The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-05-25

which have kept up since NJ engineer
years I read tho aforesaid Todd.
manual" more recuperation than IL
anything else. Those six men of .Ohic
will need all possible nerve, and al
possible eycsight, 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-ninc out of hundred
bclittling to everyone that opens
them. Here comes depraved news
paper, submerging good and elevated
American journalism. Here comes a
whole perdition OF printed abomina-
ton, 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.
bras. sting those that touch them. Oh,
for more newspapers that put virtue
in what is called great primer type and
vice in nonpereil or agate! You have
all seen the photographers negative,
lie took picture from 1t ten or twenty
years ago. You ask him now for n
picture from that same negative. lie
opens the great chest containing the
black negative OF 1885, or 1875. and he
rcproduces 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, md of all the de-
bauched scenes you have read about.
Show me the newspapers you take and
the books you read, and will tell you
what are your prospects for wcll-being
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. |
never travel on Sunday unless it be a
case Of necessity or mercy. But
last autumn | was in India in
u city plague-strnck. by the hun
dreds the people were down with
fearful illness. We went to the
apothccarys 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 damnable litera-
turc. Get away from it as soon as pos
sible. 1t has already ruined the bodies,
minds and souls of II multitude which,
if 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 surround
ings. How many startling cases with
in the past few years of men called
suddenly out of this world. and the
newspapers 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
forbidden place, because If you depart
this life in such circumstances. you put
officiating ministers in great EN- barrass-
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 snow
bank with his rum Jug close beside
him. But the minister did the work
of tho happy transfcrence as
well as possible, though it did
seem 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" IL you have no mercy upon
youself. 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 companion
ships pure and clevating. Remember
that any place we may 20 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. II you rate yourself too low. the
world will say: Come up" II 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 Jas did earl of Buchan.
whose speech Ballantync. tho .Edin-
burg printer, could not set up for pub
LEGATION because che had not enough
capital rs among his type. Remember
that the world got along without you
near six thousand years before you
were born, and unless some meteor