Connecticut western news., 1895-11-28

stand back from that threshold.- CQnse- crate some spot in that room with the knee of prayer. By the memory of oth- CT days, fathers counsel, mothers love and sisters confidence, call it home.
 A Rotten Beam In tho Palace.
 Another safeguard for these young men is industrious habits. There are great many people trying to make their way through the world with their wits instead of by honest toil There is 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 $2, ,000 year, waiting for the banks to declare their dividends and the stocks to run up. After awhile he gets impatient. He 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 es- tate. Now is the time for him to retire to the country, amid the flocks and the herds, to culture the domestic virtues.
 Now the young men who were his 'schoolmates in boyhood will come, and with their OK teams draw him logs, and with their hard hands will help to heave mp the castle. That is no fancy sketch; it is everyday life l should not wonder if there were a rotten beam in that palace. should not wonder if God should smite him with dire sick nesses and pour into his cup bitter draft that will thrill him with un- bearable agony. should not wonder if that mans children grew up to be to him a disgrace and to make his life shame. should not wonder if that man died dishonorable death and were tumbled into dishonorable grave and then went into the gnashing of teeth. The way of the ungodly shall perish.
 o young man, you must have in- dustry of head or hand or foot, or perish. Do not have the idea that you can get along in the world by genius. The curse of this country today is geniuses-men with large self conceit and nothing else. The man who proposes to make his living by his wits probably has not any. I should rather be an OK, plain and plodding and useful, than to be an eagle, high flying and good for nothing but to pick out the eyes of carcasses. Even in the garden of Eden it was not safe for Adam to be idle, so God made him a horticulturist, and if the mar ried pair had kept busy dressing the i vines they would not have been saun- tering under the trees, hankering after fruit that ruined them and their pos terity! Proof positive of the fact that when people do not attend to their busi- ness they get into mischief. "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise, which, having no overseer or guide, provideth her food in the summer and gathereth her meat in the harvest. Satan is roaring lion. and you can never destroy him by gun or pistol or sword. The weapons with which you are to beat him back are pen and pickax and yardstick and the weapon of honest toll. Work, work, or die.
 Aim High.
 Another safeguard that want to pre- sent to young men is high ideal of life. Sometimes soldiers going into bat tie shoot into the gronnd instead of into the hearts of their enemies. They are apt to take aim too low, and it is very often that the captain, going into con- fict with his men, will cry out, "Now, men, aim highr' The fact is that in life great many men take no aim at all. The artist plans out his entire thought before he puts it upon canvas, before he takes up the crayon or the chisel. An architect thinks out the en- tire building before the workmen begin. Although everything may seem to be unorganized, that architect has in his mind every Corinthian column, every Gothic arch, every Byzantine capital. A poet thinks out the entire plot of his poem before he begins to chime the csntos of tinkling rhythms. And yet there are great many men who start the important structure of life without i knowing whether it is going to be . rude Tartar's hut or St. Marks ca thedral, and begin to write out the in- tricate poem of their life without know l ing whether it IS to be a Homer's Odyssey" or rhymester's botch. Out of 1000, 999 have no life plot. Booted and spurred and caparisoned, they has ten along, and I run out and say: "Hel- 10. man Whither awayi" Nowhere T" i they say. Oh, young man, make every days duty filling up of the great life plot. Alas, that there should be on this sea of life so many ships that seem bound for no port They are swept ev- xvl: l- i the mountains and down by the valleys. They sail with no chart. They gaze on no star. They long for no harbor. Oh, young man, have high ideal and press to it, and it will be mighty safeguard. There never were grander opportunities opening before young men than are opening now. Young men of the strong arm and of the stout heart and of the bounding step, I marshal you today for & great achievement.
 Another safeguard is respect for the Sabbath Tell me how young man spends his Sabbath, and will tell you what are his prospects in business, and I will tell you what are his prospects for the eternal world. God has thrust into our busy life sacred day when we are to look after our souls. Is it exorbi- tant, after giving six days to the feed ing and clothing of these perishable bodies, that God should demand one day for the feeding and clothing of the inn mortal soul?
 Keep the Lords Day.
 Our bodies are seven day clocks, and they need to be wound up, and if they are not wound up they run down into the grave. No man can continuously break the Sabbath and keep his physical and mental health. Ask those aged men. and they will tell you they never knew men who continuously broke the Sab bath who did not fail in mind. body or moral fnriracir,la A Ar,,arnfanf,,ror