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THE DYING CENTURY.
RIV. DR. TALMAGE MAKES A CHEER
FUL PROPHECY.
Ho t!io Arltlevcmcnt* of (!ic llun-
«lro«l Vcarj About cio^lti" Grcut Piob-
re»n In Art, Hcienoo anil Ilrllclou Work
Well Done.
V/ASiuxaTOM, Nov. EO.—('onaidoring
tho timo and placa c f iM dolivrry, thiH
■onHoii of Dr. Talmnj'o is of absorbing
and startling intorost. It is not only na
tional, but iuternutioual in its rignili-
cauco. His subject van “Tho Dying
Century” and tin* toxt, II Kings xx, 1,
"Thus saith tin* Lord, Kot thino bouso
in order, for thou shalt dio and not
live."
No alarm bell do I rii:,'j in tho uttor- :
frncoof this text, f< r in tho healthy glow
of your countenances I find cause only !
for cheerful prophecy, hut I shall apply
tho toxins spoken in tho ear of Ilezo-
kiah, down with a bad carbuncle, to tho
nineteenth century, now closing. It will
take only four more long breaths, each
year a breath, and tho century will ex
pire. My themo is "Tin* Dying Cen
tury.” I discuss it at an hour v hen our
national legislature is about to assemble, |
Bomocf the members now hero present |
and others soon to arrive from tho north,
south, east and west. All the public con- .
veyancet coming this way will bring iin- ]
portaut additions of public men, so that
when on Deo. 7, at high noon, tho gav
els of Hcuuto and house of representa
tives shall lilt and fall, tho destinies of
this nation, and through it tho destinies
of all nations struggling to ho free, will !
bo put on solemn and tremendous trial.
Amid such intensifying cirenmstanccs I
stand by the venerable century and ad
dress it in tho words of my text, “Thus
saith the Lord, Get thino house in order,
for thou shalt dio and not live."
Plain Talk.
Eternity is too big a subject for us to
understand. Gome one lias said it is a
groat clock that says in ,ono.
century and "Tack.l.” ; ju another. But
we era liot ier understand old time, who
has many children—and they are tho
centuries—and many grandchildren—
and they are the years. With the dying
nineteenth century we shall this morn
ing have a plain talk, telling him some
of the good things he has done, and then
telling him so mo of tho things he ought
to adjust before hoqnits this sphere and
passes out to join tho eternities. Y/o
generally wait until people are dead
before wo say much in praise of them.
Funeral culogimn is generally very pa
thetic and eloquent with things that
ought to have been said years beforo.
We put on cold tombstones what wo
ought to havo put in the warm ears of
the living. Wo curse Charles Sumner
while ho is living and cudgel him into
*pinal meningitis and wait until, in tho
rooms where I have been living tho last
year, ho puts his hand on his heart and
cries ‘‘Oh!’’ and is gone, and then wo
make long precession in his honor, Dr.
Sunderland, chaplain of the American
senate, accompanying, stopping long
CMiAugh to allow tho dead senator to lie
in state in Independence hall, Philadel
phia, and halting at Boston statehouse,
where not long before damnatory reso
lutions had been passed in regard to
him, and then move on amid tho toll
ing hells and tho boom of minute guns
until wo bury him at Mount Auburn
and cover him with flowers five feet
deep. What a pity ho could not have
been awako at his own funeial to hour
the gratitude cf the nation! What a pity
that one green leaf could not have been
taken from each one of the mortuary
garlands and put upon his table while
ho was yet alive at tho Arlington! What
a pity that out of the great choirs who
chanted at his obsequies one little girl,
dressed in white, might not havo sung
to his living ear a complimentary solo!
Tin po.:t mortem expression contradict
ed tho antemortem. Tho nation could
not have spoken tho truth both times
about Charles Sumner. Was it before
or after his decease it lied? No such in
justice Ghall bo inflicted upon this von-
erablo nineteenth century.
A Century’a Invention!*.
