Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-03-07

does not require very great force to ruin
others Why was it that many years ago
great flood nearly destroyed New Orleans?
crawiish had burrowed into the banks of
the river until the ground WAS saturated and
the banks weakened until the food burst.
But l find here man who starts out in
life with the determination that he will
never see suffering but he will try to al
leviate IT, and never see discouragement
but he will try to cheer il, and nsver meet
with anybody but he will try to do him
good. Getting his strength from God. he
starts from home with high purpose Of doing
all the good he can possibly do In one day.
Whether standing behind the counter, or
talking in the business ONCE with pen b.
hind his ear, or making bargain with fell
low trader, or out in the field discussing
with his next neiGhbor the wisest rotation Of
the crops, or in the shoemaker's shop pound
Ing sole leather, there is something in his
face. and IN his phraseoloyy and in his man
ner, that demonstrates the grace OF God in
his heart. He can talk on religion without
aTkwardly dragging ii in by the ears. He
loves God and loves the souls OF all whom he
meets and is interested in their present and
eternal destiny.
For fifty or sixty years he lives that life,
and then gets through with it and goes into
heaven a ransomed soul. But am not going
20 describe the port into which that ship has
entered.
net him outside at the "lightship." 1 am
not going to say anything about the crowds
Of friends who met him on the crystalline
Tharves up which he goes on steps OF
.hrysoprases. For God In His words TO Job
saills me to look at the path of foam in the
wake OF that ship, and 1 tell you it is all
l-gieam with spiendor5 Of kindness done,
and rolling with illumined tears that were
wiped away, and a-dash with congratulG-
lions. and clear out to the horizon in all Gi-
rections is the sparkling, flashing, billowing
DhOsphorescence of Christian life. "Hs
maketh a path to shine after him"
And here correct one Of the mean no.
lions which at some time takes possession of
al Of Us, and that is as to the breyity OF hu-
man life When bury some very useful
man, clerical or lay, in his thirtieth or for
tieth yeaF l say What q waste of ener-
gies II was hardly worth while for him 10
get ready for Christian work, for he had 50
soon to quit IL" But the fact is that may
insure any man or woman who does any
good on a large or small scale for life on
earth as long as the world lasts. Sickness,
trolley car accidents, death itself, can no
more destroy his life than they can tear
down one OF the rings OF Saturn. You can
star. one good word, one kind act, one
cheerful smile, on a mission that Will last
ultil the world becomes a bonfire, and out
OF that blaze it will pass into the heavens,
never to halt as long as GOi lives.
There were in the seventeenth century men
and women whose names you never heard
Of who are to-day influencing schools, col
legss, churches, Nations. You can no mora
measure the gracious results OF their lie
time than you could measure the length and
breadth and depth OF the phOsphOresrance
last night following the ship OF the Waite
Star line 800 miles ont ut sea. How tle
courage and conservation OF others insu, 70
as 20 follow, as u general in the ATeri-tn
army, cCoi amid the flying bullets, inspired
trembling soldier, VINO said allerwIri, Il
was nearly scared to delth, but L saw the
old mans white mustache over his shoulder
aud went on" Aye, we are all following
somebody, either in right or wrong dir5c-
lions.
\ few days ago I stool beside the gar
.guied caskgt Of gospel minister, and IN
my remarks had occasion to recall n snowy
uight in farmhouse when l was q boy AMI
an evangelist spending q night at my fathers
house, who said something so tender and
beautiful and impressive that it led me into
the kingdom Of God and decided my destiny
for this world and the next. You Will. be-
fore twenty-four hours 90 by, mect some man
or woman with a big pack OF care and trou-
ble, 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 1t ever existed at all.
1 am not talking OF remarkable men AMI
women. DuI OF "lAI OEu4AdIy AOAhS Nt'A Nv
l am not speaking OF the phosphorescence
In the track OF Newfoundland fishing
smack God makes thunderbots ont %
sparks. ami out of the small words an den1s
or n small life He can launch power that
will flash and burn and thunder through the
eternitiss.
How do you Ike this prolongation of your
earthly life BY deathless influence? Many
babe that died at six months OF age by tho
anxiety created in the parents heart to meet
that child in realms 5erupltc Is living yet IN
the Transformed heart and life OF thOs3
parents and will live on forever in the his
tory OF that family. II this be the oppOrtu-
Mtg OF ordinary souls, what IS the oppcr-
tunitv OF those VINO have especial intellectual
or social or monetary equipment?
Have YOU any arithmetic capable OF esti-
mating the influence OF our good and Gra-
rest-George W. Chl!ds, OF Philadelphia
From a newspaper that was printed for
thirty years without one word o. defAma-
tiOn or scurrllity or scandal, and putting
chief emphasis on virtue and charity
and clean intelligence. he rsapsi fortune
for himself and then distributed a vast
amount of it among the poor and struggling
putting his invalid and aged reporters on
pensions, until his name stands everywhere
for large hearteinasS and sympGthy and
help and highest style Of Christian gentle
man.
journalism Horace Greeley, and Henry j.
RAYMOND, and a James Gordon Beun 1T, AMI
an Erastus Brooks. and q George William
Curtis and an Ireuasus Prime, none Ofthen
will be longer remembered than George W.
Chilts Staying away from the unveil.ES OF
the monument he had reared at large eN-
psnss 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 a'Sro|.-
edged n Representatives o. s}e htShSst Aal-ri-
can journalism.
If you would calculate his influence Tor
good, YOU must count how many sae'-1 OF
his newspapers nave b'eh pun.isiei III ne
last quarter oil a century ana now many
people nave read thein' anu the eueeI io'
Only upon tho'e FSHleF-' Dut upon III Who'd
they shall ig.9hn go -H- al tiE". While you
add 70 gil That the wa-- of the churches he
helDH build ami o the institutions ~ mercy
he helped fouu'. B'i,"r give up before you
start the measuring of the phOsphorascenca
OF aNH 2 Il. I'll