Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-07-27

assign menf. linen disappear from Aue NoiA-
munty until the breeze is over and then
come hack and start In the same business.
DO YOU not see how beautifully that Will put
out all the people who are in competitlon
with YOU and trying 10 make sn honest Nv
ing? How quickly II will get you into high
social position What is the use OF forty or
Aty wears OF hard work when YOU can by
two or three bright strokes make great
fortune2 All, my friends, when you really
lose your money how quick they will let you
drop, and the higher you get the harder you
will drop.
There are thousands today in that realm
who are anxious to keep in II. There are
thousands in that realm who are nervous tor
fear they will tall out OF It, and there are
changes going on every year and every
month and every hour which involve heart
breaks that are never reported. High social
life Is constantly In a flutter about the deli
cate question as TO whom they shall let In
and whom they shall push out. and the bat
tie Is going on-pier mirror against pier mir
ror, chandelier against chandelier, wine cell
lar against wine cellar, wardrobe against
wardrobe, equlpage against equipage. Un-
certainty and insecurity dominant in that
realm, Indebtedness enthroned, torture at a
premium and life not worth living.
A life OF sin Il life OF pride. u life Of in1ul-
gence a life of wor illness, a life devoted to the
world, the flesh IN tho devil Is a failure. n
dead failure. an infinite failure. l care not
how many presents you sent to that cradle
or how many garlands you send 10 that
grave, you need TO put right under the name
on the tombstone this inscription, "Better
for that man II nc had never been born"
But shall show you life that Is worth
living. young man says 81 nm here.
am not responsible for my ancestry. Others
decided that | am not responsible for my
temperament God gave me that. Bat here
| am in the afternoon OF the nineteenth CEN
tury. Mt twenty years OF age. am here, and
| must take an account OF stock. Here l
have IA body which Is divinely constructed
engine. | must put II to the very best uses
and | must allow nothing to damage this
rarest OF machinery. Two feet, and they
mean locomotion. Two eyes, and they mean
capacity to pick out my own way. Two
ears and they are telephones Of communica-
ton with all the outside world, and they
mean capacity to catch sweetest music AMI
the voices OF friendship-thev very best music.
A tongue with almost mtiuity OF articula-
ton. Yes. hands with which to welcome or
resist or lift or smite or wave or bless--hands
TO help myself apd help others.
"Here Is world which, after 600) years
OF battling with tempest and accident, Is still
grander Nan any architect. human or an
gelic, could have drafted. have two lamps
to light me-l golden lamp and Il silver
lamp golden lamp set on the sapphire
mnntel OF the day, a silver lamp set on the
Jet mantel OF the night. Yea, have that at
twenty years OF aga which deties all in.
ventory OF valunbles--a soul with capacityto
choose or reject, to re dice or TO suffer, TO
love or to hnte. Plato says 1t is immortal.
Seneca says 1t Is immortal. Confucius says
II IS immortal. An old book among the fam
lily relics n book with leathern cover almost
worn out and pages almost obllterated by Oft
IL ~. IA. l.. ,l,,.,
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 lntelligently and for "A long lite. Sixty
years added to the twenty | have already
lived -that will bring me to eighty. | must
remember that these eighty years are only
brief preface to the i've hundred thousand
millions OF quintillions OF years which will
be my chief residence and existence. Now
understand my opportunities and my re-
! spousIblltles
1T there is any being in tho universe all
wise and all benehccnt who can help man
IN such juncture, | want him. The old
bool, found among the family relics tells mo
there is n Gol. and that for the sake OF His
| Son. oha Jesus, He will give help to man.
| To HIN | appeal. God help me! Here
| have yet sixty years TO do for myself and to
/ do for others. | must develop :his body by
shine, by all fresh air, by all good habits
And this soul must have swept and garn-
ished and illuminel and glorlied by all that
can do for it and all that can get God to
do for it. II shall be IA Luxembourg OF fine
pictures. 1t shall be an orchestra OF grand
harmonies. 1t shall be palace for God and
righteousness to reign In. | wonder how
many kind words | can utter In tho next
sixty years. | will try. wonder how many
| goo deeds | can DO In the next sixty years.
will try. God help me-
That young man enters life. He Is
| bufeted he is tried he Is perplexed. A
grave opens on this side. and u grave opens
on that side. He falls, but he rises again.
He gets into u hard battle, but he gets the
! victory. The main course of his life is In
I the right direction. He besses everybody
he comes in contact with. God forgives his
mistakes and makes everlasting record OF
his holy endeavors, and at the close OF 1t
God says to him, well done, good and
faithful servant enter into the joys OF thy
Lord" My brother, my sister, do not care
whether that man dies at thirty. forty, my,
sixty, seventy or eighty years Of age. You
can chiseI right under his name on the
tombstone these words His life was
worth living
Amid the hills OF New Hampshire in olden
times there sits u mother. There are six
children In the househod-four boys and
two girls. Small farm. Very rough; hard
work to coax n living out OF 1t. Mighty tug
to make the two ends OF theyear meet. The
boys 90 to school In winter and work the
farm in summer. Mother Is the chief pre-
siding spirit. With her hands she knits oil
the stockings for the little feet, and she Is
the mantua maker for the boys, and she Is
the miiiincr for the girls. There Ii only one
| musical instrument In tho house-the spin
ming wheel. The food Is very plain, but II
is always we'll provided. 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 remind
ed Of the Bible description OF n good house.
! wife 'Her children arise up and call her
blessed. Har husband also, and he praiseth
her"
Some years 90 by, and the two eldest boys
want a collegiate education, and the house
hold economies are severer and the calcula-
tions are closer, and until those two boys get
their education there Is q hard battle for
bread. One OF these boys enters the unlver-
sity, stands in pulpit widely influential
and breaches righteousness, Judgment and
temperance, and thousands during his min.
istry are blessed. The other lad who got the
collegiate education goes into the law, and
thence into Legislative halls, and after a
while he commands listening senates as he
makes plea for tho downtrodden and the
outcast. One ofthe younger boys becomes
merchant, starting at the foot OF the lad
der, but climbing on up until his success anC
his phianthropies are recognized all over thu
land. The other son stays at home becaus,
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 broke
ont one went through the hospital OF Pitts
h,,. 7 4 IT, IL
Ing up the dying and homesick, and taking
the last message to kindred far away, so that
every time Christ thought OF her He said, as
OF old, "The same Is My sister and mother"
The other daughter has bright home OF her
own, and in the afternoon OF the forenoon
when she has been devoted to her household
she goes forth to hunt up the sick and to