The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-16

your shops, your rising walls, your anviis
are fortresses in which you may hide, anC
from which you may fight against the
temptations of your life. Morning, noon
and night, Sundays and week days, thank
God for plenty to do.
Another encouragement Is the fact that
their families are going to have the very
best opportunity for development and use.
fulness. That may sound strange to you,
but the children Of fortune are very apt to
turn out poorly. In nine cases out of ten
the lad finds out II fortune is coming, by
twelve years of age-he finds out there Ia
no necessity of toll; and he makes no
struggle, and life without struggle goes
into dissipation or into stupidity. There
are thousands and tens of thousands OF
men in our great cities who are toiling on,
denying themselves all luxuries, year after
year toiling and grasping. What fort To
get enough to spoil their children.
The father was fifty years getting the
property together. How long will it take
the boys to get rid OF that property, not
having been brought up in prudent habits!
Less than five years to undo all the work
of fifty. You see the sons of wealthy par.
ents going out into the world, inane, nerve.
less, dyspeptic, or they are incorrigible
and reckless; while the son Of the pYrter
that kept the gate learns his trade, gets .
robust physical constitution, achieves high
moral culture, and stands in the front rank
of Church and State. Who are the men
mightiest in our Legislatures, and Con.
gress, and cabinets? Did they walk up the
steep Of life in silver slippers? o! no. The
mother put him down under the tree in the
shade, while she spread the hay. Many OF
these mighty men ate out of an iron spoon
and drank out of the toughest earthen.
ware-their whole life forced march.
They never had any Injuries until, after
awhile, God gave them affiuence and use.
fulness and renowp as a reward for their
persistence. Remember, then, that though
you may have poor surroundings and small
means for the education Of your children.
they are actually starting under better ad.
vantages than though you had fortune to
give them. Hardship and privation are
not a damage to them, but an advantage.
Again, l offer as encourag cement that
you have SO many opportunities of gain.
ing information. Plato gave 81 800 for two
books. The Countess of Anjou gave 200
sheep for one volume. jerome ruined him.
self financially by buying one copy Of
Origen. Oh, the contrast. Now there are
tens of thousands of pens gathering up
information. Type-setters are calling for
''copy" All our cities quake with the
rolling cylinders Of the Harpers and the
Appletons, and the Lippincots and the
Petersons and the Ticknors, and you now
buy more than Benjamin Franklin ever
knew for fifty cents! A Woodworking
man comes along toward his home, and he
looks into the show window of the book
store and sees an elegantly bound volume.
He says
~ wish had that book; there must he
a great deal of information in it,"
A few months pass along, and though
that book which he looked at cost five
dollars, it comes now in pamphlet shape
and costs him fifty cents. The high wall
around about the well of knowledge is be.
ing broken down, and people come, some
with porcelain pitchers and some with
pewter mugs, to dip up the living water
for their thirsty lips. There are people
who toll from seven O'Clock in the morning
until six O'Clock at night, who know more
about anatomy than the old Psychologists,
and who know more about astronomy
than the old philosophers. II you should
take the learned men Of two hundred
years ago and put them on one bench, and
take twenty children from the common
schools in Brooklyn, and put them down
on the other bench, the children could ex-
anime the philosophers and the philoso.
piers could not examine the children.
o! rejoice that you have all these oppor.
tunities of information spread out before
you, and that, seated in your chair al
home, by the evening light, you can looH
over all nations and see the descending
morn Of universal day.
One more encouragement: Your tolls in
this world are only intended to be disci.
pline by which you shall be prepared fol
heaven. "Behold bring you glad tidings
of great Joy" and tell you that Christ
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ingman's Christ. You get his love once
in your heart, o, workingman, and vo,
can sing on the wall in the midst Of the
storm, and in the shop amidst the showing
of the plane, and down in the mine annie
the plunge of the crowbar, and OF
shipboard while climbing ratlines. i
you belong to the Lord Jesus Christ HI
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brow. He knows every ache and pain yo'
have ever suffered in your worldly occu
patton. Are you weary! He will Civ
you rest. Are you sick' He will give yo'
health. Are you cold? He will wral
around you the warm mantle of his eter
nal love. And beside that, my friends, 20,
must remember that all of this is onl.
preparatory-a preparatory and introduc
tory. see great multitude before tn
throne of God. Who are they! TO-" yo,
say, "those are princes. They must hav
always been in royal family. The,
dress like princes; they walk like princes
they are princes. There are none of tn
common people there-none of the peopl
that ever toiled with hand and foot" All
you are mistaken. Who is that brigh
spirit before the throne? Why, tina
was sewing girl, who, work as hard as
sh could, could make but two shilling
the day. Who is that other iliu,triou
soul before the thrones Why, that ma
toiled amid the Egyptian brick kilns. VIII
is that other illustrious soul before tn
throneg Why her drunken father drov
her out on cold winter night and sh
froze into heaven. What are those king
and queens before the throne! Many O
them went up from Birmingham mills an
from Lowell carpet factories.