The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-12-28

gets impatient. He hprceN
his penmanship by making Spy-plates'
of other merchants signatures! Never
mind-all is right in business. After
awhile he has his estate. Now is the
time for him TO retire 70 the country,
arr id the hocls and the herds, to cul-
turs the domestic virtues.
Now the young men who were his
s~choolTa1ates in boyhooa will come,
and/with their OK teams draw him
logs, and with their hare hands will
: help to heave up the castle. That. is
not fancy sketch; it is every day lne.
should not wonder If there were a
rotten beam in that palace. I should
not wonder If God should smite him
with dire sickness, and pour into his
cup a bitter draught that will thrill
him with unbearable agony. Ishould
not wonder if that mans children
grew up to be to him a disgrace, and
to make his life a shame. I should
not wonder il that man died n dishon-
orable death, and were tumbled into a
dishonorable grave, and then went into
the gnashing of teeth. The way of
the ungodly shall perish.
Oh! young man, you must have in
dustry of head, or hand, or foot; or
perish. Do not have the idea that you
can get along in the world by genius.
The curse OF this country to-day is
reimbursement with large self-conceit
and nothing else. The man who pro-
poses to make his living by his wits
probably has not any. 1 should rather
be an OK, plain and plodding and use
f,l thar - 10 nm ao~Ia hfok As-.
and good-for-nothing but to pick out
the eyes of a Even in
the Garden of Eden it wal not safe
for Adam to be idle, SO God made
him an horticulturist; and il the
married pair had kept busy dressing
the vines, they would o have been
sauntering under the trees, ~hankering
after fruit that ruined them and their
posterityi Proof positive of the fact
that when people do not attend to
their business they get into mischief.
go to the ant, thou s%luggard; on
slider her ways and be wise; which,
having no overseer or guide, provideth
her food in the summer and gathereth
her meat in the harvest" Satan Is a
roaring lion, and you can never dc.
stroy him by gun or pistol or sword.
The weapon with which you are to
beat him back are pen, type and ham,
mer and adze, and saw, and pick-ax,
and yardstick. and the weapon Of hon
est toll. Work, work, or die.
Another safeguard that I want to
present to young men is q high ideal
of life. Sometimes soldiers going into
battle shoot into the ground instead Of
into the hearts Of their enemies. They
are apt to take aim too low, and it is
very often that the captain, going into
conflict with his men, will cry out:
"Now, men, aim highr' The fact is
that in life a great many men take no
aim ut all. The artist plans out his
entire thought before he puts it upon
| canvas, before he takes up the crayoR
or the chisel. An architect thinks
out the entire building before the
workmen begin. Although everything
may seem to be unorganized, that
architect has in his mind every Corin-
THAN column. every Gothic arch, every
byzantine capital. A poet thinks out
the entire plot of his poem before he
begins to chime the cnntos of tinkling
rhythms. And yet there are q great
many men who start h important
structure Of life without knowing
whether it Is going to DO o rude Tar
tar's hut or a st. Marks cathedral,
and begin to write out the intricate
| poem Of their life without knowing
| whether it is to be a Homer's ''Odys-
sey'' or a ~rhymester's botch. Out
Of one thousand, nine hundred
and ninety-nine have no life
plot. Booted and spurred and ca
parisoned. they hasten along. and run
out and say: "Hallo. man! Whittier
away?" "NowhereI" they say. Oh
young man, make avery days duty a
filling up of the great life-plot Alas
that there should be on this sea of life
so many ships that seem bound for no
| port. They are swept every whittier
by wind and wave, up by the noun
tains and down by the valleys. They
sail with no chart. They gaze or nc
tar. They long for no harbor. Oh
young man, have a high ideal and
press for it, md it will be u mighty
safeguard.
Another safeguard is q respect fol
the Sabbath. Tell me how q young
mau spends his Sabbath, and I will
toll you what are his prospects In
business, and I will tell you what are
| his prospects for the eternal world.
| God has thrust into our busy life
sacred day when we are to look after
our souls. Is IL exorbitant, after Civ
ing six days to the feeding and cloth
ing of these perishable bodies, tina
God should demand one day for the
feeding and clothing of the imyaurta
soul?
Our bodies are ~saven-day clocks, AM
they need TO hs( wound up, and If the.
are n~ot>S6und up they run down int
t1a( grave. No man al cOntinuousl.
break the Sabbath and keep his phys
ical and mental health. Ask thos
aged men and they will tell you the
never knew men who continuousl
broke the Sabbath who did not fail /
mind, body Or moral principle.
manufacturer gave this as his exper
ence. He said: Il owned u factory o
the behigh. Everything prospered.
kept the Sabbath and everything wen
on we'll. But one Sabbath mornin
l bethought myself of a new shu'
tie, and l thought / would inven
that shuttle before sunset: and
refused all food and drink until l ha
completed that shuttle. by sundow
l had completed it. The next dal
Monday, l showed to my workme
and friends this new shuttle. The
all congratulated me on my great SUI
cess. Jput that shuttle into play.
enlarged my business; but, sir, thu
Sundays work cost me $50, 900. Fro
that day everything went wrong.
failed in business and l lost my mill,
Oh, my friends, keep the Lords da.
You may think 1t old-fogy advice, b,
I give it to you now: "Remember IL
Sabbath day and keep It holy. s.
days shalt thou labor and do all TIL
work; but the seventh Is the Sabbat
Of the Lord, thy God; in it thou sha
. not do any work."
There is another safeguard that
want to present. have saved it unit
the last because l want it to be Il
more emphatic. The great safegual
of every young man isthe Christian r
ligion. Nothing q take the place
8 it. You may have gracefulness enoue
I to put to the blush Lord Chesterfield
d you may have foreign languages dro