The Penn's Grove record., 1894-07-27

you to buy a large amount on credit, then
put your property in your wife's name, have
q few preferred creditors and then make an
assignment. Then disappear from the com
munity until the breeze is over and then
come back and start in the 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 ltv-
lng2 How quickly 1t will get you into high
social positionl What Is the use OF forty or
afty years of hard work when you can by
.wo or three bright strokes make a great
Tortune2 All, my friends, when you really
lose your money how quick they will let you
lrop, and the higher you get the harder you
will drop.
There are thousands to-day In that realm
who are anxious to keep in II. There are
in hat realm who are nervous Tor
lear they will tall out OF 1t, and there are
,hanges going on every year and every
month and every hour which involve heart,
breaks that are never reported. High social
lie is constantly In a iutter about the deli
,ate 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
.or, chandelier against chandelier, wine cell
ar against wine cellar, wardrobe against
wardrobe, equipage against equipage. Un-
certainty and Insecurity dominant In that
realm, wretchedness enthronsd, torture at a
premium and a life not worth living.
A life of sin, a life OF pride. a life OF indul-
Bence, "a life Of worldiness, a life devoted to the
world, the flesh and the devil Is a failure, q
lead failure, an infinite failure. 1 care not
how many presents you sent to that cradle,
Or how many garlands you send TO that
grave, you need to put right under the name
on the tombstone this inscription, ''Bettsr
Tor that man If he had never been born"
But I shall show you a life that ts worth
living. A young man says: 81 am here. I
AM not responsible for my ancestry. Others
decided that l am not responsible for my
temperament ; God gave me that. But here
[ am, in the afternoon Of the nineteenth CEN
Jury. at twenty years OF age. l am here, and
I must take an account OF stock. Here I
have a body which is a divinely constructed
engine. / must put 1t to the very best uses
and l 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-
ion with all the outside world, AMI they
mean capacity to catch sweetest music ami
the voices OF friendship-the very best music.
A tongue, with almost inflnity OF s%rticula-i
ito n. Yes, hands with which to welcome or
resist or lift or smite or wave or ble~ss-hands
to help myself and help others.
'Here Is a world which, after 5000 years
OF battling with tempest and accident, Is still
grander than any architect, human or an
gelic. could have drafted. / have two lamps
to light me-a golden lamp and a silver
golden lamp set on the sapphire
mantel of the day, a silver lamp set on the
let mantel OF the night. Yea, l have that at
twenty years of age which defes all in.
ventory of valuables--a soul with capqcityto
choose or reject, to rejoice or to suffer, to
love or to hate. Plato says it is immortal.
Seneca SAYS 1t is immortal. Confucius sIy-
it is immortal. An old book among the fam
lily relics, n book with leathern cover alnoS:
worn out and pages almost obliterated by o t
p%erusal, joins the other books in sayin; !
am Immortal. 1 nave eighty years for +
lifetime, sixty years yet to live. L may no
live an hour, but then 1 must lay out m,
plans i~ntelligently and for a long lie. S'Xlv
years added to the twenty 1 have alrel ~
lived-that will bring me to eighty. mt
remember that these eighty years are on y
brief preface to the five hundred thousIn
millions OF quintillions Of years watch wi
be my chief residence and existence. Nov
understand my opportunities and my re-
sponsibilities.
'It there is any being in the universe AL
wise AMI all bene1cent who can help p mpu
in such a juncture, | want hin The o.!
book found among the family relics tells NJ
there is n God, and that for the sake OF H =
Son. one Jesus, He will give help to a m9n.
10 nun L hpptHi. bDu ntip Ilt ItTt b
nave yet sixty years to do for myself and tn
do for others. l must develop :his body hy
all industries, by all gymnastics, by all sun
shine, by all fresh air, by all cool habits.
And this soul | must have swept aud garn-
ished and illumined and glorifiad by all that
l can do for 1t and all that l can get Col to
do for it. 1t shall be a Luxembourg of tlnf
pictures. 1t shall be an orchestra OF gram
harmonies. 1t shall be q palace for Go and
rtDhfpnt1 en- RGQ m TalDn in wnn1nr hnug
many kind words I can utter in the mex
sixty years. l will try. wonder how many
good deeds / can 10 In the next sixty years?
l will try. God help me"
That young man enters life. He l.
bureted he is tried he Is perplaxai. A
grave opens on this side, and a gray, opar
on that side. He falls, but he rises again.
He gets into a hard battle, hut he gels tn
victory. The main course of his life is in
the right direction. He blesses everybody
he comes in contact with. Got forSivpS nj
mistakes and makes everlasting reeorl o
his holy endeayors, and at the close OF
God says to him, "Well done, good an
faithful servant enter into the joys of tn,
Lord" Ny brother, my sister. 1 do not car
whether that man dies at thirty, forty, nay,
sixty, seventy or eighty years Of age. You
can chisel right under his name on tn
tombstone these words. "HiS life W.
worth living"
Amid the hills OF New Hampshire in olIeu
there sits a mother. There are siy
children In the household -four boys au
two girls. Small farm. Very rough hur
work 10 coax a living out OF it. Mighty III:
to make the two ends OF the year meet. Thr
boys go to school in winter and work the
farm In summer Mother is the chief pre-
siding spirit. With her hands she knits alI
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 ont
musical instrument in the house-the spin
ming wheel. The food is very plain, hui ii
Is always we'll provided. The winters ar
very cold, but are kept out by the blanket,
she quilted. On Sunday, when she appe ~,
in the village church, her children aroun
her, the minister looks down and is remin
ed OF the Bible description of a good house
wife: "Her children arise up and call me-
blessed. Her husband also, and he p%raisHtF
her."
Some years go by, and the two eldest boy
want a collegiate education, and the houS'
hold economics are severer, and the calcu &c
lions are closer, and until those two boys :
their education there Is a hard battle 70
bread. 0ne OF these boys enters the univer
slty, stands in a pulpit widely infiuentie
and breaches Righteousness, Judgment an
temperance, and thousands during his min.
istry are blessed. The other lad who got tn
NOAANAAoAp oAhtfAAAOA bOVo AhAS Nv "a" "A
tn nee into legislative halls, aud aftcr =
while he commands listening senates as h
makes a plea for the downtro tden ami tn
outcast. One ofthe younger boys becoml
a merchant, starting ut the foot OF the Ia
der, but climbing on up until his success an
his philanthropies are recognized all over tn
land. Tho other son stays at home becauS
he prefers farming life. and then he thinks
he will be able to- take care Of father and
mother when thew Get old.
OF the two daughters, when the war broke
out n went through the hospital of Pitts.
burg Landing and Fortress Monroe, cheer
ing up the dying and homesick, and taking
tho last message to kindred far away, so that
every time Christ thought OF her He said, as
OF old, 'The same is My sister and mother. y
The other daughter has a bright home OF her
own, and in the afternoon OF the forenoon
when she has been devoted TO her household
she goes forth to hunt up the sick and to
~ncoura the discouraged, leaving smiles
and bensdictlon all along the way.
But n day there start Ave kilograms from
the village for these five absent ones, saving,
"Come mother is dan gerously ILL.," But be-
fore they can be ready TO start they receive
another telegram. saying, "Come mother is