St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-23

hand when they put it up, to the words
when they speak. Two young men in
store. In the morning the one goes to his
post the last minute OF one minute behind.
The other is ten minutes before the time,
and has his hat ard coat hung up and is at
his post ready for duty. The one is ever
and anon III the afternoon looking at his
watch TO see if it is net most time to shut
up The other stays half an hour after he
might go and, when asked why, says he
wanted to
LOOK OVER SOME ENTRIES
he had made TO be sure he was right, or to
put up some goods that had been left out of
place. The oen is very punctiliOus about
doing work not exactly belonging to him.
The other is glad to help the other clerks in
their work. The first will be a prolonged
nothing, and he will be poorer at 60 than at
20. The other will be merchant prince
1t is about fifty years ago that in COM
paratively small apartment of the city a
newly-married pair set up home. The
first guest that was invited in that residence
was the Lord Jesus Christ. and the Bible
given the bride on the day of her eSp0uSalS
was the guide of that household. Days of
sunshine were followed by days of shadow
Did you ever know a home that for fifty
years had no vicisSitude? The young woman
who left her fathers house for her young
husbands home started out with parental
benediction and good advice she will never
forget Her mother said to her the day be-
fore the marriage: Now. my child, you
are going away from us. Of course, as
long as your father and l live you
will feel that you can come to us at any
time. But your home will be elsewhere
From long experience find it is best to
serve God. 1t is very bright with you now,
my child, and you may think you can get
along without religion, but the days will
come when
YOU WILL WANT GOD,
and my advice is, establish family altar,
and if need be. conduct the worship your
self" The counsel was taken and that
young wife consecrated every room in the
house to God. Years passed on and there
were in that home hilaritieS, but they were
good and healthful. and sorrows, but they
were comforted Marriages as bright as
orange blossoms could make them, and
burials, in which all hearts We're rlven.
They have family lot in the cemetery. but
all the place is Illuminated with stories of
resurrection and reunion. The children of
the household that lived have grown up.
and they are all Christians, the father and
mother leading the way and the children
followed. What care the mother took of
wardrobe and education and character and
manners. How hard she sometimes worked!
When the head of the household was un-
fortunate in business she sewed until her
fingers were numb and bleeding at the tips.
And what close calculations of economies,
and what ingenuity in reitting the gar
mentS of the elder children for the younger.
and only God kept account of that mothers
sideaches and headaches and heartaches,
and the tremulOus prayers by the side of the
sick childs cradle and by the couch of this
one fully grown. The neighbors often
noticed how tired she looked, and Old ac-
quaintances hardly knew her in the street,
BUT WITHOUT COMPLAINT
she waited and tOiled and endured and
accomplished all these years. The children
are out in the world, an honor to themselves
and their parents. After while the moth
er's last sickness comes. Children and
grandchildren, summoned from afar, come
softly into the room one by one, for she is
too weak to see more than one at a time
She runs her dying fingers lovingly through
their hair and tells them not to cry, and
that she is going now, but they will all meet
again in little while in better world,
and then kisses them goodbye and ''God
bless aud keep you, my dear Child The
day of the ObsequieS comes, and the Off
ciating clergyman tells the story of wifely
and mOtherly endurance, and many hearts
on earth and iii heaven echo the sentiment,
and as she is carried off the stage of this
mortal life there are cries of Faithful unto
death; she hath done what she could"
while overpowering all the voices of earth
and heaven is the plaudit of the God
who watched her from first to last, saying:
''Well done, good and faithful servant;
thou hast been faithful over few things.
[ will make thee ruler over many things.
Enter thou into the joy of the Lord" But
what became of the father of that house
hold? He started out as young man in
business and had small income, and having
got little ahead
SICKNESS IN THE FAMILY
swept it all away. He went through all the
business panics of forty years, met many
losses and suffered many betrayals but kept
right on trusting in God, whether business
was good or poor, setting his children
good example, giving them the best of coun-
sci, and never a prayer did he offer for all
those years but they were mentioned in it.
He is old now and realizes it cannot be long
before he must quit all these scenes but he
is going to leave his children an inheritance
of prayer and Christian principles which all
the defalcations of earth can never touch,
and, as he goes out of the world, the church
of God blesses him and the poor ring his
doorbell to see if he is any better. and his
grave is surrounded by a multitude who
went on foot and stood there before the pro-
cession of carriages came up. as some say
there will be no one to take his place, and
others say, 'Who will pity me now?" and
others remark, He shall be held in ever
lasting remembrance" And as the drama
of his life closes all the vociferationS and
bravos and encores that ever shook the am
phitheaters and the DrurY Lanes and the
Covent Gardens and the Haymarkets and
the ColiseumS of earthly spectacle, were
tame and feeble compared with the long,
loud thunders of approval that shall break
from the cloud of witnesses in the piled-up
GALLERY OF THE HEAVENS.
Choose ye between the life that will close
by being hiSsed off the stage. and the life
that shall close amid the acclamations su-
pernal and angelic. o, men and women on
the stage of life, many of you in the first
act of the drama and others in the sec
ond, and some of you in the third, and
few in the fourth, and here and there one
in the fifth, but all of you between the en-
trance and the exit, quote to you as the
peroration of this sermon the most suggest
i've passage that Shakespeare ever wrote,
although you never heard it recited. The
author has often been claimed as infidel and
atheiStic, so the quotation shall not only be
religiouSly helpful to ourselves, but grandly
vindicatOry of the great dramatist. l
Quote from his lest will and testament:
in the name of God, amen. 1, William
Shakespeare of Stratford upon Avon, in the
county OF Warwick, gentle man, in perfect
health and memory (God be praisedl, do make
this nv last will and testamentin manner and
form following: First, commend my soul
into tho hands of God nv Creator, hoping