Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-07-27
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how many kind words I can utter in the
next 60 years Twill try. Iwonder how
many good deeds l can do in the next
60 years? / will try. God help me-
That young man enters life. Ho is
inflicted; he is tried; he is perplexed A
grave opens on this side, and 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. de
blesses everybody he comes in contact
with. God forgiyes his mistakes and
makes everlasting record OF his holy
endeavors aud at the close Of it God
saws to him, well done, good an
faithful servant; enter into the ter 7
tkv Lord" My brother, ma man dies at
d not care whether e "a wears Of age
kgO' 49, on, oo, Ign. gght under his name on
fou can chi ise these words: His life
.sS'e VNo1ss-sssh living.
w1a1sniid the hills Of New Hampshire in
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arc 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 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
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 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 a collegiate education, and
the household economies are severer, and
the calculations are closer, and until
those two boys get their education there
is a 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 as he makes a plea for the down
trodden and the outcast One Of the
Younger boys becomes a 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
troke-out one, went through the hospi-
tails Of Pittsburg Landing and Fortress
Monroe, cheering up the dying and
homesick, and taking the last message
10 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
home 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
ously i'll " But before they can be ready
10 start they receive another telegram,
saying, Come; mother is dead " The
old neighbors gather in the old farm
house TO do the last offices Of respect
But as that farming son, and the cler-
gyman, 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 chill
dren TO see once more the face Of dear
old grandma, want to ask that group
around the casket one question, "Dc
you really think her life was worth
liyingf" A life for God, life for 9th
ers, a life Of unselfshness, a useful life,
q Christian life, is always worth living
Prannies Of Succeas
would not find 1t hard to persuade
you that the poor lad, Peter Cooper
making glue for living and then amass
ing O great fortune until he could built
q philanthropy which has had its ech'
in 5000 philanthropies all over th'
country-I would not find 1t hard L
persuade you that his life was wortl
living. Neither would find it hard t
persuade you that the life Of Susanna
Wesley was worth living. She sent on
one son to organize Methodism and tn
other son 10 ring his anthems all through
the ages / would not find it hard Il
persuade you that the life Of France
Leere was worth living, as she establish
ed In England a school for the scientific
nursing Of the sick, and then when tn
war broke out between France and Ger
many went to the front, and with he
own hands scraped the mud off the bod
les Of the soldiers dying In the trenche
with her weak arm, standing one nigh
In the hospital, pushing back Germal
soldier to his couch as, all frenzied wit
his wounds, he rushed toward the doc
and said: Let me gol Let me go to m
'liebe mutter. Major generals stand
ing back to let pass this angel Of mercy
Neither would have hard work t
persuade you that Grace Darling live
q life worth living-the heroine OF tn
lifeboat You are not wondering tina
the Duchess of Northumberland cam
to see her, and that people Of all land
asked for her lighthouse, and that tn
proprietor of the Adelphi theater in Lon
don offered her 500 night just to 81
in the lifeboat while some shipwrecke
scene was being enacted
Reward OF Ehort.
But know the thought In the mind
Of hundreds who read this You say
while l know all these lived live
!