The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-07-28

ton. He blesses everybody he comes
in contact with. God forgives his mis-
takes, 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, l do not care whether that man
dies at 80, 40, so, 60, 20 or 80 years of
age; you can chisel right undo his
name on the tombstone these words:
Ills life was worth living"
Amid the hills of New Hampshire, in
olden times, there sits a mother. There
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
summer. Mother is the chief presiding
spirit. With her hands she knits all
the stockings for the little feet, and
she Is the mantuamaker for the boys,
and she is the milliner for the girls.
There is only one musical instrument
in the house-the spinning wheel.
The food is very plain, but is always
we'll provided. The winters are very
cold, but are kept out by the blankets
she quilted. On Sunday, when she ap-
pears in the village church, her chill
dren around her, the minister looks
down, and is reminded of the Bible de-
scription Of a good HOUSEWIVES: Her
children arise up and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praiseth her."
Some years go by, and the two
eldest boys want q collegiate educa-
ton, M the household economies are
severer, and the calculations are closer,
and until those two boys get their ed
~ucation there Is q hard battle for
bread. One Of these boys enters the
university, stands in a pulpit widely
influential, and breaches righteous
ness, judgment and temperance, and
thousands during his ministry are
blessed. The other lad who got tho
collegiate education goes into the law,
and thence into Legislative halls, and
after awhile he commands listening
senates as he makes q plea for the
down-trodden and the outcast. One Of
the younger boys becomes q merchant,
starting ut the foot of the ladder, but
Ginning On up until his success and
his philsnthropies are recognized all
over the land. The other son stays at
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.
OF the two daughters, when the war
broke out one went through the hos.
pitfalls Of Pittsburg Landing and
Fortress Monroe, cheering up the dy-
ing 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 il 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 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 tele.
grams from the village for these Eve
absent ones, saying: "Come, mother Il
dangerously ILL.," Hut before they can
be ready to start they receive another
telegram, saying: 'Come, mother Is
the ola farm house TO do ne last Offices
~ resnect INT as that farming son,
and the clergyman. and the senator
and The merchant. and the two daueh.
tiers stand by the casket of the dead
mother, taking the last look, or lifting
their children to see once o the
face Of dear old grandma, I want To
Question: "Do YOU really think her life
was worth livinp2, A life for God. q
life for others. a life Of unselashness. :
usefuI life a Christian life "a slwav,
worth living
would not find IL hard To persuade
You that the poor lad. Peter Cooper
making glue for a living. and then
amassinv a great fortune until he could
build a nhilsnthropv which has had Il,
echo In 10. 600 phiianthropies ali owe,
the country-I would not find Il hard
to persuade Won that his life was worth
living. Neither would I find Il hard
to persuade Won that the life O,
Susannah Wesley was worth liy.
ing. She sent out one SON to
organize Methodism and the othe,
son To ring his anthems all through
the ages. / would not find it hard &c
persuade you that the life Of Frances
Leere was worth living, as abe estab.
lished in England. a school for thu
scientific nursing of the sick. and when
the war hroLe ont between Erance am
Germany, went to the front. and will
her own hands scraped the mud Of the
bodies of the soldiers DIVING in the
trenches. Neither would 1 have hard
work to persuade Won that Grace
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