The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-05-17

ufaoturers and day laborers have made
d life Of 80 years in this century worth
moro than the full 100 years Of any 9th
or century.
You six young men of Ohio, and all
the other young men, instead of vast
ing your time ON dry essays Ms to how
to do great things, go to the biograph'
ical alcove Of your village or city library,
and aequaint 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 DO 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 We're
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 Arhiageddon. The
greatest discoveries arc yet to be made.
A scientist has recently discovered i'll
the air something which will yet rival
clSClIACiNys iHS liioAV VI tiliii;so now iop
yet been found out An explorer has re-
Gently fouud in the valley Of the Nile a
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-
lions and leprosies are to be transferred
from the catalogue of incurable disease
to the durable Medical men are now
successfully experimenting with modes
of transferring diseases from weak con-
situations which cannot throw them off
to stout constitutions which are able tc
throw them Off Worlds like Mars and
the moon will be within hailing dis
lance, and instead Of confirming oul
knowledge to their canals and their vol
canoes they will signal all styles of in
telligence to us, and we will signal al
styles Of intelligence to them.
Coming times will class our boosted
nineteenth century with the dark ages
Under the power Of gospelzation the
world is going to be SO improved that
the sword and the musket of our tint
will be kept in museums as now we lool
at thumbscrews and ancient instruments
of torture. Oh, what opportunities yor
are going to have, young men all the
world over, under 80. How Thankful
you ought to be that you were not borl
any sooner. Blessed are the cradles tina
are being rocked now. Blessed are tht
students in the freshman class. BLESSED
those who will yet be young men whel
the new century comes in, in five or sil
years from now. This world was hardl,
fit to live in in the eighteenth century
I do not see how the old folks stood it
During this nineteenth century tn
world has by Christianizing and educa
tional influences been fixed up until i
does very well for temporary residence
But the twentieth century! All, tina
will be the time to see great sights ant
do great deeds. Oh, young men, sc
ready for the rolling in of that mighties
and grandest and most glorious centur
that the world has ever seen! Only fiv
summers more; five autumns more; fly
winters more; five springs more, an
then the clock of time will strike til
death of the old century and the brit
of the new. do not know what sort G
December night it will be when thi
century lies down to die; whether
will be starlit or tempestuous; whethe
the SHOWS will be drifting or the sol
winds will breathe upon the pillow {
the expiring centenarian. But million
will mourn its going, for many have re
ceived from it kindnesses innumerable
and they will kiss farewell the age
brow wrinkled with SO many Weiss
tudes.
Old nineteenth century of wedding
and burials. Of defeats and victories
of nations born add nations dead, tn
pulses growing feebler how, will 500
, stop on. that 31st night of Decen
Der! But right beside it will be the IL
FAINT century, held up for baptism. II
. smooth brow will glow with bright ez
pectations. The then more than /, 700
900, 900 inhabitants Of the earth wi
, hail its birth and pray for its prosper
ity. Its reign will be for hundre
, years, and the most of your life, l thinl
| will be under the sway Of its sceptel
, Get ready for it. Have your heart right
| your nerves right, your brain righ
| your digestion right We will hand Owe
| to you our commerce, our mechanism
our arts and sciences, our professions
, our pulpits, our Inheritance. We beliey
in you. We trust you. We pray for yor
We bless you And though by the tim
3 you get into the thickest Of the fight il
, God and righteousness we may hay
S disappeared from earthly scenes, W
7 will not lose our interest in your strut
/ gle, and if the dear Lord will excuse I
for little while frora the temple SER
r ice and the house of many mansions W
: will come out ON the battlements of ja
l per aud cheer you, and perhaps if thu
i night of this world be very quiet yc
may hear our voices dropping from at;
4 as we cry, "Be thou faithful unt
4 death, and thou shalt have crown ]"
o MICHIGAN'S RENEFACTOF