The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-23

cheering up the dying and homesick, ana
taking the last message to kindred far
of her He said, as of old, "The same is
my sister and mother The other daughter
has bright home of her own, and in the
afternoon of the forenoon when she has
been devoted to her household, she goes
forth to hunt up the sick and to encourage
the discouraged, leaving smiles anu Dene-
distions all along the way.
But one day there start five kilograms
from the village for these five absent ones,
saying, Come mother is dangerously ~.
But before they can be ready to start they
receive another telegram, saying: Come
mother is dead" The old neighbors gather
in the old farmhouse to 90 the last offce5
of respect. But that farming son, ana
the clergy, and the senator. and the mer-
chant, 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 cas-
ket one question: Dou yoH 1 rfait for G ;lh
her life f was W"Ish ilV' W. o.
a useful life, a Christian life is always
WorIn uvin9 ,,5 ,,o,,
that the poor lad, Peter Cooper, making
glue for living, and then aHassl!,s a sioa.
fortune until he could bulld phiia .l
which has had it's echo in ten thousand
Dhilanthropies all over the country Wouiu
not find it hard to persuade you tnat G ia
life worth living. Neither w thn life , of
it hard TO persuade you that the NE CO., o.
Susannah Wesley was worth iVlng. on9
sent out one son to organize Methuuls'ii any any
the other son to ring his antheias az
through the ages. I would not flnd II naru
work to persuade you that the life or iran
ces I.eere was worth living as she estapnsn-
cd in ENGLAND a school for the sclentnic
nursing of the sick, and then when tne WA
broke out between France and Germany
went to the front and with ner Own M li'' soI
scraped the mud off the bodies OF tne aoi
diers diving in the trenches, win nel We5'A
arm-standng one night in the hospltHi,
pushing back a German soldier 10 ms uuuclii;
y NIT
toward the door and said: Let me 60
let me go to my 1iebe mutter, major
generals standing back to let pass thls
Neither would l have hard work to per- Per
suade you that Grace Darling hVeG iea a i,4e
worth livng-the heroine of th the d nFee9a Of
Northumberland came to see her, and that
people of all lands asked for her lighthouse
and that the proprietor of the Adelphl tnca-
ter in London offered her a hundred doli2Ts
a night just to sit IN the liieboat WINE j
some shipwrecll scene was beng enaGteut
But J know the thought in the MINDS OF
hundreds who read this. You say: "Wh;le
know all these lived lives worth living
don't think my life amounts to much: AZ!
uous or inconspicuOus it is worth living. II
you live Alright. And | want my next sen
tence to go down into the aep ardad u not rr
according to the greatness OF your WORK.
but according to the holy Industries VIII
which you employed the tale nus you rea' cf
heaven VIII not be given to people with
ten talents for most of them were .tenpteu
only to serve themselves. The vast majority
of the crowns of heaven will be given to
people who had one talent, but gave II All
to God. And remember that our HE mere
is Introductory to another. 1t is the vesti-
bule to a palace; but who despises the door
of the Madeleine because their arc grander
gIores within? Your life if rightly lived is
the first bar of an eternal atorio and
who despises the first note of Hayn's sym
phonies? And the life you live now is az
the more worth living because it opens into
a life that shall never end. and the last
letter of the word 'time" is the first letter
of the word ''eternity!'