The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-10-01
OUR SATURDAY NIGHT.
Working and Waiting .
We knew it would come:

w e knew IL WOuIu come.
The best of all the nights given
us to think, to rest, to resolve-the
Saturday Night. All we had to
do with its coming was TO labor
and to wait. To labor earnestly
and wait contentedly. All in good
time, as twas appointed, the good
night has come, and now we can
enjoy the heart-resticg reward it
brings. and look at the picture on
which we have labored. A week.
A picture with seven ideas-each
one a day. And SO we are all ar
fists.
The week is the canvass. Events
are the colors. When comes the
beautiful Saturday Night, this one
of our pictures is finished, and is
taken on the breath Of the dying
week, to be looked at by Him who
is Love and Power. and then hung
in the Great Parlor, or out in the
Rubbish Room, as the picture be
worthy. As we paint, so will it
appear. Each picture will be the
simple record Of our acts. Ifthey
be good and suggestive Of the
beautiful, they will be given place
With other pictures of beauty. If
not. they will not be hung where
they will mar the scene or detract
from others. And 80 we shall
follow our works, as the pictures,
painted by those who will pattern
by us, will in turn follow Over
There viii! be two exhibition rooms
for the good and tue bad. Aud
Over There we can look at our
pictures, and see wis rein we fail
ed or succeeded, for time is the
pencil that to the canvass of Eter-
nifty our every act transmits.
And SO the weeks come and 90.
Each Saturday Night we pause to
look at our work before the mid
night hour takes from the frame
tue canvass whereon we have
wrought, and a fresh one for the
week to come in its place doth
leave! We do earne tiy try to
discover where we have touched
too light Or too heavy. We try to
see if we have 10 the least failed
to do strict Justice with liberal
tinting given to ali-for we are
none Of US perfect.
And do you know, good friends,
that it does seem to .s that each
Satu day Night our work seems
more aud more worthy to be called
a picture. Once there were SO
manv defects Cross words
Marks of reckless temper, heated
by words OF others, which now do
not pain or wound. AS we each
week labor more and N ore for the
poor, the oppressed, the weary
hearted and over-tasked. it seems
as it we were drinking deeper of
that pure water which SO takes
away selfish and directs the soul
to good deeds and generous impul.
ses. AS are those who are on the
| right road ana nearing q happy
home, where loved ones with out
streached arms do await them, feel
the heart to grow, and step with
lighter feet over the lessening dis
| tance.
And it is so beautiful to have q
| home-a welcome-a reward of
| love with no tint Of fear, to draw
you to that rest so few know o.?
Is it not heaven to know that in all
its world there is one spot where
You can rest--one heart to rest
with--one presence, as that Of q
God. in which you can bask aud
grow strong for the race and the
work OF the morrow. To feel that
there IL one to whom you can go
18th all your troubles, doubts and
| fears--one WHO will listen to you
in love. forgive and forgive, IL
need be, till manhood, ashamed OF