Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-03-01

~pvIizes. and / ask ycn not only Nhh'
kind OF influence you are gong 10 leaHe
in the world as you pass through IL,
hut what light are you going 10 tnro"
/ acr,Ss the worlds night Of sin and sor-
r1wg People who are sailing IN smooln
Gas and AT neon do not need much
:, pathy, but what are you gong 10
/ do for people in the night OF nlisfor-
tune! VIII you drop on them SHADOW
or will you kindle for them phosphor-
cctDcaSAt this moment there are more
peonIe CRYING than laughing; ncre peo-
ME ON the round world this moment
hurgry than well fed; mtre
holds berpft than homes unbrohen.
What are you going 10 do about II:
Il would rather do something toward
( illuminiug the great Ocean OF human
( Indebtedness. but / can not do much"
/ Can Won do as much as OF the phoS-
/ phon in the middle Of the Atlantic
! Ocean. creatures smaller than the
point Of a sharp pin: oh, yes, yon
saw. Then do that. Shine. Stand be-
fore the lOOking--lass and experiment
to see If you c.R not get that scoWl
Of your Z fehead; that peeyish look out
of your / pS. Have at least one bright
ribbon in your bonnet. Embroider al
least one white cord somewhere III the
midnight of yOur apparel. Do not any
longer impersOnate a funeral! Shine.
Do say something cheerful about So
ciety and about the world. Put a few
drops Of heaven into your disposition.
Once in I while substitute a sweet
orange for q our lemon. Remember
that pessimism is blaSphemy, and that
optimism Is Christianity. Throw some
light on the night ocean If you can
not be Q lantern swinging in the rig
ging, be one Of the tiny pnOsphorl back
Of the keel. Shine! Let your light so
shine before men that others seeing
your good works may glorify your Fa-
Their which is in heaven"
Make on person happy every day,
and do that for twenty years and you
will have made 100 happy. You
know a nan who has lost all his prop
Crty by an unfortunate invUs tmCnt, or
by putting his name on the back of n
friends note? After you have taken a
brief nap, which every man n wo-
man is entitled to on a Sunday after
noon, 60 and cheer up that man. You
Can, If God helps You. say something
that viii do him good after both OF
you have been dead a Thousand years.
Shine, You know of q family with \
bad boy who has run away from home.
Go before night and tell that father
and mother the PARABLE Of the prodigal
son, and that some of tie illuStrlOuS
and useful men now In Church and
State had 4 silly passage in their lives
and ran away from home. Shine! You
know of a family who has lost Il child,
and the silence If the nurSCry glOCms
the whole house from cellar 10 garnet.
Go before night and tell them how
much that child has happily escaped,
since the most prosperous life on earth
is 4 struggle. Shine. You know of
/ some invalid who is dying for lack of
an appetite. She cann't get Well be-
cause she can not eat. BrOil d chicken
aud take it 10 her before night, and
cheat her poor appetite into keen relish.
Shine. You know of so ne n who likes
yCu, and you like him, and he ought
10 be a Christian. Go tell him what
religion has done for you, and ask him
X you can pray for him. Shine! Oh,
for a disposition so charged with
sweetness and light that we can not
help but shine. Remember il you can
rot be a leyiathan flashing the Ocean
il to fury, you can be one Of the ph0s-
rhori. doing your part toward making
ii path of phosphoreSCence.
Then / will tell you what impression
you viii leave when you pass through
this life and after you are gone. l will
tell you TO your face and not leave il
TO the minister who officiates at your
obsequies The failure in all euiogium
of the departed is that they can not
hear u. All hear except h n most
interested, This. in substance, is what
/ or some one else will say of you on
such an occasion: I'VE gather for Of
fees of respect TO this departed one.
1t is impossible to tell how many tears
he wiped away: how many burdens he
lifted; how any souls he was under
God instrumental in saving. His in
fiuence will never cease. We are all
better for having known him. That
pillow Of flowers on the casket was
presented by his Sabbath-school class,
all of whom he brought to Christ.
That cross Of flowers at the head was
presented by the orphan asylum
which he befriended. Those three sin
gle fiowers-one was sent by a poor
woman for whom he bought a ton Of
coal and one was by a waif of the
street whom he rescued through the
midnight mission. and the other was
from a prison cell which he had Of
ten visited to encourage repentance in Il
young man who had done wrong.
Those three loose flowers mean quite
as much as the costly garlands now
breathing their aroma through this
saddened home, crowded with syInpa-
thiZers. Blessed are the dead who
tie in the Lord; they rest from their
labors, and their works do follow
them" Or IL it should be the more
solemn burial NJ son lpr. II no q ftasr tha
sun has gone down. and the captain has
read the appropriate liturgy, and the
ships bell has tOlled. and you are let
down from the stern OF the vessel
into the resplendent pbosphoreseence
at the wake of the ship. Then let some
n say, in the words of my text,
He maketh n path to shine after him"