The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-07-27

structed engine. I must put it to tho
very best uses and must allow moth |
ing to damage this rarest of machinery.
Two feet and they mean looomotion,
Two eyes, and 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-tho very
best music A tongue, with almost in
finity of articulation. Yes, hands with
which to welcome or resist or lift or
smite or wave or bless-hands to help
myself and help others.
"Here is world which after 5000 |
years of battling with tempest and acct
dent is still grander than any architect,
human or angelic, could have drafted.
l have two lamps to light me-a golden
lamp and silver Tampa golden lamp
set ON the sapphire mantel of the day, a
silver lamp set on the jet mantel of the
night. Yea, have that at 30 years of
age which defies all 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
so years for lifetime, 60 years yet to
live. may not live an hour, but then
| must lay out my plans intelligently
and for a long life. Sixty years added
to the 20 have already lived-that will
bring me to 80. must remember that
these so years are only brief preface to
the five hundred thousand millions of
quintillions of years which will be my
chief residence and existence. Now l
understand my opportunities and my re-
sponsibilities.
Falling and Rising.
eff there is any being in the universe
all wise and all beneficent who can help
man in such juncture, want him.
The old book found 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 l APP
peal God help mel Here l have yet GO
years to do for myself and to do for 9TH
ers. l 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 l must have swept
and garuished and illumined and glori-
fed by all that l can do for it and all
that l can get God to do for it. 1t shall
be Luxembourg of fine pictures. 1t
shall be an orchestra of grand harmo-
MES. 1t shall be palace for God and
righteousness to reign in. wonder
how many kind words can utter in the
next 60 years. Twill try. wonder how
many good deeds / can do in the next
60 years? will try. God help meH'
That young man enters life. He is
buffeted; 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 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, so, 60, 70 or so years of age.
You can chisel right under his name on
the tombstone these words: His life
was worth living"
Amid the hills of New Hampshire in
olden times there sits mother. There
are 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
is the milliner for the girls. There is
only one musical instrument in the
house-the spinning wheel. The food is
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 i'll the village
| church, her children around her, the
minister looks down and is reminded of
the Bible description Of 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
senates 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
lanthropies are recognized all over the
land. The other son stays at home be-
cause he prefers farming life, and then
he thinks he will be able to take care of
father and mother when they get old.
OF the two daughters, when the war
broke out one went through the hospi
tails of Pittsburg Landing and Fortress
Monroe, cheering up the dying and
homesick, and taking the last message
to kindred fan away, SO that every time
Christ thought of her he said, as of
old, 1.-THE same is my sister and moth
tr" The other daughter has bright
home of her own, and in the afternoon
of the forenoon when she has been de-
voted to her household she goes forth
to hunt up the sick and to encourage
the discouraged, leaving smiles and