Milford chronicle., 1905-12-01

G iCt not UiAlg Win llit uoWGln VI tus
? field, but with new spring garments
r for both masculine and feminine.
Benefits of improvements.
But, after discussing for little while
the benefits which machinery has Civ
en- to us in our eating and drinking
and our sanitation and in our wearing
apparel, shall we stop there? Shall we
not at least hint at the wonderful ben
efits that have come to us from tele-
phone and telegraph and the modern
newspapers and 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
/ cars which for cents make it pOssi-
bic for business man to be in his Of
flee at half past in the morning and
yet take his evening meal in a subur-
ban home surrounded by flowers and
grass grown yard, as well as by wife
and children? Shall we not thank God
for the wonderful inventions Of the
biologists laboratory, for the micro
scope, the Roentgen rays and all the
wonderful means by which disease is
being halted in its 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 a large city almost as
bright as midday and which light is
the greatest of all crime preventers? |
And, above all, shall we not thank God |
for our library shelves filed with |
books, cheap books, yet books ready |
to serve us when we stretch out our |
hands for them?
We are living in a wonderful age.
How wonderful it is not one of us can
truly grasp. l was never more i'm
pressed with the rapid advancement of
blessings and of inventions
han when reading recently a synopsis
# lecture delivered by the late Bish-
p Clark Of Rhode Island in 1865. At
hat time there were no bicycles, no
automobiles, no typewriting machines,
10 telephones, no Atlantic cables, no
ranscOntinental railroad, no great
teamship lines as we conceive them.
o successful airships, no sleeping cars,
o large office buildings, with their ele-
atOrs, and no electric cars. The title
this lecture was "The Next Fifty
ears" These are some of the prophe-
es Bishop Clark then made: 1--WE have
ade wonderful progress in travelling
lcilities during the last half century,
1T do you think improvement is going
stop there? Nay. Posterity will not
: content to travel at the slow rate of
lly thirty miles an hour, seated in 2.
ese narrow cars, stifed with bad air
I'd dirt. 1t costs no great effort to q
lagine fifty years hence a splendid :
with hotel, spacious par
IS, dining rooms and dOrmitOries, q
1ving gently as the bird files over a p,
nd carpeted by turf and bordered by
ade trees and sweet shrubs from q
ston to San Francisco in four days"
i've not the good bishops prophecies &
most literally come true? Shall we
soon leap the continent from the 8
lantic to the Pacific in less than four g
rs? Then Bishop Clark goes on and1 !
'phesies some Of the wonderful in Z
ltiOns that have come to pass irythe
ctric world: ''The electric battery, 7
ich now in some Of our cities strikes 4
midnight hour, may be made at to-
ming to light all of our street lamps soI
1ne flash, secure perfect uniformity pm
lime in our public clocks and kindle
eacon on these dreary rocks in the Z
where human beings now endure
lelanchOly and dangerous solitude" Z
lop Clark from the celestial heights
ht see those electric lights shining q
". Speak out, ye lonely islanders q
in touch with mankind. Speak g.
len the good bishop goes on and de- 81
Ies the wonderful invention of the AZ
ern typewriter, to me one Of the Sd
test labor saving machines in the vo
ID. He continues: "There is an -
invention which 1 for one would
with exceeding joy. 1t may seem
I'd to predict that the time may
when it will not be customary
ach our children how to write It
d have been thought just as alb
fifty years ago to have foretold
the boys Of this generation would
up not knowing how to make a
But that time is going to come"
rs in closing this sermon on this
ksgiving Sabbath would have us
md all, amid the great hum of fac