Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-05-18

tHclT hlTIut NlCc, ana tDt DlKgeSb
strokes you will probably make for the
truth or against the truth will be befora
you reach the meridian Of life. Do not
wait for something to turn up. Go 10
work and turn It up. There Is no such
lived has had better time than have
had. Yet never had any good luck. But
instead thereof kind Providence has
crowded my life with mercics You will
never accomplish much as long rs you go
at your work on the minute you are ex-
pected and stop at the first minute 1t is
lawful 10 quit. The greatly useful and
successful men of the next century will be
those who began half an hour before they
We're required and worked at least half an
hour after they might have quit. Unless
you are willing sometimes to work 19
hours of the day you will remain on the
low levels, and your life will be a prolong-
ed humdrum.
The Eighth Step.
| Word the next: Remember that 1t Is
only small part of our life that we are to
pass ON earth. Less than your finger nail
compared with your whole body is the life
on earth when compared with the next life.
/ suppose there are not more than half n
dozen people in this world 100 years old
| But very few people in any country
reach so. The majority Of the human race
expire before 30. Now, what an equipoisc
| In such consideration. II things 20
wrong. II Is only for little while. Have
you not enough moral pluck to stand the
jostling. and the injusticcs, and the mis-
haps of the small parenthcsis between the
two eternitics: 1t Is good thing TO get
ready for the one mile this side the mar
BILE slab but moro 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
willie and New Orleans railroad we were
walked up early in the morning and told
we must take carriages for some distance.
"Why?" 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 n span that had fallen and we
could not but shuddcr at what might have
been the possibilities. When your rail
train starts on long bridge, you want TO
bc sure that the first span of the bridge Is
all right. But what IL farther on there is
a span OF the bridge that Is all wrong?
| How then? What then? In ono of the
western cities the frcshets had carried
away n bridge, and man knew that the
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| he lighted n 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 rs the train came up he
threw the lantern into the locomotive,
crying: "Stop, Stop" And the warn
ing was in time to halt the train. And il
any of you by evil habits are fastening on
| toward brink or prccipicc or fallen span /
throw this Gospel lantern at your mad ca
recr: "Stop Stopl The end thereof is
deathv' Young man, you are Gagged now
by many environments, but you will after
awhile get your wings out.
Some one Gagged Rocky mountain eagle
and kept him shut up between the wires
until all the spirit and courage had gone
out of it, Released one day from the cage,
| the eagle seemed to want to return 10 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 empyrcan. My brother, when you
leave this life, IL by the grace Of God you
are prepared, you will come out of the cage
of this hindcring mortality, and looking
up to the heavenly heights you will spread
wing for immortal flight, leaving sun and
moon and stars beneath in your ascent to
| glories that never fade and splendors which
never die. Your body Is tho cage. Your
soul is the eagle.
The Ninth Step.
Word tho next: Fill yourself with biog-
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business or occupation or profession you
are about To choose or have already chosen.
Going to be a merchant? Read up Peter
Cooper and Abbot Lawrence and James
Lenox and William f. Dodge and George
Peabody. See how most of the merchants
at the start munchcd their MONDAY lunch
con, made up of dry bread and u hunk
of cheese, behind u counter or in store
room rs they started in business which
brought them to the top of influences
which enabled them to bless the world
with millions OF dollars consccrated To
hospitals and schools and churches and
private bcnefactions, 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
| covercr of chlorofOrm rs an annsthctic,
and Leslie Kelley, who, notwithstanding
all the dama;-e 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 cnthroned 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
yentors Of s~;ving machines and cotton
gins and life saving apparatus and the
men who ns architects and builders and
manufacturers and day laborcrs have made
n life of 30 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 rs TO how to do great
things, go to the biographical alcovc 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. II the Bible be true, or rs
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
1t Saragossa and Gettysburg and Sedan
were child's play with toy pistols. We
even know the name of the battle, though
We are not certain rs to where 1t will bc
! fought. l refer to Armagcddon. The
greatest discoveries are yet to be- made a
scientist has recently discovered in the
air something which will yet rival cleo
tricity. The most Of things have not yet
been found out. An explorer has recently
found in the valley Of the Nile whole
fleet Of ships buried ages ago where now
| there is no water. Only six out of the
i 500 grasses have been turned into food like
the potato and the tomato There are
hundreds of other styles of food to be dis
covered. Aerial navigation will yet be
made as safe as travel ON the solid earth.
Cancers and consumptions and leprosics
arc to he transferred from the catalogue of
incurable disease to the curablc. Medical
men are now successfully experimenting
with modes of transferring diseases from
weak constitutions which cannot throw
them of to stout constitutions which are
able to throw them of. Worlds like Mars
and the moon will be within hailing dis
The Sea Anemone.
The sea anemone resembles in shape
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