Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-11-30

tNtN va htAItsi~Nt'N EVEN it tHt Va 1
Eden II was not safe for Adam To bc idle, /
SO tod made him "a hnrticulturist, and il
the married pair had kept busy dress
ing the vines they would not have been I
sauutcring under the tree, hankcring after |
fruit that ruined them and their postcrity /
Proof positive Of the fact that when people /
do not attend to their business they get /
into mischief 60 to the ant, thou slug /
gard Consider her WAYS and be- wise, /
which, having no uVcrSccr or guide, pro /
Vidcth her food IN the summer and gather /
eth her meat in the harvest. = Satan is - /
roaring lion, ana you can never destroy |
him hy gun or pistol or sword Tho |
weapons with which you are To beat him |
back are zen and type and hammer and |
adzc and Jaw and pickax and yardstick |
and the weapon of honest toll Work, |
work or die.
a High Ideal.
Another safeguard that | want to pre- |
sent to young men is high ideal Of life. |
Sometimes soldiers going into battle shoot |
into the grurnd instead Of into the hearts |
OF their enemies. They aro apt To take aim |
too low, and 1t is very often that tho
captain. going into conflict with his men,
will cry out, Now men. aim high" The |
fact i that in life n great many men take |
no aim nj all. The artist plans out his On |
tire thought before he puts IL upon canvas, |
before hc takes up the crayon or the chiscl. |
An archiicc; thinks out the entire build |
ing before the wOrkmcn begin. Although |
everything may seem tn be unorganizcd, |
that architect has in his mind every Cor |
inthian column, every Gothic arch, every |
Byzantine capital 4 poet thinks out the |
entire plot OF his poem before no begins to
chime the cantos Of tinkling rhythms. |
And yet there arc "a great many men who |
start the important structure of life with |
out knowing whether IL Is going TO be |
rude Tartar's hut or st. Marks cathe- |
dral, and begin To write out the intricate |
poem " their life without knowing whcth-
or II is To be Homcr's Odyssey" or
rhymester's botch. Gu: of ZOO, 500 have |
no life plot Booted and spurrcd and |
caparisoncd, they. hasten along. and run |
out and say: Halo, man! whittier |
away" "Nowhcre!' they say. o young |
man. make every days duty u filling up of /
the great life plot. Alas that there should |
bc on this sea Of life 20 many ships that |
seem bound for no port! They ARE swept |
every whittier by wind and wave, up by |
the mountains and down by the valleys. |
They sail with no chart. They gaze ON no |
star. They long for no harbor. q young |
man. have high ideal and press to 1t, |
and 1t will be "A mighty safeguard. There |
never WERE grandcr opportunities opening |
before young men than are opening now. |
Young men 81 the strong arm, and Of the |
stout heart, and of the bounding step, |
marshal you today for a great achievement. |
Respect For Sunday.
Another safeguard Is respect for the |
Sabbath. Tell mo how young man |
spends his Sabbath and I will tell you |
what are his prospects In business, and / |
will tell you what are his prospects for the |
eternal world. God has thrust into our |
busy life "a sacred day when we arc to look |
after our souls Is it cxorbitant, after |
giving six days To the feeding and cloth |
ing OF these pcrishablc bodies, that God |
should demand one day for the feeding |
and clothing Of the immortal soulf
Our bodies are seven day clocks, and |
they need to be wound up, and IL they are |
not wound up they run down into the |
grave. No man can continuously break |
the sabbath and keep his physical and |
mental health. Ask those aged men, and |
they will tell YOU they never knew men |
who continuously broke the Sabbath who |
did not fail in mind, body or moral prin- |
ciplc \ manufacturer gave this rs his |
experience He said: Il owned u factory |
ON the Lchigh. Everything prospcred. I |
kept the sabbath and everything went on |
well But one sabbath morning / be- |
thought myself Of new shuttle, and I |
thought | would invent that shuttle before |
sunset, and refused all food and drink |
until had completed that shuttle. BY |
shutdown | Ind completed II. The next |
day, Monday, | showed To my workmcn |
and friends this new shuttle. They all |
congratulated mo on my great success. / |
put that shuttle into play. l enlarged my |
business, but, sir that sundays work cost |
me $50. 900. From that day everything |
went wrong. failed In business, and l |
lost my mill" oh, my friends keep the |
Lords day. You may think IL old fogy |
advice, but | give IL to you now: Re |
member the sabbath day and keep II holy. |
Six DAYS shalt thou labor and do all thy |
work, but the seventh Is the Sabbath OF |
the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do |
any work a man said that he would |
prove that all this was a fallacy, and SO no |
said, II shall raise Sunday crop" And |
he plowcd the field on the sabbath, and /
then he pu, in the seed ON the sabbath,
and he cultured the ground on the Sab |
bath. When the harvest WAS ripe, he
rcaped it ON the sabbath. and he carried 1t
into the NOV on the sabbath and then he
stood out defiant TO his Christian neigh
bors and said There. that Is my Sunday
crop, and il is all garnercd." After awhile
a storm came up, and great darkness,
and the lightrings Of heaven struck tho
barn and away went his Sunday crop.
The Growing Virtue.
There is another safeguard that want
to present. have saved IL until the last
because want il TO he the moro emphatic.
Tho prplf Snfpyunrd fnr ayary vnnpa, man
Is the Christian religion. Nothing can
take the place Of 1t. You may have grace
fulneSs enough to put to the blush Lord
Chesterfield, you may have foreign Ian
guages dropping from your tongue, you
may discuss laws and literature, you may
have a pen Of uncqualcd polish and power,
you may have So much business tact that
tou can get the largest salary in a bank
ing house, you may be rs sharp as Herod
and rs strong rs Samson and with as long
locks rs those which hung Absalom, and
yet you have no safety against temptation.
Some of you look forward to life with
great dependency. know IL. / SEQ It in
your faces from time to time You say,
All the occupations and professions are
full, and there's no chance for me-" o
young man, cheer up. l will tell you how
you can make your fortune. Seek first the
kliRuOii Oh 6ou anu MS righteousness,
and all other things will be added know
you do not want Ia be mean in this mat
ter. You will not drink the trimming cup
of life and then pour the dregs on Gods
altar To generous Saviour you will noe
act like that; you have not the heart to
act like that. That is not manly That
Is not honorable. That Is not brave. Your
great want Is "a new heart, and in the name
of the Lord Jesus Christ l tell you so to-
day, and the blessed Spirit presses through
the solemniiics of this hour To put the cup
of life To your thirsty lips. Oh! thrust II
not back Mercy presents it-biceding
mercy, long suffering mercy. DcSpise all
other Friendships prove recrcant to all
other bargains, but deSpisc Gods love for
your dying soul--do not do that There
comes a crisis in mans life, and the
trouble is lac does not know il Is he crisis
/ got IA letter in which a man says TO me:
II start out now 10 preach the gospel of
righteousness and temperance to the pco-
Pile DO yen remember me? am the man
who appeared at the close of the service
when YOU were worshiping in tho chapel
after you came from Philadelphia. Do YOU
remember nj the close Of the service y
man coming up 70 you all a-trcmble with
conviction and crying out for mercy, and
telling you he had IA very bad business,
and he thought he would change il? That