The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-04-09

train, transporting the ponderous
burdens Of freight and passengers
from one point to another, as if by
magic.
1t has accurately calculated the
distance from the earth to sun,
moon and stars, and from each of
those to the others, and has weigh
ed, as in balance, the stupendous
globes and planets which consti-
tute our solar system.
It has caught the livid lightnings
from the clouds and sent them, obc-
dient messengers Of man around
the earth.
With its magic wires it has con-
nected continent with continent,
and the rivers with the ends of the
earth, abolishing both time and
space, and putting in direct commu-
nication the antipodes of the earth.
Tt has given US all our necessa-
ries, our comforts, our rluxuries, our
sciences, arts, literature, learning
and christianity itself.
To labor we are indebted for
everything we eat, drink, wear,
have, own or possess.
Without labor no great enter
prise, no great achievement, no great
attainment was ever accomplished.
Labor is the price of everything
that is good, everything that is
great, everything that is honorable,
in short everything that is worth
having.
Who are your successful men in
business p? Your. farmers, your mer-
chants, your doctors, your lawyers,
your preachers. They are your
men of labor, of industry, of indie
fatigable exertion.
While on the contrary your idlers,
your drones, your do nothings, are
the men who never can succeed in
anything, except in becoming a
burden to society, drunken de
bauchees, adopts in crime, inmates
Of jails or penitentiaries or orna-
ments of the gallows.
Look about you among your own
acquaintance, then read the histo-
ry of all ages and you will find that
it is the men of energy, of industry,
of labor who are now accomplish
ing and who ever have accomplish
ed all the good that is being done,
or ever has been done, while idle
ness has been the fruitful source of
all the evils which have afflicted
and still continue to affiict man.
kind.
.sThe devil finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.''
There is too much idleness among
u.s. Too many of our young men
have an antipathy to earning their
bread by the sweat Of their brows.
Too many of them think labor
degrading. Too many of them are
seeking some easier way to make a
living than by honest and perseve
ring. mental or physical exertion.
Too many of them look with envy
upon men, who, by a long life of
arduous labor, have arisen above
the necessity of severe manual Ia
bOr
Young men, beware how you set
at naught the decree of the Almigh-
ty. Beware how you despise the
only royal road to happiness, con-
tentment and peace.
There is but one alternative for
you, you must either labor, be in
sdustrious, honest and frugal, and
become useful and honorable citi-
zens or wake up some morning and
find yourself in the penitentiary, on
the gallows, or in drunkard's s
grave.
Go to work then, do something.
Anything useful. Be man, bide
your time, and your reward is sure
to follow.
Labor is the key which unlocks
the store house Of G, ,eation and lays
open the treasures of the universe.
tits the Philosophers stone which
turns everything it touches into
gold.
It is the guardian of virtue, the
safeguard of religion, and an essen
tial element of christianity.