The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-11-27
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story of a third-class boarding house,
into that room gather books, pictures,
and harp. Hang your mothers por.
trait over the mantel Bid unholy
'mirth stand back from that thresh-
hold Consecrate some spot in that !
room with the knee in prayer By the !
memory of other days, fathers coun.
sci, mothers love, and sisters con-
.fidence, call it home.
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 a young man who comes from the
country to the city. He fails twice be-
fore 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 a
rent of two thousand dollars 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 mer-
chants signatures! Never mind-all
is right in business. After awhile he
has his estate. Now is the time for
him to retire to the country, amid the
foclIs and the herds, to cultivate the
domestic virtues.
Now the young men who were his
schoolmates in boyhood will come, and
with their OK teams draw him logs,
and with their hard hands will help to
heave up the castle. This is no fancy
sketch; it is everyday life. l should
not wonder if there were rotten beam
in that palace / should not wonder II
! God should smite him with dire sick
nesses, and pour into his cup q bitter
draught that will thrill him with un-
bearable agony. / should not wonder
if that mans 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 a dishonorable
grave, and then went into the gnash-
ing of teeth. The way of the ungodly
shall perish.
Oh! young man, you must have in
dustry of head, or 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 to-day is
geniuses-men with large self-conceit
and nothing else. The man who pro-
poses to make his living by his wits
probably has not any. l should rather
be an OK, plain and plodding and use
full, than to be an eagle, high-fying
and good for nothing but to pick out
the eyes of carcasses. Even in the
Garden of Eden it was not safe 70.
Adam to be idle, SO God made him q
horticulturist; and il the married rai,
had kept busy dressing the vines, they
: would not have been sauntering. under
the trees, hankering after fruit that
: ruined them andtheir posterity! Proc
: positive of the fact that when people
do not attend to their business they
: get into mischief. $50 to the ant
thou sluggard; consider her ways ant
' be wise; which, having no overseer ol
guide, proyideth her food in the sum
mer and gathereth her meat in the
harvest" Satan is roaring lion, ant
l you can never destroy him by gun O
g pistol or sword. The weapons will
: which you are to beat him back ar,
I pen, and type and hammer and adze
: and saw, and piclsax, and yardstick
and the weapon of honest toll. Work
U work, or die.
y Another safeguard that l want t.
= present to young men is high idea
< of life. Sometimes soldiers going int
G battle shoot into the ground instead O
h into the hearts of their enemies. The
o are apt to take aim too low, and it i
!, very often that the captain, going int
i conflict with his men, will cry out
o 'Now, men, aim hight" The fact
: that in life great many men take n
aim at all. The artist plans out hi
# entire thought before he puts it upo
# canvas, before he takes up the crayo
). or the chisel. An architect thinks ou
# the entire building before the worllme
d begin. Although everything may seer
y to be unorganized, that architect ha
= in his mind every Corinthian column
d every Gothic arch, every Byzantin
e capital. A poet thinks out the entir
IS plot Of his poem before he begins t
It chime the cantos of tinkling rhythm'
e And yet there are grea
d many men who start the impol
q tant structure of life withou
i knowing whether it is going to b
y a rude Tartar's hut, or st. Mark
y Cathedral, and begin to write out th
W intricate poem of their life withou
e knowing whether it is be Homer
d odyssey" or a rhymesters botch. Ou
6 of one thousand, nine hundred an
l. ninety-nine have no life plot. Boote
it and spurred and caparisoned, they hal
IL ten along, and 1 run out and say
'e Halo, man! Whittier away?" ''NC
y where!' they say. Oh! young maj
g make every days duty filling up {
70 the great life plot. Alas that ther
n should be on this sea of life so man
E ships that seem bound for no por
'e They are swept every whittier by win
'r and wave, up by the mountains an
% down by the valleys. They sail with n
N chart They gaze on no star The
e long for no harbor. Oh, young mar
% have high ideal and press to it, an
* it will be mighty safeguard. Thei
't never were grander opportunities opel
e, ing before young men than are opel
q ing now. Young men of the strou
70 arm, and OF the stout heart, and of I'll
If bounding step, marshal you to-da
ID for great achievement
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