The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23

Ing l felt like Fastening home, so as
tosbe there when the millennium set
in. Take a good stout run every day.
/ ind in that habit, which l have
kept up since at eighteen years read
the aforesaid Todd's Manuel, more re-
criperation than in anything else.
THOSE six men of Ohio will need all
possible nerve, and all possible eye
sight, and all possible muscular de-
veDpment before they get through the
terrific struggle of this life.
Word the next: Take care or your
intellect. Here comes the HOOD OF
noyelettes. 90 out of 100 belittllng to
every one that opens them. Here
comes depraved newspapers, submerg-
ing good and elevated Journalism.
Here GENES whole perdition OF PRINT
ed abomination, dumped Oh the break
fast table, and tea table, and parlor
table. Take ut least one good news
paper with able editorial and reporte-
Isl columns mostly occupied with help
full intelligence, announcing marriages
and deaths and reform atory ana re-
ligiOus asscmblages, and charities De-
slowed, and the doings of good people,
and giving but little place to nasty
divorce cases, and stories OF crime
which, like cobras, sting those thae
touch them. Oh, for more newspapers
that put virtue in what is called prll2-
Ell type and vice in noDpariel or agate!
You have all seen tile photographers
negative. He took a picture from 1t
ten or twenty years ago. You ask
Linn now for picture from that same
negative. He opens the great chest
continuing the black negative Of 1880,
or 1873, M:ld he reprCduces the picture.
Young men, your memory is made up
Of the negatives of en- immortal pi:::::-
tography. All that you see or hear
goes into your soul to make pictures
for the future You will have with
YOU till the Judgment day the mega
tiyes of all the bad pictures you have
ever looked at, and of all the de-
bauched scenes you have read about
Show me the newspapers YOU take and
tile books you read, and l will tell you
what are your prospects for Well-beinS
in this life, and what will be your resi-
dence 100000 years atte" the star on
which we now live shall have dropped
out Of the constellation. l never travel
on Sunday unless it be case Of ne
cessity OF mercy. But last autumn l
was in India, in Il city plague struck.
BY the. hundreds the people were
down with the fearful illness. We
went to the apotbeca1y's to get some
was crowded with inyalids, and we
had no confidence in the preventive
we purchased from the HindOos. The
mail train was to start Sabbath even
ing. I said, Frank, l think the Lord
will excuse 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. The plague Of corrupt and
damnable literature! Get away from
it as soon as possible! 1t has already
ruined the bodies, minds and souls of
a multitude which, if stood in solid
column, would reach from New York
Battery to Golden Horn! The plague!
The plague!
Word the next: Never 90 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 surround
ings. How many startling, cases with
in the past few years of men called
suddenly out of this world, and the
newspapers surprised us when they
mentioned the locality and companion
ship. To put it on the least important
ground, you ought not to 20 to any
such forbidden place, because il you
depart this life in such circumstances
you put officiating ministers in great
embarrassment. You know that some
OF the ministers believe that all who
leave this life go straight to heaven,
however they have acted in this world
or whatever they Rave believed 10
get you through from such surround
ings is an appalling theological under
taking. One of the most arduous and
besweating efforts of that kind that I
ever knew of was at the obseuuies of
man who was found dead in q snow
bank with his rum jug close beside
him. But the minister did the work
OF the happy transference as we'll as
possible, although it did seem a little
inappropriate when lie read, BLESSED
are the dead who die in the Lord: they
rest from their labors and their works
10 follow Them If you have no
mercy upon yourself, have mercy
upon the, minister WHO may be called
to o1hciate after your demise. Die at
home, or in some Place of honest
business, or where the laughter is
clean, or amid comprehensive pure
and elevating. Remember that any
place we may go to may become our
startlng-point for the next world.
When we enter the harbor of heaven
and the Officer Of Light comes aboard
let us be able to show that our clear,
ing papers were dated at the RIGHT
port.
WORD the next: AS soon as YOU can
by industry and economy, have a home
OF your own. What do I mean bv q
home? mean two rooms and the bless
ing of God on both of them: one room
for slumber, one for food, it's prepare
ton and the partaking thereof. Mark
you, would like you to have a home
with thirty rooms, all upholstered.
pictured and statuetted, but am put
ting 1t down at the minimum. A hus-
band and wife who can nss be happy
with a home made up of two. rooms