The Baptist headlight., 1894-08-08

of fine pictures. 1t shall be an orches-
ira OF grand harmOnies. 1t shall be a
palace for God and righteousness TO
reign in. | wonder how many kind
words L can utter in the next sixty
years? [ will try. IwOnder how many
good deeds can do in the next sixty
years? will try. God help me.
That young man enters life. He is
butteted: he is tried; he Is perplexed.
A grave opens on this side, and a
grave opens on that side. He falls, but
he rises again. He gets into a hard
battle, but he gets the victory The
main course of his life is in the right
direction. He blesses everybody he
comes in contact with. God forgives
his mistakes and makes everlasting
record of mis- holy endeavors, and at
the close of it God says to him. well
done, good and faithful servant: enter
into the joys .of thy Lord" My brother,
my sister L do not care whether that
man dies at 3d. 40, 80. 30. 20 or 50 years
of age. You can chisel right under
his name on the tombstone these words:
His life was worth living"
Amid the hills of New Hampshire in
olden times the,e sits another. There
are six children in the household
four boys and two girls. Small farm.
Very rough: hard work to coax living
out Of it. Mighty tug to make the two
ends Of the year meet The bows 90
to school in winter ana work the farm
in summer. Mother is the chiet pre-
siding spirit. With her hands she
knits all the stockings for the little
feet, and she is the mantua maker for
the boys, ana she is the milliner for
the girls. There is only one musical
instrument Iii the house - the spinning
wheel. The food is very plain. bnt it
Is always well provided. The winters
are very cold, but are 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 reminded of
the Bible description of a cool house
wife: Her children arise up and call
her blessed. Her husband also. and
he praiseth her"
A Mothers Blessed Life.
Some years go by, and the two eldest
boys want cOllegiate education, and
the household economies are severer.
and the calculations are closer. and
until those two boys get their educa-
ton there is hard battle for bread.
One of these boys enters the univer-
slty, stands in a pulpit widely infuen-
tlal and breaches righteousness, judg- |
ment and temperance, and thousands |
during his ministry are blessed. |
The other lad who got the collegiate |
education goes into the law, and thence |
into legislative halls, and after awhile |
he commands listening senates as he |
makes plea for the dOwntrOdden and !
he Outcast. One OF the Younger BOYS !
becomes a merchant, starting at the |
Oot of the ladder, but climbing on up |
lntll his success and his phildnthrOpics |
lre recognized all over the land. The |
'ther son stays at home because he |
prefers farming life. and then he |
kinks he will be able to take care of |
ather and mother when they get oid.
OF the two daughters, when the war
broke out one, went through the hos
)itals OF Pittsburg Landing and Fort
ess Monroe. cheering up the dying
ma homeslck, and taking the last mes
age to kindred far away. so that every
lme Christ thought of her he said. as
# old, The same is my sister and
mother. The other daughter has
right home of her own, and in the
fternOOn of the forenoon when she has
een devoted to her household she
oes forth to hunt up the sick and to
ncOurage the discouraged. leaving
miles and benedictiOn all along the
raY.
But one day there start five tele-
rams from the village for these five
bsent ones, saying, Come; mother is
i'll" But before they can
e ready to start they receive another
7legram, saying, Come: mother is
cad. The old neighbors gather in
ne old farmhouse to do the last offices
respect. But as that farming son.
nd the clergyman, and the Senator.
nd the merchant. and the two daurh-
erS stand by the casket of the dead
Other, taking the last look or lifting
lelr little children to see once more
re face OF dear Old grandma. | want to
SIX that group around the casket one /
lestlon. do you really think her life
as worth living?" A life for God,
fe for others. life of unse lfshness. a
'eful Life, Christian life, is always !
Orth living. |
Examples OF Success. c
| would not find it hard to persuade q
III that the poor lad, Peter Cooper.
aking glue for living and then
nassing great fortune until he could I
lid philanthrophy which has had y
; echo in 10000 philanthrophies all !,
er the country-I would not find it :
Ird TO persuade you that his lite was !
lrth living. Neither would I find ii !
.rd to persuade you that the life Of c
sannah Wesley was worth living. c
le sent out one son to organize Meth n
ism and the other son TO ring his an o
ems all through the ages. | would a
| find il nard 10 persuade you that r,
2 life OF Frances Leere was worth =
ing, as she established in England a !,
lool for the scientific nursing of the =
k and then when the war broke out lt