The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-12-04

Another safeguard for these young
men is industrious habit. There are
a great many people trying to make
their way through the world with their
wits instead of By honest toll There
is young man who comes from the
country to the city. He fails twice be-
fore he is as Old as his father when he
first saw the spires of the great town:
He is seated in his room at a rent OF
s., 900 a wear. waiting for the banks to
declear their dividends and the stocks
to run up. After awhile he gets I'M
patient. He tries to improve his pen,
manship by making copy plates OF
other merchants signatures, Never
mind-al| is right in business. After
awhile he has his estate. Now is the
time for him to retire To the country,
amid the locks and the herds. 10 cul-
ture the domestic virtues
Now the young men who were ills
schoolmates in boyhood Will come.
and With their OK teams draw his logs,
ard with their hard hands will help TO
feave up tie castle. That is no fancy
sketch. 1t is everyday lie. should
not wonder If there were rotten beam
in that palace ! should not wonder If
God should snite him with dire
sickness and pour into his cup a bitter
draft that viii thrill him with unbear-
able agony. I should not wonder if
that mans children grew up to be to
him disgrace, and to make his life q
shame. I should not wonder if that
man died a disllonorable death and
were tun.hled into dishonora bic
grave, and then went into the snash-
ing of teeth. The way OF the ungodly
shall perish.
Oh. young man. YOU must Lave IN
dustrv OF head or hand or foot or per-
ish.. DO not have the idea that you
can get along in the world by genius.
The curse OF this country today is ge-
muses. with large self concelt
and nothing else The man who pro
poses to make his living by his wits
probably has not any. should rath-
er be an OK, plain and plodding and
useful, than to be an eagle, high fly
ing and good for nothing but to pick
out the eyes of carcases, Even in the
garden Of Eden it was not safe for
Adam to be idle, so God made him a
horticulturist, and If the married pair
had kept busy dressing the vines they
would not have been sauntering under
the tree, hankering after fruit that ru-
ineG them and their posterity, Proof
positive Of the fact that when people
d. not attend to their business they get
into mischief. Go to the ant, thou
sluggard. Consider her ways and De
wise, which, having no overseer or
guide, provideth her food in the sum-
mer and gathereth her meat in the
harvest" Satan is roaring lion, and
you can never destroy him by gun or
pistol or sword. The weapons with
which you are to beat him back are
pen and type and hammer and adze
and saw and pickax and yardstick and
the weapon of honest toll. Work,
work or die
Another safeguard that l want to
present to young men is 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 high" The fact is
that in life great many men take no
aim at all. The artist plans out his
entire thought before he puts it upon
canvas, before he takes up the crayon
or the chisel. An architect thinks out
the entire building before the work
men begin. Although everything may
seem to be uuorganized. that architect
has in his mind every Corinthian col
unan, every Gothic arch, every Byzan-
tine capital a poet thinks out the
entire plot Of his poem before he be-
gins to chime the cantos of tinkling
rhythms. And yet there are a great
many men who start the important
structure of life without knowing
whetherit is going to be rude Tar.
tar's hut or a St. Mark cathedral, and
begin to write out the intricate poem of
their life without knowing whether it
IS 10 De 11CllefS OUySSeS VI
rhvmster's botch. Out of 1000, 900
have no life plot. Beaten aud spurr-
ed and comparisoned, they hasten
along, and 1 run out and say: Hal
10, man, Whittier away?" No
where" they say O young man.
make every days duty filing 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 mountains and
down by the valleys, They sail with
no chart. They gaze on no star. They
long for no harbor. O young man,
have a high ideal and press to it, and
it will be mighty safeguard. There
never were grander opportunities op-
ening before young men than are
opening now. Young men of the
strong arm, and of the stout heart,
and of the bounding step, | marshall
you today for a great achievement.
Another safeguard is a respect for
the Sabbath. Tell me how young
man spends his Sabbath and l will tell
you what are his prospects in business,
and I will tell you what are his pros
poets for the eternal world. God has
thrust into our busy life a sacred day
when we are tc look after our souls.
Is it exhorbitant, after giving six days
to the feeding and clothing of these
perishabie bodies, that God should de-
mand one day Tor the feeding and
Of the immortal souls?
Our bodies are seven day clocks, and
they need to be wound up, and if they
are not wound up they run down into
the grave. No man can continuously
break the Sabbath and keep his physi-
cal and mental health. Ask those
aged men, and they will tell you they
never knew men who continuously
broke the Sabbrth who did not fail in
mind, body or moral principle. a
gave this as his expert
ence. He said: Il owned factory