Democratic messenger., 1894-07-28

to start they receive another telegram.
saying, Come; mother is dead. " The
old neighbors gather i'll the old farm
house 10 do the last offices of respects
But rs that farming son, and the cler-
gyman, and the senator. and the mcr-
chant. and the two daughters stand by
the casket of the dead mother, taking
the last look or lifting their little chill
drcn To see once more the face of dear
old grandma, want 10 ask that group
around the caskct one question, DO
you really think her life was worth
living:" y life for God, a life for 9TH
ers, life Of unseliishness. useful life.
Christian life is always worth living.
Examples of Success.
would not find it hard to persuade
you that the poor lad, Peter Cooper.
making glue for a living and then amass-
ing Il great fortune until he could build
IA philanthropy which has had its echo
i'll 10. 900 philanthropies all over the
country-I would not find it hard to
persuade you that his life was worth
living Neither would find it hard to
Nou tiltN NIiC lllC vi
Wesley was worth living. She sent out
one son to organize Methodism and the
other son to ring his anthems all through
the ages. | would not find it hard to
persuade you that the life of Frances
Lccre was worth living, rs she establish
cd i'll England a school for the scientific
nursing of the sick. and then when the
l.,.,l-.. lot,
many went To the front, and with her
own hands scrapcd the mud off the bod
les of the soldiers dying i'll the trenches
with her weak arm, standing one night
in the hospital. pushing back German
soldier To his couch rs, all frenZied with
his wounds, he rushed toward the door
and said: Let me go! Let me go to my
'lebc mutter. Major generals stand
ing back to let pass this angel of mercy
Neither would have hard work to
persuade You that Grace Darling lived
a life worth living-thc heroine of the
lifeboat. You are not wondering that
the Duchess of Northumberland came
to see her, and that people of all lands
asked for her lighthouse, and that the
proprietor of the Adclphi thcater in Lon
don offered her 500 u night just to sit
i'll the lifeboat while some shipwrcckcd
scene was being enacted.
Reward of Effort.
But / know the thought in the minds
of hundreds who read this. You say,
worth living, don't think my life
amounts to much All, my friends.
whether You live life conspicuous or
inconspicuous. il is worth living if you
live Alright. And | want my next sen
tence To 20 down into the depths of all
your souls. You are to be rewarded not
according TO the greatness of your work.
but according TO the holy industries
with which you employed the talents
you really possessed. The majority of the
crowns of heaven will not be given to
people with 10 talents. for most of them
We're tempted only To serve themselves.
The vast majority of the crowns of heav
en- will be given TO people who had one
talent. but gave it all to God. And re-
member that our life here is introducto-
ry to another. Ii is the vestibulc to u
palace, but who dcspises the door of
the Madeleine because there are grandcr
glories within: Your life if rightly liv-
ed is the first bar of an eternal oratorio,
and who despiscs the first note of
Haydn's symphonies: And the life you
live now is all the more worth living be-
cause it opens into a life that shall never
end, and the last letter of the word
time" is the first letter of the word
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