The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-05-17
is because they marsled nonmtities and

never got over 1t. The only thing That
Jobs wife proposed for his boils was a
warm poultice of profanity, saying,
Course God and die. +" 1t adds to our
admiration of John Wesley the manner
in which he conquered domestic unhapN
piness, His wits had slandered him all
over England until, standing in his pull
pit in City Road chapel, he complained
to the people, saying, IT have been
charged with every crime in the cata-
loguo 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 man marries he
marries for heaven or hell, and it is
more SO when d woman marries. You
six young men In Fayette, o., had bet
ter lookout.
Word the next: Do not rate yourself
too high. Better rate yourself too low.
If you rate yourself too low the world
will say, "Come up" If you rate your
self too high the world will say, Come
down. 1t is bad thing when a 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 collides 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
titus at II, Romulus at 30, Pitt at %,
Whitefeld at "a, Bonaparte at ~, 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
| better time than I have had, yet l
never had any good luck. But instead
thereof, kind Providence has crowded
my life with 1nercies. You will never
accomplish much as long as you 60 at
your work on the minute you are 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 10 hours Of the day you will re-
main on the low levels, and your life
will be prolonged humdrum.
| Word the next: Remember that it is
5n1y a 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 a dozen people in this
world 100 years old But a very few
people in any country reach 80. The ma
iority of the human race expire before
80. Now, what an eq1ipoise 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
the two eternities? 1t is & good thing to
get ready for the one mile this side the
marble slab, but more important to get
fixed up for the interminable miles
which stretch cut into the distances be-
You'd the marble slab A few years ago
on the Nashville and New Orleans rail
road we were walked up early in the
morning, and told we must take car
riages for some distance. "Why?" we
all asked But we soon saw for our,
selves that, while the first four Or five
spans of the bridge were up, farther on
there was span that had fallen, and
we could not but shudder at what nigh,
have been the possibilities. When YOU
rail train starts on q long bridge you
want to be sure that the first span of the
bridge is all right, but what if farther
on there is a span Of the bridge that is
all wrong; how then? what then? Ii
ono of the western cities the freshets
had carried away bridge, and a man
knew that the express train would soor
come along. So he lighted lantern and
started up the track to stop the train
But before he had got far enough M
l. @l,,,1 tho Ii s,l,t ~
his lantern, and standing in the dark
ness as the train came up he threw the
lantern into the locomotive, crying
"Stopl Stopv' And the warning wa!
, in time to halt the train. And if any
of you by evil habits are fastening OIL
toward brink or precipice Or fallen span
I throw this Gospel lantern at you
mad career: Stopl Stopl The end there
Of it DEATH Young man, you are caget
now by many environments, but yol
I will after awhile get your wings out.
, Some one Gagged Rocky Mountain
! eagle and kept him shut up between
the wires until all the spirit and cour
age had gone out Of it. Released on
/, day from the cage, the eagle seemed t.
, want to return to its former prison. TIL
fact was that the eagle had all gone on
of him. He kept his wings down. Blu
after awhile he looked up at the sun
, turning his head first this side and the
. that side, and then spread one wing an
: then the other wing, and began t
: mount, until the hills were far unde
1 his feet, and he was out Of sight in til
q empyrean. My brother, when you leav
this life, if by the grace Of God you ar
q prepared, you will come out of the Gag
a of this hindering mortality, and lookin
: up to the heavenly heights you vii
! spread wing for immortal flight, leay
: ing sun and moon and stars beneath i
y your ascent to glories that never fad
q and splendors which never die. You
a body is the cage. Your soul is the eagle
q Word the next: Fill yourself wit
biographies of men who did gloriousl
q in the business or occupation or profes
: sion you are about to choose or have a
), ready chosen. Going to be a merchant