Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-05-29


not feeling quite comfortable till we were
hundreds OF miles away. 1 felt we were right
In flying from the plague. Well, the air in
, many Of our cities Is struck through with q
damnable literature. Get away from It as
.oon as possible. 1t has already ruined the
bodies. minds and souls Of a multitude
which, II stood in solid column, would
reach from New York Battery to Colder
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
ty and the cotnpanionship. To put it on the
least important ground. you ought not to go
10 any such forbidden place, because II yo1
| depart this life in such circumstances yoyl
put officiating ministers in great embarrass-
| ment. You know that some OF the ministers
belieYa that all who leave this life RD
| straight to heaven. however they have act
| I'd in this world, or whatever they hav3
| believed. To get you through from such
surroundings is an important theological un.
| dertaking. One of the most arduouS and
| besweating efforts of that kind that ]
! ever knew OF was at the obsequies OF man
| who was found dead in snowbank with his
| rum jug close beside him. But the minister
did the work Of happy transference as we'll
| as possible. althoughit did seem little inap-
! propriate when he read: "Blessed are the
| dead who die in the Lord. They rest from
| their lahors, and their works do follow
| Them" If You have no mercy upon yourself
| have mercy upon the minister who may be
| rallied to officiate after your demise. Die az
| home, or in some .lace of honest business,
| pr where the laughter is clean. or amid COM
Partnerships pure and elevating. Remember
that any place we go to may become our
| starting point for the next world. When We
enter the harbor OF heaven, and the officer
ofIight comes aboard, let us be able to show
that our clearing papers were dated at the
| light port.
| Word the next: As soon as you can. by in.
ustry and economy, have a home Of your
| own. What do mean by a home? 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 lik3 you to have home
with thirty rooms, all upholstered, pictured
and statuetted, but am putting 1t down at
the minimum. A husband and wife who cam
| not be happy with a home made up OF two
| got there. He who wins and keeps the affec-
tion Of good practical woman has done
gloriously. What do I mean by a good
woman? I mean one who loved God before
she loved you. What do mean by practi-
cal woman? Imean one who can help you
I
every mans life when he is flung OF hard mis-
fortune, and you do not want weakling go
| Ing around the house whining and smiling
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 overit. The only thing that Jobs
| wife proposed for his boils was warm poul-
tice Of profanity, saying. "Curse God and
die. 1t 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 is complete" When a
man marries he marries 70: heaven or hell,
and It Is more so when woman marries.
You six young men IN Fayette, Ohio, had
better look out.
Word the next: Do not rate yourself too
nigh. Better rate yourself too low. II you
rate yourself too low the world will say,
"Come up" If you rate yourself too high
the world will say, "Come down. 1t Is a
bad thing when man 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 he
had not enough capital Is among his type.
Remember that the world got along without
you near 5000 years beisre you were born,
and unless some meteor collides with US, or
some internal explosion occurs, the world
will probably last several thousand year.
rfter you are dead.
Word the next: Do not POSTPONE tos long
doing something decided for God, humanity
and yourself. The greatest things have been
done before forty years of age. Pascal at
sixteen years of age, Grotlus at seventeen,
Romulus at twenty, Pitt at twenty-five,
Whitefield at twenty. four, Bonaparte at
twenty-seven. 1gnatius Loyola at thirty,
Raphael at thirty-Jeyen, had made the world
feel their virtue or their vice, and the big
gest strokes you will probably make for the
, truth or against the truth will be before you
reach the meridian of life. Do not wait FOL
something to turn up. Go to work and turn
1t up. There Is no such thing as good luck
. No man that ever lived has had better time
than have had, yet never had any good
luck. But instead thereof, a kind Providence
has crowded my life with mercies. You will
| never accomplish much as long as you go a,
your work on the minute you are expected
and stop at the first minute it Is lawful to
quit. The greatly useful and successful men
! Of the next century will be those who began
half an hour before they were required and
worked at least half an hour after they might
have quit. Unless you are willing sometimes
to work twelve hours OF the day you will re.
. prolonged humdrum.
Word the next, Remember that it Is only
. ! small part Of our life that We are to pass OF
earth. Less than your finger nail compared
with your whole body is the life on earth
when compared with tho next Hfe 1 sup
! pose there are not more than half dozen
. people In this world 100 years old. But a
very few people in any country reach eighty.
The ma jority of the human race expire be-
/ fore thirty. Now, what an equipoise In such
, consideration. II things go wrong it Is
, sniy Tor little while. Have you not enoug
moral pluck to stand the jostling, and tn
lnjustices, and the mishaps Of the small par
; anthesis between the two eternities2 1t Is
! good thing to get ready for the one mile thi
! tide tho marble slab, but more important t
a stretch out into the distances beyon
I the marble slab. A few years ago on thu
Nashville aud New Orleans railroad W
wero walked up early in the morning
. and told we must take carriages 10
, some distance. "Why9" We all asked
! that, while the first four or fiv
= spans of the bridge were up. farther o
there was a span that had fallen, and W
could not but shudder at what might hav
i been the possibilities. When your rail trai
: starts on a long bridge you want to be sur
: that the first span Of the bridge is all righ
4 but what II farther on there Is span of tn
|. bridge that is all wrong; how then? wha
I then? In one of the Western cities tn
, freshets had carried away a bridge, and
. man knew that the express train would 500
i come along. So he lighted lantern an
( started up the track to stop the train. Br
q before he had got far enough up the trac
the wind blew out tine light Of his Lantern
and standing in the darkness as the trai
:, came up he threw the lantern into the loc'
q motive, crying, "Stop! Stop!" And IL
a warning was in time to halt the train. AL
= II any Of you by evil habits are fastening c
= toward brink or precipice or fallen span.
q throw this Gospel lantern at your ms
II sareer: stopI Stop! Tho end thereof
O leathi Young man, you are Gagged now /
e many environments, but you will aft
. while get your wings ont.
d Some one Gagged Rocky Mountain eag
70 md kept him shut up between the wir
q lntil all the spirit and courage had goi
u but Of 1t. Released one day from the Gag