Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-11-30

stand back from that threshold. Conse-
crate some spot in that room with the
knee of prayer. BY the memory of 9TH
er days, a fathers counsel, mothers
love and a sisters confidence, call it
home.
Rotten Beam In the Palace.
Another safeguard for these young
men is industrious habits. There are
great many people trying to make their
way through the world with their wits
instead of by honest toll. There is a
young man who comes from the country
to the city He fails twice before he is
as old as his father was when he first
saw the spires of the great town. He is
seated in his room at rent of So, 900 a
year, waiting for the banks to declare
their dividends and the stocks to run
up. After awhile he gets impatient. He
tries to improve his penmanship by
making copy plates of other merchants
signatures. Never mind-all is right in
business. After awhile he has his es-
tate. Now is the time for him to retire
to the country, amid the fiocks and the
herds, to culture the domestic virtues.
Now the young men who were his
sehoolmates in boyhood will come, and
with their OK teams draw him logs, and
with their hard hands will help to
heave up the castle. That is no fancy
sketch; it is everyday life. / should
not wonder If there were rotten beam
in that palace. should not wonder if
God should smite him with dire sick
nesses and pour into his cup a bitter
draft that will thrill him with I'M
bearable agony Ishould not wonder if
that man S children grew up TO be to
him disgrace and to make his life a
shame should not wonder if that man
died a dishonorable death and were
tumbled into dishonorable grave and
then went into the gnashing of teeth.
The way Of the ungodly shall perish.
0 young man, you must have in
dustry of head on hand or foot, or perish
Do not have the idea that you can get
along in the world by genius. The curse
Of this country today is geniuses-men
with large self conceit and nothing
else. The man who proposes to make
his living by his wits probably has not
any Ishould rather be an OK, plain and
plodding and useful, than to be an
eagle, high flying and good for nothing
but TO pick out the eyes of carcasses.
Even i'll the garden of Eden it was not
safe for Adam to be idle, so God made
him hortieulturist, and if the mar
ried pair had kept busy dressing the
vines they would not have been saun-
tering under the trees, laundering after
fruit that ruined them and their pos
terityl Proof positive of the fact that
when people do not attend to their bust
ness they get into mischief. go to the
ant, thou sluggard consider her ways
and be wise, which, having no overseer
or guide, provideth her food in the
summer and gathereth her meat in the
harvest. f" 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 adj and saw
and pickax and yardstick and the weapon
Of honest toll. Work, work, or die
Aim High.
Another safeguard that Iwant to pre-
sent to ,yorLng men is high ideal Of
life. Sometimes soldiers going into bat
tic 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 con-
fiict with his men, will cry out, "Now,
men, aim highl" The fact is that in
life great many men take no aim at
all. The artist plans out his entire
thought before be puts it upon canvas,
before he takes up the crayon or the
chisel. An architect thinks out the en-
tire building before the workmen begin.
Although everything may seem to be
unoIganized, that architect has in his
mind every Corinthian column, every
Gothic arch, every Byzantine capital
A poet thinks out the entire plot Of his
poem before he begins to chime the
cantos of tinkling rhythms And yet
there are great many men who start
the important structure Of life without
knowing whether it is going to be a
rude Tartars hut or st. Marks ca
thedral, and begin to write out the in
tricate poem Of their life without know
ing whether it is to be Homer's
odyssey" or rhymester botch Out
Of 200, 999 have no life plot Booted
and spurred and caparisoned, they has
ten along, and run out and say: "Hel-
10. man! Whittier away" Nowhere p
they say. Oh, young man, make every
days duty filling up Of the great life
plot. Alas, that there should be On this
sea of life SO many ships that seem
bound for 10 port They are swept ev-
cry whittier by wind and wave, up by
the mountains aud down by the valleys.
They sail with no chart. They gaze on
no star. They long for no harbor Oh,
young man, have high ideal and press
to it, and it will be mighty safeguard.
There never were grander opportunities
opening before Young men than are
opening now. Young men Of the strong
arm and of the stout heart and of the
bounding step, | marshal you today for
a great achievement
Another safeguard is respect for the
Sabbath. Tell me how a young man
spends his Sabbath, and will tell you
what are his prospects in business, and
will tell you what are his prospects
for the eternal world. God has thrust
into our busy life sacred day when we
are to look after our souls. Is it exorbi-
tant, after giving six days to the feed
ing and clothing of these perishable
bodies, that God should demand one day
for the feeding and clothing of the i'm
mortal soul?
Keep the Lords Day.
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 physical
and mental health. Ask those aged men.
and they will tell you they never knew
men who continuously broke the Sab
bath who did not fail in mind, body or
moral principle. A manufacturer gave
this as his experience. He said; Il
owned factory ON the Lehigh. Every
thing prospered. kept The Sabbath, and
everything went on well. But enc Sab
bath morning / bethought myself of a
new shuttle, and / thought / would in
vent that shuttle before sunset, and l
refused all food and drink until had
completed that shuttle. By shutdown /
had completed it. The next day, Mon
day. showed to my workmen and
friends this new shuttle. They all con-
graduated me Oh my great success. I
put that shuttle into play. l enlarged
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