Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-11-28


ruin. Though you may be cut on from
your early associates, and though you may
be separated from all your kindred, young
man, Is there not a rOom somewhere th-.
you can call your ownf Though it be he
fourth story of a third class board 1g
house, into that room gather books, pic
lures and harp. Hang your mothcr's
nort-.it over the mantel. Bid unholy
nirth stand back from that threshold.
Consecrate some spot In that room with
the knee Of prayer. By the memory Of
other days, . fathers counsel, mothers
love and sisters confidence, coll 1t home.
A Prime Virtue.
Another safeguard for these young men
Is industrious habit. There are q great
many people trying to make their way
through the world with their wits instead
Of by honest toll There Is a young man
who comes from the country to the city.
He fails twice before he Is as old as his IA
ther was when ho first saw the spires Of
the great town. He Is seated in his room
1t a rent Of $2, 900 year, waiting for the
hanks to declare their dividends and the
stocks to run up. After awhile he gets
impatient He tries to improve his PEN
merchants signaturesl Never mind-all
Is right in business. After awhile he has
his estate. Now is the time for him to re-
tire to the country, amid the focks and
the herds, to culture the domestic virtues.
Now the young men who were his
schoolmates in boyhood will come, and
with their OK teams draw him logs, and
with their hard hands will help to heaye
up tho castle. That Is no fancy sketch. 1t
Is everyday llfe / should not wonder II
there were a rotten beam In that palace.
] should not wonder II God should smite
, him with dire sicknesses apd pour into his
cup bitter draft that will thrill him with
! unbcarable agony. should not wonder
If that mans children grew up TO be to
him disgrace, and to make his life a
shame. l should not wonder If that man
| died dishonorable death and were tum-
bled into dishonorable grave and then
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 CT perish! Do
not have the idea that you can get along
in tho world by genius. The course of this
country today is geniuses-men 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 be 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 the garden of
! Eden 1t was not safe for Adam to be idle,
50 God made him q hQTticulturist ard Il
the married pair had kept busy dress
! ing the vines they would not have been
sauntering under the tree, hankering after
| fruit that ruined them and their posterity |
Proof positive of the fact that when people
| do not attend to their business they get
into mischief. "Go to the ant, thou slug
| gard. Consider her ways and be wise,
which, having no overseer or guide, pro-
yidcth her food in the summer and gather"
eth her meat 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 are to beat him
back are pen and type and hammer and
adze and saw and pickax and yardstick
and the weapon of honest toll Work,
work or die.
A High Ideal.
| Another safeguard that l want to pre-
sent to young men is high ideal Of life.
| Sometimes soldiers going into battle shoot
| into the ground instead Of into the hearts
of their enemies. They are apt to take aim
too low, and it is very often that the
captain, going into conflict with his men,
| will cry out, "Now, men, aim high" The
| fact Is that in life a great many men take
no aim at all. The artist plans cut his en-
tire thought before he puts it upon canvas,
before he takes up the crayon or the chisel.
| An architect thinks out the entire build
ing before the workmen begin. Although
everything may seem to be unorganized,
that architect has in his mind every Cor
inthian column, every Gothic arch, every
Byzantine capital. A poet thinks out the
entire plot of his poem before he begins to
chime tho cantos of tinkling rhythms.
And yet there are great many men who
start the important structure Of life with
out knowing whether it is going to be a
rude Tartar's hut or st. Marks cathe-
dral, and begin to write out the intricate
poem of their life without knowing wheth-
er it is to be Homer's Odyssey" or a
rhymester's botch. Out of 1000, 999 have
no life plot. Booted and spurred and
Fcaparisoned, they hasten along, and run
out and say: Halo, mani Whittier
away?" "Nowherer they say. o young
man, make every days duty filling up of
the great life plot. Alas that there should
be on this sea of life so many ships that
seem bound for no port! They are swept
every whittier by wind and wave, up by
the mountains and down by the valleys.
They sail with no chart. They gaze on no
star. They long COR no harbor. o young
man, have high ideal and press to 1t,
and it will be mighty safeguard. There
never were grander opportunities opening
before young men than are opening now.
Young men of the strong arm, and of the
stout heart, and of the bounding step,
marshal you today for great achievement.
Respect For Sunday.
Another safeguard is a respect for the
Sabbath. Tell me how a young man
spends his Sabbath and I will tell you
what are his prospects in business, and
will tell you what are his prospects for the
eternal world. God has thrust into our
busy life a sacred day when we are to look
after our souls. Is it exorbitant, after
giving six days to the feeding and cloth
ing Of these perishable bodies, that God
should demand one day for the feeding
and clothing of the immortal soulp
Our bodies are seven day clocks, and
they need to be wound up and If they are
not wound up they run down into the
grave. No man can continuously break
the Sabbath and keep his physical and
mental health. ASK those aged men, and
they will tell you they never knew men
who continuously broke the Sabbath who
did not fail Il mind, body OF moral prin-
ciple. A manufacturer gave this as his
experience He said: 81 owned factory
on the Loh.GE. Everything prospered.
kept the Sabbath, and everything went on
we'll But che Sabbath morning be-
thought myself of u new shuttle, and
thought would invent that shuttle before