Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-05-18

American journalism. Here comes n whole
pcriition OF printed abomination, dumped
on the breakfast table and tea table and
parlor table. Take at least one good news
paper with able editorial and reporters
| columns mostly occupied with helpful in
telligcnce, announcing marriages and
deaths and rcformatory and religious as
scmblages, and charities bestowed, and the
doings of good people, and giving but lit
tie place to nasty divorce cases aud sto-
ries of crime, which, like cobras, sting
| those that touch them. Oh, for more
newspapers that put virtue In what Is
called great primer type and vice in non
parcil or agate! You have all seen the
photographers negative. He took pic
turc from 1t 10 or 20 years ago You ask
him now for picture from that same neg
ativc. He opens the great chest contain
Ing the black negatives Of 1885 or 1875,
and he reproduccs the picture. Young
men, your memory is made up of the neg
atives of an immortal photography. All
chat you see or hear goes into your soul to
make pictures for the future You will
have with you till the Judgment day tho
negatives of all the bad pictures you have
ever looked at and Of all the dcbauchcd
scenes you have read about. Show me the
newspapers you take and the books you
read, and / will tell you what are your
prospects for well being in this life, and
what will be- your residence |, 900, 600 years
after the star on which we now live shall
have dropped out of the constellation. /
never travel on Sunday unless II he n case
of necessity or mercy. But last autumn
was in India in n city plague struck. BY
the hundreds the people were down with
fearful illness. We went to the apothe-
cary's to get some preventive of the fever,
and the place WAS crowded with invalids,
and we had no confidence in the prevent
i've we purchased from the Hindoos. The
mail train was to start Sabbath evening.
said, Frank, think the Lord will cx-
cusc us II we get out of this place with the
first train,'' and we took IL, not feeling
quite comfortable till we wcrc hundreds
OF miles away. felt we We're right in
flying from the plague. Well, the air in
many OF our cities Is struck through with
n worse plaguc-thc plague of corrupt and
damnable literature Get away from 1t as
soon rs possible. 1t has already ruined the
bodies, minds and souls Of n multitude
which, II stood In solid column, would
reach from New York Battery to Golden
Horn. The plague, The plague!
The Fourth Step.
Word the next: Never go to any place
where you would be ashamed to die. Adopt
that plan, and you will never go to any
evil amusement nor be found in compro-
missing surroundings. How many star
tling eases within the past few years OF
men called suddenly ont of this world, and
the newspapers surprised us when they
mentioned the locality and the companion
ship. To put it on the least important
ground, you ought not to go To any such
forbidden place, because il you depart this
life in such circumstances you put ofliciat
ing ministers in great embarrassment.
You know that some of the ministers he
licve that all who leave this life go straight
to heaven, however they have acted in
this world or whatever they have believed.
To get you through from such surround
ings Is an appalling theological undertake
ing One of the most arluous and be-
sweating efforts Of that kind that ever
knew of was mt the obscquics of n man
who was found dead in snowbank with
his rum jug close beside him. But the
minister did the work of happy transfer
cnce rs well rs possible, although IL did
seem "A little Inappropriate when he read:
Blessed are the dead who die in tho Lord.
They rest from their labors, and their
works do follow them II you have no
mercy upon yourself, have mercy upon
the minister who may be called to ofiiciate
after your demise. Die at home, or in some
place of honest business, or where the
laughter Is clean, or amid companionships
pure and elcvating. Remember that any
place we go to may become our starting
point for the next world. When we enter
the harbor of heaven and the officer of
| light comes aboard, let us be able Ia show
that our clearing papers We're dated at the
right port.
| The Fifth Step.
| Word the next: As soon as you can, by
industry and economy, have home Of
your own. What do / mean by home?
mean two rooms and the blessing of God
on both Of thcm-onc room for slumbcr.
one for food, its preparation and the par
taking thereof. Mark you, l would like
you to have n home with 30 rooms, all up
holstcrcd, pictured and statucttetI, but 1
am putting IL down ut the minimum. A
husband and wife who cannot be happy
with IA home made up of two rooms would
not be happy in heaven II they got there.
| He who wins and keeps the affection Of a
good practical woman has done gloriously.
What do mean by good woman? /
mean one who loved God before she loved
an; l mean one who can help you to earn
living, for time comes in almost every
mans life when he Is flung of hard mis-
fortune, and you do not want weakling
going around the house whining and sniff
| ling about how she had IL before you mar
ried her. The simple reason why thousands
OF men never get ON in the world Is be-
cause they married noncntitics and never
got over it. The only thing that Jobs
wife proposed for his boils was warm
poulticc Of profanity, saying, Curse God
and die" 1t adds to our admiration of
John Wesley the manner In which he con-
qucred domestic unhappiness. His wife
had slandcrcd him all over England until.
standing in his pulpit In City Road chapel,
he complained to the people, saying, II
have been charged with every crime in
the catalogue 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 cx-
claimed. THANK God, the catalogue Is
complete" When a man marries, he mar
rics for heaven or hell, and 1t Is more So
when n woman marrics. You six young
men In Faycttc, o., had better look ont
The Sixth Step.
Word the next: Do not rate yourself too
high. Better rate yourself too low. IL
you rate yourself too low, the world will
say, Come up" II you rate yourself too
high, the world will say, Come down. d"
IL Is bad thing when n man gets so cx-
aggcratcd an idea Of himself rs did Earl Of
Buchan. whose speech Ballantync, the Ed
inburgh printer. could not set up for pub
lCation because he had not enough cap
ltal Is among his type. Remember that
The world got along without you nearly
5000 years before you We're born, and un
Jess some meteor collidcs with us or some
internal explosion occurs the world will
probably last several thousand years after
you are dead.
The seventh Step.
Word the next: Do not postpone too
long doing something decided for God hu-
manity and yourself. The greatest things
have been done before 40 years Of age. Pas
cal at Is years Of age, Grotius at Il, Rom
ulus at 20, Pitt Mt %, Whitcficld ut ~,
Bonapartc at %, Ignatius Loyola at 30.
Raphael at 81. had made the world feel
| II the Usnhy Is Cutting Teeth