Milford chronicle., 1895-11-29

impatient. llH .lflc5 TO improve his pen
manship by making copy plates Of other
merchants signaiuresi Never mind-all
is right ia business. After awhile no has
his estate. Now is the time for him to re-
sire to the country, amid the flocks and
the herds, TO culture the domestic virtues.
Now the young mon 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
up the castle. That is no fancy sketch. 1t
is everyday life / should not wonder if
there were "a rotten beam in that palace.
I shonld MOI wonder If God should smite
him with dire sicknessos and pour into his
cup bitter draft that viii thrill him with
unboarablo agony. l should not wonder
II that mans children grew up TO be to
him a disgrace, and 10 make his life
shame. / should not wonder II that mar
died a dishonorablo death and were tum
bled into n dishonurahle grave, and thcn
went into the gnashing of teeth. The way
Of the ungodly shall perish.
Oh, young man, you must have indus
try 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 goniuses-lnen with large
self conceit and nothing else. The man
who proposes to make his living by his
wits probably has not any. l should
rather DO 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 tho garden Of
Eden il was not safo for Adam to be idle,
so God made him "a horticulturist, and if
the married pair had kept busy dress
ing the VINES they would not have been
sauntcring under the tree laundering after
fruit that ruined them and their posterityl
Proof positive of the fact that when people
do not attend to their business they get
into mischief eco to the ant, thou slug
gard, Consider her ways and be wise,
which, having no ovorseer or guide, pro-
yiGoth her food in the summer and gather
eth Ter mesa in the harvest" Satan is a |
roaring lion, and you can never destroy
him by gun or pistol or sword. The
weapons with which you arc to beat him
back are pen and type and hammer and
adze and saw and pioEax and yardstiok
and the weapon of honest toll Work. /
work Or die.
A High Ideal.
Another safeguard that want to pre- /
sent TO young men is a high ideal Of life. /
Sometimes soldiers going into battle shoot
into the ground instead of into the hearts
of their onomies. They are apt to take aim
too low, and it is very often that this
captain. going into conflict with his men,
will cry out, Now, men, aim hight" Tie
fact is that in life "a great many men take
no aim at all. The artist plans out his en-
tire thought before lie puts it upon canvas,
before he takes up the orayO or the chisel.
An architect thinks out the entire build
ing before the worllmen begin. Although
may seem to be unorganized,
that architect has in his mind every Cor
inthian column, every Gothic arch, every
entire plot of his poem before he begins to
chime the cantos of tinkling rhythms.
And yet there arc "a great many men who
start the important structure of life with
out knowing whether it is going to be
rude Tartars hut or st. Marks cathe-
1ral and begin to write out the intricate
poem Of their life without knowing wheth-
or it is to be a Homer's Odyssey or
botoh. Out Of 1000, 900 have
no life plot. Booted and spurred and
'aparisoned, they hasten along, and l run
lut aud say: "Hullo, man Whittier
lwayf' "NOwhefel' they say. o young
man, make every days duty filling upof
he great life plot. A las, that there should
Dc on this sea of lie so many ships that
seem bound for no port They are swept
very whittier by wind and wave, up by
he mountains and down by the valleys.
They sail with no chart. They gaze ON no
tar. They long for no harbor. o young
nan, have high ideal and press to it,
md it viii be "a mighty safeguard. There
never We're grander opportunities opening
loforo young men than are opening now.
Young men Of the strong arm, and Of the
tout heart, and Of the bounding step 1
MARSHAL you today for great achievement. ,
Respect For Sunday.
Another safeguard is a respect for the
sabbath. Tell me how young man {
ponds his Sabbath and 1 will tell you I
What arc his prospects in business, and {
will tell you what are his prospects for the
ternul world. God has thrust into our \
iusy life a sacred day when we are to look s
fter our souls. Is it oxorbtant, after ]
living six days to the feeding and cloth '
ng Of these pcrishable bodies, that God
hould demand ono day for the feeding {
nd clothing Of the Immortal soul?
Our bodies are seven day clocks, and
hey need to be wound up, and if they are {
lot wound up they run down into the c
rave. No man can continuously break {
he Sabbath and keep his physical and v
rental health. ASK those aged men, and
hey will tell you thoy mover knew men q
rho continuously broke the sabbath who a
id not fail in mind, BODY or moral prin- i
iplo. A manufacturer gave this as his i
xpericncc He said: L owned a factory 2
n the Lohigh. Everything prospered. 1 il
ept the sabbath, and everything went on j
ell. But one Sabbath morning I be- =
lought myself of "a new shuttle, and l o
bought / would invent that shuttle before G
inset, and l refused all food and drink Il
ntil had completed that shuttle, BY C
Indown 1 had completed it. The next J.
ay Monday, ] showed to my workmen r
nd friends this new shuttle. They all a
ms On my great success. d
ut that shuttle into play. I enlarged my
but, sir, that Sunday S work cost
he $50, 000 From that day everything e
ent wrong. l failed in business, and 1 II
st my mill" Oh, my friends, keep tho Il
ord S day You may think it old fogy
Twice, but l give it to you now; IRE a
ember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. Il
tx DAYS shalt thou labor and do all thy u
ork, but the seventh is the Sabbath Of 81
10 Lord thy God In it thou shalt not do b
ny work. A man said that he would o.
owe that III this was fallacy, and SO he Ii
lid, ~ shall raise a Sunday crop" And II
plowcd he Held on tho Sabbath, and Il
on lie put in the seed on tho Sabbath, il
I'd DC cultured the ground on the Sab ii
lth When the harvest was ripe, he 81
aped it ON the Sabbath. ana he carried it Of
to the NOW ON the Sabbath. and then no al
BOD out defiant to his Christian neigh g,
rs and said, There. that is my Sunday u
op and it is all gaiuered" After awhile u
storm came up, and great darkness,
d the Hshtnings Of heaven struck the u
IN and away went his Sunday crop.
The Growing Virtue.
There is another safeguard that 1 want Il
present. / have saved IL until the last
cause l want it tobe the more emphatic.
&c great safeguard for every young man u
the Christian religion. Nothing can W
So the place Of it. You may have grace Il
lness enough to put to tho blush Lord d.
iesterle!d, you may have foreign lam o.
ages dropping from your tongue, you o.