Before ho goes wo recite in his hearing
some of tho good things ho has accom
plished. What on addition to tlio world’s
intelligence ho has made! Look at the
old solioolhouse, with tho snow sifting
through tho rocf and tho filthy tin cup
hanging over the water pail in tho cor
ner, and the little victims on tho long
benches without backs, and tho illiterate
schoolmaster with his hickory gad, and
then look at our modern palaces of free
schools, under men and women nulturor
mid refined to tho highest excellence, so
that, whereas in our childhood we had
to bo whipped to go to school, children
now cry when they cannot go. Thank
you, vcncrablo century, while at tho
*nme timo wo thank Clod! What an ad
dition to tho world's inventions—with
in our century tho cotton gin, the agri
cultural machines for planting, reaping
and thrashing; tho telegraph; tho pho
nograph, capable of preserving a human
voico from generation to generation; the
typewriter, that rescues tho world from
worse and worse penmanship, and ste
nography, capturing from the lips of the
swiftest rpeakcr more than SCO words a
minute. Never was .( kt amazed at tho
facilities ct our timo ns when, n few
days ago, I telegraphed from Washing
ton to New York a long and elaborate
manuscript, and a few minutes after, to
show its nocuracy, it was read to mo
through tho long distauco tclephono,
mid it was exact down to tho last semi
colon and comma. What hath God
wrought! Oil, I am so glad I was not
born sooner! For tho tallow candle tho
electric light; for the writhings of the
surgeon's tabio God given anu-sthetios,
uud the whole physical organism ex
plored by sharpest jiislruimuit and giv
ing not so much pain ai the taking of a
splinter from and. ra chilli’s finger nail;
for tho lumbering stagecoach the lim-
itKl express train. And there is tho
spectroscope of FrauuliofiT, by which
our modern scientist feels the pulse of
Qtl.tsr worlds throbbing with light.
TilK LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., DECEMBER 3, 1890.
Jenner's nnvrt by inoculation of on<*
cf tho world’s worst plagues. Dr.
Koeley’*' cm a i ic. i put ion fur Inebriety. In
timation that tho virus of maddened
canine and cancer and consumption tiro
yet to be balked by magnificent medical
treatment. The eyesight of the drirtor
sharpened till he can look through tid' k
flesh and find the hiding place of tho
ballet. What advancement in geology,
or the catechism of tho mountains;
chemistry, or the catechism of tho olc-
tn ’its; astronomy, or tho catechism ot
the stars; electrology, or tho eatrrhism
of tho lightnings! What advancement in
music! At tho beginning of thiscontury,
confining itself, so far as tho great
masses of tho peopln were concerned, to
a few airs drawn out on accordion or
massacred on church bass viol, now on-
obantingly dropping from thousands of
fingers in Handel’s “Concerto In B Flat"
or Guilmaut’s "Sonata In D Minor."
Thanks to you, O century, before yen dio,
for tho asylums of mercy that yon havo
founded—tho blind seeing with their
fingers, tho deaf hearing by tho motion
of your lips, tho born imbecile by skill
ful object lesson lifted to tolerable in
telligence. Thanks to this century for
the improved condition of most nations.
Tho reason that Napoleon made such
a successful sweep aorois Europe at the
beginning of tho century was that most
of tho thrones of Europe wore occupied
either by imbeciles or profligates. But
most of the thrones of Europe are today
occupied by kings and queens compe
tent. Franco a republic, Switzerland a
republic, and about 50 free constitutions,
I am told, in Europe. Twenty million
serfs of Russia manumitted. On this
western continent I can call the roll of
many republics—Mexico, Guatemala,
San Salvador, Costa Rica, Paraguay,
Uruguay, Honduras, New Granada,
Venezuela, Petu, Ecuador, Bolivia,
Chile, Argentine Republic, Brazil. The
once struggling village of Washington
to which the United States government
moved, its entire baggage and equip
ment packed up in seven boxes which |
got lost in tho wuoiLi near this, .pbico.J.
now tho architectural glory of tho con
tinent and admiration *of tno world.
