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Horn. The plague! The plague!

tnAt plRn 80 you Will never go 70 any 6Vu
amusement nor be found In compromising
surroundings. How many startling cases
within the past few years Of men called sud-
denly out Of this world, and the newspapers
surprised US when they mentioned the local.
least important ground, you ought not to 60
to any such forbidden place, because II you
depart this life In such circumstances you
put officiating ministers In great embarrass-
ment. You know that some Of the ministers
believe that all who leave this life go
straight to heaven. however they have act
ed IN this world, or whatever they have
believed. To get you through from such
surroundings Is an important theological un.
dertaking. One of the most arduous and
besweating efforts Of that kind that ]
ever knew OF was at the obsequies OF man
who was found dead in snowbank with hil
rum jug close beside him. But the minister
did the work OF happy transference as wei
propriate when he read: "Blessed are the
dead who die In the Lord. They rest from
their labors, and their works do follow
them" II you have no mercy upon yourself
have mercy upon the minister who may b
called to off1ciale after your demise. Die al
home, or In some rlace Of honest business
or where the laughter Is clean, or amid conn
panionships pure and elevating. Remembel
that any place we go to may become oui
starting point for the next world. When VIC
enter the harbor of heaven, and the Officer
oflight comes aboard, let us be able to show
that our clearing papers were dated at tho
right port. Il
Word the next: As soon as you can, by In,
dustry and economy, have home OF youi
own. What do mean by home? NEAR
two rooms and the blessing Of God on both
Of them; one room for slumber, one for food,
its preparation and the partaking thereof.
Mark you, would like you to have home
with thirty rooms, all upholstered, pictured
and statuetted, but am putting 1t down at
the minimum. A husband and wife who cam
not be happy with home made up OF two
rooms would not be happy In heaven II they
got there. He who wins and keeps the afec-
ton Of good practical woman has done
gloriously. What do mean by good
woman? mean one who loved God before
she loved you. What do I mean BY pract-
cal woman? mean one who can help you
to earn living, for time comes In almost
every mans life when he Is flung OF hard mis-
fortune, and you do not want q weakling go
ing around the house whining and snimng
about how she had 1t before you mar.
ried her. The simple reason why thou
sands Of men never get on In the world
Is because they married nonentihes and
never got overit. The only thing that Jobs
wife proposed for his boils wasa warm poul-
tice Of profanity. saying. "Curse God and
die." 1t adds to our admiration Of John
Wesley the manner in which he conquered
domestic unhappiness. His wife had SLAM
dered him all over England until, standing
in his pulpit In City Road chapel, he COM
planned to the people saying, sT have been
charged with every crime In the catalogue
except drunkenness" when his wife arose,
in the back part of the church and said:
"John, you know you were drunk last
night" Then Wesley exclaimed, "Thank
God, the catalogue Is complete" When q
man marries he marries for heaven or hell,
and 1t Is more 80 when q woman nnarrea.
You six young men in Fayette, Ohio, had.
better look out.
Word the next: Do not rate yourself too
high. Better rate yourself too low. nyou
rate yourself too low the world will say,
"Come up" II you rate yourself too high
the world will say, "Come down." It Is g
bad thing when man gets 80 exaggerated an
idea Of himself as did Earl Of Buchan, whose
speech Ballantyne, the Edinburgh printer,
could not get up for publication because he
had not enough capital rs among his type.
Remember that the world got along without
you near 5000 years before you were born,
and unless some meteor collides with Us, or
some internal explosion occurs the world
will probably last several thousand years
after you are dead.
You six young men OF Ohio, and all the
other young men, instead Of wasting your
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 yetto be
done. II the Bible be true, or az had bet
ter put 1t, since the Bible Is beyond all con-
troversy true, the greatest battle Is yet to be
fought, and compared with 1t 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
it will be fought. refer to Armageddon.
The greatest discoveries are yet to be made.
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 awhole
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
consumptiors and leprosies are to be trans
ferred 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 of to stout consti-
tutions which are able to throw them OF.
Worlds Ike Mars and the moon will be with
In hailing distance. and instead OF combining
our knowledge to their canals and volcanoes
they will signal all styles Of intelligence to
us, and we will signal all styles Of intell1-
gence to them.
Coming times will class our boasted nine
teenth century with the dark ages. Under
the power OF gospelizstion 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 oppor-
all the world over, underth thirty. how thank
full 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 new century
comes In, in five or six years from now.
This world was hardly fit to live In in the
eighteenth century. lido not see how the old
folks stood it. During this nineteenth century
the world has by Christlanizlng 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 In
of that mightiest and grsndest 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 Decem.
Der night 1t will be when this century lies
down to die; whether it will be starlit OF