The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-01-28
ANOTHER waYNaRk IN THE
MARCH OF TINE.

, When the Hon. Theodore FIRE.
linghuysen was Chancellor of the
University Of New York, be called
the attention of the assembled stu
dents on New Years day. or just
afterwards, to the Letter" suggest
ed by the return of that anniversary,
which be had been reading in the
New York Observer, of that week,
and be eommends the thoughts
therein to their serious consider
alton.
J This little incident | now recall,
as he mentioned it to me, because
1t Is one OF the reminders of the
march Of time, and helps me TO
courage and strength in the work
set before me. Many teachers, be-
sides that iilustrious Philanthro.
,ist and Senator, have told me that
this weekly Letter is regularly
read to the school, as one OF its ex-
ercises, and they give me such kind
y assurances es TO make il more of
a pleasure than task. But il is
increasingly wonderful that the
readers patience has not long since
neen exhausted, and in place of
words of cheer that | have not been
greeted as was the tedious speaker
| Who said to the wearied Sunday
School, And what more shall saw"
Say Amen" piped rude boy, and
the chorus of the school brought
the speaker down. II any Of nv
readers would come to my relief in
this way, | would cheerfully yield
the floor.
We do not make enough OF these
saymarks on the pathway of hu-
man lie. When | have seen a
merchant, with all clerks and aids
OF every name engaged in taking
an account of stock, thus ascertain
ing now be stands with the world: |
what ne has sold and what ne has |
on hand; | have thought the same
process ought to be pursued every
year with Us spiritual and intellect I
usl creatures. What have we gain |
Ell and what have we lost in the
year jist closed; and what do we
propnse for the wear to come? In /
fact, the great want of the d8y in
which We are living is habit of re-
Election, or meditation. or any way
of thinking at all. We have so |
much to do, that we tike no time TO /
think. | have seen a line on tomb ]
stones taken from a hymn.
Stop, poor sinner, stop and !
think" and it would not be an un-
profitable ,inscription for a marble |
set up IN the market-place or street, |
where we, poor sinners all. might /
see it and be reminded Of this neg
lected duty and pleasure
One of my many duties and /
pleasures is TO write to you once
week And it fills me with grati-
tude to God to think and know,
that year in and year out, so fa-
back as l can associate this work
with weeks. there has been no
week. in sickness or in health. in
heat or in cold, (it is zero now at
home or abroad, when I have not
been able to keep this voluntary
appointment with you. And how
great is the sum of them7 When
the Rev. DR.. Manning. of London,
a great literary and religious work
er was in this country a few years
ago, he asked me to explain the
secret Of DOING the greatest amount
of work without sacrifice of life or
health. l Coz idensed the answer
into two words:
CHEERFUL INDUSTRY
He thought moment. repeated
them. and said, 1T is all there. I /
do believe" Ii is. Industry with
out cheerfulness wears out, wastes.
and perhaps kill: cheerfnlness with
out industry begets idleness: all
play with no work brings nothing
to pass worth living for. But yoke
the two into one team, and business
huns and spins; the work is done
with will and the 10y of he crafts
man il that of him who taketh great
spoil For there ID 30 higher moral
and intellectual enioTmeDt in this
working world than in dutv done,
and well done. and then paid for.
ln snch doing there is great reward.
So God has appointed. our lot and
task. giving TO each of US a Job to
do, according to our abilities and
his will. with the price marked on
the piece. In part he pays as we
go, and the remainder Is laid up
where neither rust nor thieves will
hinder Us from entering on full pos
session when ''the world tGrns to
coal" Mr.. Lincoln, when asked
what be was going to do next, re-
piled, only keep pegging away"
And that is just about all any of US
can do, with the work God has set
Us to accomplish
A year begun teaches Us to count
the value of DAYS and then of hou:s.
Men In business, men who have
hard and much work in trade or
professions, often plead the want of
time in excuse for their neglect Of
reading or writing or making social
calls. or taking service upon them
selves in the church or society. But
there is Just exactly time enough in
each twenty-four hours for all the
duties of that day. Let cash have
its place and time, and all are done
when the hours are past An au-
thor writes six hours day, and IN
six week book is made that is the
talk Of the reading world. Scott
wrote one of bis remarkable three
volume novels in six weeks And
the work was not done in a slovenly
manner; but very carefully. authori-
ties cited, ihe quotations verified
You write one hour a day. and
make five manuscript pages in that
time; at the end OF three hundred
working days. or in a year, you
have piled up fifteen hundred pages
easily, making two handsome print
ed volumes Read thirty pages
every day. and in one year you
have read ten thousand nine hun
dred and 6fty pages. This done,