The Penn's Grove record., 1894-07-27
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dead" The old neighbors gather in the old
farmhouse tn do the last offices OF respect.
But as that farming son, and the clergyman,
and the senator, and the merchant, and the
two daughters stand by the casket OF the
lead mother, taking the Last look or lifting
their little children to see once moro the
lace Of dear old grandma, l want 10 ask
that group around the casket one question,
D YOU really think her life was worth liv-
ing?" A life for God, a life for others, a
life OF unselfshness, a useful life, a Chris
sian life, is always worth living.
/ would not find 1t hard to persuade you
hat the poor lad, Peter Cooper, making glue
Tor a living and then amassing n great for
.une until he could build a philanthrophy
which has had Its echo in 5000 philanthro-
pies all over the c~ountry-1 would rot int
t hard TO persuade you that his life was
worth living. Neither would find it hard
% persuade you that the life OF SusannHh
Wesley was worth living. She sent out one
Iou to organize Methodism andthe other son
o ring his anthems all throughth ages. l
would not find it hRri to persuade you that
he life of Frances Leere was worth living,
IS she established In England a school fOt
he scientific nursing of the sick. and then
when the war broke out between France and
Germany went to the frORt, and with her
own hands scrIped tho mud on the
po1tes OF the soldiers dying in the
EsncntS Witt utT weak arm, SltIlllS III
hight in the hospital, pushing hH x "A Ger
nan solder TO his courl rs, all irrnz'ed with
his wounds, he TushGi toward the door and
,aid LET me go! Let me 20 To my 'tte5e
nutter.'" Major-Generais standing back to
ct pass this angel OF mercy.
Neither would | nave nVr work to per-
Iuade you that Grace Daring lived Il life
| worth living-the heroine OF the lifeboat.
iou are not wondering that ths Duchess o.
Northumberland came TO ses her, and that
people OF all lands asked for her lighthouse,
md that the proprietor of the Adelpht The
tire, In London, offered her 500 a night
ust to sit in the lifehoat whiie some ship
wrecked scene was being enacted.
But 1 know the thought in the minds o.
lun ireds who read this. You say. "Wnile
I know all these livei lives worth living, !
ion't think my life amounts to much Alb.
ny friends, whether you live u life con-
Ipicious or lnconspicuous, 1t is worth living
I you live Alright. And l want my next SEN
ence to 20 down into the depths OF all
FOUR souls. You are to be rewarded, not
recording to the greatness OF your work,
out according to the holy industries
with which you employed the talents you
really possessed. The majority Of the
.rowns oiheaven will not be given to people
With ten talents. for most of them wert
?empted only to serve themselves. The vast
majority OF tine crowns OF heaven viii b.
given to people who had one talent, but gavh
/ all to Col. And reme nber that our life
lere Is Introductory to another. 1t is the
yestibuIe to Il palace. but WAC desplses the
ioor of tho Madeleine bee iuse there arc
yrander glorias within? Your life If rightly
lived is the first Dir OF an eternal oratorio,
and who despises the first note OF Haydn'4
symphonies? Ani tine life you live now is
Ill the more worth living because it opens
into q life that shall never end, an the last
letter OF the word ''tine" is the first letter
Of the word "'eternity -