The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-08-08

mt YOUR property in your wlfe's name. nave
y few preferred creditors and then make an
assignment. Then disappear from the com
munity until the breeze Is over and tneh
come pack ana start m me same business
Do YOU not see how beautifully that will put
out all the people who are In competition
with YOU and trying to make an honest liv-
ine? HOW quickly it will get you into high
social position! What is the use Of forty or
fifty wears of hard work when you can by
two or three bright strokes make great
fortune? Alb. 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 to keep In 1t. There are
thousands In that realm who are nervous tor
fear they will tall out 1t, and there are
changes going on every year and every
month and every hour which involve heart
breaks that are never reported. High social
life Is constantly In futter about the deli
cate 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
ror. chandelier against chandelier, wine cell
lar against wine cellar, wardrobe against
wardrobe, equipage against squipage. Un-
certainty and Insecurity dominant IN that
realm, wretchedness enthroned, torture at
premium and life not worth living.
A life of sin, q life Of pride, life OF 1ndul-
gence, life Of worldiness. "a life devoted to the
world, the flesh and the devil Is failure. a
dead failure, an infinite failure. care not
how many presents you sent to tnat cradle.
or how many garlands you send 10 that
grave, you need to put right underline name
on the tombstone this inscription, "Better
for that man II he had never been born"
But shall show you life that is worth
living. A young man says: 81 am here.
am not responsible for my ancestry. others
decided that 7 am not responsible for my
temperament God gave me that. But hers
am, in the afternoon OF the nineteenth CEN
tury. at twenty years otage. 1 am here, and
must take an account OF stock. Here
have a body which is a divinely constructed
engine. I must put 1t to the very best uses
and must allow nothing to damage this
rarest of machinery. Two feet, and they
mean locomotion. Two eyes, and they mean
capacity to pick out my own way. Two
ears, and they are telephones OF communica-
tion with all the outside world, and they
mean capacity to catch sweetest music and
the voices Of frlendship-the very best music.
A tongue, with almost inf1nity OF artlcrla-
tion, Yes, hands with which to welcome or
resist or lift or smite or wave or bless-hands
to help myself and help others.
s:Here Is world which. after 5000 years
OF battling with tempest and accident, issttll
prander than any architect. human or an
9elic. could have drafted. / have two lamps
TO light me-a golden lamp and silver
lsmp-a golden lamp set on the sapphire
mantel OF the day, silver lamp set on the
Jet mantel Of the night. Yea, have that at
twenty years of age which defes all in.
ventory of valuables-a soul with capacityto
- al fn tn
love or to hate. Plato says It is immortal.
Seneca saws it is immortal. Confucius says
it is immortal. An old book among the fam
ily relics, book with leathern cover almost
worn out and pages almost obliterated by oft
perusal, Joins the other books In saying
am immortal. I have eighty years for u
lifetime, sixty years yet to live. I may not
live an hour, but then must lay out my
plans intelligently and fo- long lite. Sixty
wears added to the twenty I have already
lived-that will bring me to eighty. I must
remember that these eighty years are only
brief preface to the five hundred thousand
millions of quintillions OF years which will
be my chief residence and existence. Now
understand my opportunities and my re.
sponsibilities.
s:If there IS any being in the universe all
wise and all beneficent who can help man
in such juncture, want him. Tue 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 4 man.
To Him I appeal. God help me! Here
have ret sixty YEARS to do for myself and to
do for others. must develop this body by
all industries, by all gymnastics, BY all SUM-
shine, by all fresh air, by all good habits
And this soul + must have swept and garn.
ished and illuroined and glorified by all thut
I can do for it and all that can get God to
do for ii. It shall be a Luxembourg OF fine
pictures. It shall be an orchestra OF grand
harmonies. 1t shall be a palace for God and
righteousness to reign IN. 1 wonder how
many kind words can utter in the next
sixty years. will try. Iwonder how many
gooi deeds can do in the next sixty years?
I will try. God help me-"
That young man enters life. He is
buffetei; he Is tried he is perplexed. A
grave opens on this side, and grave opens
on that side. He falls, but he rises aSaip.
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 forglves his
mistakes and makes everlasting record OIL
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" Nybrother. my sister, do not care
whether that man dies at thirty, forty, flIty.
sixty, seventy or eighty years OF age. You
can chisel right under his name on the
;ombstone these words; sHis 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
!wo girls. Small farm. Very rough; hard
work to coax living out Of 1t. Mighty tug
to make the two ends OF theyear meet. The
boys 20 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 one
musical instrument in the house-the spin
ming wheel. The food is very plain, but II
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 arounc
her, the minister looks down and Is remind.
ed OF the Bible description of good house
wife: ::Her children arise up and call bel
blessed. Her husband also, and he praisett
her."
Some years so by, and the two eldest boys
want a collegiate education, and the house
hold economies are severer, and the calcula-
tions are closer, and until those two boys gel
their education there is hard battle fol
bread. One Of these boys enters the univer'
sity, stands in a pulpit widely Influential
and breaches Righteousness, Judgment and
temperance, and thousands during his min
istry are blessed. The other lad who got tn
collegiate education goes Into the law, AM
thence into legislative halls, and after
while he commands listening senates as ht
makes plea for the downtrodden and tn
outcast. One ofthe younger boys become
merchant, starting at the foot OF the lad
der, but climbing on up until his success an
his philanthropies ars recognized all over tn
land. The other son stays at home becaus
ha nxafars fa.nnin, life and then he think