The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-05-24

| WHlcn nave kept up since at elghteeT
years / read the aforesaid Todd:
Manual" more recuperation than in
anything else. Those six men of Ohio
will need all possible nerve, and al
possible eyesight, and all possible mus,
cular development before they get
through the terrific struggle of this
| life.
Word the next: Take care of your
intellect. Here comes the flood of nov
elites, ninety-nine out of hundred
belittling to everyone that opens
them. Here comes a depraved news
paper, submerging good and elevated
American journalism. Here comes a
whole perdition of printed abomina-
tion, dumped on the breakfast table,
and tea table, and parlor table. Take
at least one good newspaper. with able
editorial and reporters columns most
ly occupied with helpful intelligence,
announcing marriages and deaths and
reformatory and religious assem-
blages, and charities bestowed, and the
doings OF good people, and giving
but little place to nasty divorce cases,
and stories of crime, which, like CO.
III u.s. suing bI1OSC Iudb bOuCA JIlC1As OAg
for more newspapers that put virtue
in what is called great primer type and
vice in nonpereil or agatel You have
all seen the photographers negative.
He took a picture from it ten or twenty
years ago. You ask him now for a
picture from that same negative. He
opens the great chest containing the
black negative of 1885, or 1875, and he
reproduces the picture. Young men,
your memory is made up of the
negatives of an immortal photo
graphy. All that you see or
hear goes into your soul to make
pictures for the future. You will have
with you till the Judgment day the
negatives of all the bad pictures you
have ever looked at, and of all the de-
bauched scenes you have read about.
Show me the newspapers you take and
the books you read, and l will tell yo1
what are your prospects for well-beinE
in this life, and what will be your
residence one million years after the
star on which we now live shall have
dropped out of the constellation. l
never travel on Sunday unless it be
case of necessity or mercy. But
last autumn / was in India in
a city plague-struck BY the hun
dreds the people were down with
fearful illness. We went to the
apothecary's to get some preventive of
the fever, and the place was crowded
with invalids, and he had no conf
dence in the preventive we purchased
from the Hindoos. The mail train was
to start Sabbath evening. said:
Frank, think the Lord will excuse
us if we get out of this place with the
first train" and we took it, not feeling
quite comfortable till we were hun
dreds of miles away. / felt we were
right in flying from the plague-the
plague of corrupt and damnabIe litera-
ture. Get away from it as soon as pos
sible. It has already ruined the bodies,
minds and souls of multitude which,
if stood in solid column, would reach
from New York Battery to Golden
horn. The plague! The plagued
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 compromising surround
ings. How many startling cases with
in the past few years of men called
suddenly out of this world, and the
surprised us when they
mentioned the locality and companion
ship. To put it on the least important
ground, you ought not to go to any such
place, because if you depart
this life in such circumstances, you put
ministers in great embarrass-
ment. You know that some of the
ministers believe that all who leave
this life go straight to Heaven, how
ever they have acted in this world, or
whatever they have believed. To get
you through from such surroundings
is an appalling theological undertake
ing. One of the most arduous and be-
sweating efforts of that kind that
ever knew of was at the obsequies of a
man who was found dead in a snow
bank with his rum jug close beside
of the happy transference rs
well as possible, though it did
seem a little inappropriate when he
read: blessed are the dead who die |
in the Lord. They rest from their
labors, and their works do follow |
them" If you have no mercy upon
youself, have mercy upon the minister |
who may be called to oficiate after |
your demise. Die at home, or in some |
place of honest business, or where the |
laughter is clean, or amid companion
ships pure and elevating. Remember |
that any place we may go to may be-
come 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 to show that our
clearing papers were dated at the right
port.
Word the next: Do not rate your
self too high. Better rate yourself too
low. If you rate yourself too low, the I
world will say: "Come up" If you
rate yourself too high, the world will
say: "Come down" It is bad thing
when a man gets SO exaggerated an
idea of himself Gas did earl of Buchan. |
whose speech Ballantyne. the .Edine
burg printer, could not set up for pub
lication because he had not enough |
capital rs among his type. Remember
that the world got along without you
uCdT Ola 1AOhodAA JOdAo DGAOIC you
were born, and unless some meteor
collides with us, or some internal ex-
plosion occurs, the world will probably
last several thousand years after you
are dead.
Word the next: Fill yourself with |
of men who did gloriously |
IN the business, or occupation, or pro- |
you are about to choose. or
have already chosen. Going to be a |
Read up Peter Cooper, and |