Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-12-02

one do not want /, > .,,.eli to the old
poetic times Of 1 .lnlng wheel. !
10 not wish my We - wear her we'd
ding rousseau. cDsiii led of one or two
dresses and shawl. made SO strong
that they will last fpr twenty. thirty,
forty. fifty years. and then have her
will them 10 her children and grand
children as family relies. For my part.
thank God for the comforts of mod
crn dress. thank God that for a
mere SONG the sewing machine and the
big factory can give me light garments
for summer and heavy garments for
winter aud brighten my Easter serv-
fee not only with the flowers of the
field. but with new spring garments
for both mas .ulInc and feminine.
Benefits of improvements.
But. after discussing for a little while
the benefits which machinery has Civ
en- % us In our eating and drinking
aud our sanitation and in our wearing
apparel. shall we stop there: Shall we
not nj least hint NJ tie wonderful ben
ciits that have come 10 us from tcle-
phone aud Telegraph aud the modern
newspapers ana the lights by which
we read IN the evening hours, and
from the typewriter. which has so lift
ed the onerous burdens of professional
and mercantile life, and the electric
ears which for cents make II posi-
bic for Il business man To bc In his Of
flee AT half past y IN the morning and
yet take his evening meal In a subur-
ban home surrounded 10y flowers and
grass Growl yard. as we'll rs by wife
ana children: Shall we not thank God
for the wonderful inventions Of the
biologists laboratory. for the micro
scope. the l.oentgcn rays and all the
wonderful means by which disease Is
being halted IN It's onward march and
driven back and by which the crooked
limbs are made straight: Shall we not
thank God for the wonderful system
of street lamps we have, which makes
midnight IN large city almost as
bright rs midday and which light Is
the greatest Of all crime prcventers?
. !.
for our library shelves filled with
books. cheap books. yet books ready
to scrve u; when we stretch out our
hands for them:
We are Twin. In il wonderful age.
How wonderful II is not one of US can
truly grasp WIS never more inn
pressed with the rapid advancement of
material blessings aud of inventions
than when reading recently Il synopsis
of u lecture delivered 10y the late Bish-
op Clark Of Rhode Island In 1870. Al
that time there were no bicycles, no
automobiles. no typewriting machines.
no telephones no Atlantic cables. no
transcontnental railroad. no great
steamship lines as we conceive them.
no successful alrsliips, no sleeping cars.
no large Office buildings, with their ole
vaiors. and 10 electric ears. The title
of this lecture was The Next Fifty
Years" These are some of the prophe-
cics Bishop Clark then made: We have
madc wonderful progress In travelling
facilities curing the last half century.
but do you think improvement Is going
10 stop there: Nay Postcrily will not
be content To travel ut the slow rate of
only thirty miles an hour seated In
these narrow ears. stiilcd with bad air
and dirt. II costs no great effort 10
imagine fifty years hence II splendid
locomotive. with hotel. spacious par
lors. dining rooms ana dormitories.
moving gently rs the bird flies over a
road carpcied by turf and bortlered by
shade trees AMI sweet shrubs from
Boston To san Francisco In four days"
Have not the good bishops prophecies
almost literally come true: Shall we
not soon leap the continent from the
Atlantic 10 the Pacific in less than four
days: Then Bishop Clark goes on and
prophcsicS some of the wonderful in
vcntions that have come 10 pass IN the
electric world: '''rhe electric battery.
which now in some of our cities strikes
the midnight hour. may be made at
evening to light all of our street lamps
nj one flash, secure perfect uniformity
of time In our public clocks and kindle
u VII AtifNt ibNRN va INV
sea. where human beings now endure
II melancholy and dangerous solitude"
Bishop Clark from the celestial heights
might see those electric lights shining
today. Speak out. ye lonely islanders
now In touch with mankind. Speak
out.
Then the good bishop goes on and de-
scribcs the wonderful invention OF the
modern Typewriter. TO me one OF the
greatest labor saving machines in the
world. He continues: "Thcre Is an
other invention which for one would
hail with exceeding joy. II may seem
absurd TO predict that the time may
come when II will not be customary
TO teach our children how 10 write. II
would have been thought just rs alb
surd fifty years ago 10 have foretold
that the boys of this generation would
grow up not knowing how To- make II
pen. But that time Is going to come"
Thus In closing this sermon on this
Thanksgiving sabbath would have us
one and all amid the great hum 81 fac
tory and by the flash of electric spark.
make this one prayer: 20 God. make
mo thankful for the food | eat for the