Good Word For Nowcpap«r*.
The money power, so much denounced
and often justly criticised, has covered
this continent with universities mid
free libraries and asylums of mercy.
The newspaper press, which at the be
ginning of the century was an ink roller,
by bund moved over one sheet of paper
at a time, has becomo the miraculous
manufacturer of four or five or c.ix hun
dred thousand sheets for one daily news
paper’s issue. Within your memory, Q
dying century, has been the genesis of
neayly all the great institutions evangel
istic! At London tavern, March 7, 1802,
British and Foreign Bible society was
born. In 1810 American Bible society
was born. In 1824 American Sunday
School union was born. In 1810 Ameri
can hoard of commissioners for foreign
missions, which has put its saving hand
on evry nation of the round earth, was |
bom at a haystack in Massachusetts. ;
The National Temperance society, the !
Woman’s Temperance society uud all
the other temperance movemcuM Itfvrn
in thi* century. Africa, hidden to other ;
ccntuHes, by exploration in this cent ary
lias b en put at the feet of civilization,
to ho occupied by commerce and (Jliri.-:- j
tinnity.
Thc Chineso wall, onooau impassablo
barrier, now is a useless pile of stono
and brick. Our American nation at the
opening of this century only a slice of
land along the Atlantic coaat, now tho
whole continent in possession of our
schools and churches and missionary
stations. Sermons and religions intelli
gence which in other times, if noticed
at ail by the newspaper press, were al
lowed only a paragraph of three or four
lines, now find tho columns of tho secu
lar press in all tho cities thrown wide
open, and every week for 20 years, with
out the omission of a single week. I
have been permitted to preach one entire
gospel sermon through tho newspaper
press. I thank God for this great oppor
tunity!
Glorious old century! Yon shall not
be entombed until wo have, face to face,
extolled you. You were rocked in a
rough rradle, and tho inheritance you
received was for the most part poverty
and s’rugg'e r.nd hardship and poorly
covered graves of heroes and heroines,
of whom the world had not been worthy,
and atheism and military despotism and
the wreck cf tho French revolution.
Yon inherited the influences that result
ed in Aaron Burr’s treason, and anotlu r
war with England, and battle of Lake
Erie, and Indian savagery, and Lundy’s
Lane, and Dartmoor massacre, and di -
sension hitter and wild beyond mea; ■
! uromont, and African slavery, which
was yet to cost a national hemerrk: ■
j of four awful years and a million pre
j cioua lives. Yes, dear old. century, you
had an awful start, and you have done
: more than well, considering yourpuiv:!-
i tage and your early oirmorment. It i ;
i a wonder you did not turn out to ho tho
vagabond century of all time. You had
a bad mother and a bad grandmother.
Some of the preceding centuries were
ni t fit to live iii—their morals were se
bad, their fashions were so outrageous,
their ignorance was so dense, their in
humanity so terrific.
Voar* of J’rogreM.
O dying nineteenth century, b f i ■
you go we take this opportunity of fi l
ing you that you are the best and th*
mightiest of all the centuries of tlr*
Christian era except the first, which
gave us tho Christ, and you rival that
century in the fact that you, more than
all the other centuries put together, mo
giving the Christ to all the world. One
hundred and twelve thousand dollars *t
one meeting a few days ago contribute d
for tho world’s evangelization. Look u r
what you haM done, O thou abused and
! tl< predated cvntniy. All the Ihieifio '
! isles, barred and bolted against the g-is*
pel win n you began to reign, row all
open, anil some of them more Christian
ized than Aiiioriiu. No more, as onco
| written over the rlmivh doors in <’i) >
Colony, "Doga and Huttento: j not ad
mitted." Tint late Mr. Darwin cm- j
tributing ||25 to thy Southern Idta-U
aionary r-c ioty. C uinihnUsm driven off
tho face of the earth. The gates of r.ll
until ii wide opan for the gospel entranee
when the church shall give up its Intel
lectual diindyinm and quit fooling with
n month, ions boys turn in and give Mm
a lift.” "Do all tho boys help him?"
