The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-03

Amid the hills Of New Hampshire In
| olden times there sits a mother. There are
six children in the household-four boys
and two girls Small farm Very rough,
| hard work 10 coax a living out Of It.
| Mighty tugs to make the two ends Of tile
| year meet. The BOYS go to school in win
| ter and work the farm In summer Moth.
/ er is the chief presiding spirit With her
| hands she knits all the stockings for the
| little feet and She Is the mantua maker
| for the boys, and she is the milliner for
| the girls. There is only one musical in
strumCut in the hOuse--the spinning
/ wheel Tho food is very plain, but II Is
/ always well provided The winters are
very cold but uro kept out by the blankets
/ She quilted. On sunday when she appears
/ In the village church, her children around
| her the minister looks down and is re
| minded of the Bible description of a good
| housewife; Her children arise UP and
call her blessed Her husband also, and
he praiseth her. "
Some years so hv ard the two oldcst
/ boys want "a collegiate education, and the
/ household economies aru sryoryr, and the
/ calculations are closer and until those two
| boys get their education there Is hard
/ battle for bread Ono Of these boys enters
! the university, stands in a pulpit widely
! influential and breaches righteousness,
/ Judgment and temperance, and thousands
during his ministry urc blessed. Tho other
lad who got the collegiate education goes
into the law, and thence into legislative
halls, and after awhile he commands lis
tening seuatcs as he makes a plea for the
downtrudden and the uutcust one Of the
younger boy, Incomes "a merchant, start
Ing at the foot of the ladder but climbing
on up until his success and his philanthro-
pics are recognized all over the land The
othor son stays at home because he prefers
farming life aud then he thinks he will
be- able to take care Of father and mother
when they get OLD.
A Grand Life.
OF the two daughters, when the war
broke out, one won't through the hospitals
OF Pittsburg Landing and Fortress Monroe.
cheering up the dying and homesick and
taking the last message to kindred far
away, 80 that every time Christ thought
of her he said, as of old, THE same Is my
sister and mothur.n The other daughter
has a bright homo of her own. and In the
afternoon of the forenoon when she has
been devoted to her household she goes
forth TO hunt up the sick and To encourage
the discouraged leaving smiles and bene
diction all along the way
But one day there start five telegrams
from the village for these five absent ones
But before they can be ready to start they
receive another telegram, saying, Come:
mother IS dead. " The old neiphbprs gather
IN the old farmhouse to do the last offices
o. respect But as that farming SON and
the clergyman, and the senator, and the
merchant, and the two daughters stand bv
the casllct of the dead mother taking the
last look or lifting their little Children to
see once more the the face of dear old
grandma | want to ask that group around
the casket one question, DO you really
think her life was worth livingY" A life
for God, IA life for Others "a life OF unselllsh-
ness, a useful life, Christian life, is al
ways worth living
lwould not find it hard to persuade you
that the poor lad Peter Cooper, making
glue fora living and then amossing great
fortune until be could build philan-
thropy which has had its echo in TO- Oo0
philanthropes all over the country-I
would not find it hard TO persuade you
that his life was worth living. Neither
would find 1t hard to persuade you that
the lifc Of SuSannah Wesley was worth
living. rha seat out one son to organize
Mcthudian and the other son to bring his
anthems all through the ages / would
not lind IL hard work to persuade you
that the lie OF Frances Lccre was worth
living, as she established in England "a
school for the scientific nursing of the sick
and then when the war broke out between
France. and Germany went to the front,
and with her own hands scraped the mud
oil the bodies Of the soldiers dying in the
trenches, with her weak arm, standing
one night in tho hospital pushing back
German soldier to his couch rs, all fren-
zed with his wounds, he rushed toward
the door and said Let me go! Let me
go 20 my liuho luuttor" Major generals
standing back 10 let pass this angel Of
mercy
Neither would | have hard work to per
s;Iade you that Grace Darling lived a life
worth living, the heroine Of the lifcboat
You arc not wondering that the Duchess
OF northumberland came to see her, and
that people of all lands asked for her
lighthouse and that the proprietor Of the
Adelphi thcatcr in London offered her SlOo
night just To sit in the lifcboat while
some shipwreck scene was being enacted
But / know the thought in the minds
of hundreds who read this You saw
while | know all these lived lives worth
living, | don't think my life amounts 10
much. " All, my friend, whether YOU
1--we life conspicuous or inCOnspicuous IL
is worth living If you live Alright And
want my next sentence to go down into
the depths Of all your souls. You are to
DO rewarded not according to the great
ness of your work, but according to the
holy industries with which you employed
the talents you really possessed. The ma
jority OF the crowns Of heaven will not be
given 10 people with 10 talents for most
of them were tempted only to serve them
selves. The vast majority of the crowns Of
heaven will be given to people who had
one talent but gave il all To God And
remember that our life here is introduo-
tory to another 1t is the vestibule to
palace. But who despises the door of the
Madeleine because there are grnnder
llorics within' Your life, II rightly
lived, is the first bar Of an eternal oraturio
"3d who dcspises the first note of Haydns
symphonies And the life you live now Is
ell the more worth living because IL opens
into life that shall never end, and thu
last letter of the word time" Is the first
letter of the word "eternityl"
Well Meant Advice.
An Irishman who was near Sabden aud
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