Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-07-24

10 start they receive anothat telegram,
SAYING, Come, mother is dead. the
old nsighburs g.ther in the old farm
house to do the last Offices Of respect.
But as that farming son, and the cler-
gyman, and the seniaor, and the mer-
chant, and the two daughters stand by
the casket Of the dead mother, taking
the last look or lifting their little chill
dren to see once more the face of dear
old grandma. want to ask that group
around the casket one question, DO
you really think her life was worth
iivinC?" A life for God, life for 9th
ers, a life Of unselfishness a useful life,
a Christian life. is always worth living.
Examples of Success.
would not find it hard to persuade
you that the poor lad, Peter Cooper,
making glue for living and then amass-
ing great fortune until he could build
philanthropy which has had its echo
in 10, 900 philanthropies all over the
couutry-I would not find it hard to
persuade you that his life was worth
living Neither would find it hard to
persuade you that the life Of Susannah
Wesley was worth living. She sent out
one son to organize Methodism and the
other son to ring his anthems all through
The ages. ! would not find 1t hard to
persuade you that the life Of Frances
Leere was worth living, as she establish
ed in England school for the scientific
nursing of the sick, and then when the
war broke ont between France and Ger
many went to the front, and with her
own hands scraped the mud off the bod
les of the soldiers dying in the trenches
with her weak arm, standing one night
in the hospital, pushing back German
soldier to his couch as, all frenzied with
his wounds, he rushed toward the door
and said: LET me go! Let me go to my
'liebe mutter " Major generals stand.
ing back to let pass this angel of mercy.
Neither would ! have hard work tc
persuade you that Grace Darling lived
life worth liying-the heroine of the
lifeboat. You are not wondering that
the Duchess of Northumberland game
to see her, and that people Of all lands
asked for her lighthouse, and that the
proprietor of the Adelphi theater in Lon.
don offered her 500 a night just to sit
in the lifeboat while some shipwrecked
scene was being enacted.
Reward Of Effort.
But ! know the thought in the minds
Of hundreds who read this, You say,
"While ] know all these lived lives
worth living, | don't think my life
amounts to much" All, my friends,
whether You live life conspicuous OF
inconspicuous, it is worth living, if you
live Alright. And want my next sen.
tepce to go down into the depths Of all
your souls. You are to be rewarded not
according to tho greatness of your work,
but according to the holy industries
with which you employed the talents
you really possessed, The majority Of the
crowns Of heaven will not be given tc
people with 10 talepts for most of them
were tempted only to serve themselves.
The vast majority Of the crowns of heav.
en- will be given to people who had one
talent, but gave it ali to God. And re.
member that our life here is introducto.
ry to another 1t is the yestibule to q
palace, but who despises the door ot
the Madeleine because there are grandel
glories within? Your life if rightly liv
ed is the first bar of an eternal oratorio,
and who despises the first note OF
Haydn's symphonies2 And the life you
live now Is oil the more worth living be-
cause it opens into life that shall never
end, and the last letter of the word
time" is the first letter of the word
''eternity"