The Penn's Grove record., 1894-06-08

wages. and to demand them successfully.
| Unskilled and incompetent labor must taxi
what is given. Skilled and competent labor
will eventually make its W STANDARD. Ad-
| hitting that the law OF supply and demand
| regulates these things, l contend that the
demand for skilled labor is very great AMI
he supply very small.
Start with the idea that work Is honorable
md tina you can do some one thing better
han anyone else. Resolve that. God help
ing, you will take care of yourself. II you
ire after a while called into another relation,
Tou will all the better be qualified for il by
| FOUR spirit of self-rellance, or If you are
sailed to stay as you are you can be happy
md se"lf-supporting.
Poets are fond of talking about mar as an
,ak and woman the vino that climbs it, but l
1aye seen many a tree fall that not only
| vent down itself, but took all the vines with
t. 1 can tell you of something stronger
han an oak for an ivy TO climb on, AMI that
s the throne of the great Jehovah. Single
)r ~aflanced, that woman is strong wh0leans
| IN God and does her hest. The needle may
Freak, the factory band may slip, the wages
nay fail, but over every good romans head
| here are spread the two great, gentle, STU
| 1endous wings of the Almighty.
Many OF you will go single handed through
life, and you will have to choose between
;wo characters. Young woman. l am sure
| rou will turn your back upon the useless.
| siggling. painted nonentity which society
ANONYMOUSLY acknowledges to be a woman
md ask God to make you Il humble, active,
earnest Christian.
What will become OF this goddess disciple
II fashion, What an insult to her sex! Her
manners are an outrage upon d~ecency. She
8 more thoughtful of the attitude she
ttrikes upon the carpet than how she will
ook in the judgment, more worried about
Ter freckles than her sins, moro Interested
n her bonnet strings than in her redemp-
ion. Her apparel is the poorest part of a
Christian woman, however magnilcently
dressed, and no one has so much right to
iress well rs a Christian. Not so with the
goddess disciple Of fashion. Take her
robes, and you take everything. Death
will como down on her some day, and rub
The bistre off her eyelids, and the rouge of
her cheeks, and with two rough, bony hands
scatter spangles md glass beads and rings
md ribbons and lace and brooches and
! buckles and sashes and ~frisettes and golden
,lasps.
The dying actress whose life had been
vicious said 1.-THE scene closes. Draw the
curtain" Generally the tragedy comes first
and the farce a~fterward, but in her life it
was first the farce of u useless life and then
he tragedy OF q wretched eternity.
Compare the life and death of such a one
With that of som Christian aunt that was
once a blessing to your household. I do not
know that she was ever offered a hand in
marriage. She lived single, that untram-
! meled she might be everybody's blessing.
| Whenever the sick were to be visited or the
poor to be provided with bread, she went
with a blessing. She could pray or sing
"Rock Of Ages" for any sick pauper who
asked her. As she got older there were days
| when she was q little sharp, but for the
most part auntie was a sunbeam-iust
he one for Christmas eve, She knew
better than any one else how to fix
things. Her every prayer, as God heard
Il, was full of everybody who had trouble.
The brightest things in all the Gus dropped
from her fingers. She had peculiar notions,
but the grandest notion she ever had was to
make you happy. She dressed well-auntie
| always dressed well-but her highest adorn-
men. was that of a meek and quiet spirit,
which, in the sight Of God, is Of great price.
When she died, you all gathered lovingly
about her, and rs you carried her out to rest
he S~unday-school class almost covered the
,offln with ~japonicas, and the poor people
stood at the end OF the alley, with their
aprons to their eyes, sobbing bitterly, and
the man Of the world said, with Solomon,
"Her price was above rubies," and Jesus, as
lnto the maiden in JudBa. commanded, 81
jay unto thee, arise ~