Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-05-13

were required ant worked at least half IN
hour after they might have quit. Unless
you are willing sometimes 10 work 10
hours OF the day you will remain on tho
low levels, and your life will DO prclong-
ed humdrum.
The Eighth Stop.
Word the next: Remember that IL Is
only small part Of our life that We arc to
pass On earth. Less than your finger nall
compared with your whole body Is the life
on earth when compared with the next life.
suppose there arc not more than half q
dozen people in this world 100 years old.
But a very few people In any country
reach so, The majority OF the human race
expire before 90 Now, what an cquipoiso
In such a consideration. II things 10
wrong, II is only for little while. Have
you not enough moral pluck TO stand the
lostling, and tho injustices, md tho mis-.
haps OF tho small parenthesis between the
two eternitiesi It is good thing to get
ready for the ono mile this sido the mar
bio slab, but more important to got flxed
up Tor the interninable miles which
stretch out into tho distances beyond the
marble slab. A few years ago on the Nash.
vile and New Orleans railroad we were
walked up early In the morning and told
We must take carriages for some distance
"WhyF We all asked. But we soon saw
FOR ourselves that while the first four or
iivo spans Of the bridge were up, farther on
tboro was o span that had fallen, and wa
could NOT but shudder at what might have
been the possibilities When your rail
train starts on long bridge, you want TO
DO sure that the first span OF the bridge Is
all right. But what II farther on there is
span of the bridge that is all wrongl
How thenf What then2 In one of the
western cities tho freshets had carried
away bridge, and man know that tho
express train would soon come along. SO
bo lighted lantern and started up the
track to stop the train But before he had
got far enough up the track the wind blew
out the light of his lantern, and standing
In tho darkness MS the train camo up he
threw tho lantern into tho locomotive,
crying: "Stopl Stopr' And the warn.
Ing was In time to halt tho train. And II
any OF you by evil habits arc hsstonlng on
toward brink or prooiplce or fallen span
throw this Gospel lantern at your mad ca.
reer; 'Stopl Stopl Tho end thereof is
ueathF' Young man, you arc Gagged now
by many environments, but you will after
awhile get your wings out
Some one Gagged Rocky mountain eagle
and kept him shut up between the wires
until all the spirit and courage had gone
out OF it. Released one day from the cage
tho eagle seemed to want TO return TO lis
former prison The fact was that tho eagle
had all gone out OF him. He kept his
wings down. But utter awhile ho looked
up at the sun, turning his head nrst this
side, and then that side, and then spread
ono wing, and then tho othor wing and
began to mount until the hills wore far
under his feet and he was out OF sight in
the empyrean My brother, whom you
leave this life, II by tho grace OF God you
are prepared, you will come out of tho oagu
Of this hindering mortality, md looking
up to tho heavenly heights you win spread
wing for immortal flight, leaving sun and
moon and stars beneath ia your ascent to
glorios that never fado and splendors which
never do. Your body is tho cage. Your
soul is tho eagle
The Ninth Step.
Word the ncrt FIJI yourself with bior.
raphies Of men who did gloriously in tho !
business or occupation or profession you |
arc about to choose or have ALREADY chosen.
Going 20 be morchantf Read up Potor |
Cooper and Abbot Lawrence and James |
Lonox and William H. Dodge and George
Peabody, Sec how most Of tho merchants |
at tho start munched their MONDAY lunch. |
con, made up of dry bread and u hunk |
OF cheese, behind o counter or in n store
room as they started in business which |
brought them to the top OF influences
which enabled them TO bless the world |
with millions Of dollars consecrnted 10
hospitals and schools ard churches aud
private benofactlons, where mother right
hind nor left hand knew what the other
hand did. Going 10 h0 a physician Read
up Harvey aud Gross and Sir Adam
Clarke and James Y, Simpson, the dis.
coycror OF ohloroforu rs an annSthetio,
and Leslie Bocloy, who, Notwithstanding
all tho damage done by his incompetent
imitHtors, stands one Of the greatest bone
factors Of the centuries, and oil the other
mighty physicians who hAyO nondcd bro
ken bones, aud enthroned again dopO5ed
intellects, and given their lives 10 healing
the long deep cash Of the worlds agony.
Going to be meohaniof Read up the In.
yontors OF sowing machines and cotton
gins md life saving apparatus and tho
men who ns architects and buildonI and
manufacturers and day laborors have made
life OF 80 years In this century worth
more than tho full 100 years OF any other
century.
~ nA2 fNhAik hANAA VI NfAtAP anu an NAAt
other young men, instead Of wasting your
time on dry essays as TO how TO do great
things, so to tho biographical Alcove OF
your village or city library and acquaint
yourselves with mon who, In tho eight OF
earth nd heaven and he'll did tho great
things. Remember the greatest things nro
yet to be done. II tho Bible be true, or as
j had better put II since the Bible is be-
You'd all controversy true the greatest bat.
Ito IL yet TO DO fought, and compared with
It Saragossa and Gettysburg aud Sedan
were child's play with toy pistols. We
even know tho name Of tho battle, though
we arc not certain as TO where II will be
fought 1 refer 10 Armageddon. Tho
greatest discoveries arc yet 70 DO mpde. A
has recently discovered In tho
dir something which win yet rival eloc.
trlolty. Tho most OF things have not yet
been found out. An explorer has recently
found in the valley Of tho Nile n whole
feet Of ships buried ages ago whore now
thcre is no water, Only six out Of the
800 grasses have been turned into food like
tho potato md tho tomato. There arc
hundreds Of other styles Of food TO be dis
covered. Aerial navigation will yet be
made us gafn as travel on tho solid earth.
Cancers and consumpiious and lcprosies
arc 10 be transferred from the catalogue Of
Intui,ab lo 1lseaso 10 the cilrabla Medical