Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-08-09


est music and the voices of friendship
the very best of music. A tongue, with
almost infnity of articulation. Yes
hands with which to welcome, or resist
or lift, or snite. or wave, or bless
hands to help myself and help others.
Here is a 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 a 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 a 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, Confueius
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 a
lifetime, sixty years yet to live. | may
not live an hour, but then | must lay
out my plans intelligently and for a
long life. Sixty years added to the
twenty have already lived, that will
bring me to eighty. must remember
that these eighty years are only a
preface to the five hundred thousand
millions or quintillions of years which
viii be my chief residence and exist
ence. Now, l understand my oppor-
tunities and my responsibilities.
If there is any being in the universe
all wise and all beneficent 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, He will give help to man. To
Him | appeal. God help me! Here |
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 glorified by all that
can do for it and all that can get God
to do for it. 1t shall be Luxembourg
of fine pictures. 1t shall be an or
chestra of grand harmonies. 1t shall
be a palace for God and righteousness
TO 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
years? / will try. God help meT'
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. 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 direc-
tion. 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
ii 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 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 liv |
ing.
Amid the hills of New Hampshire. in
olden times. there sits mother There
are six children in the household |
boys and two girls. Small farm Very |
Of it. Mighty tug to make the two ends
IF the year meet The boys 20 to
school in winter and work the farm in
Mother is the chief presiding
spirit, With her hands she knits all
.he stockings for the little feet, and she
S the mantuamalSer for the boys and
'he is the milliner for the girls. There
5 only one musical instrument in the
spinning wheel. The food
S very plain, but it is always well pro
'ided. The winters are very cold. but
ire kept out by the blankets she
quilted. On Sunday, when she appears
n the village church, her children
lround her. the minister looks down
md is reminded of the Bible description
# a good housewife-''Her children
Use up and call her blessed; her hus-
anu aAoCf anu iiS PAdiSCbh hSfs
Some years go by. and the two older
,oys want collegiate education, and
he household economies are severer,
md the calculations are closer, and un-
il those two boys get their education
here is a battle for bread. One OF
hese boys enters the university, stands
n a pulpit widely influential, and
reaches Righteousness, Judgment and
and thousands during his
ministry are blessed. The other lad
rho got the collegiate education goes
nto the law, and thence into legisla-
i've halls, and after awhile he com
hands listening senate as he makes
lea for the downtrodden and the out 1
asst. One of the younger boys becomes {
merchant, starting at the foot of the
adder. but climbing on up until his 9
nccess and philanthropies are recog-
lied all over the land. The other son
tays at home because he prefers farm /