The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-02-22

aown one OF the r,ngs ., .,a.a.n. A.. "a.
start one good word, one kind act one
cheerful smile, on mission that will last
until the world becomes n bonfire, and out
OF that blaze II will pass into the heavens,
never TO halt as long as God lives.
There were In the heseventeenth century men
and women whose names you never heard
OF who are to-day influencing schools, col
leges. churches. Nations. You can no more
measure the gracious results of their life
time than you could measure the length aud
breadth and depth of tho phosphorescenr 20
last night following the ship OF the White
Star line 1900 miles out AT sea. How the
courage and conservation OF others inspire
us TO follow, as u general In the American
army, ccol amid the flying bullets. inspired
"A trembling soldier, who said aiterward, II
was nearly scared to death, but | saw the
old mans white mustache over his shoulder
and went on" Aye, we are all following
somebody, either In right or wrong direc-
tions.
A few days ago stood beside the gar
landed casket of "a gospel minister. aud in
my remarks had occasion TO recall "a snowy
night In n farmhouse when | was hoy and
an evangelist spending night at my father :
house, who said something so tender and
beautiful and impressive that II led me into
the kingdom OF God and decided my destiny
for this world and the next. You will. be-
fore twenty-four hours go by, meet some man
or woman with a big pack OF care and trou-
BILE. and you may say something TO him or
her that will endure until this world shall
have been so far lost In the past that nothing
but the stretch OF angelic memory will be
able to realize that II ever existed at all.
am not talking of remarkable men and
women, but OF what ordinary folks can do
l am not speaking oil the phosphorescence
In the track OF Newfoundland fishing
smack. God makes thunderbolts out OF
sparks, and out OF the small words and deeds
OF n small life He can launch n power that
will fash and burn and thunder through the
eternities.
How do you like this prolongation OF your
earthly life by deathless inhuencep Many n
babe that died at six months OF age by the
anxiety created In the parents heart to meet
that chill In realms seraphic IL living yet in
the transformed heart aud life OF those
parents and will live on forever in the his
tory OF that family. II this be the opportu-
nifty OF ordinary souls, what il tho oppor-
tunity OF those who have especial intellectual
| or social or monetary equipment
Have you any arithmetic capable OF esti-
mating the influence OF our good and gra-
cious friend who few days ago went up to
rest-George w. Childs, OF Philadelphia? ?
| From newspaper that was printed for
thirty years without one word OF defama-
ton or scurrllty or scandal, and putting
! CuieI tmpnustc on virtue ana CnhrUy
and clean intelligence, he reaped fortune
for himself ard then distributed vast
amount OF 1t among the poor and struggling
putting his invalid and aged reporters on
pensions, until his name stands everywhere
Tor large heartedness and sympathy aud
help and highest style OF Christian gentle
man.
I In an cru which had In the chairs OF its
Journalism Horace Greeley, and Henry j.
Raymond, and James Gordon Bennett, aud
an Erastus Brooks, and a George William
Curtis, and an Irenaeus Prime, none ofthem
win be longer remembered than George W.
Childs. Staying away from the unveiling ol
the monument he had reared at larga ex.
| pense In our Greenwood In memory OF Pro.
lessor Proctor, the astronomer, lest should
say something In praise OF the man who had
paid for the monument. BY all acknowl.
edged a representative OF the highest Amer.
can Journalism.
II you would calculate his influences for
good, you must count how many sheets oi
his newspapers have been published In the
last quarter OF century, and how man,
people have read them. and the effect moi
onlv upon those readers, but upon ali whom