o'ked the reporter. " Yes, sir. When
they ain't got no job themselves, mid
Jim g ts one, they turn in and help Mm,
eritici-iii and plunge into tho for ho ain't strong yet, you sto.” "How
hi"'
J!
work « - at a iif" savingstat ion tho crew
pull out with tlio lileboat to take tho
Bailors off a i hip going to pieces in too
skerr: i. 1 thank yon, old and dying
century; all hrm-n thanks you, ami
auivly all the nations of the earth ought
to thank you. I put before your eyes,
soon to be dim for tho last Bleep, the
fu-sH tremendous. I take your wrinkled
o!d band and shako it in congratula
tion. I bathe your fevered brow aud
fresh'n your pan. In d lips from tho foun
tains of eternal victory.
Tliiuir* t<» lie Don**.
But my text suggests that there are
Goin -thii :. that this Century ought to
do before ho leaves us. "Thus saith the
Lord. Ret thine house in order, for thou
Biialt dio and not live.
We might not
to !• t this century go before two or three
things tin k t iu order. For one thing,
thi • quarrel between labor and capital.
The nil) tceiith century inherited it from
the ••!;(!)' nth century, but do not Ft
tliis nin i -enth century bequeath it to
the twentieth. "What we want," says
labor, “to sot us right is more strikes
and morn vigorous work with torch aud
dynamite." "Wlmt we want,” sayu
capital, “is a tighter grip on the work-
in:; clna-i s and compulsion to take what
wag- s we choose to pay without refer
ence to their needs. ” Both wrong as sin.
Both defiant. Until the day of judgment
no k ttlcnirnt of tho quarrel, if you
leave it to British, Russian or American
v, i!i :i. The religion of Jesus Christ
ought to come in within the next four
y a i and take tho hand of capital and
iMjhyp.c and say: “You have tried
everything elec and failed. Now try tho
gosp: 1 of kindness. ” No moro oppres
sion ami no ncra strikes. The gospel of
Jesus Christ will sweeten this acerbity,
or it will go ou to the end of time, and
tho lirca that burn the world up will
cr: 'Lie in the cars of wrathful prosper
pv till cluti hing at each other’s throaty.
B ‘fore tliis century sighs its last breath
I would that swarthy labor and easy
i mb uco would come up and let tho
( .vpeuti rof Nazareth join their hands
o pledge of everlasting kindness and
i one.'. When men and women arc dy
ing, they arc apt to divide among their
children mementos, and one is given a
watch, and another a vase, and anotlier
a pictni'', and another a robe. Let thin
vet ran century, before it dies, hand
Gv r r to tho human race, with an im-
pro..ness that shall last forever, that
old family keepsake, tho golden keep
sake which nearly 1,900 years ago was
handed down from the black rock of tho
mount of beatitudes, "Therefore all
things whatsoever ye would that men
Fhor.ld do to you, do yo oven so tothem,
for tliis is the lav/ and tho prophets."
Saving the World.
Aiif4her tiling that needs to ho set in
ord-r before the veteran century quits
us is inoi'o thorough aud all embracing
plan for th" world’s g.irdcnizatiqu. We
L! (*vu Irving to Ettve flic world frem
tho
It 1
top, and it cannot he done that way.
:. i got to he saved from the bottom.
Th. c it:* di ought to bo only a West
Point to drill soldiers for outside battle.
