Connecticut western news., 1895-05-16

work 12 hours of the day you will re- main on the low levels, and your life will be prolonged humdrum.
 Word the next: Remember that it IS only a 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 dozen people in this world 100 years old But very few people in any country reach 80. The ma jority of the human race expire before 30. Now, what an equipoise in such a consideration. If things go wrong it is only for little while. Have you not enough moral pluck to stand the jos tling, and the injustices, and the mis- haps of the small parenthesis between the two eternities? It is good thing to marble slab, but more important to get fixed up for the interminable miles which stretch out into the distances be- yond the marble slab. A flow years ago on the Nashville and New Orleans rail road we were walked up early in the morning, and told we must take car riages for some distance. "Why?" we all asked But we soon saw for our selves 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 Q long bridge you want to be sure that tho first span of the bridge is all right, but what if farther on, there is span of tho bridge that is all wrong; how then? what then? In one of the western cities the freshets { had carried away 0 bridge, and man
 knew that the express train would soon come along So ho lighted 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 dark ness as the train came up he threw the lantern into the locomotive, crying, "Stopl Stop!" And the warning was in time to halt tho train. And if any of you by evil habits are hastening on toward brink or precipice or fallen span, I throw this Gospel lantern at your mad career: Stopl Stopl The end there of it death! Young man, you are caged now by many environments, but you will after awhile get your wings out.
 Some one caged Rocky Mountain eagle and kept him shut up between the wires until all the spirit and cour- age 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 ono 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, leav- ing sun and 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. Word the next: Fill yourself with biographies of men who did gloriously in the business or occupation or profes- sion you are about to choose or have al- teady chosen. Going to be merchant2 Bead up Peter Cooper and Abbot Law 'ence and James Lenox and William E. Dodge and George Peabody. See how most of the merchants at the start munched their monday luncheon made mp 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 en- abled them to bless the world with millions of dollars consecrated to hospi- tals and schools and churches and pri- vate 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 discoverer of chloroform as an anas- | thetic, and Leslie Keeley, who, not withstanding all the damage done by his incompetent imitators, stands one of the greatest benefactors of the centu- ries, and all the other mighty physicians who have mended broken bones, and enthroned again deposed intellects, and given their lives to healing the long, deep gash of the world's agony. Going ! to be mechanic? Read up the inven- tors of sewing machines and cotton gins and life saving apparatus, and the men who as architects and builders and man. ufacturess and day laborers have made | fo of ir,f l,i more than the full 100 years of any oth- CT 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 I had better put it, since the Bible is beyond all con- troyelsy 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. I 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 8 whole fleet of ships buried ages ago where now there is no water. Only six out of the 800 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 to the curable. Medical men are now | c11nopcSfr1 11u with ,ondoc