Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-01-19

Tha Olosing Wesk.

How much there is in the two words. Saturday night. To the whole civil ;zed world it means much. It means anoihrr week of toll over it means an- ot!er week of worrimont and hard work over it means that a day of rest is sbou, to dawn it means that another weeks journey toward eternity is made. Yes. t means all of this. It means that we are older in years and experi- ence by week. It tells us time is fast passing and every idle moment spent IS justso much time lost. never to be made up. Did you ever sit down on Satur- day night and make careful inventory of the week? Did you ever consider the number of nickles and dimes spent dur. ,Hy tie week for which you have nothing to showP Did you ever think how much more money could have been saved for a ..rainv day" from the weeks earn ings, if you had done as you ought to Lave done to yourself and the loved ones at home? Can you not on Satur day night look back over your acts ot the past week and see where you could have been the means of doing good to some poor creature, some unfortunate one whose toll could have been made easier by some pleasant word from you, which, having neglected the opportuni- ty 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. de. voting your time to licentious pleasures. you are not only wasting your vital forces, but every Saturday brings you nearer the alms-house, nearer a prema- ture--a pauper's grave. Says Charles Kingsley :-Eyery man, it would seem, brings into the world certain capacity, . 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 a helpless old age in poverty? Not Q 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 some thingp There goes man with we'll filled basket on his arm. A peaceful, contented look is on his face. He is m honest son of toi! going to his family with weeks provisions. He has set. tied his bill at the store and has little balance left. Happy, happy man. Sec over there. There stands a young mar who earns enough to take care of him self and have a snug sum left at the enc of the week, but he spends it all and i. in debt. What net of misery he i; weaving about himself in his profigats course. Here you meet q man with hi: wife by his side. What happy time to them is Saturday night. They basf in the sunlight of each others love, ant conscious of Il frugal, well-spcnt week they are content and happy. Satur day night to them is night of pleasure fn squaring up accounts and Duyins something for the little ones at home Envy them Who does not envy them
 The closing night of the week is in deed night in which we come up fo examination. If the week has been wei or idly spent, our record will tell it Saturday night is the comma in the sen tence of our lives where we are enabled to pause for an instant to again start o
 . better or worse course And this the close of the week the world over.-
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