W!::.!■ if a military academy should ka p
i. s sf u i '.its from age to age in tho mess-
room anti tho barracks? No, no! They
a’-’ warned at Montezuma and Chapul-
t ; o and South Mountain and Mission
ary Itidge, and the church is noplace
f ir a Christian to stay very long. Ho is
wanted at (ho front. He is needed in
the i!icrate charge of taking the panf-
pei s. The last great battle for God is
not to he fought on the campus of a col
lege or the lawn of a church. It is to be
ii glit at Missionary Ridge. Before this
century quits ns let us establish the hab
it of giving the forenoon of tho Subbath
i ) th" churches and tho afternoon and
tier i veiling of tho Subbath to gospel
work in the ■ balls and theaters aud
t in vt - and fields and slums aud wiidor-
n 1 , of sin and sorrow. Why do Chris
tians who have stuffed themselves with
"the sirong meat of the word" aud all
tg.qi. i viands on Sabbath forenoons want
to i ome up to a second service and etuff
E: or- elves again? Those old g or in and-
at the gospel feast need to get
i;.t . nnfi’ i 'r work with the outdoor gos-
p i thd was preached on the banks of
tho J. i lan aud on the fishing smacks of
J. L > ( diloe and in tho bleak air of As-
syri-iu mountains. I am told that
fi ■ .. heat all onr American cities the
h- ■! Sabbath service iu tho majority
of chun hts is sparsely—yea, disgracc-
i:: iy—at teadi d and is tho distress of the
c i-vated and eloquent pastors who
b n.:, their learning and piety before
p ghastly for their inoccnpancy.
is the providential meaning? The
g’ ..fi t of all evangelists since Bible
ti’ it nvently suggested that the oven-
r : rvh in all tho churches be turned
hito ’ inoit popftlar style of evangel-
i db'meetings for outsiders Surely that
is ■ ocpennient worth making. If that
do. u r succeed, then it does seem to
: .'i! 1 the churches which cannot seeme
i i .'iint evening audiences ought o
that up their buildings at night and go
T h'; flu j oplo are and invito them to
come to tho gospel banquet.
IIftp One Anotlirr.
Let the Christian souls, bountifully
!• 1 in the morning, go forth in tho nft-
eni j in and evening to food tho mnlti-
fi.ui" i of outsiders starving for tiiu bread
of \ hid) if man eat ho shall never
ifi-.u:; hunger. Among these clear down
t < spi! would make more rapid con*
qui t than among those who know so
n il' ll and have so much that God can-
i • t a ii nr help them. In those lowe r
il ptL i pFudid follows in the rough,
like the shoeblack that a reporter saw
)• ar New York city ball. Ho asked a
L y t ; black his boots. Tho boy canto up
to hi v/urk provokingly slow mid had
jc f b. gun, when a largo boy shoved
him undo and began tho work, and the
I'd ''i fir repipved him as being a bully,
r; u the boy replied; "Oh, that's all
I'hiht! 1 uia going to do it for Mm. You
tfi'., he s been sick iu tuQ hospital muru'u
much percentage does ho givo you?
said tho reporter. Tho bny replied: "I
don't keep none of it. I ain't no pnrli
sneak r.s that. A" the hoys gdvo up
what they git on his job. I'd like to
patch any f< Her Hiicaking on a nick boy,
I would!'' Tie reporter gave him a 25
cent ph co and Raid, ‘ ‘ You ki cp 10 rents
for jouiKi lf and giv * tho m;t to Jim.”
“Can't do it, sir. It's his customer.
Hi re, Jim." Such hig souls as that
strew all the lower (t. jitliH of tin* cities
and, get t.hi'iu converted to God, this
would !> ' the last full century of tlio
world'.; Hin, and but little work of evan
gelization would he lift for tlio next
century. Before tliis century expires let
tlier* ho a combined effort to ruvo the
great cities of America and Great Brit
ain and of ail Christendom. What an
awful thing it would he fur you, O
dying century, to bequeath to tho coin
ing century, us yet innocent and unseal'-
r'd with a single rwi or burdened with
a single.M)i*'ow, tlio blasphemy. Mu’ law-
le.B ness, the atle ism, the profligacy and
the wot3 of great cities still uncvangel-
izt d!
