The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-06-07

stHu tnlns 20 gel ready inf tue Quo milo tNH
side Che marble slab, hut moro important t1
rei Used zap Tor iho lniermlnable miles which
stretch out into the distances beyond
.hs marble slab. A few years ago on the
Nashville aud New Orleans railroad We
wcrp walked up early INA che morning,
iud told We must take carriages l0r
some distance. "WhYf we all asked.
But WH soon saw for ourselves
that. while che nnl four on I've
spans Of the bridge were up. farther ON
there was @ span that had fallen, aud We
could not bat shudder 90 what might have
been the possibilities. When your rall train
start. on long bridge you want To- be- SURF
that the first span Oi the bridge is al right
jut what ~ farther On there is span of the
bridge that rs all wrong; how thenf what
thcnt Tn one Of the Western cities the
ireshrts had carried awnyA bridge, and
man knew that the express train would soon
come along. 80 be lighted lantern and
started up the track 90 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 DE threw the lantern into the loco
motive, crying, "Stop' stop" And the
warning was ln time 10 halt the train. And
ID any %. you by evil habits are fastening on
toWnrd brink or precip.ce or fallen span,
throw this GOSPEL lantern GO vaur mao
career. slopl slopl The end thereof Il
DEATH Young man, You are Gagged now by
many environments, but YOU win after
awhile get your wings out
Some one Gagged n Rocky Mountain eagle
and kept him shut un between tho wires
until al the spirit and courage had gone
ont OF a.. Released one day from tho cage.
the eagle seemed 10 want 90 return 10 So
former prison. The fact was that the eagle
had all gone ont OF him. He kept his wings
down. But after awhile ne looked up nj the
sun. turning his head FIRST this side nG3 then
that side, and then spread one wing and
then tho other wing. and began 10 mount
until the hills were far under his feet. and
| he was out Of sight In the emnvrean. Ny
| brother. when you leave tAis liie n 10y the
| grace OF God you are nre JARED. Won will
some out Of the cage OF this hindering NOR
| tality, and looking un % the heavenly
| heights you will spread wing for immortal
| Eight, leaving sun and moon and stars be-
meath in your ascent to glories that never
| fade and splendors which nevar die. your
/ bodvi Is the cage. your soul rs the eagle.
Word the next: Fill yourself with bioc-
raphies OF men who did glorously In the
| business or occupation or profession you are
| about to choose or have already chosen.
Going to be n merchant Read up Peter
| Cooper and Abbott Lawrence and James
Lenox and William +. Dodge and George
Peabody See how most Of these merchants
at the start munched theirnoouday luncheon
made up OF dry bread and a hunk OF cheese,
behind a counter or in a storeroom, as they
started in a business which brought them to
the top Of influences which enabled them 10
bless the world with millions OF dollars con-
secrated TO hospitals and schools and
churches and private heneiactons, where
neither right hand nor left hand knew what
the other hand did Going TO be physcianl
Read no Harvey and Gross and Sir
Adam Clarke and James Y. Simpson
the discoverer OF chloroform as an an@sthe-
tic, 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, deer
cash OF the worlds agony. Going to be
mechanic2 Read up the inventors OF sewing
machines and cotton gins and life saving ap
paratus, and the men who as architects anC
builders and manufacturers and day laborer
have made life of thirty years in this cen
fury worth more than the full 100 years o
any other century.
You six young men OF Ohio, and all tn
other young men, instead OF wasting you
time on dry essays as to how to do grea
!, things, 60 to the biographical alcove Of you
= village or city library, and aequaint your
selves with men who. in the sight of cart
and heaven and hell, did the great things
/ Remember the greatest things are yet to b
J done. II the Bible be true. or as l had bet
ter put it, since the Bible is beyond all con
troversy true, the greatest battle Is yet to b
fought and compared with it Saragossa an
| Gettysburg and Seden were child's play wit
v,fuf 10 ba ~
z battle, though we are not certain as to wher
it will be fought. 1 refer to Armageddor
l The greatest discoveries are yet to be made
. A scientist has recently discovered
o the air something which will yet rivG
(: electricity. The most Of things have nc
t yet been found out. An explorer has re
( Gently found in the valley OF the Nile q Who'll
= feet Of ships buried ages ago where no
, there is no water Only six out OF the sc
|; grasses have been turned into food like tn
l potato and the tomato. There are hundred
OF other styles of food to be discovered
Aerial navigation will yet be made as sa
l as travel on the solid earth. Cancers an
=, consumptions and leprosies are to be tran
a ferred from the catalogue OF incurable di
! ease to the durable. Medical men are no
a successfully experimenting with modes
9 transferring diseases from weak constitution
!, which cannot throw them Off to stout const
Q buttons which arc able to throw them OF
J. Worlds like Mars and the moon will be wit
t In hailing distance. and instead Of confnir
|, our knowledge to their canals and volcano
r they will signal all styles of intelligence
d us, and we will signal ali styles Of INTEL
> gence to them.
Coming times will class our boosted min
g teenth century with the dark ages. Und
V the power of gospelization the worlds golI
II to be 50 improved that the sword and Il
It musket OF our time will be kept in museuI
l. rs now we look at thumbscrews and ancie
}. instruments of torture. Oh, what Oppc
It tunities you are going to have, young mi
=, all the world over, under thirty. How than
d full you ought to be that you were not bo
? any sooner. Blessed are the cradles that a
le being rocked now. Blessed are the studer
Il in the freshman class. Blessed those W
n will yet be young men when the new centu
n comes in, in five or six years from no
K This world was hardly fit to live in in I