Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-05-17
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY. MAY II 1895


iostling, and the iniustiees, and the mis-
haps Of the small parenthesis between the
two eternities? 1t is a good thing to get
1 ready for the one mile this side the mar
bic slab, but more important to get fixed
up for the intcrminable miles which
stretch out into the distances beyond the
marble slab. A few years ago on the Nash
vile and New Orleans railroad we We're
walked up early in the morning and told
we must take carriages for some distance.
''Whyf" we all asked. But we soon saw
for ourselves that, while the first four or
five spans Of the bridge were up, farther on
there was span that had fallen, and we
could not but shudder at what might have
been the possibilities. When your rail
train starts on a long bridge you want TO
be sure that the first span Of the bridge is
all right. But what if farther on there is
a span Of the bridge that is all wrongg
How then? What thenl In one Of the
western cities the freshets had carried
away a bridge, and man knew that the
express train would soon come along. So
he lighted a lantern and started up the
track to stop the train. But before he had
got far enough up the track the wind blew
out the light of his lantern, and standing
in the darkness as the train came up he
threw the lantern into the locomotive,
crying: "Stopl Stop" And the warn
ing was in time to halt the train And if
any of you by evil habits are fastening on
toward brink or precipice or fallen span
throw this Gospel lantern at your mad ca
reer: "Stop Stop The end thereof is
DEATH" Young man, you are Gagged now
! by many environments, but you will after
awhile get your wings out.
Some one Gagged Rocky mountain eagle
/ l-nf, @L
until all the spirit and courage had gone
out of it, Released one day from the cage,
| the eagle seemed to want to return TO its
/ former prison. The fact was that the eagle
had all gone out of him. He kept his
wings down. But after awhile he looked
up at the sun, turning his head first this /
side and then that side and then spread /
one wing, and then the other wing. and |
began to mount until the hills were far
under his feet, and he was out Of sight in /
the empyrean. My brother, when you
leave this life, if by the grace of God you |
are prepared, you will come out Of the cage /
Of this hindering mortality, and looking |
up to the heavenly heights you will spread |
wing for immortal flight, leaving sun and I
moon and stars beneath in your ascent to
glories that never fade and splendors which
never die. Your body is the cage. Your
soul is the eagle.
The Ninth Step.
Word the next; Fill yourself with biog-
raphies of men who did gloriously in the
business or occupation or profession you
are about to choose or have already chosen
Going to be a merchantP Read up Peter
Cooper and Abbot Lawrence and James
Lenox and William E. Dodge and George
Peabody See how most of the merchants
at the start munched their MONDAY lunch
con, made up of dry bread and hunk
of cheese, behind a counter or in a store
room as they started in a business which
brought them to the top Of influences
which enabled them to bless the world
with millions of dollars consecrated 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 physician? Read
up Harvey and Gross and Sir Adam
Clarke and James Y. Simpson, the dis
eoverer of chlorofOrm as an anesthetic
and Leslie Kelley, who, notwithstanding
all the damage done by his incompetent
imitators, stands one Of the greatest bene-
factors of the centuries, and all the other
mighty physicians who have mendcd bro
ken bones, and enthrO--1d again deposed
intellects, and given their lives to healing
the long, deep cash of the worlds agony.
Going to be a mechanic? Read up the in
ventors of sowing machines and cotton
gins and life saving apparatus and the
mon who as architects and builders and
manufacturers and day laborers have made
a life of 80 years in this century worth
more than the full 100 years of any other
century.
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 tho 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 arc
yet to be done. If the Bible be true or as
L had better put it since the Bible is be-
yond all controversy true, the greatest bat
tie is yet to be fought, and compared with
it Saragossa and Gettysburg and Sedan !
were child's play with toy pistols. We
even know the name Of the battle, though {
we arc not certain as to where it will be Z
fought. 1 refer to Armageddon. The Z
greatest discoveries are yet to be made. A
scientist has recently discovered in the {
air something which will yet rival cleo 2
ricity. The most Of things have not yet v
been found out. An explorer has recently 5
'ound in the valley of the Nile whole a
ieet Of ships buried ages ago where now
here Is no water. Only six out of the y
800 grasses have been turned into food like
he potato and the tomato. There are
Of ether styles Of food to be dis
covered. Aerial navigation will yet be II
made as safe as travel on the solid earth. ?
Cancers and consumptions and leprOsies u
re to be transferred from the catalogue Of Il
ncurahie disease to the durable Medical a
nen are now successfully experimenting "
With modes of transferring diseases from a
weak constitutions which cannot throw "
hem OF to stout constitutions which arc =
,ble to throw them Q4 Worlds like Mars =
nd the moon will DO within hailing dis Is
ance, and instead of combining our knowl- n
dge to their canals and their volcanoes h
hoy will signal all STYLES Ct intelligence to el
U.s. and Wp will signal all styles of intelli- n,
senoe to them. Coming times VIII class W
ur boosted nineteenth century with the 7
lark ages. Under the power OF gospeliza- Il
ion the world is going to be so improved pl
hat the sword and tho musket Of our 81
inc will be kept in museums as lOw we &C
ook at thumb screws and ancient instru- g
nents Of torture. Oh, what opportunities HI
ou are going to have, young men all the "
world over, under 80. How thankful you ~
0dnerl Blessed are the cradles that are m
eing rocked now. Blessed are the stu pl
ents in the freshman class, Blessed those W
Vho will yet be young men when the new be
entuFy comes In in five OF six years from to
low. This world was hardly ct to live in co
n the eighteenth century. 1 do not see ne
ow the old folks stood it, During this dc
nineteenth century the world has by Chris 70
ianizing and educational influences been ad
xed up until it does very well for tempo HI
airy residence. Va
A Look Ahead, pa
But the twentieth century, All, that oy
ill be the time to see qreat Sights and do Y,
reat deedsl Oh, young men, get ready
Or the rolling in Of that mightiest and
randest and most glorious century that
he world has ever seen Only five sum- mi
hers more, five autumns more, five win ga
BIS more, five springs more and then the w,