The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-07-26

he prefers farming life. and then he thinks
/ he will be nbia TO take caro- OF father and
mother when they get old.
| OF the two daughters. when the war broke (
out one went through the hospital OF Pitts
burg Landing and Fortress Monroe. cheer
| Ing up the dying and homesick, and taking
the last message 10 kindred far away, 80 that
every time Christ thought OF her He said. A.
| Of old, "Thc same Is My sister and mother"
The other dau ghter has bright home OF her
own. and In tho afternoon OF the forenoon
when she has been devoted 10 her household
she goes forth TO hunt up the sick and to
encourage the discouraged. leaving smiles
and ben nedictlon NIL along the way.
But one day there start five kilograms from
the village for these five absent ones, saying,
"Come mother Is dangerously ILL.," But be-
fore they can be ready 10 start they receive
another telegram. saying. "Come mother II
dead The old neighbors gather In the old
farmhouse 10 do tho last oflcea OF respect.
But as that farming son, and the clergyman,
and the senator. and the merchant. and the.
two daughters stand By the casket OF the,
dead mother. taking tho last look or lifting
their little children 20 sec once more the
face OF dear old grandma. 1 want 10 ask
that group around tho casket one question,
"Do you really think her life was worth liv-
inG2" A life for God. life for others. n
life OF unsellshness, n useful life, Chris
tian life. is always worth living.
I would not find II hari TO persuade you
that the poor led. Peter Cooper. making glue
for living and then nmassing n great for
tune until he could build n phiianthrophy
which has had its echo in 10000 philanthro-
pies all over the country-I would rot find
Il hard to persuade you that his life was
worth living. Neither would find II hard
to persuade you that tho life OF Susannsh
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 hari to persuade you that
tho life OF Frances Leere was worth living.
rs she established in England a school for
tho scientific nursing OF tho sick. and then
when the war broke out between France and
Germany went TO the front, aud with her
own hands scraped tho mud off the
bodies OF the soldiers dying In the
trenches with her weak arm. standing one
night In the hospital, pushing back Ger
man soldier TO his couch as. all frenz,el with
his wounds, he rushed toward the door and
said, ''Let me gol Lot me go 10 my 'liebe
mutter.'" Major-Gemrals standing back to
let pass this angel OF mercy.
Neither would L hap hard work TO per-
suade you that Grace Darling lived a life
worth living-.he hersne OF the lifeSoat.
You are not wondering that the Duchess of
Northumberland came o see her. and that
people of oil lands asks for her lighthouse,
and that the proprietoroi the Adephi The
atre. In London, offer,i her 800 n night
Just to sit In the lifebot while some ship
wrecked scene was bein enacted
But know the thoght in the minds OF
hundreds who read thi You say, ''whlle
i know all these lived yes worth living. I
don't think my life amonts 10 much" All.
my friends, whether ou live u life con-
splclous or lnconspcuot, Il Is worth living
ii you live Alright. Aud want my next SEN
tencc 10 so down into the depths OF all
your souls. You are be rewarded. not
according 10 the greness OF your work,
but according to th holy industries
with which you emplou tho talents you
really possessed. Th majority OF the
crowns OF heaven will no)e given TO people
with ten talents for INST OF then were
tempted only TO serve thasslves The vast
majority OF tho crownSt heaven will be
given TO people who had 10 talent, but gave
IL all to God. And remsber that our life
here is Intro iuctory to mother. Il ia tho
vestlbule to u palace. buwho desplses tho
door OF tho Madeleine ecause there are
crander glorins within? our life IL rightly
lived Is tho first bar OF eternal oratorio.
and who despises the lr note OF Hayin's
Symphonies? And the you live now IL
all the more worth livnDecause II opens
into life that shall nevend, an the last
letter OF the word ''timeb the first letter
OF the word ''eternlty!'