Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-12-06

L 9llQCarU. CO0SlObE HcT ways odN 10 VS.
| which. having no overseer or guide, provid-
|, eth her food in the summer and gathereth
| her meat in toe harvest" Satan Is roaring
| lion. and you can never destroy him by gun
| or pistol or sword. The weapons With which
| yo;l are to beat him back are pen and type
| and hammer aud adj aud saw and picKaA
| and vardstick aud the weapon OF honest toll.
| WORK. work. or die.
| Another safeguard that l want to present
| to Young men is high ideal OF life. Som@'
| times soldiers going into battle shoot into
| the ground instead Of into the hearts OF tneif
| enemies. They are apt to take aim too low.
| and it is very often that the captain. goin'
into conflict with his me1. will cry our,
| "Sov. men, aim highr' The fact is that IN
| life a great many men take no aim at AL.
| The artist plans out his entire thought before
| he puts it uoo1 canvas, before he taxes up
| the crayon OF TIE chisel. An architect thinks
| out the entire building before the workmen
begin. Although everything may seem to be
| uuorganize], 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 cantos OF ttnkling rhythms
| And vet there ara great many men who
start the important structure of life without
| knowing whether it is going to be
rude Tartar's hut or st. Marks ca
| thedraI and beyiu to write out the in
| trlcate poem OF their life without know
| ing whether it is to be a Honer's 30 1yssey'
| or a rhymsster's botch. Out OF 1000, 999
have no life plot. Booted and spurre1 and
ca,arlsoned. they hasten alon2, AMI run
out AMI sav: "H9,lo. man! Whittier away2"
"Noyhers" they say. Oh. yoang mao.
make every days duty a filling mp OF the
great life plot. Alas that there should bs
on this sea OF life 50 many ships that seam
bound for no por,! They ara sw9pt ey1rv
whittier by wind and wave. up by the
mountains an down by the valleys. They
sail with no chart They gazs on no star
They long for ~ har5or. o.. young man,
have a high ideal and prsss to 1t, AMI 1t will
| he a mighty safeyuarJ. Thers never were
| prander opportunities opening bsiore young
man than are opening now. Young men OF
the strong arm and of the stout heart and OF
the bounding step, I marshal you to-day Tor
a great achievement
Another safeguard IL a respect for the
Habbash. Tell me how young ln1n spen1s
his Sabbath. an / | will tell you what are his
prospects in business. AMI l will tell you
what are his prospects, for the eternal wori1..
God has thrust int our busy life sacre
dav when we are to look after our souls. Is
II ex0roitans, aftsr giving six days to the
feeding and coihng OF these perlshaole
bodies. that Cod should denim ons day
for the feeding an clothing OF the immortal
soul?
Our c1dies ara seven day clocks, and they
need 10 be wound up. and IL they arc moi
wound up they ruu down into ths grave. NO
man can continuously break tia Sabbath
md keep his physical and mental health.
Ask those aged men, aud they will tell you
they never knew men who continuously
broke the SlO1tth who did not fail In mind,
body or morIl principle. A manufacturing
gave this as his experience. He said: II
owned factory on the Lehig5. Everything
prospered. 1 kept the Sabbath. AMI every
thing went on we'll. But one Sabbath morn
ing l bethought myself OF ney SHUTTLE, aud
thought I would invent that shuttle before
sunset. and l refused all food and drink I'M
til hal completed that shuttle. BY sun
down hal completed l.. The next day
Monday. l showed to my workmsn and
friends this new shuttle. They all congratu-
lated ma on my great success. L put that
shuttle into play. / enlarged my business;
ou., sir. that Sun lays work cost
me $30.OO1. From that day every
thing went wrong. failei in
business, AMI I lost my MILL" Oh, my
friends, keep the Lorts dav. You may
think it old fogy a iyir". but give 1t to you
now: "Rsmember the Sabb nth day and keep
|
thy work. butths seventh is the Sabbath oil
the Lord thy CO |; in it thou shalt not do any
WORK" A man said that he would prove
that all this was fal.asy, and 50 he said,
1T shall rass a Sunday crop" An ne
p,owed the field on the Sabbath, an then
he put in the seed on the Sabbath an he
cultured the groun1 on the Sabbath When
the harvest was ripe. h9 reapet 1t on tue
Sabbath. and hs carried it into thu NOW on
the Sabbath, an | then he stool out deha1t
to his Christian neighbors, and said: "Ihere,
that is nv Sun lay crop, AMI it is all gar
mere !" After awhile storm came mp am
great darkness. an l the lightnlngs OF heaven
struck ths barn. AMI away went his Sunday
crop.
The-s 8 anoths- ga 's3ulri that W INT to
nresent. l have sqv3l 1t until thu last b.
cause I want it to bs the mora emphatic.
The great safeguard for ev'ry young man Is
toe Christian religion. Nothing can take
the placs OF il. You may have gracsfulne5s
enopeS 70 put to blush Lord Chssterneld,
YOU may hay9 foreign languages dropping
from your tongue, yoI may discuss laws ana
literature. YOU may hav3 q pen OF une-
oualed polish AMI power y2n may nave so
much business tact that YOU can get the
largest salary in t banking house, yo1 may
be as SHARP as H srol AMI az strong az
Samson. All with as long Iocks as those
watch hung Absalon. and yet you have nc
sa ely against temptation. Some OF you
loo< forward 10 life with great de5poniency-
know it. sea it in your faces from time
TO tim. You say, ''All the occupations AM
PROFESSIONS ara full. AMI there's no chance
for me-" o.. yoaD2 man, cheer up
I will te. Won how you can make you
fortune. Seek first the kingdom o
Col and His rglteousn9ss, AMI AL other
things will be llel. I know yo1 do not
want TO be mnau in this mater. You vii
not 6r:n', the brimm.ny cu1 OF life and ther
pour the dregs Oh Coils alta. ID gener
Gus Saviour vou will not at like that; yol
have no1 the hsari ID at like th1'. ina
not manly. THAI is not no oraOle. That Il
MOI brave. Your great want is new hear
an in the name OF II. Lo-l JESUS Christ
| tell YOU 50 to-say, AMI the blesse spur
presses through tbs so's mites o. this hour
70 out the cup OF life to Yor' thirsty lips
, o.. thrus. it not ba3i. Merry presents it
| bleeding mercy, long suferin rlsrc" De
sose all o:As; friendships, prove recreant u
| all otaer bargains. Out Ges2Ise God3 love
, for your dying sou'-lo not do that. Ther'
| comes a crisis in man he, and the trouble
| is he does not know 1t ls the crisis. got
, letter in which a man says TO me-
IT start out now to preach the gospe! o
| Righteousness an temperance TO ths people
, Do YOU rem amoar me. l am the man VIII
. appeared az the close of the serhlc9 when yo'
were worshping in the chapel after yol
came from Philadelphia. Do you rememDe
, at the close Of the service man coming u
/ to vou all a-trem5.e VITA conviction, az
, crying out for mercy, and telling you ne ma
I | very bal business. and he thougnt II
, | would change it, That was inc turn mn
4 point in my history. | gave up my pa I ou'
Il I ooxT my haarf RI God and tine CT