Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-08-08

! rome back an start in the same business.
Do you not sea how beautifully that will put
put all the people who are In competition
with You and trying to make An honest liv.
tng7 How quickly it will get you into high
: social position! " raI - tl..u,, ;ortv or
I 1ty years OF har wo-: wen you can hy
| .wo or three bright stro.;es MAKE = great
j fortune2 All, my frien Is. when you really
lose your money how quick they will let You
1rop, and the higher You get the harder you
| will drop.
! There are thousands to-day In that realm
! who are anxious to keep in 1t. Theirs are
thousands in that realm who are nervous tor
q, " they will tall out OF II, and there are
s..nges going on every year and every
month and every hour which involve heart
breaks that are never reported. High social
lie is constantly in n futtef about the dell.
.ate 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
,or, chandelier against chandelier, wine cell
ar against wine cellaIa wardrobe against
wardrobe, equlpage against equipage. Un-
certainty and insecurity dominant in that
realm, wretchedness enthroned, torture at a
premium and life not worth living.
A life of sin, life OF pride. n life OF indnl-
yence, life of world.ness, "A life devoted to the
world, the flesh AMI the devil is failure. a
Head failure, an infinite failure. I care not
how many presents you sent to that cradle,
Or how many garlands you send TO that
. on the Tombstone this inscription, "Bsttse
Tor that man II no had never been born"
But shall show you life that Is worth
living. A young man says: II am here. 1
am not responsible for my ancestry. Others
decided that am not responsible for my
temperament God gave me that. But here
am, In the afternoon Of the nineteenth cen.
.ury. at twenty years OF age. l am here, and
[ must take an account OF stock. Here I
have IA body which Is divinely constructed
IA A. L-zs
and must allow nothing to damage this
, rarest OF machinery. Two feet, and they
mean locom>tion. Two eyes, AMI they mean
capacity to pick out my own way. Two
sars and they are telephones of communica.
lion with all the outside world, AMI they
the voices OF frien 1ship-the very best music
tongue with almost inflnity OF articula1
ito n. Yes. bands with which to welcome or
resist or lift or smite or wave or bl ss-hands
TO help myself and help others.
"Here Is a world which, after 5000 years
Of battling with tempest and accident, Is still
yranier than any architect, hu nan or an
gelir could have drafted. have two lamps
to light me-a golden lamp and q silver
Tampa golden lamp set on the sapphire
mantel of the day, silver lamp set on the
jet mGn.el of the night. Yea, hlvs that at
twenty years of ago which defles all in
ventory of valuables-l soul with cap%cityto
choose or reject, to rejoice or to suffer, to
love or 10 nate. 1IatO SayH - immortal.
Seneca SAWS it is immortal. Confucius says
1t is immortal. An old book among the fam
lily relics, a book with leathern cover almost
worn out and pages almost o5iterate1 by OF
perusal. joins the other books in saying l
am immortal. I have eighty years for Il
lifetime, sixty years yet to live. l may not
live an hour, but then must lay out my
plans intelligently and foe a long lite. Sixty
years added to the twenty l hive already
lived-that will bring me TO eighty. must
remember that these eighty years are only
brief preface to the five hundred thousani
millions of quintllions OF years which will
he my chief residence an existence. Now
un lerstand my opportunities and my re-
sponsi5ilities.
''It there is any being in the universe all
w;se and all beneflcent WHO can help 4 man
in such juncture, l want him. The old
boo, found among the family relics tells me
there is 60 l, AMI that for the sake OF His
Son. one Jesus, He will give help to q man.
To Him l appeal. God help me! Here l
have vet sixty years to do for myself AMI to
do for others. I must develop :hs body by
all industries by all gymnastics, by all sun
shine, by all fresa air, by all COOL habits.
AMI this soul l must have swept AMI garn-
ishei and illuminei and glorih,d by all that
can do for it and all that can get God to
do for it. 1t shall be LuxemburS of fine
pictures. 1t shall be an orchestra of grand
harmonies. 1t shall be n palace for Col and
righteousness to reign in. I wonder how
many kind words can utter in the next
sixty years. l will try. Iwonder how many
COOL 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 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 direction. He blesses everybody
ha In vi
mistakes and makes everlasting record OF
his holy endeavors, and at the close of it
God says to him, swell done, good and
faithful servant enter into the joys OF thy
Lord" Ny brother, my sister, do not cars
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 living"
Amid the hills OF New Hampshire in olden
times there sits q mother. There are six
children in the household-four boys and
two girls. Small farm. Very rough; harI
work to coax a living out Of 1t. Mighty tug
to make the two ends OF the year meet. The
boys go to school in winter and work the
farm in summer. Mother is the chief pre-
siding spirit. With her hands she knits all
the stockings for the little feet, and she is
the mantua maker for the boys, and she is
the milliner for the girls. There Is only ono
musical instrument in the house-the spin
ming wheel. Tho food is very plain, but it
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 remin J.
ell OF the Bible description OF a good house
wife: "Her children arise up and call heF
blessed. Her husband also, and he praiseth
her."
Some years so by, and the two eldest boys
want collegiate education, and the house
hold economics are severer, and the calcula-
tions are closer. and until those two boys get
their education there Is a hard battle for
bread. One OF these boys enters the univer-
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, an
tn nee into legislative halls, and after
while he commands Listening senates as he
makes plea for the down;ro iden and the
outcast. One ofthe younger boys becomes
n merchant, starting at the foot OF the Lad.
der, but climbing on up until his success and
his philanthropies are recognized all over the
land. Tho other son stavs at home because
Ae prefers farming hfe. AMI then he thinks
he will be able to take care OF father and
mother when they get old,
OF the two dau shters when the war broke
out ons went throu gh the hospital OF Pits.
burg Landing and Fortress Monroe, cheer
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"
Tho other daughter has a bright home OF her
own. and In the afternoon Of the forenoon
when she has been devot ed to her household
she goes forth to hunt up the sick AMI to
encourage the discouraged, leaving smiles
and benediction all along the Wv.
But one dny there start five kilograms from
the village for these five absent on"s, saying,
"Come mother is dan yerousiy ill.," But be-
fore they can be ready TO start they receive
another telegram. saying. "Coms mother is
dead. The Old n4Ighb6ts gather IN the old
farmhouse to do the last ofiices OF respect.
But as that farming son, and the clergyman,
snd the senator, and-fhe merchant, and the
two daughters stand by the casket OF the
lead mother, taking the last look or lifting
their little children to sea once more the