Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-02-23


A crawfsh hal burrowel into the banks OF
the river until the ground was saturated AMI
the banks weakened until the fool burst.
But l find here man who starts out in
life with the determination that he will
never SEQ suffering but he will try 10 al
leyiate il, and never see discOuragem
but he will try to cheer it. AMI never meet
with anybody but he will try 10 do him
GOOD. Getting his strength from Col. he
starts from home with high purpose otdoins
all the good ne can possibly do in one day.
Whether standing behind the counter, or
talking in the business Office with pen b.
hind his ear, or making a bargain With fell
low trader. or out in the field discussing
with his next neghbor the wisast rotation OF
the crops. or In the shosm1ker's shop p)unl-
ing sole leather. there Is something in his
face. and in his phraseooyy AMI in his mau-
ner that demonstrates the grace OF COL In
his heart. He can talk on religion without
awkwardy dragging It I'm by the olrs. IT,
loves God AMI loves the souls o. fall whom n
meets ana is interested in their present AMI
eternal destiny.
For hrv or sixty years he lives that life,
and then gets through with It an gOss into
heaven a ransOmed soul. But am no. going
10 describe the port into which that snip has
entered
lam not going to describe the Pilot who
met him outside at the "lightship.' I an
not going to say anything about the crow IS
of friends who met him on the crystalline
wharves mp which be goes on steps OF
chrysoprasss. For Col IN His words to JOB
calls me to look at the path OF foam in tho
wake Of that ship, and I tell you it IS all
a-gleam with splendors OF kindness done
and rolling with ilumined tears that wer'
wiped away, and a-1ash with cOngratull-
I nd al. ~ 10 bn hnriV0u H.
reclions is the sparkling, fishing, billowinS
| osphOrescence OF a Christian llie "hs
! maketh path to shine after him.
And here correct one OF the mean no.
| tions which at some time Takes possession OF
! all Of US. and that Is as to the breyty OF hu-
man life. When bury some very useful
man. clerical or lay. in his thrtieth o. for
tieth year. l say; "What a waste OF ener-
/ gies It was hardly worth while for him to
! get ready for Christian work, for he hal 50
! soon 10 quit it. But tho fact is that 1 may
| insure any man or woman who does anS
good on a large or small scale for a lie on
! Garth as long as the world lasts. Sickness,
/ trolley car accidents, death itsoli, can no
| more destroy his life than they can tear
| down one OF the rings Of Saturn. You can
/ start one good word, Ons kind act, ono
/ cheerful smile, on a mission that Will last
until the void becomes a bonfire, and out
/ of that blaze it will pass into the heavens,
never to halt az long as God lives
/ There were in theseventeenth century men
and women whose names you never helrt
OF who are to-day influencing schools, co.,
leyes, churches, Nations. You can no mora
measure the gracious results OF their lie
time than YOU could measure the length and
breadth and depth of the phosphorescencs
last night following the ship OF the WHITE
star limo 1900 miles out at sea. How the
If
us TO follow. as a general in the American
army. cool amid the flying bullets, inspired
n trembling soldier. who said atterWdrd. Il
was nearly scared to death. but ! saw the
J Old mans white mus,ache over his shoulder
and went on" Aye we are all following
somebody. either in right or wrong dire
hons.
4 few DAYS ago I stood beside the gar
! landed casket Of q gospel minister. AMI IN
/ nv remarks had occasion to recall snowy
night in n farmhouse when was boy an
. an evangelist spending night at my iather
/ bouso who sqil something so tender AM
beautiful and impressive that II led me INTO
the kingdom Of God and decided my destiny
for this world an the next. You will. bee
fore twenty-iour hours 60 by, meet some man
or woman with big pack of care and trou-
bic. AMI YOU may say something 10 him NJ
her that will endure until this world shau
have be.n so far los. In the pas. that nothing
hut the stretch Of angelic memory VIII ''
able 10 realize that it ever existed at aiL
am not talking OF remarkable men au
women. but OF what ordinary folks can 30.