What wo ought to nee, O dying ce:t-
tiny, is a revival of religion that would
wrap the continents in conflagrations cf
religious awakening, and that would
make legislation and merchandise and
all sryles of worldly bnpinch's w ait awhile
at tlio teh graph offices and tho tele
phone offices because they ore occupied
witli fi lling the utory of cities and na
tions born iu a day. Nearly all the ccu-
tnries closed with something tremen
dous. Why may not this century close
in the salvation of America? I do not
know Whether our theological friends
who have Ktmiicd tho subject more than
I have are right or wrong when they
way Christ will c mo in p; rson to set up
his kingdom in tl*G ixflrld; but, though
wo wouJiV-Yid fiverwIn imcdW^Y-Uil^J 1,1 *
y- kn’ufo WYSthnio.sH, I would like to see Chi
deRccnd from heaven inoiieof tiro clouds
of this morning and pluming his feet on
this earth, which he came centuries ago
to save, declare his reign of love and
mercy and salvation on earth begun.
Aud what more appropriate place—I say
it reverentinlly—ft r such n divine land
ing than (lie capital of a continent nevi r
cuiti d by the tyrannies and supersti
tion;; of tiio old world?
tVoaifi-rful Sights.
What has this dying nineteenth cen
tury to toll us before be goes? Wo all
love to hear septuagenarians, oclogena-
riuus, nonagenarians aud centenarians
talk. Wo gather around tho m’mehair
and listen til! it is far on into tho night
and never weary of hearing their expe
riences. But Lord Lynn hurst at 88 years
of ago pouring into tho cars of tho
houso cf lords in a four hours’ address
tho experiences of a lifetime, and Apol
lonius at 100 years of ago recounting
his travels to thrilled listcuers, and
Charles Macklin at 107 years of ago
absorbing tho attention of his hearers,
and Ralph Farufcam of our country at
107 year* telling the Princo of Wales
fhe story of Bunker Hill, can create m
Hinallor wheels, which aio tho minntoa,
aud those <19 luinut s turn Gill siniillei
whi t hi, winch are tho r condo. And all
of tliis vast i lack i;"!y in j.''|i tuul
motion and jhikih *: i>. i n nnd on to-,vard
the great cl mity v/h 'e lUn.rs will, ct
12 o'i'hi'k i f ll)'!'.\i i; r night !."l v * u
the year JDOvi cu'.l tl • year 1901, open
before me, th dr : >• rcntiiry. 1 quote
from tiio till: in ■ I' niioi;:! over the
thno doeru of-i !• ■ ■ ia| «f Milan.
Ovt r one door, i
lured ro.as, I r uni,
ph asm is but f r a
aunt bet iloor, i r .
I n ail, ‘All that
but for a mo ii nt
a
ith f |
All t!iat vide 1 )
n.ament. ’ Gver
d ar n!pt;:;e.i evoan,
hich ti .'uhies ua is
Hu
door
over ;!ie. central
1 rend,‘ l hat only i i importi .it
which is eternal. ’ O eternity, iterni'.y,
eternity!”
My hi art r/, nr, thoninefi ontli rentmy
was bora v.-l ilo tl • fnc • i f thi i m
was yet wet with tear.* because if tho
fatal horsebmk rido that Waaliington
took out her. nt. ce*it; through
a December n.mvsforr.i, I wi h the n< :.t
century might he L m nt a time wh< n
flu* fare i)f t!)is iiation shall l o wet witii
the tears cd thu literal < rtpirifual arriv
al of the Great Ilf liver; r of Ifiitions, of
whom i-d. Jolri wrote witii apO'Mlyp.io
pm, “And I
horse, und he
how, {'.ml a r
and ho w < i it
conquer. ’ ’
it i"
:• iw, and 1 hold i
that sat on him
row ii v/nu git nr’.;'
fortli conquering
Cure
I'r ivc t'a ■ ni'i .t f IIihhI's Hnri*»|B»rllIa-* POib
li\r, )' i fi ct, JM'I IHIllM'Ilt Cliri'S.
Cures "f ila la iM'viTi'st fitrniM, like
goitre, * we Hist neck, running Horen, lilp
ill . use. sores I i the eye*.
