The Greenville times., 1884-06-07


will, and the leaks are a loosening
and disjointure of principles, which
let in seas of vice, aud the signals
of distress are broken health.
spent purposes, betrayed and de-
serted ideals; and with the feel
ing that life is a failure, that it
we're better never to have been
born, the character, so richly la
den at its setting out, goes down.
down, down through all depths of
shame to the very bottom of be-
sotment. Alas that so many 9TH
ers must share its suffering who
are innocent of its sinl Seldom,
however, is a soul shipwrecked
without sinking the hopes and
loves, if not the lives. of u whole
family.
Have done, then, beseeeh you,
at once and forever, with the idea
that any season of life can be de-
tatched from the sequence of law
and effect, which ripens every folly
to its fruit of punishment, aud par.
ticularly with the idea that youth,
hfe's freshest and most formative
season, when all seed takes easi-
est and deepest root, when the
emotions are warmest to quicken
them, and judgement is least eau.
tiOus to check their spread, that
such season is iittest for idlcness
and dissipation and sin. Aud asa
safeguard against the peril Of such
a delusion, keep constantly in mind
the supreme worth Of work-not
the work Of a gin.horse, who eats
to drudge, though even that were
better than dandifed idleness--
but work as in itself q culture of
manhood, shaping its vague capac.
tiles into compact symmetry, as
the earth from the primeval gas
which contained 1t, has, by cease
less rolling, rounded into sphere.
Work of the body, never mcnial,
but always honorable, when done
with a sense of duty and hearty
desire to reach higher places Of eff
fort; work Of the mind, clearing
its forests Of ignorance, draining
its swamps of passion, gathering
ideas from every realm to confed
crate themselves in cities and
states Of potent and well ordered
thought-grander occupation thar
ruling a material kingdom; worl
of the soul, not last in time. bu
noblest In degree because wrough
, by the side Of angels, and reclaim
ing from death and remorse los
/ eternities through which love AM
+. peace and JOY shall flow like tn
!. rivers OF Eden; all work--the low
est borrowing dignity from tn
!. highest which II anticipates, an,
the slightest conserving the sut
0 stance Of the lowest IN In its ow1
J, perpetuity-all Identifies the worl
|. crs with God who, while they wor
Q out their salvation with fear All
u trembling, worketh in them bot
r to will and to do Of his good plea'
Q urc. And between the man wht
/ Wishing to thrive in idlcness, gan
n bles for gain, and the man who, !
!, spite of meagcr wages and col
h tending prsjudices and tempt'
}. tlons that bcset like spectres b
J. valley ofthe shadow OF death, toi
II for bread and truth and the visio
g of Christ--the three-fold life of b
D. being-between these two Inc
o there is In the end all the diffe
T. ence that exists between th
o ephemeral moth that scorchcs i
y wings in the candle light 1t courI
n to display their garnIshes, al
1t Michael with his foot upon Il
8 arch fend's forehead while HI
1t right hand lifts sword Of ligh
q ming, and all heaven waits to a.
e. plaud the death-stroke.
Df II is not bantlings, but heroe
u that God wants. Your life is
v. grand opportunity to become OF
g. of His mighty men Of valor. No
a or never, is the time to prove yo'
d. courage and win your positio
~ There Is but the one life. Eterl
Ir ty has already begun, and eve
r. yday is as sacred as that which sh'
O. summon a world to judgemel
g No Lethe flows through the gray
rs Character, forming here, shi
ID wear its lineaments hereafter. j
Id the faint, slender star.ray til
's' reaches the spectroscope, aft
" spending millenniums on it's W
or reports what minerals compose 4
ga orb II left, so each nement's dee
al travelling through innumeraf
90 ages, shall tell them all what u
III tivos moulded the violation I'll
DC sent it forth. Then do the wo
ay that duty assigns-whether of I