Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-21

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energetically and perseveringly.
PERSEVERANCE,.
"I will do this sum and get the right all
swer before 90 to bed this night" said Ned
Walker as he took up his slate with deter
mined air. "No boy in our class shall gel
ahead of me in arithmetic. / have made uE
my mind to thai"
The room was very cold, for the Walkers
were not a rich family, and never thought Of
warming the whole house in winter. If the
kitchen fire and the fire in the sitting.room
were kept up, it was all that was aimed at.
The room was cold, but Ned did not mind
that. He was a hearty, healthy boy with
warm young blood in his veins. He put on
his hat and great coat, and sat down to his
task with good courage.
He threw his whole mind into his work
for he had but one small candle end to depend
upon for light, and he we'll knew it would
not last long.
The first time the sum was all wrong
What did Ned do? Did he sit down and
cry, and say it was no use to try to get the
right answer, for the sum was too hard .fol
him?
Not he How his eyes would flash if any
one should suggest such thing to him! No.
he thought moment, read over bis rule with
care, dashed the sponge over his slate and
set to work again. This time he got the right
answer. 1t was we'll that he did, for by this
time the candle had burned itself out.
Ned laid down his slate and scrambled into
bed in the dark. But he did not mind the
darkness, for his heart was light He had
done his work we'll, and he knew it. He was
happy and triumphant boy.
This was the way with Ned Walker through
all his school life. He never was afraid of a
hard task, but Just took hold of it with will
and conquered it. You have no idea what
this habit did for him in the end.
Ned was not the brightest boy in the school
by any means. There was George Wilson,
who was so quick at his lessons that he sell
dom had to do more than to read them over
once or twice. And there we're many others
who could learn more quickly than Ned.
Yet Ned always stood at the head OF his
class. He made up his mind that he would,
and he did, Let what would come in the
way of hard study, he never gave up. While
the other boys pouted and complained, Ned
worked. While George Wilson was idle and
careless, thinking that he could soon make
up for lost time, Ned worked. And the time
came when he was so far ahead in his studies
that George could not keep up with him at
ALL for it is the steady strokes that tell most
in the end
When Ned left school, he not only had a
good education in his various studies, but he
had habit of not giving up. A great habit
that is for boy who has to make his own
way in the world, and has to meet with many
hard things.
But there came time of trial to Ned even
in the midst Of his success. He felt that he
was a sinner in the sight of God. He knew
that he had never given his heart to the Sa-
viour, and that if he should die he could not
even hope to 60 to heaven.
He made up his mind that he would try to
be Christian. But he did not seem to grow
any better, in spite of all his trying. For the
first time in his life he felt discouraged. But
his good habit, under the movings of Gods
Spirit, proved valuable even here, for he could
not give up and stop trying.
II know ought to be Christian" he
said. 81 never can be good man unless l
am, and 1 really do want to be good man.
Then can never 60 to heaven unless | am
and if do not 20 to heaven where shall | go
when die?"
ooh! do not think about dying just yet,
Ned" said a gay young fellow who heard him
say this. "You are young and strong and
we'll. Do not bother your head about relig-
ion. Give up all this nonsense, and come to
my room tonight. We will have a good
time and forget all this"
"No," said Ned. "I must and will be a
Christian. I know it is the best thing for
me. AS to the rest, what good would all the
money in the world do to lost soul? ?"
"And you will not give the thing up, then?'
said his friend.
"No, never" said Ned. "To-night I shall
go to our weekly meeting"
Ned went, and it was we'll that he did CO.
for the minister spoke to him so kindly that
the young man was led to tell him all his
troubles.
"My dear young FRIEND" said the minister
"you are right to try to be Christian, but
you have tried in the wrong way. Suppose
now, you begin again, and instead Of trying
to be good without going to Jesus, 60 to him
and ask him to be your Saviour. If you
are once really his, willing to be saved by
him, you are Christian without any more
trying"
'"Is that all ?" said Ned II thought must
be very good before Jesus would have me.
"No; Jesus Christ came to save sinners,
said the minister. "He has promised to save
swhosoever will come to him, and his promise
can never fail"
"But must 1 try to be good and to live 6
holy life? ?" said Ned.
"Yes, because Christ commands you to dc
it, and you are bound to obey him in al
things if you are his servant"
"I begin to see how it is" said Ned, "Jesus
saves me just as I am, then he expects me tt
do Just what he tells me to do; and if l try
to do that, he will help me"
eyes; he will send his Holy Spirit to bt
with you always and to fit you for heaven,
said the minister.
"But the first step for you to take in thi:
heavenward journey is to give yourself te
Christ to be saved by him, and to love hin
and serve him for ever. Will you do u"
81 will" said Ned.
And 1 am happy to say that he did do it
and that he persevered in living Christian
life.-Sunday School Visitor.
TAKE MY SEAT.-The other day, we were
riding in railway car At one of the sta
tions an old man entered and was looking
around for seat, when boy ten or twelve
years of age rose up and said, "Take my seat
SIR" The offer was accepted, and the in6rn