Connecticut western news., 1895-05-16

more newspapers that put virtue in what is called great primer type and vice in nonpareil or agatel
 You have all seen the photographer negative He took picture from it ten or 20 years ago. You ask him now for picture from that same negative. He opens the great chest containing the black negatives of 1885 or 1875, and he reproduces the picture. Young men, your memory is made up of the mega tives of an immortal photography. All that you sec 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 debauched scenes you have read about. Show me the newspapers you take and the books you read, and I will tell you what are your prospects for we'll being in this life, and what will be your resi- dence million years after the star on which we now live shall have dropped out of the constellation. never travel on Sunday unless 1t be 0 case of neces- sity or mercy. But last autumn was in India in city plague struck. By the hundreds the people were down with fearful illness. We went to the apothe- cary's to get some preventive of the fe- yer, and the place was crowded with in- valids, and we had no confidence in the preventive we purchased from the Hin- doos. Tho mail train was to start Sab bath evening. I said, Frank, I 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 hundreds of miles away. felt we were right in flying from the plague. We'll, the air in many of our cities is struck through with a worse plague-the plague of corrupt and dam nable literature. Get away from it as soon as possible. It has already ruined the bodies, minds and souls of a multi tude which, if stood in solid column, would reach from New York Battery to Golden Horn. The plaguel The plague l
 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 suddenly out of this world, and the newspapers surprised us when they mentioned the locality and the companionship. To put it on the least important ground, you ought not to go to any such forbidden place, be- cause if you depart this life in such cir cumstances you put officiating ministers in great embarrassment. You know that some of the ministers believe that all who leave this life go straight to heav- en, however they have acted in this world, or whatever they have believed. To get you through from such surround ings is an appalling theological under taking. One of the most arduous and besweating efforts of that kind that I ever knew of was at the obsequies of a man who was found dead in snow bank with his rum jug close beside him. But the minister did the work of happy transference as well as possible, although it did seem little inappropriate when he read: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. They rest from their la bors, and their works do follow them. |" If you have no mercy upon yourself have mercy upon the minister who may be called to officiate after your demise. Die at home, or in some place of honest business, or where the laughter Is clean. or amid companionships pure and elevat- ing. Remember that any place we go to may become our starting point for the next world. When we enter the har- bor 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. .---a---
 Word the next: As soon as you can, by industry and economy, have home of your. own. What do mean by 0 home? mean two rooms and the bless ing of God on both of them; one room for slu1nber, one for food, it's prepara- tion and the partaking thereof Mark you, would like you to have a home with 30 rooms, all upholstered, pie tured and statuetted, but am putting it down at the minimum. "A husband and wife who cannot be happy with home made up of two rooms would not be happy ill heaven if they got there He who wins and keeps the affection of a good practical woman has done glori- ously. What do mean by good woman? mean one who loved God be- fore she loved you What do mean by practical woman? I mean one who can help you to earn a living, for a time comes ill almost every mans life when he is flung of hard misfortune,
 nd uO1 do ron xtyao1r1ir,p around the house whining and sniffing about how she had it before you mar ried her. The simple reason why thou sands of men never get on in the world
 is because they married nonentities and
 never got over it. The only thing that
 Jobs wife proposed for his boils was 8
 warm poultice of profanity, saying,
 "Curse God and die. ," It adds to ouI
 admiration of John Wesley the manner
 in which he conquered domestic unhap.
 over England until, standing in his pull
 pit in City Road chapel, he complained to the people, saying, 'I have been
 charged with every crime in the cata
 logue 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 k
 complete. When a man marries he
 marries for heaven or hell, and 1t is
 moro so when woman marries. Yor six young men in Fayette, O., had bet | ter look out.
 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, "Comt | down" It is a bad thing when mar | 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 ht
 had not enough capital Is among hi | type. Remember that the world got 1 along without you near 5000 years be