The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-05-16

people were down with fearful illness. We
went TO the apothecary's to get some pre- |
ventitive OF the fever, and the place was |
crowded with invalids, and we had no confi- |
dence In the preventive we purchased from |
| the Hindoos. The mail train was to start |
Sabbath evening. I said, Frank, I think
the Lord will excuse us II we get out OF this
place with the first train," and we took 1t.
not feeling quite comfortable till we were
hundreds OF miles away. I felt we were right
in flying from the plague. Well, the air In
many OF our cities is struck through with
worse plague the plague OF corrupt and
damnable literature. Get away from II as
soon as possible IL has already ruined the
| bodies, minds and souls OF multitude
which, n stood In solid column, would
reach from New York Battery to Golden
Horn. The plague! The plague!
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
surroundings. How many startling cases
within the past few years OF men called sud-
| denly out OF this world, and the newspapers
surprised us when they mentioned the local.
| ity and the companionship. To put on the
least important ground, you ought not to go
to any such forbidden place, because II you
depart this life in such circumstances you
| put officiating ministers In great embarrass-
| ment. You know that some Of the ministers
believe that all who leave this life 60
straight TO heaven, however they have act
| ed In this world, or whatever they have
believed. To get you through from such
surroundings IL an important theological un-
dertakinr One OF the most arduous and
besweating efforts Of that kind that
ever knew OF was M the obsequies OF n man
| who was found dead I'm "a snowbank with his
rum Jug close beside him. But the minister
did the work of happy transference as well
as possible althoughit did seem little inap-
propriate when he read: blessed are the
dead who die in the Lord. They rest from
their labOrs, and their works do follow
them" II you have no mercy upon yourself
have mercy upon the minister who may be
called TO ofilciate after your demise. Die at
home, or In some ,lace OF honest business,
or where the laughter IL clean. or amid COM
Partnerships pure and elevating. Remember
that any place we go TO maybccome our
starting point for the next world. When we
enter the harbor Of heaven, and the officer
oflight comes aboard let us be able TO show
that our clearing papers were dated at the
| right port.
Word the next: As soon as you can, by in
dustry and economy, have n home of your
own. What do | mean by home? l mean
two rooms and the blessing OF God on both
OF them; one room for slumber, one for food,
its preparation and the partaking thereof.
Mark you. | would like you to have homo
with thirty rooms, all upholstered. pictured
and statuetted. but am putting II down at
not be happy with home made up OF two
rooms would not be happy in heaven II they
got there. He who wins and keeps the affec-
ton Of good practical woman has done
gloriously. What do / mean by good
woman2 / mean one who loved God before
she loved you. What do | mean by practi-
cal woman? | mean one who can help you
TO earn Il living, for Il time comes in almost
every mans life when he n flung Of hard mis-
fortune, and you do not want weakling go-
ing around the house whining and smiling
about how she had IL before you mar
red her. The simple reason why thou
sands OF men never get on in the world
is because they married nonentties and
never got overit. The only thing that Jobs
wife proposed for his boils was warm poul-
tice of profanity. saying. Curse God and
die" II adds to our admiration of John
, Wesley the manner In which he conquered
domestic unhappiness. His wife had SLAM
dered him all over England until standing
in his pulpit in City Road chapel, he COM
} planned TO the people saying 81 have been
: charged with every crime In the catalogue
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 exclaimed, "Thank
God, the catalogue IL complete" When a
, man marries he marries for heaven or he'll.
and 1t Is more so wnen woman marries.
, You six young men In Fayette, Ohio, had
, better look out.
Word the next: Do not rate yourself too
high. Better rate yourself too low. IL you
rate yourself too low the world will say.
"Come up" II you rate yourself too high
the world will say, "Come down. II is n
bad thing when n man gets so exaggerated an
, , idea OF himself as did Earl OF Buchan, whose
, speech Balantyne, the Edinburgh printer
! could not set up for publication because he
i had not enough capital rs among his type.
, Remember that the world got along without
halA 10
/ and unless some meteor collides with us, OF
= some internal explosion occurs, the world
: will probably last several thousand years
after you are dead.
' Word the next: Do not postpone too long
r doing something decided for God. humanity
= and yourself. The greatest things have been
: done before forty years of age. Pascal al
r sixteen years Of age, Grotius at seventeen
: Romulus at twenty, Pitt at twenty-five
/ Whteneld at twenty-four, Bonaparte a,
Y twenty-seven. Ignatius Loyola at thirty
1 Raphael at thirty-seven, had made the world
v feel their virtue or their vice, end the big
g gest strokes you will probably make for tn,
Z truth or against the truth will be before you
h reach the meridian Of life. Do not wait fol
Q something to turn up. Go to work and turn
@ itup. There is no such thing as good luck
4 No man that ever lived has had n better time
: than have had, yet l never had any gooC
= luck. But instead thereof, a kind Providenc,
: has crowded my life with mercies. You will
n never accomplish much as long as you go a
your work on the minute you are expected
/. and stop at the first minute 1t is lawful t.
a quit. The greatly useful and successful mel
) of the next century will be those who begar
!. half an hour before they were required anC
n worked at least half an hour after they nigh
il have quit. Unless you are willing sometimes
d 10 work twelve hours of the day you will re
e main on the low level, and your life will be
d prolonged humdrum.
/. Word the next: Remember that it is only
: a small part of our life that we are 10 pass oI
e earth. Less than your finger nail compared
% with your whole body is the life on eartl
g when compared with the next life. l sup
e pose there are not more than half dozeI
II people in this world 100 years old. But
very few people in any country reach eighty
J. The majority Of the human race expire he
;, fore thirty. Now, what an equipoise In sucl
o a consideration. II things go wrong it !
> only for little while. Have you not enough
"A moral pluck to stand the iostling. and tn