The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-05-17
many time just before going to the



parallel bars and punching bags and
pullies and weights, thought Satan
was about taking possession of society |
and the church and the world, but after |
one hour Of climbing and lifting and |
pulling felt like fastening homo so as
to be there when the millennium set in. |
Take good stout run every day, ! find |
IN that habit, which have kept up
since at Is years read the aforesaid |
Todd's Manual, more reouperation than |
in anything else. These six men of Ohio |
will need all possible nerve and all pos
sible eyesight and all possible muscular
development before they get through tho
terrific struggle Of this life.
Word the next: Take care of your in
tellect Here comes the flood of novel
cites, 90 out of 100 belittling to every
one that opens them. Hero come de-
PRAYED newspapers, submerging good
and elevated American journalism. Here
comes whole perdition of printed
abomination, dumped on the breakfast
table and tea table and parlor table,
Take at least one good newspaper with
able editorial and reporters columns
mostly occupied with helpful intelli
gence, announcing marriages and deaths
and reformatory and religious assem-
blages, and charities bestowed, and the
doings of good people, and giving but
little place to nasty divorce cases, and
Stories of crime, which, like cobras,
sting those that touch them. Oh, for
more newspapers that put virtue in
what is called great primer type and
vice in nonpareil or agate!
You have all seen the photographer
negative. He took picture from it ten
or 90 years ago. You ask him now for a
picture from that same negative. He
opens the great chest containing the
black negatives of 1885 or 1875, and he
reproduces the picture. Young men,
your memory is made up of the mega
tives of an immortal photography. 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 negatives of all the bad pictures
you have ever looked at, and Of all the
debauched scenes you have read about.
Show me the newspapers you take and
the books you read, and l will tell you
what are your prospects for well being
in this life, and what will be your resi-
dence million years after the star on
which we now live shall have dropped
ont of the constellation. Inever travel
on Sunday unless it be case of neces
So Inf Loot a,,t1, 7
in India in a city plague struck By the
hundreds the people were down with
fearful illness. We went to the apothe-
cary's to get some preventive Of the fe-
yer, and the place was crowded with in
valids, and we had no confidence i'll the
preventive we purchased from the Hin
docs. The mail train was to start Sab
bath evening. said, Frank, think
the Lord will excuse lis 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.
felt we were right in flying from the
plague. Well, the air in many of our
cities Is struck through with worse
plague-the plague of corrupt and dam
nable literature. Get away from it as
soon as possible It has already ruined
the bodies, minds and souls Of multi
| tude which, if stood in solid column,
| would reach from New York Battery to
Golden Horn. The plagued The plague
Word the next; Never go 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 surroundings. How many
startling cases within the past few years
Of men called suddenly out Of this
world; and the newspapers surprised us
when they mentioned the locality and
the companionship To put it on the
least important ground, you ought not
to go to any such forbidden place, be-
cause if you depart this life in such cir
cumstances you put officiating ministers
in great embarrassment. You know that
some of the ministers believe that ali
who leave this life go straight to heav-
en-, however they have acted in this
world, or whatever they have believed.
To 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
ever knew Of was at the obsequies Of o
man who was found dead in snow.
bank with his rum jug close beside him.
But the minister did the work of happy
transference as we'll as possible, although
it did seem little inappropriate when
he read: blessed are the dead who die
in the Lord. They rest from their la.
bors, and their works do follow them. u
If you have no mercy upon yourself have
mercy upon the minister who may be
called to of1iciate after your demise Die
at home, or in some place of honest
business, or where the laughter is clean
or amid companionship pure and eleyat
ing. Remember that any place we &C
to may become our starting point fol
the next world. When we enter the har
Dor of heaven, and the officer of light
comes aboard, let us be able to show
that our clearing papers were dated a
the right port.
Word the next: As soon as you can
by industry and economy, have home
of your own. What do mean by {
home? mean two rooms and the bless
ing Of God on both of Them one room
for slumber, one for food, its prepare
ton and the partaking thereof Mari
you, l would like you to have q hom'
with 80 rooms, all upholstered, pic
tured and statuetted, but am putting i
down at the minimum. A husband ant
wife who cannot be happy with hom
made up of two rooms would not b
happy in heaven if they got there. H
who wins and keeps the affection of
good practical woman has done glori
ously. What do mean by a goo'
woman? l mean one who loved God be
fore she loved you. What do l mean b,
practical woman? l mean one VIII
can help you to earn living, for
time comes in almost every mans lif
when he is flung of hard misfortune
} and you do not want a weakling goin,
around the house whining and sniffin,
about how she had it before you mar