Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-11-23

who feels she has such n mission Win one
who lives round uf vanitics cardcase In
hand, calling on people for whom she does
not ear, except for some social advantage,
and insuffcrably bored when the call is re-
turned. and trying to look young after sho
Is old, and living u life OF inSinccrity and
hollowTcss and decentralization and sham.
Young woman live Ia make Others happy
and you will bc happy! Live for yourself
and you will be miserable! There never
has been an exception to the rule; there
never will bc an exception.
have noticed on many Of the railroads
that the porter will go around and light
the lamps while II Is broad daylight, and
am At frs, surprised, hut aftcrward
find that we arc about 10 enter u tunnel,
and It's darkness is thus illuminated Oh,
kindlc light Tor those who are plunging
into financial or domestic or spiritual mid
night.
Plan Out Your Life
Advice the fifth: Plan ont your life
on n big scale, whether you are u farmers
daughter, or u shcphcrdcss among the hills,
or the battered pet Of n drawing room fill
ed with statuary and pictures and bric-a-
brac. stop where you are and make u
plan for your lifetime. You cannot be
satisfied with life Of frivolty and gigglc
and indlrection. Trust the world. and 1t
will cheat you II 1t does not destroy you.
The Redoubtable was the name of an en-
emy's snip that Lord Nelson spared twice
from demolition. but that same ship after
ward sent the ball that killed him, and
the world on which you smile may aim ut
you its deadllest weapon.
BE Gods woman This moment mako
81. al a
dent OF England lie had neglected his
studies, rioting at night with diss!patcd
companions and sleeping in the classroom
when he ought 10 have been listening. y
fellow student came into his room one
morning before the young man l am
speaking Of had arisen from his pillow and
said TO him: 'Palcy, you are n fool. You
arr wasting your opportunities. Do not
throw away your life. Paley said: II
was SO struck with what he said that lay
In bed until had formed my plan for life
! ordered my fire to be always laid over
night. arose at and read steadily all
day-allottcG To each portion OF the day Its
proper branch Of study and became the
senior wrangler'' What an hour that
was, whom a resolution definitely placed
changed young man from a reckless and
time wasting student to q consecrated man
who stopped not until all time and all
eternity shall be debtor TO his pen and In
| nuence
The New and the True.
Young woman. draw out and decide what
you will be and do, God helping. Write
1t out iu plain hand, not like tho letters
which Josephine received from Napoleon
In Italy, in writing so scrawling and seat
tered that 1t was sometimes taken rs map
OF the scat OF war. Put the plan on the
wall Of your room or write IL In the
opening Of blank book or put 1t where
you will be compelled often to sec 1t. A
thousand questions OF your coming life
you cannot settle now, but thore Is one
question you can settle Independent OF
man, woman. angel and devil, and that is
that you will be Gods woman now,
honceforth and forever. Clasp hands with
the Almighty. Pythagoras represented
life by the letter Y, because IL early divides
into two ways. Look out for opportunities
Of cheering, inspiring, rcscuing and saw
ing all the people you gan. Make n league
with the ctcrnities seek your present
and everlasting safety.
David Brewster said that a comet be.
longing to our system, called Loxell's
comet, Is lost, rs II ought TO have appeared
10 times and has not appeared at all. Alas,
II is not only the lost comets, but the los,
stars, and what were considered fixed
stars. Some OF the most brilliant and
steady souls have disappeared. The world
wonders NJ TIE charge Of the Light bri.
gadc, immor;alized by TNnnyson. Only
few OF he coo got hack from the charge,
under Lord Cardigan. Of the MuscovitC
guns, and all ikc havoc was done in -
minutes. tho charge beginning at ten
minutes past / o'clock and closing at 81
minutes past l. and yet nothing left on
the field but dying and dead men, dying
| and dead horses But n smaller proper.
ton Of the men and women who go into
| the battle of life come out unwounded
| The slaughter has been and will be terrific,
and we all need God and we need him
now, and we need him all the time And
let me say there Is new woman. rs there
Is new man, and that is the rcgeneratcd
woman made such by the ransacking,
transforming upbuilding, triumphant
power of the Spirit who Is so superior &c
all other spirits that no has been called
for ages the Holy Spirit. Quicker than
wheel ever turned on its axis; quicker
than flcctcst hoof ever struck the pave
mont; quicker than zigzig lightning ever
dropped down the sky, the ransominl
power speak of will rcvolutionizc your
entire nature Then you can start out on
o voyage of life. dcfying both calm and cy
clone, saying, with Dean Afford:
One who has known in storms TO sail
| have on board:
Above the roaring OF the gale
| hear my Lord.
| He holds me when the pillows smile;
| ! shall not fall:
II short It's sharp. II long it's light:
He tcInpcrs all.