Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-05-18

d because they married nonentities and
never got over it. The only thing that
Jobs wife proposed for his boils was a
warm poultice of profanity, saying,
Course God and die. " 1t adds to cur
admiration Of John Wesley the manner
in which he conquered domestic unhap-
piness. His wife had slandered him all
over England until, standing in his pull
pit i'll City Road chapel, he complained
to the people, saying, ~ have been
charged with every crime in the cata-
logue except drunkenness - when his
wife arose in the back part of the church
and said, John, you know You were
drunk last night. Then Wesley ex-
claimed, 'Thank God, the catalogue is
complete. :" When a man marries he
malries for heaven or he'll, and it is
more SO when woman marries. You
six young men in Fayette, o., had bet
ter look out.
Word the next: Do not rate yourself
too high Better rate yourself too low.
Ii you rate yourself too low the world
will say, Come up. F" IF you rate your
self too high the world will say, Come
down" 1t is bad thing when man
gets SO exaggerated an idea of himself
as did Earl of Buchan, whose speech
Ballantyne, the Edinburgh printer, could
not set up for publication because he
had not enough capital rs among his
type. Remember that the world got
along without you near 5000 years be-
fore you were born, and unless some
meteor eolides with US, or some inter
nal explosion occurs, the world will
probably last several thousand years
after you are dead.
Word the next: Do not postpone too
long doing something decided for God,
humanity and yourself The greatest
things have been done before 40 years
of age. Pascal at 16 years of age, Gro
thus at II, Romulus at 20, Pitt at 22,.
Whitetield at "a, Bonaparte at 81, Igna--
thus Loyola at 80, Raphael at 81, had
made the world feel their virtue or their
vice, and the biggest strokes you will
probably make for the truth or against
the truth will be before you reach the
meridian of life. Do not wait for some
thing to turn up. Go to work and turn
it up. There is no such thing as good
luck. No man that ever lived has had
a better time than have had, yet I
never had any good luck. But instead
thereof, a kind Providence has crowded
my life with mercies. You will never
accomplish much as long as you go at
your work on the minute you arc ex-
pected and stop at the first minute it is
lawful to quit. The greatly useful and
successful men of the next century will
be those who began half an hour before
they were required and worked at least
half an hour after they might have quit.
Unless you are willing sometimes to
work ~ hours of the day you viii re-
main on the low levels, and your life
will be a prolonged humdrum.
Word the next: Remember that it is
only q small part of our life that we are
to pass on earth. Less than your finger
nail compared with your whole body is
the life on earth when compared with
the next life. suppose there are not.
more than half dozen people in this.
world 100 years old. But a very few
people in any country reach so. The ma
jority of the human race expire before
so. Now, what an equipoise in such a,
consideration. If things go wrong it is.
only for little while Have you not,
enough moral pluck to stand the jos
Ting, and the injustices, and the mis-
haps of the small parenthesis between
tho two eternities? 1t is a good thing to
get ready for tho ono mile this side the
marble slab, but moro important to get
fixed up for tho interminable miles
which stretch out into the distances be-
yond the marble slab. A few years ago
on tho Nashville and New Orleans rail
road we were walked up carly in the
morning, and told We must take car
riages for some distance. "WEy?" We
all asked But we soon saw for our
selves that, while the first four or five
spans Of the bridge We're up, farther on
there was span that had fallen, and
we could not but shudder at what might,
have been the possibilities. When your
rail train starts on q long bridge you
want to be sure that tho first span Of the
bridge is all right, but what if farther
on there is span of the bridge that is
all wrong; how then? what then? In
one of the western cities the freShets
had carried away q bridge, and a man
knew that the express train would soon
come along he lighted lantern and
started up the track to stop the train
But before he had got far enough up
the track the wind blew out the light of
his lantern, and standing in the dark
ness as the train came up he threw the
lantern into the locomotive, CRYING,
stop! Stop!" And the warning was
in time to halt the train. And if any
of You by evil habits are Fastening on
toward brink or precipice or fallen span,
throw this Gospel lantern at your
mad career: Stopl Stopl The end there
Of it DEATH Young man, you are Gagged
now by many environments, but you
will after awhile get your wings out.
Sorse one Gagged a Rocky Mountain
eagle and kept him shut up between
the wires until all the spirit and cour-
age had gone out of it. Released one
day from the cage, the eagle seemed to
want to return to its former prison. The
fact was that the eagle had all gone out
of him. He kept his wings down. But
after awhile he looked up at the sun,
turning his head first this side and then
that side, and then spread one wing and
then the other wing, and began to
mount, until the hills were far under
his feet, and he was out of sight in the
empyrean. My brother, when you leave
this life, if by the grace of God you are
prepared, you will come out of the cage
of this hindering mortality, and looking
up to the heavenly heights you will
spread wing for immortal flight, leav-
ing sun and moon and stars beneath in
your ascent to glories that never fade
and splsndors which never die. Your
body is the cage. Your soul is the eagle
Word the next: Fill yourself with
biographies of men who did gloriously
IN the business or occupation or profess
sion yen are about to choose or have al
ready chosen. Going to be merchant?
Read up Peter Cooper and Abbot Law
renee and James Lenox and William E.