The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-07-25

est music and the voices of friendship
the very best of music. A tongue, with
almost infinity of articulation. 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 world which after six
thousand years of battling with temp
est and accident is still grander than
any architect, human or angelic, could
have drafted. | have two lamps to
light me-a golden lamp and silver
Tampa golden lamp set on the sap
phire mantel of the day, silver lamp
set on the jet mantel of the night. Yea,
/ have that at twenty years Of age,
which defies all inventory Of valuables
"a soul, with capacity to choose or
reject, to rejoice 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 family relics-a book with
leather cover almost worn out, and
pages almost obliterated by oft perusal,
joins the other books in saying am
immortal. have eighty years for q
lifetime, sixty years yet to live. may
not live an hour, but then / must lay
out my plans intelligently and Tor a
long life. Sixty years added to the
twenty I have already lived, that will
bring Inc to eighty. l must remember
that these eighty years are only a
preface to the five hundred thousand
millions or quintillions of years which
will be my chief residence and exist
ence. Now, | understand my oppor-
tunities and my responsibilities.
'If there is any being in the universe
all wise and all benefcent who can
help 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, lie will give help to man. To
Him / appeal. God help me! Here l
have yet sixty years to do for myself
and TO do for others. ] must develop
this body by all industries, by all gym
nastics, by all sunshine, by all fresh
air, by all good habits. And this soul
/ must have swept, and garnished, and
illuminated and glorifed by all that |
can do for it and all that | can get God
to do for it, II shall be Luxembourg
of fine pictures. 1t shall be an or
chestra Of grand harmonies. 1t shall
be palace for God and Righteousness
10 reign in. | wonder how many kind
words | can utter in the next sixty
years? will try. Iwonder how many
good deeds can do in the next sixty
yearsP will try. God help me!"
That young man enters life. He is
buffeted, he is tried, he is perplexed. A
grave opens on this side and grave
opens on that side. lie 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 direc'
tion. lie 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 the Lord" My brother, my
sister, do not care whether that mar
dies at thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy
or eighty years Of age; you can chise'
right under his name on the tombstone
these words: "liis life was worth liv
ing"
Amid the hills of New Hampshire, in
olden times, there sits mother. There
are six children in the household-foul
boys and two girls. Small farm. Very
rough, hard work TO coax a living out
of it. Mighty tug to make the two end'
of the year meet. The boys go u
school in winter and work the farm il
summer. Mother is the chief presiding
spirit, With her hands she lSnits nj
the stockings for the little feet and she
is the mantuamaker for the boys ant
she is the milliner for the girls. There
is only one musical instrument in tn,
house-the spinning wheel. The fooC
is very plain, but it is always well pro
vided. The winters are very cold, bu
are kept out by the blankets sh,
quilted. On Sunday, when she appear
in the village church, her chillrei
around her the minister looks dowi
and is reminded Of the Bible description
: of good housewife-"iler children
rise up and call her blcsscd; her hus
band also, and he praiseth her.
Some years go by, and the two olde
boys want collegiate education, an,
the household economies are sevcrer
and the calculations are closer, and un
til those two boys get their education
. there is n battle for bread. One o
} these boys enters the university, stand
in pulpit widely influential, an
breaches Righteousness, judgment ant
: temperance, and thousands during hi
ministry are blessed The other la
5 who got the collegiate education goe
= into the law, and thence into legisla
tive halls, and after awhile he CON
mands listening senate as he makes
: plea for the downtrodden and the out
cast. One of the younger boys become
a merchant, starting at the foot Of tn
, ladder, but climbing on up until hi
: success and philanthropies are recog
I nized all over the land. The other so
= stays at home because he prefers farm
l ing life, and then he thinks he will
be able to take care of father an
I mother when they get old.
0 OF the two daughters, when the wa
, broke out one went through the hos
pitfalls of Pittsburg Landing an
Fortress Monroe, cheering up the dyinI
and homesiclz, and taking the last mes
, sage to kindred far away. So tha
every time Christ thought of her, II
! cold ne ~ old GCrTha emma io t,,,, oisto