The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-06-11
TRI-WEEKLY EDITION.

tns constellation. 1 never trave
OF Sund, ' unless it be a ease OF necess..
mercy. Nut last autumn was in India i'll /;
city plSsue struck. By the hundreds the
people wr..e down with fearful illness. VIZ
went to tCa apothecary's to get some pre-
yentitive Of tho fever. and the place was
, crowded with invalids. and We had no conf
dence in the preventive we purchased from
the Hindoos. The mail train was to star
Sabbath evening. said, Crank, I thin
the Lord will'excuse us if We get out OF thi:
place with tho first train," and we took it
not feeling quite comfortable till we were
hundreds Of miles away. felt we were RICH
In flying from the plague. Well, the air IL
manyof our cities is struck through with {
worse plague the plague OF corrupt and
damnable literature. Get away from 1t Al
soon as possible. II has already ruined tht
bodies. minds and souls Of multitude
which, Il s:coA n solid column. wonld
reach from New York Battery to Golden
Horn. Tho plague! The plague!
Word the next: Never 20 to any place
where you would be ashamed to die. Adopt
that plan and you Will never 60 to any evi
amusement nor he found In compromising
surroundings. How many startling case:
within the past few years Of man called sud.
denly out Of this world, and the newspaper:
surprised US when they mentioned the local
ity and the compauionship. To put it on the
least important ground, you ought not to 20
to any such forbidden place, because If you
depart this life in such circumstances you
put officiating ministers in great embarrass'
meut. You know that some Of the minister:
believe that all who leave this life SI
straight to heaven. however they have act
ell in this world, or whatever they have
believed. To set you through from such
surroundings Is an Important theological ln'
dertaking. One OF the most arduous and
besweating efforts of that kind that
ever knew of was at the obsequies of a mar
who was found dead in snowbank with hi:
rum Jug close beside him. But the minister
did the work Of happy trausference "a well
as possible, althoughit did seem a little inan-
propriate when he read "Blessed are tn!
dead who die in the Lord. They rest fro'r
their labors, and their works do follow
them" II you have no mercy upon yourself
have mercy upon the minister who may he
called to offleiate after your demise. Die al
home. or in some place Of honest business
or where the laughter Is clean, or amid COM
panionships pure and elevatinS. Remember
that any place we go to may become oul
starting point for the next world. When we
enter the harbor Of heaven, and the officer
oflight comes aboard. let Us be able to show
that our clearing papers were dated at the
right port.
Word the next: As soon as you can, by in
tustry ani economy, have home OF your
own. What do mean by a home? 1 NEAR
two rooms and the blessing of God on both
Of them; one room for slumber, one for fooa
its preparation and the partaking thereof
Mark you, I would like you to have home
with thirty rooms, all upholstered, pictured
and statuetted, but am putting It down al
the minimum. A husband and wife who can.
not be happy with home made up Of two
rooms would not be happy in heaven if they
got there. He who wins and keeps the affec.
ton Of good practical woman has done
gloriously. What do I mean by q good
woman? I mean one who loved God before
she loved you. What do mean by practi.
cal woman? mean one Who can help you
to earn living, for time comes in almost
every man'sli life whan he is flung OF hard mis-.
fortune, and you do not want weaklnG 60
ing around the house whining and sniff!na
about how she had it before you mar
-1r1taS -1rta5S her. The simple reason whyr5sdou
sands Of Sh~never get on in worlt
is because they marrreu reu-s2D aD Entities ant
never got overit. The only thing that Job:
wife proposed for his boils was a warm pou!
tice Of profanity. saying. "Curse God ans
Ole. 1C duuS 10 our VI oOiii
Wesley the manner in which he conquere,
domestic unhappinesa. His wife had Sian
derei him all over England until, standin!
in his pulpit in City Road chapel, he com
planned to the people saying, II have beer
charged with every crime in the catalogue
EXCEPT drunkenness" when his wife aros
in the back part of the church and said
"John, you know you were drunk las
night" Then Wesley exclaimed, "ThanI
God, the catalogue IS complete" When
man marries he marries for heaven or hell
and it is more so when q woman marrles
You six young men in Fayette, Ohio, ha:
better look out.
Word the next: Do not rate yourself TOT
nigh. Better rate yourself too low. II yor
rate yourself too low tho world will say
"Come up" Ii you rate yourself too hiSE
the world will say, "Come down." 1t is d
bad thing when man gets so exaggerated az
idea OF himself as did Earl OF Buchan, whose
speech Ballantyne, the Edinburgh printer
could not set up for publication because hi
had not enough capital Is among his tyDe
Remember that the world got along without
you near 5000 years before You were boz q
and unless some meteor collides with lis, ol
some internal explosion occurs, th3 world
will probably last several thousand Year,
after you are dead.
Word the next: Do not postpone too lon
doing something decided for God, humanity
and yourself. The greatest things have been
done before forty years OF age. Pascal al
sixteen years Of age, Gr0tiuS as seventeen
Romulus at tweuty, Pitt at twenty-five
White1eld at tweuty-four, B0naparte al
ewenty-seven. ISnatiuS Loyola at thirty
Raphael at thirty-seven. had made the world
feel their virtue or their vice, and the big.
gest strokes you will probably make for the
truth o. against the truth will be before you
reach the meridian of life. Do not wait 70,
: something to turn up. Go to work and turn
it up. There is no such thing as good luck.
No man that ever lived has had a better time
than have had, yet never had any good
luck. But instead thereof, a kind Providence
has crowded my life with mercies. You will
never accomplish much as long as you 60 al
your work on the minute you are expected
and stop at the first minute it is lawful tc
auit. The greatly useful and successful men
Of the next century will be those who began
half an hour before they were required and
worked at least half an hour after they might
have quit. Unless you are willing sometimes
to work twelve hours of the day you will re-.
main on the low level. and your life will be 8
prolonged humdrum.
Word the next: Re;non1ber that it Is oat,
. small part of our life that weare to pass on
earth. Less than your finger nail compared
with your whole body is the life on earth
when compared with the next life. I sup
pose there are not more than half dozen
people in this world 100 years old. But a
very few people in any country reach eighty.
The ma jor;ty of the human race expire be-
fore thirty. Now, what an equipoise in such
consideration. If things 60 wrong it Is
only for little while. Have you not enough
moral pluck to stand the jostling, and tine
lnjusticas, and the mishaps Of the small par
entSesis between the two eternities? 1t is a
coed thing to get ready for the one mile this
sde the marble slab but more important to
get fixed up for the intermmable miles IhiA
stretch out into the distances beyond
The marble slab. 4 few years ago on the
Nashville aud New Orleans railroad We
were walked up early in the morning,
and told We must take carriages fox
some distance. "Why!" we all asked.
But We soon saw for ourselves
that, while the first four or five
spans of the bridge were up. farther on
there Was span that had fallen, and We
h,,t ,aoty y,o5fp h,I,.