The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-06-11

r.o,ive. crying, :.stop! Stop!" And the
warning was in time to halt the train And
| il any OF you by evil habits are hasteLing on
| toward brink or precipice or fallen span, J
| throw this Gospel lantern at your mad
! .areer: Stop! StoJ! The end thereof 1t
| !eath! Young man, yon are Gagged row by
| many environments. but you will after
/ while get your wings out.
Some one Gagged Rocky Mountain eagle
| md kept him shut up between the wires
Until all the spirit and courage had gone
| The eagle seemed to want to return to lis
Iormer prison. The fact was that the eagle
| had all conc out Of him. He kept his wings
| lown. But after awhile he looked up at tho
mn, 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
! ae was out Of sight in the empyrean. My
| brother. when you leave this life, II by tha
| grace Of God you are prepared. you will
| rome out Of the cage Of this hinderinS NOR
| salitv, and looking un to the heavenly
heights you Will spread wing for immortal
| flight, leaving sun and moon and stars be-
| meath in your ascent to Slories that never
fade and splendors which never die. Your
| bodyis the cage, you, soul is the eagle.
Word the next: Fill yourself with bog
aphies Of men who did gloriously in the
business or occupation or profession you are
about to choose or have already chosen.
Going to be merchant? Read up Peter
Cooper and Abbott Lawrence, and James
T.enox and William F. Dodge and George
Peabody. See how most OF these merchants
a. the start munched their MONDAY luncheon
made up Of dry bread aud hunk Of cheese,
behind counter or In storeroom as they
started in business which brought them to
the top of influences which enabled them to
bless the world with millions Of dollars con-
srcrated 70 hospitals and schools and
churches and private benefactions. where
neither right hand nor left hand knew what
lhe other hand did. Going to be physicianl
Read no Harvey and Gross and Sir
Adam Clarke and James Y. Simpson,
the discoverer Of chloroform az an ansesthe-
tie. 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 bea
mechanic? Read up the inventors Of sewing
machines and cotton gins and life saving ap'
paratus, and the men who as architects and
builders and manufacturers and day laboreri
have made life Of thirty years in this cen,
tury worth more than the full 100 years o'
any other century.
Yoa six young mon Of Ohio, and all tn,
othsS Syoung men, instead OF wasting youl
time oa dry essays as to how to do great
things, go to the biographical alcove of youl
village or city library, and acquaint your.
selves with men who, in the sight Of earth
and heaven and hell, did the great things.
Remember the greatest things are yet to hs
DONE If the Bible be true, or as I had bet.
ter put it, since the Bible Is beyond all con.
troversy true, the greatest battle is yet to be
fought, and compared with 1t Saragossa and
Gettysburg and Seden were child's play with
toy pistols. We even know the name OF the
battle, though we are not certain as to whert
it will be fought. refer to ArmaSeddon.
The greatest discoveries are yet to be made
A scientist has. recently discovered IL
the air somethinS whiM will yet riviIsI
sdecfncity. The most OF things have mol
fSyet been found out. An explorer has re-
Gently 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 sDt
grasses have been turned into food like the
potato and the tomato. There are hundred!
Of other styles of food to be discovered.
Aerial navigation will yet be made as safs
as travel on the solid earth. Cancers anl
consumptions and ieprosies are to be trans
ferred from the catalogue Of incurable dis
ease to the durable. Medical men are now
successfully experimenting with modes Of
transferring diseases from weak constitutions
which cannot throw them off to stout constl.
tutions which are able to throw them or
Worlds like Mars and the moon will be with.
in hailing distance. and instead OF confinine
our knowledge to their canals and volcanoes,
they will signal all styles OF intelligence te
Us, and we will signal all styles Of lntelli
gence to them.
Coming times will class our boasted nina
:eenth century with the dark ages. Under
the power Of gospelization the world is going
to be 80 improved that the sword and tht
musket of our time will be kept in museum.
as now we look at thumbscrews and ancient
instruments of torture Oh, what oppor
tunitles you are going to have, young mer
all the world over, under thirty. How thank
ful you ought to be that You were not born
any sooner. Blessed are the cradles that are
being rocked now. Blessed are the students
in the freshman class. Blessed those who
will yet be young men when the new century
comes in, In five or six years from now.
This world was hardly fit to live in in the
eighteenth century. lido not see how the OLD
folks stoodit During this nineteenth century
the world has by Christianizing and educa.
tional Influences been fixed up until it does
very we'll for temporary residence. But the
twentieth century! All, that will be tht
time to see great sights and do great deeds.
Oh, young men, get ready for the rolling in
of that mightiest and grandest and most
glorious century that the world has eve,
seen! Only five summers more; five autumnt
more; five winters more; five springs more,
and then the clock of time will strike the
death Of the old century and the birth of the
new. do not know Whatsort OF Decem.
ber night it will be when this century lie.
down to die; whether it will be starlit OF
drifting or the soft winds will breathe upon
the pillow of the expiring centenaran. But
millions will mourn its going, for many have
received from it kindneSses inIumerable,
and they will kiss farewell the aged broV
wrinkled with so many vicissitudes.
Old nineteenth century of weddings apa
burials, Of defeats and victories, Of nations
born and nations dead, thy pulses growing
feebler now. will soon stop on that 31st
night Of December! But right beside it will
be the infant century, held up for baptism
Its smooth brow will glow with fright eN-
pectations. The then more than ZOO, ,000,-
900 inhabitants of the earth will hail its
birth and pray for its prosperity. Its reign
n1AA 10 AOl O JOoAo, oHu iho AIOSl w
your life, think, will be under the sway Of
Its scepter. Get ready for it. Have You,
heart right, your nerves right, your brain
right, your digestion right. We will hand
over to you our commerce, our mechanism,
our arts and sciences, our professions, ou1
pulpits, our inheritance. We believe in
you. We trust you. We pray for you
| We bless you. And though by the
time you get into the thickest Of the
fight for God aud righteousness We may
have disappeared from earthly scenes,
We will not lose our interest in your strug.
gle, and If the dear Lord will excuse us fo,
little while from the temple service and
the house of many mansions We will come
out On the battlements of jasper and cheer
you. and perhaps If that night nf-'I NJ
De very quiet you may hear oul :,
ping from afar as we cry. BE t. i
unto death and though shalt have Wiz