News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-07-26
Enllinr and Rising.

all wise and all beneficent who can help
a man in such juncture, want him.
The old book found among the family
relics tells me there is God, and that
for the sake of his Son, one Jesus, he
will give help to man. To him APP
peal. God help mel Here | have yet 60
years to do for myself and to do for 9th
ers. must develop this body by all in
dustries, by all gymnastics, by all sun
shine, by all fresh air, by all good hah-
its. And this soul / must have swept
and gdTnished and illumined and glori-
fed by all that | can do for it and all
that | can get God to do for it. 1t shall
be Luxemburg of fine pictures. 1t
shall be an orchestra of grand harmo-
MES. 1t shall be a palace for God and
righteousness to reign in. | wonder
how many kind words l can utter in the
next 60 years. Twill try. wonder how
many good deeds | can do in the next
60 years? | will ty. God help mel"
That young man enters life. He is
buffeted; he is tricI; 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 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 his 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,
do not care whether that man dies at
80, 40, so, 60, 20 or so 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 there sits mother. There
arc six children in the hOusehold-fOur
boys and two girls. Small farm. Very
rough; hard work to coax a living out
of it. Mighty tug to make the two ends
Of the year meet. The boys go to school
in winter and work the farm in sum-
mer. Mother is the chief presiding
spirit. With her hands she knits all the
the mantua maker for the boys, and she
is the millincr for the girls. There is
only one musical instrument in the
housc-the spinning wheel. The food is
very plain, but it is always well provid-
ed. 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 good 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 education there
is hard battle for bread. One of these
boys enters the university, stands in a
pulpit widely influential and breaches
righteousness, Judgment and temper
ance, 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 rs he makes plea for the down.
trodden and the outcast. One of the
younger boys becomes merchant, start
ing at the foot of the ladder, but climb
ing on up until his success and his phi
lanthropies are recognized all over the
land. The other son stays at home be-
cause he prefers farming life, and then
he thinks he will be able to take care of
father and mother when they get old.
OF the two daughters, when the war
broke out one, went through the hospi-
tails of Pittsburg Landing and Fortress
Monroe, cheering up the dying and
homesick, and taking the last message
to kindred far away, so that every time
Christ thought of her he said, as of
old, 1.-THE same is my sister and moth
or. The other daughter has bright
aCme of her own, and in the afternoon
of the forenoon when she has been de-
voted to her household she goes forth
to hunt up the sick and to encourage
the discouraged, leaving smiles and
benediction all along the way.
But one day there start five kilograms
from the village for these five absent
ones, saying Come; mother is danger.
Al