The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1895-11-22

/, gift" And the queen ciasped op the girls
| wrist a mourning bracelet with lock OF her
mothers hair. All you young women the
| world around who mourn \ like sorrow and
| sometimes in yourloncliness and sorrow and
loss burst out crying, "Mother! Mother"
put on YOUR wrist this golden clasp OF divine
sympathy. "As one whom his mother COM
| forteth so will comfort you
| Advice the fourth: Allow DO time,to pass
without Frightening some ones life. Within
five minutes walk of you there is some one
| in n tragedy ccmpared with which Shake
speare's .'King Lear" or Victor Hugo's
Jean Vatican" has no power. Go out and
brighten somebody's life with a cheering
word or smile or y flower. Take a good
| hook and read q chapter to that blind man.
Go up that dark alley and make that in
| valid woman laugh with some good story.
| Go to that house from which that child has
been taken by death and tell the father and
| mother what an escape the child has had
] from the winter OF earth into the springtime OF
heaven. For Gods sake make some one happy
for ten minutes II for no longer a time. A
| young woman bound on such u mission
| what might she not accomplish. Oh. there
are thousands OF these manufacturers OF
sunshine. They are Kings Daughters"
| whether inside or outside that delightful
| organization. They do more good before
they are twenty years OF age than selfish
| women Woo live ninety. aud they ara 40
| happy Just because they make others happy.
| Compare such a young women who feels she
| Has SUCH Il MISSION WITH one VINO livea
| round OF vapities cariicasa in hand. calling
on people for whom ste does not care ex-
| cept for some social advantage and IN
sufferably bored when the call is re-
| turned. aud trying to look young after
| she is old. and living = life OF insincarity
! aud bollowness and dramatizaton and sham
| Young woman live to make othecs happy
and jou will be happy. Live for yourself
! and you will be miserable. There never has
| been an exception to the rule there never
| will be aC exception.
| have noticed on many of the railroads
| that the porter will go arouui and light the
| lamps while il is broad day light ami am
at first surprised. but 1 afterward find that
we are about to enter n tunnel. and its dark
ness is thus illuminated. oh, kindie light
| for those who are phnSing into financial or
| domestic or spiritual midnight.
Advice the fifth: Plan out your life on a
| big soate, whether you are farmers dau9h-
ter or shepherdess among the hills, or the
| battered pet of Il drawing room filed with
! statuary and pictures and bric-a-brac. Stop
where you are md make n plan for your life
time. You cannot be satisfied with life OF
! ,rivolity and gigGle and indrection. Trust
| the world. and /. will cheat you il it does
not destroy you. The Rsioubtable was the
name OF an enany's ship that Lord Nelson
spared twice from demolition. but that same
ship afterwards sent the ball that killed him
and the world on which you smile NAV aim
N you the dea HEST weapon. Be II Gods
woman. This moment make rs mighty
change rs did q college student OF England.
| He had neglected. his studies. riottng at
night with dissi0ated companions and
sleeping in the classroom when he ought
| to have been listening. a fellow student
camc into MS room ona morning bsfore the
young man AN Speaking ~ had arisen from
his pillow AMI said to hirr: ''Paley, you are
fool! You ara wasting your opportunities.
! Dan throw away your iife." Palay said
Il was SO struck vita what b said that Hay
in bed until hal formed my plan for lie. I
ordered my fire to be always laid over night.
arose ut five and read steadily all day al
loted to eaca portion Of the day its proper
| branch OF study and became the senior
wranSer.' What IN hour that was when a
| resolution definitely placed changed young
man from reckless and time wasting stud
| ent to consecrated man who stopped not
until all time and ali eternity shall be debtor
to his pen and Influence.
Young woman, d-aw out and decide what
you will be aud do, God helping. Write it
out in plain hand. not like the letters
which Josephine received from Napoleon in
| Italy. ths wrlting so scrawlinS and scattered
that 1t was sometimes taken rs u map of the
seat OF war. Put the plan on the wall OF
blink book, or put 1T where You viii bs
compelled often to see it. A thousand
questions OF your coming life You cannot
settle now, but there is one du uastion YOU
can settle independent OF map. woman,
| angel and devil, and that is that you will b.
Gods woman now. hencaforth and forever.
Clasp hands with the Almighty. Pythacoras
represented lie by the letter Y because it
early divides into two ways. Look out for
opportunities of cheering, inspiring, rescu-
ing and saving all the people you can. Make
a league with the eternities. I seek your
present and everlasting safety. David
| Brewster said that Il comet belonging to our
system called Lexelrs comet is lost. as it
! ought to have appeared thirteen times
and has not appearsd at all. Alas, it is
not only the lost comets but the lost
stars, and. what Were considered fixed
st&zs. Some OF the most brilliant and
steady souls Rave disappeared. The world
wonders * the charge OF the Light Brigade,
| immorta!ized by TennysoD. Only few o:
the 600 got back from the charge under
Lord Cardigan. OF the Muscovite guns and
all the havoc was done In twenty-five min
| u!es, the charge beginning at ten minutes
past IL O'clock, and closing at thirty. five
| minutes past ii. and yet nothing left on the
| Held but dying and dead men dying and
dead horses. But smaller proportion of
! the men and women who & into the battle
! cllie come out unwounded. The slaughter
| has been and will be terrific, aud we al, need
| God and we need Him now and we need Him
all the time Aud let me say there is new
woman as there is new man, and that is
the regenerated woman made such by the
| ransacSinS, Transforming. upbuilding trl-
| umphant power OF the spirit who is so gu
perior to all other spirits that He has been
called Tor ages the Holy Spirit. Quicker
thah wheel ever turned on it's axis; quicker
| than heetest hoos ever struck the pavement;
! quicker than zigzaS lightning ever dropped
| down toe sky, the ransoming power / speak
| OF will revoiutionZa your entire nature
| Inen you can start out on II voyage OF life,
! dcfyinS both calm and cycions, saying with
| Dean Afford:
One who has knowa in storms to sail
| have oh board:
Ahov" til" roariR: OF the gale
hear my Lord.
H. holds ne whr1 :he biliows smile;
shall not .ll:
l. snort It's s;larp, il lga.; 'iis Light: