The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-11-29

backward and forward on the gate
singing the songs Of your childhood
But there are those here who have thei
second dwelling place. 1t is your adopt
ed home. That also is sacred forever
There you established the first famil,
altar There your children were born
In that room tapped the wing of thu
death angel Under that roof, whe1
Your work is done, you expect to lii
down and die. There is only one wore
in all the language that can convey
your idea of that place, and that wore
is "home.
Nov, let me say that never knew {
man who was faithful to his early ant
adopted home who was given over al
the same time to any gross form of wick
edness. If you find more enjoyment IL
the clubroom, in the literary society
in the art salon, than you do in these
unpretending home pleasures, you are
ON the road to ruin. Though you may
be cut off from your early associates,
and though you may be separated from
all your kindred, young man, is there
not room somewhere that you can cal
your own? Though it be the fourth
story of third class boarding house,
into that room gather books, pictures
and harp. Hang your mothers por-
trait over the mantel Bid unholy mirth
stand back from that threshold. Conse-
crate some spot in that room with the
knee of prayer. By the memory of 9th
or days, fathers counsel a mother S
love and a sisters confidence, call it
home.
Rotten Beam In the Palace.
Another safeguard for these young
men is industrious habits There are a
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 father was when he first
saw the spires of the great town. He is
seated in his room at rent of So, 900 a
year, waiting for the banks to declare
up. After awhile he gets impatient. He
tries to improve his penmanship by
making copy plates of other merchants
signatures Never mind-all is right in
business. After awhile he has his es-
tate. Now is the time for him to retire
to the country, amid the f1ocks 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
heave up the castle. That is no fancy
sketch; it is everyday life. I should
not wonder if there were rotten beam
in that palace I should not wonder if
God should smite him with dire sick
nesses and pour into his cup bitter
draft that will thrill him with un-
bearable agony. should not wonder if
that mans children grew up to be to
him disgrace and to make his life a
shame. should not wonder if that man
died a dishonorable death and were
tumbled into dishonorable grave and
then went into the crashing of teeth.
The way of the ungodly shall perish.
" youhS houj you hIuoo hoNO III
dustry of head or hand or foot, or perish.
Do not have the idea that you can get
along in the world by genius. The curse
Of this country today is geniuses-men
with large self conceit and nothing
slse. The man who proposes to make
his living by his wits probably has not
my. Ishould rather be an OK, plain and
and useful, than to be an
,agle, high flying and good for nothing
out to pick out the eyes of carcasses.
even in the garden Of Eden it was not
afe for Adam to be idle, SO God made
him a horticulturist, and if the mar
led pair had kept busy dressing tie
zines they would not have been saun-
ering under the trees, hankering after
ruit that ruined them and their pos
Gritty! Proof positive of the fact that
when people do not attend to their bust
ness they get into mischief go to the
ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways
md be wise, which, having no overseer
)r guide, provideth her food in the
summer and gathereth her meat in the
harvest. Satan is roaring lion, and
you can never destroy him by gun OF
pistol or sword. The weapons with
which you are to beat him back are pen
and type and hammer and adj and saw
and pickax and yardstick and the weapon
of honest toll Work, work, or die
Aim High.
Another safeguard that I want to pre-
sent to young men is high ideal Of
life. Sometimes soldiers going into bat
tie 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 con
flict with his men, will cry out, Nov,
men, aim high I" The fact is that in
life a great many men take no aim at
all. The artist plans out his entire
thought before he puts it upon canvas,
before he takes up the crayon or the
chisel. An architect thinks out the en-
tire building before the workmen begin.
everything may seem to be
that architect has in his
mind every Corinthian column, every
Gothic arch, every Byzantine capital
A poet thinks out the entire plot of dis
poem before he begins to chime the
cantos of tinkling rhythms. And yet
there are a great many men who start
the important structure of life without