Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-05-17

] luuht pictures Auf Nut AutuHt- LhA WI
have with you till the judgment day tn
negatives Of all the bad pictures you havl
ever looked at and Of all the debauche,
scenes you have read about. Show me tn
newspapers you take and the books yoI
read, and will tell you what are YOU
/ prospects for well being in this life, anC
what will be your residence /, 600, 600 year
after the star on which we now live shall
have dropped out Of tho constellation.
never travel on Sunday unless it be n cas'
Of necessity or mercy. But last autumn
was in India in city plague struck. BY
tho hundreds the people were down will
fearful illness. We went to the apothe
cary's to get some preventive Of the fever
and the place was crowded with invalids,
and we had no confidence in the prevent.
i've We purchased from the Hindoos The
mail train was to start Sabbath evening.
/ said Frank, think the Lord will ex-
cuse us if we get out Of this place with the
first train, and we took it, not feeling
quite comfortable till we were hundreds
Of miles away. l felt we were right in
flying from the plague. Well, the air in
many Of our cities Is struck through with
a worse plague-the plague of corrupt and
damnable literature Get away from it as
HuNAA tln HNonAult II Has AAAAANA AAAN
bodies, minds and souls of a multitude
reach from New York Battery to Golden
Horn. The plague! The plagued
The Fourth Step.
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 compro-
missing surroundings How many star
thing cases within the past few years Of
men called suddenly out Of this world, and
the newspapers surprised us when they
mentioned the locality and the companion
ship. To put 1t 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 otiiciat-
ing ministers in great embarrassment.
You know that some Of the ministers be-
lieye that all who leave this life 60 straight
to heaven, however they have acted in
this world or whatever they have believed.
To get you through from such surround
ings Is an appalling theological undertake
ing One of the most arduous aud be-
sweating efforts of that kind that ever
knew of was at the Obsequies Of man
who was found dead in a snowbank with
his rum jug close beside him. But the
minister did the work of happy transfer
ence as well as possible, although it did
seem little inappropriate when he read:
50 Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.
They rest from their labors, and their
works do follow them" If you have no
mercy upon yourself, have mercy upon
the minister who may be called to officiate
after your demise. Die at home, or in some
place of honest business, OF where the
laughter is clean, or amid cOmpanionships
pure and elevating. Remember that any
place we go to may become our starting
point for tho 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.
The Fifth Step.
Word tho next: AS soon as you can, by
Industry and economy, have home of
your own. What do 1 mean by a homef
[ mean two rooms and the blessing of God
On both of them-one room for slulnber,
1ne for food, its preparation and the par
-aking thereof. Mark you, / would like
rou to have home with 80 rooms, all up |
lolstered pictured and statuetted, but l |
I'm putting it down at the minimum. A |
husband and wife who cannot be happy |
With a home made up Of two rooms would |
lot be happy in heaven if they got there. !
he who wins and keeps the affection Of /
good practical woman has done gloriously. |
What do 1 mean by good woman? 1 /
mean one who loved God before she loved !
rou. What do mean by practical WON
mp l mean one who can help you to earn
living, for time comes in almost every
mans life when no is flung of hard mis-
and you do not want weakling
,oing around the house whining and sniff
ing about how she had it before you mar
led her. The simple reason why thousands
f men never get on in the world is be-
ause they married nonentities and never
.ot over it. The only thing that jobs
wife proposed for his boils was u warm
oultice of profanity, saying Course God
nd die" 1t adds to our admiration of
ohm Wesley the manner in which he con-
uercd domestic unhappiness. His wife
ad slandered him all over England until,
landing in his pulpit in City Road chapel,
c complained to the people, saying, 81
ave been charged with every crime in
be catalogue except drunkenness, - when
is vito arose in the back part of the
huroh and Said, "John, you know you
'ere drunk last night" Then Wesley ex-
laimed, "Thank God, the catalogue is
1mplete." When a man marries, he mar
les for heaven or hell and it is more so
hen a woman marries. You six young
ion in Fayette, o., had better look out.
The Sixth Step.
Word the next: Do not rate yourself too
Ugh. Better rate yourself too low. If
Oh rate yourself too low, the world will
", "Come up. If you rate yourself too ]
Ugh, the world will say Come down"
; is bad thing when man gets so ex-
ggcrated an idea of himself as did Earl Of .
uchan, whose speech Ballantyne, the Ed .
iburgh printer could not sat ap fOl pun
cation because he had not enough cap
al rs among his type. Remember that
10 world got along without yOu nearly
600 years before You were born, and I'M
IS some meteor collides with us or some
Iternal explosion occurs tho world will
iObably last several thousand years after
N are dead.
The Seventh Step.
Word the next; Do not postpone too
ng doing something decided for God, hui ..
anity and yourself The greatest things
we been done before 40 years Of age. Pas
i at IS years Of age, Grotius at II, Rom
us at 20, Pitt at %, Whiteheld at "a,
at 81, lgnatius Loyola at 30,
aphael at 81, had made the world feel
leir virtue or their vice, and the biggest
rokes you will probably make for the
nth OF agqinst the truth will be- before !
~ reach thu meridian OF life. DO not +.
ait for something to turn up. Go to !
ork and turn it up. There is 10 such
ling as good luck No man that ever
we'd has had a better time thar l have
I'd. Yet never had any good Luck. But
stead thereof a kind Providence has
DIVIDED my life with mercies. y on will
,ver accomplish much as long as you go
your work on the minute you are ex-
cted and stop at the first minute it is g
wful to quit. The greatly useful and I
ccessful men Of the next century will be
ose who began half an hour before they {
ere required and worked at least half an !
,ur after they might have quit. Unless I
u arc willing sometimes to work 1s c
mrs of the day you will remain on the
" levels, and your life will DO q ppoloug-
humhrum,
The Eighth Step.