Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-03

open before them, Cool morals and In
| telligence are not necessary. but wealth or
show of wealth is positively Indispensable.
| It does not make any difference how you
got your wealth II you only get II. The best
| way for you to get into social position Is for
| you to buy large amount on credit, then
put your property in your wife's name. have
| q few preferred creditors and then make an
assignment. Then disappear from the COM
munity until the breeze Is over and then
come bach 1d start in the same business.
| Do you &c ee how beautifully that will put
out t, people who are in competition
| with Uu and trying to make an honest liv-
| ing2 How quickly it will get you into high
| social position What is the use of forty or
| ffty years OF hard work when you can by
| two or three bright strokes make great
| fortune? Ah, my friends, when you really
lose your money how quick they will let you
| drop. and the higher you get the harier you
will drop.
There are thousands to- lay in that realm
| who are anxious to keep in it. There are
| thousands In that realm who are nervous tor
| fear they will tall out of Ii, and there arc
| changes going on every year and every
month and every hour which involve heart
breaks that are never reported. High social
| life Is constantly in futter about the deli
| cate question as to whom they shall let In
| and whom they shall push out. and the bat
| tie is going on-pier mirror against pier mir
| ror, chandelier against chandelier, vino cell
| lar against wine cellar, wardrobe against
WarurODe, oQulpa2o against 6uulpdSes ou-
certainty and insecurity dominant in that
realm, wretchedness enthroned, torture at a
premium and q life not worth living.
| life OF sin, a life OF pride. life OF 1ndul-
gence "A life of worldiness, a life devoted to the
world, the flesh and the devil is failure, a
| dead failure, an infinite failure. l care not
how many presents you sent to that cradle,
| or how many garlands you send TO that
| crave, you need to put right underline name
on the tombstone this inscription, "Better
| for that man if he had never been born"
But shall show YOU life that IS worth
| living. A young man says: "I am here. I
am not responsible for my ancestry. Others
decided that am not responsible for my
temperament God gave mo that. But here
am, in the afternoon of the nineteenth CEN
| tury, at twenty years ofage. I am here, and
l must take an account Of stock. Here
have a body which Is divinely constructed
| engine. I must put it to the very best uses
| and must allow nothing to damage this
| rarest of machinery. Two feet, and they
| mean looomotion. Two eyes, and they mean
capacity to pick out my own way. Two
ears, and they are telephones Of oommunica
! ton with all the outside world, AMI they
mean capacity to catch sweetest music anu
| the voices Of fren lshp-the very best music.
| tongue, with almost inflnfty Of articula-
ton. Yes. hands with which to welcome or
resist or lift or smite or wave or bless-hands
to help myself and help others.
'Here is a world which, after 5000 years
of battling with tempest and accident, is still
grander than any architect, human or an.
gelic, could have drafted. l havo two lamps
to light me-a golden lamp and silver
Tampa golden lamp set on the sapphire
mantel of the day, a silver lamp set on the
| jet mantel of the night. Yea, have that at
| twenty years of age which defies all in
ventory of valuables-a soul with capacityto
choose or reject, to re joice or to suffer, to
love or to hate. Plato says it is immortal.
Seneca says it is immortal. Confucius says
it is immortal. An old book among the fam
lily relics. a book with leathern cover almost
| worn out andpages almost o5literated by Oft
perusai, joins the other books in saying l
am immortal. l have eighty years for a
| lifetime, sixty years yet to live. [ may not
| live an hour, but then l must lay out my
| plans intelligently and for long lite. Sixty
years added to the twenty have already
| lived-that will bring me to eighty. must
remember that these eighty years are only Il
brief preface 10 the five hundred thousand
millions of GiiutlllionS of years which will
be my chief residence and existence. Now
understand my opportunities and my re-
sponslbllities.
"If there is any being in tho universe all
wise and all beneticent who can help a man
in such Il iuncture, l want him. The old
book found among the family relics tolls me
there is a God and that for the sake of His
Son. one Jesus, He will give hep to q man.
To Him l appeal. God help me Here /
have yet sixty years to do for myself and to
do for others l must develop this body by
all industries, by al gymnastics, by all sun.
shine, by all fresh air, by all good habits
And this soul must have swept and garn-
ished and illumined and glorif1ed by all that
I can do for it and all that l can get God to
do for it. It shall be a Luxembourg of fine
pictures. 1t shall be an orchestra of grand
harmonies. 1t shall be palace for Goi and
righteousness to reign in. [ wonder how
many kind words I 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 mer'
That young man enters life. He is
buffsted; 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
his holy endeavors, and at the close of 1t
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 thirty, forty, fifty,
sixty, seventy or eighty years of age. You
can chisel right under his name on the
tombstone these words ellis life was
worth living"
Amid the hills of New Hampshire in olden
times there sits mother. 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 theyear meet The
boys go to school in winter ald work the
farm in summer. Mother is the chief pre-
siding spirit. With her hands she knits all
the stockings for the little feet, and she is
the mantua maker for the boys, and she Is
the milliner for the girls. There is only one
musical instrument In the house-the spin
ming wheel. The food is very plain, but 1t
is always we'll provided. The winters are
very cold, but are kept out by the blankets
she quilted. On Sunday, when she appears
In tho village church. her children around
| her, the minister looks down and is remind
| ed of the Bible description of a good house.
! wife: "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 collegiate education, and the house
| hold economics are severer and the calcula-
| tions are closer, and until those two boys get
| their education there Is a hard battle for
bread. One Of these boys enters the univer
sty, stands in a pit widely influential
and breaches Righteousness, judgment and
| temperance and thousan is during his min
| istry are blessed. The other lad who got the
| collegiate education goes into the law, AMI
| thence into Legislative halls, and after n
while he commands listening senates as no
| makes plea for the downtrodden and the
| outcast. One Gfthe younger boys becomes
/ merchant, starting at the foot of the la3-
| der, but climbing on up until his success and
his philanthropies are recognized all over tho
land. The other sou stays at home because
he prefers farming life. and then he thinks
| he will be able to take care OF father and
| moth, when they get old.
Ofthe two daug ghters. when the war broke
out one went through the hospital of Pitts
burg Landing and Fortress Monroe, cheer
ing up the dying and homcslck, and taking
| the last message to kindred far away, so that
| every time Christ thought of her He said, rs
of old, ''The same Is My sister and mother. "
The other daughter has bright home OF heE
own. ana 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
R"1 benediction all along the way.