Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-23

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they met IL hundred times day, and
who could not write letter OF accept
! apce or regrets without the aid oil a
secretary. They buy their Libraries by
the square yard, only anxious TO nave
the binding Russian. Iheir ignorance
| Is positively sublime. Making Engllsh
grammar almost disreputaole. And yet
the finest parlors open before them.
Good morals and intelligence are not
necessary, bIt wealth, or
A SHOW OF WEALTH,
is positivsIy indispensable. 1t does not
make any difference how you got your
wealth, n you only got It. The best
way for you 10 get into social position
Is for you to buy lot Of credit, then
out your property in your wife's name,
have a few preferred creditors, and
then make an assignment. Then dis
appear from the community until the
breeze is over, aud then come back and
start In the same business. Do you not
see how beautifully that will put out
all the people who are In competition
with you aud trying to make an honest
living? How quickly it will get you
into nigh social position. WHAT Is the
use Of forty or ftty years OF hard work
when you can by two or three bright
strokes make great fortune? An! 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 to-day In that
realm who are anxious 10 keep 10 IT,
There are thousands in that realm who
are nervous for fear they will fall out OF
il. and there are changes going on
every year, and every month, and every
hour which involve heartbreaks that
are never reported. High social life is
constantly In a Outer about the deli
cate question as TO whom they shall let
In and whom Il oy shall push out, and
the battle IS going on-pier mirror
against pier mirror, chandelier against
chandelier, wine cellar against vine
cellar, wardrobe against wardrobe,
eQujp3ge against eQuipage. Uncer-
tainty and insecurity dominant 10 that
REALM, wretchednesS enthroued, torture
at premium, and a life not worth Nv
ing.
A life Of sin, a life OF pride, life OF
indulgence. life OF worldlineSs, lie
devoted 20 the world, the flesh, and the
devil is a failure, a dead failure, an In
finite failure / care not how many
presents VOC sent 70 that cradle, or how
many garlands yeu send 10 that grave,
yoa need TO put right under the name
on the tombstone this inscription:
BETTER for that man il he had never
been born
But SHALL show you a life that is
worth living. A young man says: Il
am here. 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 century,
al twenty-five years Of age. am here,
aud must take an account Of stock.
Here have a body which isa
pvINELY CONSTRUCTED ENGINE.
I must put it TO the very best use, and
must allow nothing TO damage this
rarest OF machinery. Two feet, and
they mean loco motion. Two eyes, and
they mean capacity 10 pick out my own
way. Two ears. and they are tele-
phones OF communication with all the
outside world, and they mean capacity
70 catch sweetest music and the voices
OF friendship the very best music. a
tongue, with almost inhnity OF articu-
-~.iOu. Yes, hands with which 20 well
come, or resist, or lift, or smlte, or
wave, or bless-handS 10 help myself
aud help others
Here is world which after six
thousand wears Of battling with temp
est and accident IS still grander than
any architect, human or angelic, could
have drafted. / have two lamps TO
light me "a golden lamp and silver
lamp-a golden lamp set on the sap
uhire mautel OF the day, silver amp
set on the Jet mantel Of the night. Yea,
/ have that a. twenty years OF age
which deties all inventory OF yaluables
"A soul, with capacity TO choose or re-
ject, 10 rejoice or 10 suffer, 10 love or 10
hate. Plato says 10 is immortal Seneca
says il is immortal. Confucius says it
is immortal Al Old book among the
family rclicS-a book with leather
cover almost worn out, and pages al
most obiterated bv Oft DeruSal, joins
the other books In saving l am immOr-
tai / have eighty years for lifetime,
sixty years yet 10 live. may not live
an hour, but then must lay out my
plans intelligently and for a long lie.
sixty years added 10 the twenty
l have already lived, that will briug me
TO eighty. must remem Der that these
eighty years are only brief preface TO
the five hundred thousand millions Of
QujutiIlonS OF years which will be my
chief residence and existence. Now, |
understand my opportunities and my
responsibilities
III there Is any being In the universe
all wise and all benefcent who can help
a man 10 such a juncture, | want him.
The old book found among the family
relics tells NE there is God, and that
for the sake Of his Son, one Jesus, be
will give help 10 a man. To him / APP
peal. God help me-"
That young man enters life. He is
bufTeted, he Is tried, he is perplexed. A
grave opens on this side and a 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 lie Is in the right direc-
ton.
UE BLESSES EVERYBODY
he comes in contact with. God forRives
his mistakes, aud makes everlasting
record OF his holy endeavorS, aud az the
close Of it God says 70 hin: well done,
good ana faithful servant; enter into the
Joys Of my Lord" NV brother, my
sister, do not care whether that nan
dies 81 thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy
Or eighty years Of age; YOU can chisel
right under his name on the tombstone
these words: His life was worth ljy-
ng"
would not ind it hard to persuade