Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-02


you would wake up tomorrow az
poor as a preacher, it would not bt
half as bad for you as if you were te
steal, by any method, a paltry pen
ny from some one else. In ont
case you would suffer loss from
your own pocket from the outer ane
far away circle, but in the other yor
would suffer in your own soul;
contamination.
We are shocked now and then BY
the sudden death of our public
men-congressmen, cabinet officer:
and others. The doctors say it was
caused by heart failure, which means
| that if their hearts had. not ceased
to beat they would kept on living
The story recounts late hours an6
heavy meals, and hot wines and ba6
health generally. Our hearts are
sickened with the announcement
that some man or woman OF gooC
repute, prominent for their goo6
deeds, has suddenly fallen under
ruinous sins.
Life is a building whose architec.
ture is a net work of changes o.
building and charging with designs
of strength, or converted into o winter
hut, whose misery is measured by
its littleness. Let me impress up
on you that the first essential o.
| good building is foundation. Mich
ael Angelo was an old man wher
the Pope ordered him to fresco the
ceiling of the Sistine chapel al
Rome. He knew nothing OF
that kind of work but the order
must be obeyed. He sent fol
the best freco painters of the
day and learned from them all he
could about the work and then dis.
| missed them. Then he shut him.
self up alone in the building until
its yastness filed his soul and until
his imagination took in the vastness
of the task before him. He dug UP
the colors from the earth, mixed
them with his own hand and pro-
ceeded with the matchless under,
taking of his life. The dull ceiling
turned to animmortal study. Art
lists who have gone there to copy il
have let their arms drop helpless be-
side them as they look up and feel
it impossible for them to copy what
the old man had done. Without
waiting before his task until his
soul was full of it, he never could
have done so well.
The speaker drew the moral from
this to make your task great by put
ting greatness into it. Above all
things, remember to keep your soul
in touch with the light of God, from
whom alone come aspirations and
possibilities of true living. Hercules
ceased to be a giant when he lost
the touch of his mother earth.
Stand with me for a moment In
the central telegraph office of one o.
our large cities. The night force is
just leaving for rest and the day
force is entering on duty. The wires
come in from all directions. The
superintendent goes from one key te
another adjusting every one in turn
and then registers the response. /
the connections are good the fact is
recorded and adaily account is kept
! If it is bad the fact is noted and {
| workman sent out to make repairs
| Thus all the wires are tried. i
may be possible that some of these
/ wires will not be needed al
the day, but who knows bu'
what you or l will need to send Oh
receive a message that very day and
it must be waiting to serve us. Out
there is the dark room where none
but experts may go; there bidder
from view, shut up in darkness, arr
the batteries. This is the bidder
place of power. Let the busy worlt
leave out your faith in prayer ane
in the power of God if it chooses
but remember that for each dali,
duty you need to lay your hand Oh
the hiding of the Lords power ant
to come from your fresh an
nointing to duties that may Civ
strength.
The speaker, in drawing to
close, said, ga watch made of golt
and set with diamonds will not rul
longer than one made of chea]
stuff. They must 60 back to tn
hand which made them and let tina
hand put its own power fresh int
them to keep them going a littl
longer. Paul was right when h
said, The life which / now live
live by the faith of the Son c
God"
1.-The sacred burden is this life We bear;
Look on it. live it, bear it solemnly,
Stand up and work beneath it steadfastIy:
Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin,
But onward, upward till the goal We win. -
Undecided What to Do.
The directors of The Mexico Fir
Brick Company met in room Is {
the Windsor Hotel this afternoo,