The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-04-26

and his days. There is a storebo,
there that is recognized as his seat
and on that box he sits idly week afte
week as the busy world goes movin.
on. He is young yet. He thinks h,
may find plenty to do by and by, bu
so far he is simply waiting for some
thing to turn up, and not very anxiou.
for anything to turn up that will make
any draft upon his energies. The
years passed on, and he still remained
a permanent fixture of the storebox
every day occupying his accustomed
seat. A loafng young man is likely
to be loafer inaafter years, for idle
ness changes not its nature as the
years come on. It was thus that this
| ldler in early manhood was still an
idler in middle age, and after twenty
tive years had passed away, he was
just IS far from being a man in the
estimation of society as he had been
twenty-five years before. And then
when he came to die he tried to adopt
the language Of Gods most energetic
apostle. Think of dying loafer in
his last hours trying to say II have
fought a good fight" A thousand
voices from the other world cry out in
Indignation Where did you fight t?"
"Where was your battlefield" "You
have been a fixture of the storebox
ever since you reached the years of
your accountability" o this much
we may truly say. that life that
finds nothing to do and wants nothing
to do in this busy world, is destined
never to be the coming man. The
man Of the future will be he who even
in his early manhood realized some
thing Of the immense value of time,
how that every moment needs to be
spent and well spent. There is just as
much difference in young men to-day
as there is in old men. There are
some young men whose idle hands
want nothing to do, while there are
others who have grown up righ6 by
their side who are already lost Ia the
busy whirl of busy world. And we
say tonight that the coming man will
be the energetic young man of to-day,
who even now in his early manhood
realizes that every moment as it passes
by is worth a fortune, that a moment
wasted is fortune lost, and that
lifetime wasted is a heaven lost.
Again, we claim that the coming
man will be he who appreciates the
value Of money. The picture that now
meets our attention is that of young
man who is either a millionaire, or if
he is not, he doesn't intend that the
world shall ever know any better.
Society has long ago christened him
with the name Of spendthrift. He
would have you understand that he is
IAN heir L! to a large estate, that with
for expenses?" is the reckless question
Of his every day life. He sows his
money to the winds, and the winds
never bring it back. He settles down
in life and undertakes to make liv-
ing, by building pyramids. In other
words he wastes his fortune in great |
useless monuments of folly. But be-
fore the twenty-five years are over his
is exhausted, and the man pre-
sents the very picture of despair as he
stands gazing up at his pyramids of
folly, and holding some such soliloquy |
IS this. "These monuments of my
Jolly have cost me everything and |
yield me nothing. They are poor
;hings to live on. They are hard
;hings to sell. The world doesn't care
20 invest in them. My chances for
making a great record for good in So
,iety are lost forever, simply because I
never knew the value Of money"
And so we say that twenty-five years
# hard testing in this world will
empty the purse Of the spendthrift,
md will bury him beneath his pyra-
nids, leaving only the monuments of
lis folly standing as his tombstones.
The coming man will be the young
nan of to-day who has some true ap-
oreciation Of the value Of money. He
nay never be rich. God may never
olace it in his power to endow colleges
" to fill the treasures of the churches
,r the benevolent societies. But he
will know that every dollar that passes
through his hands is worth at least
me dollar for the salvation of the
world. or in some way for the good of
humanity. In these years when the
world is filled with hungry bodies and
With hungry souls, the coming man
will not be seen in his early manhood
ecklessly spending his money for
that which is not bread" and which
'satisfeth not, much less for that
which only poisons and desolates his
manhood d--sowing his money to the
Wind hat he may reap the whirlwind
f the young man of to-day is indeed
% be the man of the future, he needs
o learn what money is worth and
What it is for, and then with God as
lis financial adviser, he will make such
Investments as will prove him in the
yes Of society twenty-five years to
,ome, man,
Then too we claim that the coming
nan must, even in his early manhood,
lave true appreciation of the value
# good principles. Young men are
lere tonight, on the very threshold,
ooking out twenty-five years ahead,
md we are wondering if all of them
4fter twenty-five long years Of testing,
will have preserved their honor bright.
Nothing is ever gained by dishonesty
Every false weight that we may use
n our dealings with others, will only
ONE back to US, and be visited upon
IS as a Judgment, when we ourselves
re weighed in the balance of society,
o say nothing Of the still surer bal
nces Of Jehovah himself. We need
o interpret the old proverb Honesty
5 the best policy in the light of the
writing that Belshazzar saw upon the
vail, ''Thou art weighed in the bal
noes and art found wanting" The
oming man will, after the investiga-