CurCS of Salt Ulietim, willl its Intense llcllillg
ami InirnitiK, seaM head, tetter, etc.
Cures of I loll*. I'huples and all Ollier ITMIR*
tions due to illipuro Mood.
Cures ,f l>ysi<''|>sia and other trouldes wIuto
a good stomach tonic **as needed.
Cures of Klieum.'ithim.wliere |iatients were mi-
alile to work or walk for w eeks.
Cures of Catarrh hy evixdlliig the Imimritlus
wliieli cause and sustain the disease.
Cures of Nervousness by properly toninghik!
feeding the nerves iiiriii pure blood.
Cures of That Tired reeling by restor ng
strength. Send for Iwrok of eures I y
i.
Sarsaparilla
loC. |. Hood & Co., I’roprietors, I.ow elt, Tdasa.
Hood’s Pills
are the te st .'ifler- linner
lulls, aid digestion, zoo.
A. N. WOOD,
such interest as this dying oentenariau
if lio will only speak.
Toll us, O nineteenth century, before
you go, in a score of sentences, somo of
the things yon have hoard and seen. The
veteran turns upon ns and Kays: “I paw
Thomas Jefferson riding iu unattended
from Monrirtdlo, only a fow steps from
where you stand, dismount from his
horse and hitch the bridle to a post, and
on yonder hill take tho oath of tho presi
dential office. I Raw yonder capital
nblaZo with war’s incendiarism. I saw
the. puff of tho first steam engino in
America. I hoard tho thunders of Wa
terloo, of Sevastopol and Sedan ui.fi
Gettysburg. I was present at all the
coronations of tho kings and queens and
emperors and empresses now in tho
world’s palaces. I have seen two billows
roll across this continent and from ocoau
to ocean; a billow of revival joy in 1807,
aud a billow of blood in 1804. I have
seen four generations cf tho human race
march across this world and disappear.
I saw their cradles rocked and their
graves dug. I have hoard tho wedding
bells and the deathkuclls of near a hun
dred years. I have clapped my bauds for
millions of joys aud wrung them in
millions of agonies. I saw Mueready
and Edwin Forrest act and Edward Fay-
son pray. I heard tho first chime of
Longfellow’s rhythms, and before any
cue else saw them I read tho first line
of ‘Bancroft’s History,’ and the first
verso of Bryant’s ‘Tbauntopsis, ’ aud the
first word of Victor Hugo’s almost Super
natural romance. I heard the music of
all tho grand marches and tho lament
of all the requiems that for nigh ten
decades uiado tho cathedral windows
shake. I have secu more moral and spir
itual victories than all of my predeecs
sors put together.
Admonition ami llenodictiou.
“For nil you who hear or read this
valedictory I have kindled all tho do
mestic firesides hy which you ever sat
and roused all tho halloos and ronmle
i lays and njer-imeuts you have ever heard
and unrollei. all the pictured sunset
und starry banners of the midnight hcav-
! ons that you havo ever gazed at. But
; ere I go take fiiis admonition aud bene
diction of a dying eoutury; The longest
! life,like mine, must close. Opportuni
ties gone never como back, ns 1 could
prove fi'im nigh a hundred years of ob
servation. The eternity that will soon
take me will soon take you. Tho wicked
: live not out .':ulf their days, ns I havo
Bi t ii in 10,000 instances.
"Tho only influence for making the
world happy is at* influence that I,tho
nineteenth century, inmuitcd from tho
1 first century of the Christian t ra—tho
Christ of all tlio centuries. Bo not do-
ceived hy tho fact that I havo lived s >
long, for a century is a largo wheel that
terns 100 smaller wheels, which arc tlio
1 years, uud each mio of those years turn.;
805 smaller wheels, which uru tho days,
ami each one of tho 8il5 day* turns 24
j smaller wheels, which arc the hours,
aud each one of thpse 24 hfiVT* **m'«i *0
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