T lam not speaking OF tho phosp1or's 'n''
I'm tho track of Newiouniian Hshm
smack. Col makes thuuier1olt- ONT ot
I SHARKS. and ont Of the small w1r is an d''i-
~ a small life He can launch power that
will fash ami burn nm thunder through Tine
eternities.
How do Won like this prolonsltion Of your
earthly ife by deathless iGdI'ne'. May p
babe that dial at six months of age hY TIM
anxiety created in the parent s heart t2 n'
/ TINT chill IN realms serlpli. d. living y'- il
the Transformed heart AM life Of thos
nor4Dfs AMI will 1.-Two on forever i'm tle his
. forv of that family. II this Doe the op9oTi
viiy 0. ordinary souls, what is tAi Jp''t
rnity of those VINO have especial intellectual
or s0eial or monetary equipment;
Have you any arithmetic ctpl'" oi ce'
I rnqting the influence OF OIr gOoi am grt-
rious friend who a few days ago went up to
ro., .gsorge W. Clilds. of Philadelphia,
From "a newspaper that was printed fo-
thirty years without one wori %. deii'ai-
ton or seurrlity or sem TAT. an putting
n chief emphasis on virtue an cAirty
onl ,lnqn Intelligence, he r,1pei fortune
amount OF it among the poor and stu s-lin-
ouiting his invalid an1 agel reporters on
pensions. until his name stanls everywhere
Tor large hearte1ness and sympathy ant
help and highest style Of Christian gentle
man.
In an era which had in the chairs OF its
journalism Horace Greeley, and Henry ..
RAYMOND. and james Gordon Bennett an I
An Erastus Brooks, and q George NIliian
Curtis. and an Irenaeus Prime, none oitlem
will be longer remembered than George W.
Childs. STAYING away from the unwilling OF
the monument he had reared at large eX-
pense in our Greenwood in memory OF Pro
lessor Proctor. the astronomer, lest should
.q- something in praise of the man VINO nal
mid for the monument. By all aeknow.-
oJeed n representative Of the highest Ameri'
can journalism.
If Won would calculate his influence ioi
Good. YOU must count how many sheets oil
his newspapers have been published in th'
last quarter Of century, and now many
neonie have read them. and the effect mol
only upon those readers, but upon all whom
they shall influence for an time. while YOU
add 10 all that the WORK OF the churches hi
helped build and OF the institutions Of mercy
he helped found Better give up before Won
start the measuring of the phOsphorescenre
in the wake Of that ship Of the Celestial lin"
Who can tell the post norton influence Of Fl
SavOnarOla, a Wnkelried. "A Gutenbers g
Marlborough, a Decatur. a Toussaint. a Boil
var. q Clarkson. q Robert Rajkcs, a Harlan
Page. who had l2j Sabbath scholars. eighty
four OF whom became Christians, AMI six o..
them ministers OF the gospel.
With gratitude and penitenco an worship
mention the grandest life that WIS ever
lived. That ship Of light was launched from
the heavens nearly 1897 years ago. angeli'
hosts chanting. and from the celestial
wharves the ship sprang into the rouyhest
sea that ever tossed It's pillows wera ma f.
up OF the wrath OF men an devils. Hero i''
and sanhedrinic prosecutions stirring th
deep with red wrath. AM all the hurricanes
OF woe smote II until on the rocks Of Golgo-
tina that life struck with "a rcsound OF agony
that APPALLED, the earth an tao heavens.
But in the wake OF that life what pho5pho'
rescence OF smiles on the cheeks OF sous
pardoned. and lives reformed, and Nations
redeemed The millennium Itself Is only
one roll OF that ira1late wave OF gladnait
AMI benediction. In the sublmest OF all
senses it may be said OF Him, He maSeth q
path to shine after Him
But I cannot look upon that luminosity
that follows ships without re1lizing how ION
tho Lord Is Of life. That Gre OF the deep Is
life. myriads OF creatures all a-swim an I n
play and a-romp in parks Of marine beauty
laid out AMI parterrel AMI rosrate1 ana