News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04
THE CLOSING WEEK.
A Few Sober Second Thoughts for Sntur-
day Night,
How much there is in the two wol

How much there is in the two word
Saturday n;ght-says Peck's Stat II
the whole civilized world it mears much
It means another week of toll over: i
means another week of wOrriment anC
hard work past; it means that day o.
rest is about to dawn; it means that an.
other weeks Journey toward eternity is
made. Yes, it means all of this. II
means that we are older in years and ex-
penence by a week. It tells us time is
fast passing and every idle moment
spent is just SO much time lost, never to
be made up.
Did you ever sit down on a Saturday
night and make a careful inventory of
the week? Did you ever stop to con-
| slider the number of "nickles" and dimes
spent during the week for which Won
have nothing to show? Did you ever
think how much more money could have
been saved for q ''rainy day" from the
weeks earnings, if you had done as you
ought to have done to yourself and the
loved ones at home? Can you not on
Saturday night look back over your acts
Of the past week and see where you
could have been the means of doing
good to some poor creature, some Tn-
fortunate one whose toll could have been
made the easier by some pleasant word
from you, which, having neglected the
opportunity you have feeling Of regret,
and could you but live over again the
days that are gone, you would have lived
them better? These are but few of the
many thoughts that come to the minds
of the considerate on Saturday night.
If you spend your days in idleness,
devoting your time to Iicentious pleas
ures, you are not only wasting your vital
forces, but every Saturday brings you
nearer the aims house, nearer prema-
tr1re-a paupor's grave. Says Charles
Kingsley: every man, it would seem,
brings into the world certain capacity,
a certain amount of vital force, in body
and in soul; and when that is used up,
the man must sink down into some sort
Of second childhood, and end very much
where he begins" If we have nothing
laid by when Saturday night comes, we
are only making ourselves the more
helpless in our old age. Who wants to
reach helpless old age in poverty?
Not Il human being.
Did you ever stand on the busy street
on Saturday night and look at the crowds
of men and women, boys and girls, all
moving about doing something? There
goes a man with a well filed market
basket on his arm. A peaceful, con-
tented look is on his face. He is an
honest son Of toll going to his family
with Il weeks provisions. He has set
tied his bill at the store and has little
balance left. Happy, happy man. See
over there. There stands a young man
who earns enough to take care of him
self and have a snug sum left at the end
Of the week, but he spends it all and IS
in debt. What Il net of misery he IS
weaving about himself in his profigate
course. Here you meet Il man with his
wife 10y his side. What happy time to
them is Saturday night. They bask in
the sunlight of each others love, and,
conscious of a frugal, woIl-spent week,
they are content and happy. Saturday
night to them is night of pleasure, i'll
squming mp their accounts and buying
something for the little ones at home.
Envy them! Who does not envy them ?
The closing night OF the week is in
deed Il night on which we come up for
examination. If the week has been well
or lily spent, our record will tell it.
Saturday night is the comma in the SEN
tcnce of our lives where we are enabled
to pause for an instant to again start on
a better or worse course. And this is
the close of the week, the world over.