The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-05-15

train. But before he had got
far enough up the track the
wind blew out the light of the
lantern, and standing in the darkness
as the train came Up, he threw the
lantern into the locomotive, crying,
"Stop! Stop!' and the warning 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 career: 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 a Rocky |
mountain eagle and kept him shut up |
between the wires until all the spirit !
and courage had gone out of him. Re-
leased one day from the cage, the eagle
seemed to want to return to his former
prison. The fact was that the eagle |
| had all zone out of him. He kept his
wings down. But utter awhile he
looked up at the sun, turned 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 ~der his feet, and
he was out of sighs II the empyrean
My brother, when you leave this life,
if by the grace Of God you are pre-
pared, you will come out of the cage of
this hindering mortality, and looking
up to the heavenly heights you will
spread wing for immortal fight, leav-
ing sun, and moon and stars beneath
in your ascent to the 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 BIZ
ographies of men who did gloriously
in the business, or occupation, or pro-
fession you are about to choose, or
have already chosen. Going to be
merchant? Read up Peter Cooper, and
Abbott Lawrence, and James Lenox,
and William II. Dodge and George
Peabody. See how most of the mer-
chants at the start munched their noon
day luncheon made up of dry bread
and hunk of cheese, behind a counter
or in storeroom, as they started in a
| business which brought them to the
, top of influences which enabled them
, to bless the world with millions of dol
lars 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 Crosse, and Sir
Adam Clarke, and James Y. Simpson,
the discoverer of chloroform as an
3 anesthetic, and Leslie Kelley, who,
: notwithstanding all the damage done
p by his incompetent imitators, stands
one of the greatest benefactors of the
a centuries; and all the other mighty
4 physicians who have mended broken
}. bones, and enthroned again deposed
a intellects, and given their lives to heal
6 ing the long, deep cash of the worlds
d agony Going to be mechanic? Read
d up the inventors of sewing machines
n and cotton gins and life-saving ap
O paratus, and the men who as archi
e tects, and builders, and manufacturers
n and day laborers have made life O.
u thirty years in this century worth more
d than the full one hundred years of any
it other century. You six young men o
r. Ohio, and all the other young men
ls instead of wasting your time on DIR.
is essays as to how to do great things
d go to the biographical alcove of you
It village or city library, and acquain
a yourselves with men who in the sigh
D, of earth, and Heaven, and hell, did tn
If great things Remember, the creates
.r things are yet to be done. If the Bibl
D. be true, or as l had better put it, sine
IL the Bible is beyond all controvcrs
is true, the greatest battle is yet to b
n. fought, and compared with it Sara
ye gossa, and Gettysburg, and Sedan wer
le childs play with toy pistols. We eve
IN know the name of the battle, thoug
1e we are not certain as to where it Wi
III be fought. | refer to Armagedaon. TIL
~ greatest discoveries are yet to be made
ne During the nineteenth century tn
he world has by ChristianiZing and edr
is cational influences been fixed up unit
IN it does very well for temporary res
,t dence. But the twentieth century! Al
that will be the time to see great sight.
oc and do great deeds @, young mel
ID. get ready for the rolling in of tina
,st mightiest, and grandest, and most gle
tv rious century that the world has eve
RS seen Only five summers more; tiv
us autumns more; five winters more; fiv
| nd ha al r
at time will strike the death of the oil
ir. century and the birth of the new.
dc do not know what sort of a Decembt
90 night it will be when this century lie
N. down to die; whether it will be starl
he or tempestous; whether the SHOWS wi
ne. be drifting, or the soft winds wi
le. breathe up the pillow of the eXpirin
rn centenarian. But millions will mour
Nd its going. for many have received fro
nd it kindness innumerable, and they wi
+ I kiss farewell the aged brow wrinkle
ad with so many vicissitudcs. Old min
,as teenth century of weddings and burial
ill of defeats and victories; Of nations boz
ou and nations dead; thy pulses CROWN
IRE feebler now, will soon stop on tn;
lte thirty-frst night of December.
full But right beside it will be the infal
en-. century held up for baptism. l
an smooth brow will glow with bright e
nd pectations. The then more than seve
,ev teen hundred million inhabitants of Il
III. earth will hail it's birth and pray Fl
Of its prosperity. Its reign will be for
ov hundred years, and the most of yo,
rad lie. | tllnK, Will De unU1r UnG SWPy