The Monticellonian., 1918-01-11
,.cs Offered to ..,lh Foresight to Grasp Them.
GREATEsT HOURS IN HISTORY
Thrilling Moments of History Nothing Compared With Epoch-Making Events That Are Taking
 Place Today.
sv FRANCIS TREvELYAN MILLER,

young menl
 What vast opportunities are, offer ing themselves to young men who have the foresight to grasp them!
 What an opportunity this very mo plent to be something, to be somebody, to make your life known and heard throughout the world. A year ago we were unimportant even in our own llt- tie towns, today the whole world is calling us.
 We, who are living today, are living in the greatest hours of the world history. Never before in the annals of mankind has the world been thrown wide open for every young man to test his valor and prove his worth.
 As a youth, I longed for the days when great events were in the making. I wanted to live when new civiliza- tions were being born; when soul-stir- ring heroes were treading the earth when men were gods.
 Dream Has Come True.
 And here we are--in just such an age. The dream has come true. Ro- nance and chivalry have returned from the past ages. Today We are all knights setting forth on the grandest crusade in the whole noble adventures of the human race.
 What would you net give to have been a soldier under Alexander the Great in his conquest to destroy Thebes at twenty-one, to conquer Babylon at twenty-five, and to die master of the world at thirty-three years of age?
 Or of Hannibal on his march across the Alps with his 90,0o0 foot-soldiers, 12,000 horsemen, and 40 elephants.
 Or to have ridden with the helmeted hosts of William the ConquGor into the battle of Hastings when King Har- old lost his life and his kingdom-and England was born?
 What would you not give to have fol lowed the heroic Joan of Arc into the battle of 0rleans-to save France?
 Or with the duke of Marlborough in the cavalry charges on the battle ground at Blenheim?
 Or with Washington and his vieto- rious army at Yorktown when Corn. wallis surrendered-and the American nation was born--what q glorious mo- ment?
 Or with the duke of Wellington at Waterloo-to have been one of the soldiers who conquered the mighty Na- poleon; to have stood at attention as he passed down the lines into exile and death at St. Helena?
 What thrilling moments are these and yet they are nothing compared with the epoch-making events that are taking place today. And to think that you are a part of themi That you are an important factor in their out comet That you can march to victory with the mightiest armies in all human historyi
 Yesterday, you were unknown and insignificant; there was no opportunity for you to assert yourself; you were destined to live and die an ordinary. inconsequential life. Today-the world Is calling you.
 The Trumpet Gall.
 
 And the call of the bugle. Thirty mil lion men are on the battle grounds. Over their heads fly the blood-stained standards of the nations of the earth. What a glorious yision-the strong men of the earth in battle array to free the human race from despotism to carry the flag of liberty and democ- racy to all the peoples of the globe.
 I can hear the trumpet call. It is calling-me!
 I can hear the cries of women and children trodden down by the brute heel of the invaders. I can hear the kings blaspheme as their thrones totter and fall.
 I can hear the voice of humanity calling-calling to-mei
 Who speaks? Who tells me to tufn a deaf ear? Who tells me I am a coward and fool? Think you 1 have no manhood within me? Think you am weakling or knave? Think you I have neither human heart or sou nor even a glimmer of reason within me?
 Mother of men. I hear you calling me.
 Women and children of Belgium Starving babes of Sibefial Sufferine Poland! Weary Russial Heroic Francel Chivalrous 1talyl Noble Britannia Bruised Roumania Ms heart is bleeding for you. I see youl uplifted faces and your outstretchet arms.
 Men of the earth, hear the tramp of your marching feet And l am com ing-coming to stand beside you, shoul der to shoulder; coming, to be witt yor the greatest moment in the world history; coming. to write my narnt with yours on the pages of immortal ity; coming, to save civilization :A t make democracy safe for9tlfe peoples of the earth; to be one of Gods no blemen spss.s'''a - h.s
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