Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-07-24

VOlN UO>J uses ouu 4 must hliOM uOlN-
ing to damage this rarest of machinery.
Two feet, and they mean locomotion.
Two eyes, aud they mean capacity to
pick out my own way. Two ears and
they are telephones of communication
with all the outside world, and they
mean capacity to catch sweetest music
and the voices of friendship-the very
best music A tongue. with almost in
finity of articulation. Yes, hands with
which to welcome or resist or lift or
mite or wave or bless--hands to help
myself and help others.
Here is a world which after LOCO
years of battling with tempest and acci-
dent is still grander than any architect,
human or angelic, could have drafted.
I have two lamps to light me--a golden
lamp and silver Tampa golden lamp
ret on the sapphire mantel of the day, a
silver lamp set on the jet mantel of the
night Yea, have that at 20 years of
age which defies nll inventory Of valua-
bles--a soul with capacity to choose or
reject, to rejoice or to suffer, to love or
to hate. Plato says it is immortal. Sen
eca says it is immortal Confucius says
it is immortal. An old book among the
family relics, book with leathern COW
er almost worn out and pages almost
obliterated by oft perusal, joins the other
books in saying am immortal. have
50 years for lifetime, so years yet to
live | may not live an hour, but then
| must lay out my plans intelligensly
and for a long life. Sixty years added
to the 20 have already lived-that will
bring me to so. must remember that
these so years are only brief preface to
the five hundred Thousand millions Of
ouintillions of years which will be my
chief residence and existence. Now ]
!; understand my opportunities and my re-
! sponsibilities.
Failing and Rising.
"If there is any being i'll the universe
all wise and all benefcent who can hclT
man in such juncture, l want him
The old book fcund 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 | ap-
peal God help mel Here have yet 60
J years to do for myself and TO do for 9TH
ers must develop this body by all in
, dustries. by all gymnastics, by all sun
shine, by all fresh air, by all good hab-
its. And this soul must have swept
and gaInished and illumined and glori-
, fed by all that / can do for 1t and all
J that can get God to do for 1t. 1t shall
be q Luxemburg of fine pictures. II
|; shall be an orchestra of grand harmo
nies. 1t shall be palace for God and
-, 10, rAif1i i'm / Xuynn6pl
how many kind words can utter in the
next go years. Twill try. Iwonder how
many good deeds can do in the next
go years? | will try, God help mel"
= That young man enters life, He Ii
buffeted; he is tried; be is perplexed. A
grave opens Oh this side, and grave
opens on that side, He falls, but h,
rises again. He gets into hard battle
but he gets tho victory. The main courst
! of his life is in the right direction. H.
blesses everybody he comes in contact
with. God forgives his mistakes 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
thy Lord, My brother, my sister, ]
do not care whether that man dies at
80, 40, 90, 60, 10 or 80 years OF age.
You can chisel right under his name on
the tombstone these words: "His life
was worth Lying
Amid the hills of New Hampshire in
olden times there sits q mother. There
arc six children in the household--four
boys and two girls Small farm. Very
rough; hard work to coax living out
of it. Mighty tug to make the two ends
Of the year meet. The boys go to school
in winter and work the farm in sum-
mer. Mother is the chief presiding
spirit. With her hands she knits all the
stockings for the little feet, and she is
the maptua maker for the boys, and she
is the millineF for tho girls,t There is
only one musical instrument In the
house-the spinning wheel. The food il
very plain, but it is always well provid-
ed. 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 reminded of
the Bible description of a good house
wife: "Her children arise up and call
her blessed. Her husband also. and he
praiseth her.
A Mothers blessed Life.
Some years go by, and the two eldest
boys want collegiate education, and
the household economies are severer, and
the calculations are closer, and until
those two boys get their education there
is hard battle for bread. One Of these
boys enters the university, stands in a
pulpit widely influential and breaches
righteousness, Judgment and temper
ance, and thousands during his ministry
are blessed. The other lad who got the
collegiate education goes into the law,
and thence into legislative halls, and
after awhile he commands listening
scnates as he makes plea for the down.
trodden and the Outcast. One Of the
younger boys becomes merchant, start
ing at the foot Of the ladder, but climb
| ing on up until his success and his phi