The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-12-07
and forward on the gate, singing the
songs Of your childhood

adopted home That also is sacred for
ever. There you established the first
family altar. There your children
were born. In that room fla pped the
wing of the death angel. Under that
roof, when your work is done, you ex-
pect to lie down and die. There Is
only one word in all the Language
that can convey your idea OF that
place, and that word Is "home,"
Now, let me say / never knew
man who was faithful to his early and
adopted home who was given over at
the Same time to any gross form OF
wiclkedness. II you find more enjoy
ment in the club room, in the literary
society, in the art salon, than you do
in these unpretending home pleasures,
you are on the road to ruin. Though
you may be cut off from your early
associates, and though you may
be separated from all your kim
dred, young man, is there not
room somewhere that you can
call your own? Though it. be the
fourth story of n third-class boarding
house, into that room gather books,
| pictures and harp. Hang your
mothers picture over the mantle Bid
unholy mirth stand back from that
| threshold Concentrate some spot IN
that room with the knee OF prayer.
By the memory of other days, a
| fathers counsel, a mothers love, and
a sisters confidence, call it home.
Another safeguard for these young
men is industrious habit. There are n
great many people trying to make
| their way through the world with
their wits instead Of by honest toll.
There is IA young man who comes from
the country to the city. He fails twice
before 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 rent of two thousand dollars
year. waiting for the banks to declare
their dividends and the stocks to run
up. After awhile he gets inpatient
lie tries to improve his penmanship by
making copy-plates of other merchants
signatures! Never mind-all is right
in business. After awhile he has his
estate. Now is the time for him to re-
tire to the country, amid the Hooks
and the herds, to culture the domestic
virtues.
Now the young men who VIEW 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. That is
not fancy sketch; it is everyday life.
/ should not wonder if there were a
rotten beam in that palace. shout
not wonder il God should smite him
with dire sickness, and pour into his
cup bitter draught that will thrill
him with unbearable agony. shoulc
not wonder if that mans children
grew up to be to him disgrace, ant
to make his life shame. / shoulo
not wonder if that man died dishon
orable death, and were tumbled into Z
dishonorable grave. and then wen
into the crashing of teeth. The way
j of the ungodly shall perish.
Another safeguard that l want t.
present to young men is high idea
of life Sometimes soldiers going int
battle shoot into the ground instead o
into the hearts of their enemies. They
are apt to take aim too low, and it il
|
fiict with his men, will cry out: Now
men, aim highr' The fact is that il
life great many men take no ain
at all. The artist plans out hi
entire thought before he puts i
upon canvas, before he TAX es u
the crayon or the chisel. An archi
tect thinks out the entire building
before the worlsmen begin. Althoug
everything may seem to be morgan
lied, that architect has in his min
every Corinthian column. every Goth
arch, every byzantine capital. A poe
: thinks out the entire plot of his poei
before he begins to chime the canto
of tinkling rhythms. And yet ther
are great many men who start til
, important structure of life withou
knowing whether it is going to b
q rude Tartar's hut, or st. Mark
cathedral, and begin to write on
the intricate poem of their lif
u without knowing whether it is to be
|. IIomer's Odyssey" or rhymcstcr
n botch. Out of one thousand, min
q hundred and ninety-nine have no lifo
q plot. Booted and spurred and c;
Il bhcy HiphH' hut u
q out and say: "Ilallo, man! Width,
a away?" "Nowhere!" they say. o.
|, young man, make every day
5 duty n filling up Of the great lif
n boat. Alas! that there should be O
d this sea OF life SO many ships that see
bound for 40 port. They are swcl
=, every whittier by wind and wave, II
. by the mountains and down by tn
. valleys. They sail with no char
- They gaze on no star. They long fc
- no harbor. Oh! young man. havo
!. high ideal and press for IL, and it wi
!, be mighty safeguard There nevo
4 were grander opportunities opcnin
before young men than are opcnin
, now. Young men OF the strong arm
: and of the stout heart, and OF IL
- bounding step, marshal you tod,
40 for IL great achievement.
ID Another safeguard is respect I
d the Sabbath. Tell me how your
il man spends his Sabbath, and will e
" you what are his prospects in busine,
a and i will tell you what are his pr,
of poets for the eternal world. God h
n. thrust into our busy life n sacred d
nj when we are to look after our sou