloriously in the
business or occupation or profession you are
about to choose or have already chosen
Song to be a merchant? Read up Pete.
Cooper and Abbott Lawrence, and James
I LoaoH and William e. Dodge and George
Peabody. See how most of these merchant,
| at the start munched their MONDAY luncheon
made up Of dry bread and hunk of CHEESE
behind a counter or In storeroom, az they
| started In business which brought them to
The top OF Influences which enabled them ia
| 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 physiciani
Read up Harvey and Gross and Sir
Adam Clarke and James Y. Simpson,
the discoverer OF chloroform as an anpsthe-
he, and Leslie Kelley, who, notwithstanding
all the damage done by his incompetent imi-
tators, stands one Of the greatest benefactors
OF the centuries, 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 inventors OF sewing
machines and cotton gins aai life saving ap-
paratus, and the men wno u.
builders and manufacturers and day ranorers
have made a life of thirty years in this cen.
tury worth more than the full 100 years o.
Sny other century.
You six young men OF Ohio. and all th
other young men, instead of wasting youl
time on dry essays as to how to do great
things, go to the biographical alcove of your
village or city library, and acquaint your.
selves with men who. in the sight of earth
and heaven and hell. did the great things,
Remember the greatest things are vet TO be
done. If the Bible be true. or as I had bet.
Ter put it, since the Bible is beyond all con.
troversy true, the greatest battle Is yet to be
fought, and compared with it Saragossa and
Gettysburg and Seden were child's play with
toy pistols. We even know the name Of the
battle. though we are not certain as to where
Il wfibbs Fought. I refer 50 ArmaSeddon.
The greatest discoveries are yet to be made
scientist has recently discovered ir
the air something which will yet rival
electricity. Tho most OF things have not
yet been found out. An explorer has re-
Gently 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 son
grasses have been turned into food Ike 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 |
consumptions and leprosies are to be trans
fesred from the catalogue of incurable dis
ease to the durable. Medical men are now
successfully experimenting with modes OF
transferring diseases from weak constitutions
which cannot throw them off to stout consti.
tutions which are able to throw them of.
Worlds like Mars and the moon will be with.
in hailing distance. and instead OF conflnina
our knowledge to their canals and volcanOei
they will signal all styles OF intelligence ts
Us, and We will signal all styles of intelD
renee to them.
Coming times will class our boasted nine.
teenth century with the dark ages. Under
the power Of gospelization the world is goins
to be so improved that the sword and thu
musket of our time will be kept in museumi
as now We look at thumbscrews and ancient
instruments Of torture. Oh, what oppor
tunities you are going to have, young meI
all the world over, under thirty. How thank.
full you ought to be that YOU were not born
any sooner. Blessed are the cradles that art
being rocked now. Blessed are the studenu
in the 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. do not see how the old
folks stoodtt. During this nineteenth century
the world has by Christianizing and educa.
tional influences 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 ir
Of that mightiest and grandest and mos
glorious century that the world has evel
seen! Only five summers more; five autumnI
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 n Decem.
Der night II will be when this century lice
down to die; whether ii will be starlit OF
tempestuous; whether the SHOWS will b
drifting or the soft winds will breathe upop
the pillow of the expiring centenarian. But
millions will mourn its going, for many have
received from it kindnesses innumerable
and they will kiss farewell the aged brow
wrinkled with so many yicisstudes.
Old nineteenth century of weddings ant
burials, of defeats and victories, of nations
born and nations dead, thy pulses growing
feebler now. Will soon stop on that 3lst
night OF December But right beside it will
bs the infant century. held I'D for baptism.
Its smooth brow win glow with bright ex.
pectations The then more than LOO, ,OOO,-
900 inhabitants of the earth will hail its
birth and pray for its prosperity. It's reign
will be for hundred years, and the most Of
your life, think, will be under the sway oil
its scepter. Get ready for it, Have your
heart right, your nerves r1ght, your brain
right, your digestion right. We will hand
over to you our commerce, our mechanism,
our arts and sciences, our professions, ouI
pulpits, our inheritance. We believe II
you. We trust you. We pray for you
We bless you. And though by the
time you get into the thickest OF tht
| fight for God and righteousness we may
| have disappeared from earthly scenes,
We will not lose our interest in your strug-
| gle, and If the dear Lord will excuse us for
| a little while from the temple service ane
| the house of many mansions we will CONS
| out ON the battlementS OF jasper and cheer
| you, and perhaps If that night Of this world
| be very quiet you may hear our voices drop.
ping from afar as We cry. "Be thou faithful
| auto death and though shalt have a crown!