The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-08-02

are only brief preface to the five tun
dred thousand millions Of qulntilllons of
years which will be my chief residence
and existence. Now | understand nv
opportunities anI my responsibilities.
Ut there is any being in the universe
oil wise aud oil bene(icient who can help
n man in such q juucture, / want him
The old book found among The family
relics tells me thero is God, aud that
for tho sake OF his son, one jesus, he
will give help to mau. 10 him ap.-
peal. God holp me! Here have vet
60 yeara to do for myself and to do for
others. / must develop this body by all
industries, by all gymnastic-, by oil sun
shlno. by all fresh mir, bYall good habits,
And this soul J. must havs swept aud
garnished an illumined aud glori0ed by
all that can ) for it aud all that I can
get God to for it. 1t shall be O Lux.
emburg OF fine pictures. It shall bs au
orchestra Of grand harmonics. 1t shall
! be palace for God and righteousness to
reign in. I wonder how many kind
words l can utter in the next GO wears.
| l will try. | wonder how many good
| deeds can do in tho next GO Years. T
will try. God help mev'
That atyoung man enters lifo. He is buff
iete@; he is triod; he is perpleXed, A grave
opens on this side, and grave opens on
that side. Ie falls, but he rises again,
lIe gets into q hard battle, but he gets
the victory. The main course of his
life ls in the ri hit direction. lie blesses
everybody he comes in contact with.
God torgives his mistakes and makes
everlasting record ofhis holy endeavors.
and at the close of ii God says to him,
"Wcll done, good and faithful servant;
enter into tho Joys Of thy Lord" NV
brother, my sister, do not care whether
that man dies ut 80, 40, SO, 60, 70 or 80
years Of age. You can CHS 81 right under
his name on The tombstone these words:
"llis lile was worth living"
Amid the hills Of New Hampshire in
olden times there sits O mother. There
are Blk children in the household-tour
boys aud two girls. Snail farm. Very
rough, hard work TO coax q living out
OF it. Mighty tugs to mako two ends Of
the year meet. The boys 90 TO school
in winter and work tho farm in summer.
Mothcr is the chiefpresldlng spirit With
her hands she knits all Tho stockings for
The little feet, and she ls tie mantua
maker tor tho boys, and sho is the MILL
ner Tor the girls. There is only ono
musical instrument in the houso--the
splnning wheel. The TODD is very plain,
but it is always we'll provided. The
winters are very cold, but arc kept out
by tho blankets she quilted. On Sun
day when she appears in the village
church, her children around her, the
minister looks down and is reminded
OF the bible descrition of a good house.
wife: "IIer children arise up aud call
her blesscd. Her husband also, and
he pralsoth hor."
Some years 90 by, aud two eldest
boys want q collegiate education, and
tho household economies are severer,
and Tho calculations nre closer, and until
those Two boys got their education there
ls hard battle for bread. One of these
boys enters the university, stands in q
pulpit widely influential and breaches
righteousness, judgment and temperance
and thousands during his ministry are
blessed. The other lad who got the col
leglate education goes into the law, and
thouce into legislative halls, and q fter
awhile hc commands listening senates as
ho makes a plea for the downtroGden
and the outcast. One of the younger
boys becomes merchants, starting at
! the iooL Of the ladder, but climbing on
| up until his success and his philanthro.
pies are recognized all over the land.
The other son stays at home because
ne pretcrs farming life, and then he
thinks he will be able to take care of
lathor and mother when they get old.
Ofthc two daughters, when the war
broke out, one went through the hospit.
ais OF Pittsburg Landing and Fortress
Monroe, cheering up the dying and homo,
sick and taking the last message to kin :.
drcd far away, 80 that every time Christ
Thought OF her he said, as Of old, "The
same ls my slstor and mother" The
other daughter has bright homo of her
own, and i'll the afternoon Of the FORE
noon when she has been devoted to her
household she goes forth to hunt up the
sick and TO encorago, the dcouraged, ,
leaving smiles and benediction all along
this way.
But one day there start five kilograms
from the village for these live absent
ones saying "Come; mother is danger.
ously ill.," But before they can be ready
to start they receive another telegram,
saying, "Come; mother is dead" The
old neishbors gather in the old farm
house to do the last offices Of respect.
But as that farming son, and the clergy
man the senator, and the merchant, and
the two daughters stand by the casket of
| the dead mother taking the last look or
lifting their little children to see once
more the face of dear old grandma I
want to ask that group around the cas-
ket one question, "Do you really think
her life was worth living?" A life for
God, q life for others, q lite of unsellish.
ness, useful life, a Christian life, is al
ways worth living.
L would not liud il hard to persuade
you that the poor lad Peter Cooper,
making glue for Il living and then amass-
ing great fortune until he could build a
philanthropy which has had it's echo in
10000 phllanLhroples all over the coun.
| try woul Id not nud it hard to persuade
you that his life was worth living. Moi.
ther would l find it hard to persuade you
that tho llfo Of Susanuah Wesley was
worth living. She sent out one son to
TO organze Methodism and the other
son TO bring his anthems all throuy yh the