Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-05-17

anu life saving apparatus, and the men
who as architects and builders and man.
ufacturers and day laborers have made
a life Of 80 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
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 con-
troversy true. the greatest battle is yet
to be fought and compared with it Sar-
agossa and Gettysburg and Sedan 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.
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 500 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 consump-
tions and leprosies are to be transferred
from the catalogue Of incurable disease
10 the durable. Medical men are now
successfully experimenting with modes
of transferring diseases from weak con-
stitutions which cannot throw them of
to stout constitutions which are able to
throw them off. Worlds like Mars and
the moon will be within hailing dis
tapce. and instead Of confning our
knowledge to their canals and their vol
canoes they will signal all styles OF in
telligence to us, and we will signal all
styles Of intelligence to them.
Coming times will class our boasted
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
Of torture. Oh, what opportunities you
are going TO have, young men all the
world over, under 80. 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 the freshman class. Blessed
those who will yet be young men when
the new century comes In, in five or SIX
wears from now. This world was hardly
fit to live in in the eighteenth century.
I do not see how the old folks stood 1t.
During this nineteenth century the
world has by Christianizing and educa-
tional influences been fixed up until 1t
does very well 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 grandest and most glorious century
that the world has ever seen 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. do not know what sort OF
a December night it will be when this
century lies down to die; whether 1t
will be starlit or tempestuous; whether
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-
ceiyed from it kindnesses innumerable,
and they will kiss farewell the aged
brow wrinkled with SO many yicissi-
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 Slst night OF Deem
her But right beside it will be the IN
FAINT century, held up for baptism. lts
smooth brow will glow with bright ex'
pectations. The then more than |, 200,
900, 900 inhabitants Of the earth VIII
hail its birth and pray for its prosper
ity. It's reign will be for hundred
wears. 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 We ewill hand over
10 Won our commerce, our mechanism
our arts and sciences, our professions
, our pulpits, our inheritance. We believe
, in YOU. We trust you. We pray for you
| We bless you. And though by the time
! Won get into the thickest Of the fight fol
God and righteousness we may have
disappeared from earthly scenes, We
will not lose our interest in your strug
, gle. and il the dear Lord will excuse Us
, for n little while from the temple serv
q ice and the house Of many mansions We
= will come out on the battlements OF jas
, per and cheer you, and perhaps II tha'
, night of this world be very quiet yo1
, NAV hear our voices dropping from afal
as we CIV, "Be thou faithful unt'
death. and thou shalt have crownr
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