The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-06-23

Fsln not ses say you to dTop seS like Ma'e'' gam
into casket Of gem, and tumble
over the rockT' "Oh. yes. I went over cliff
and through meednw." Did I not see you
busy with the shut 'es and the grLSt rlll,sf
"O6, YES. used to work fcv my living, but
have stopped, aud I an golng to stay here:
7 am disn1isted with the shuttles and tho grist
mills. I am going to stoo. Accused Ct God
am I and summed of man, and am going to
stop" Thank God every cay If you have
hard work. Tt is the mightiest preventive
against all evil Sin, the old pirate, bear-
down on those vessels thai have sails idly
Tapping in the wind. The arrow OF s,n han
tough work to get through the leather OF
rising wall the fortress in which yol carl hides
and from which you shall fight down the
temptations Of this life Thank God morn
ing. noon and night, Sunday and week day,
if you have plenty to do.
Another encouraging fact is that your
children are probably to have better oppor-
tunities than those brought up in luxury.
People brought up in luxury ind oy twelye
wears of age they are going to be wealthy
and there is no struggle and sometimes they
90 out into dissipations and they are many OF
them useless to society. There are Business
men to-day grasping, gra;ping,, grasplng,
what for? To get enough money
to spoil their children. Fifty years gather
ing up. The boys scattered it in five years.
The lord of prosperity and luxury, ne may
pass out of the gats and g. into dissipation
and die. The son OF the porter at The gaGe
learns his trade, gets good physical constl-
tuition. starts out and wis great success.
Who is that man to-day standing in some
mighty place for God and the truth!
His mother laid him under the shadow
of a tree while shs spread the
hay. The mightiest men to-day, in State
and National Legislatures, are those who ate
out of iron spoons and drank out of coarsest
earthenware, and every step in life has been
forced march. Thank God that you nave
plenty to do. It is going t1 be great thing
for YOU and great thing FIR your children.
Trouble is not going to damage you If you
put your trust in God. The clip
Der likes a stiff breeze. The sledge-
hammer does not hurt the iron it pounds
into shape. Trouble is the best hone for
sharpening keen razors. Robert Burns was
a shepherd. Prideau sweTt out at Exeter
College Clifford was shoemaker, and for
the son Of the toiling man and woman there
is large moral and worldly success If hs trusts
God and keeps busy.
I cheer all workingmen also by the 1act
that they havo so many more opportunities
for information than wer,, afforded 20 their
predecessors. Why, Plato paid 81. 300 for
one book. Countess Of An lou paid 200 sheep
for one book Gerome ruined himself tinan"
cially by buying one copy OF Origen'
But hear now tee prln lntlAag Ag,iptes presses &c. &c.
Harpers, th, Lippincctts, the. Peter
sons, the Ticknors, AMI you can buy for
fifty cents more than BENJAMIN Franklin
knew Every workingman in Brooklyn haa
anewspaper ora book. Passing along at night.
fall the workingman sees abook in the window
and it is five dollars s, exquisite is the bind.
ing. "Oh,' he says, ~ wish could have that
book" Just wait for few months and yor
will getall the value Of that book, ALT the read.
ing of that book in pamph' els for ten cents.
Put ten boys of the common schools OF Brook
lyn on one bench and ten Of the old philoso..
phers on another bench right opposite. and
the boys could examine the old philosophers,
and the old philosophers could not examine
the boys. Here comes no an old philosopher
and he says to lad of seven years;
.'What is that?" "Ths.t is a railroad"
"IVhat is chat" "That is the telegraph
What is Ghatm "That is the telephone"
And after Is is all explained to him, he says:
"Well, I guess I'll go back to nv pillow OF
dust. I am bewi!dere1, my head is turned.
Oh, thank God, working men and women OF
America, that ycu have 50 many opportunl-
ties of information. Thank Cod And it IS
no more true for you than it is for those IN
other professions, other occupations, other
business me1-thnnk God that ali thesc
trials are p-eparative for Heaven. "Beh I'D,
I bring You glad tidings ct great loy,' that
Christ the car 2eater Of Naatoth at NJ. IS idSs 5ne
into your heart and you can sing on
the wall amid the hailing Of the storm, and
in the shop amid the showing Of tho plane,
and in the mine arid tn, plunging
of the crowbar, and on the ships Ge;k just
before you climb the ratlin' Christ counts
all your drons Of sweat. He who counts thu
hairs of the head counts :he drops of sweat.
Are You weary' He will give You rest, Are
you sick He will give you health Are you
cold! He will wrap around you the warm
then it is all Introductory and prefa-
tory. See those bright ones before
the throue. See" YOU say, ''they
must be the royal family of Heaven" They
dress like princes. they walk like princes.
they are princes. None OF the common peo-
pie among them. All! voa make a mistake,
you make mistake. That bright spirit be-
fore the throne toiled as hard as she could On
earth and earned only two shillings a day.
That bright spirit before the throne why, he
tniled amid the Egyptian brick klns.
That bright spirit before the throne
why, her drunken father turned
her out into the midnight cold and
she froze into heaven. That great array bo-.
fore the throne. who arc they! Why, some Of
them came up from the Birmingham mills,
some from Lowell carpet factories, and they
are so radiant now wish YOU could hear
their song They sing in such perfect accord
as though they hal been all eternity prac-
ticing. If you could only hear their song, why.
it would make the pilgrims burden so light,
it would make the Pilgrims journey so short;
1 ask what is that sweet song, aud they. tell
me it is the song Of the ransoraed working
people And then on angel comes up and
points to them and says "Who are theys
who arc theyl" and voice answers: 'rhese
are they who came out cf great tribulation
and had their robes washed and made white
in the blood of the Lamb Hallelujah!
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