The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-25

children arise up and called her blessed.
Her husband also. and he praiseth her"
Some years go by. and the two eldest
hOys want 2 collegiate education, and the
household economies are severer and the
calculations are closer. and until those two
boys get their education there Is a hard
battle for bread. One Of these boys en-
tiers the university. stands in "A pulpit
widely infuntial and breaches righteous
ness. judgment and temperance, and thou
sands during his ministry are blessed.
The other lad who gothic collegiate
education goes into the law, and thence
into legislative halls, and after awhile he
commands listening senates as he makes
a plea for the downtrodden and the out
east. One Of the younger boys becomes
a merchant. starting at the foot Of the
ladder, but climbing on up until his sue
cess and his philanthrOpies are recognized
all over the land. The other son stays
"A home because he prefers farming life.
and then he thinks he will be able to take
care Of father and mother when they get
old.
4 Grand Life.
or the two daughters. when the war
broke out. one went through the hospitals
Of Pittsburg Landing ard Fortress Mon
roe. cheering up the dying and homeslck
and taking the last message to kindred
far away. so that every time Christ
tuoubH VI UtI he Sdlus dts VI Olut lut
same is my sister and mother" The
other daughter has a bright home OF her
own. and in the afternoon Of the forenoon
when she has been devoted TO her house
hold she goes forth TO hunt up the sick
and TO encourage the discouraged, leaving
smiles and benedicton all 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 before they can be ready to
start they receive another telegram. say
ing, Come: mother is dead" The old
neghbors gather in the old farmhouse 10
do the last offices 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 the last look or lifting their
little children TO see once more the face
OF dear old grandma I want TO ask that
group around the casket one question,
do you really think her life was worth
liying?" A life for God, a life for others,
a life of unselfshness. useful life,
Christian life is always worth living.
/ would not find il hard to persuade you
that the poor lad Peter Cooper. making
glue for a living and then amassing a
great fortune until he could build a
philanthropy which has had Its echo in
10000 philanthroples all over the country
Il would not find II hard to persuade you
that his life was worth living Neither
would | find IL 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 10 bring his
anthems all through the ages. 1 would
not find IL hard work to persuade you
that the life Of Frances Leere was worth
living as she established I'm England a
school for 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 scra ped the mud
off the bodies of the soldiers diving In the
trenches with her weak arm, standing
one night in the hospital, pushing back
a German soldier 10 his couch as, all
frenZied with his wounds, he rushed
toward the door and said: Let me go!
Let me go 10 my liebe mutter.' Major
generals standing back 90 let pass this
angel OF mercy.
Neither would I have hard work to
persuade you that Grace Darling lived
a life worth living the heroine Of the life
boat. You are not wondering that the
duchess of northumberland came to see
her, and that people Of all lands asked
for her lighthouse, and that the proprie-
tor Of the Adelphi theater In London
offered her 800 a night just to sit I'm the
lifebOat while some shipwreck scene was
being enacted.
But I know the thought I'm the minds
Of hundreds who read this. You say,
while / know all these lived lives worth
living. l don't think my life amounts TO
much" An, my friend. whether you live
a life conspicuous or inconspicuous It 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 be rewarded not acCordhg 20 the
greatness of your work, but ording
20 the holy industries with which you
employed the talents you really pos
sessed. The majority Of the crowns Of
heaven will not be given to people with
ten talents. for most of them We're
tempted only To serve themselves. The
vast majority of the crowns Of heaven
Will be given TO people who had one tall
ent, but gave Il all to God. And remems
Der that our life here IS Introductory 10
another At Is the vestibule 20 a palace.
But who despises the door of the Made
leine because there are grander glories
within? Your life. II rightly lived, Is
the first bar OF an eternal oratorio. and
who despises the first note Of Haydn's
symphonies? And the life you live now
is all the more worth living because 10
opens into a life that shall never end.
and the last letter OF the word time"
is the first letter Of the word "eter-
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