Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-11-22
the scale Of Life,

Inc Schlo OF LILO
Advice the fifthi Plan out your life
On big scale, whether you are a farm
er's daughter, or a shepherdess among the
hills, or the fiattered pet Of drawing
room filed with statuary and pictures
and brio -a-brac. Stop where you are and
make plan for your lifetime. You
cannot be satisfied with life Of frivol-
ity and giggle and indirection. Trust
the world, and it will cheat you II 1t
does not destroy you The Redoubtable
was the name of an enemy's ship that
Lord Nelson spared twice from demoh-
ton, but that same ship afterward sent
the ball that killed him, and the world
on which you smile may aim at you its
deadliest weapon. Be Gods woman.
This moment make as mighty change
as did a college student of England. He
had neglected his studies, rioting at
night with dissipated companions and
sleeping in the classroom when he ought
TO have been listening. A fellow student
came into his room one morning before
the young man l am speaking OF had
arisen from his pillow and said to him:
"Paley, you are fool! You are wasting
your opportunities. Do not throw away
your life. Paley said: 81 was so
struck with what he said that l lay in
bed until had formed my plan for life.
| / ordered my fire to be always laid over
night. arose at and read steadily all
day. allotted to each portion Of the day
its proper branch Of study and became
the senior wrangler. " What an hour
that was when q resolution definitely
placed changed a young man from o
reckless and time wasting student to n
consecrated man who stopped not until
all time and all eternity shall be debtor
TO his pen and influence!
Clasp Hands With the Almighty.
Young woman, draw out. and decide
what you will be and do, God helping.
Write it out in a plain hand. not like
the letters which Josephine received
from Napoleon in Italy, the writing so
scravling and scattered that it was
sometimes taken as a map OF the seat OF
war. Put the plan on the wall OF your
room, or write it In the opening OF a
blank book, or pat it where you will be
compelled often to see it. A thousand
| questions of your coming life you cannot
settle now, but there is one question you
can settle independent Of man, woman
angel and devil, and that Is that you
! will be a Gods woman now, henceforth
and forever. Clasp hands with the Al
mighty. Pythagoras represented life by
the letter Y, because it early divides
into two ways. Look ont for opportuni'
ties Of cheering. inspiring, rescuing and
saving all the people you can. Make a
league with the eternities. / seek your
present and everlasting safety. David
Brewster said that comet belonging TO
our system called Lexell's comet is lost,
as it ought TO have appeared IL times
and has not appeared at all. Alas, 1t is
not only the lost comets, but the lost
stars. and what were considered fixed
stars. Some of the most brilliant and
steady souls have disappeared. The
world wonders at the charge OF the
| Light brigade, immortalized by Tenny-
son. Only few of the 600 got back
from the charge, under Lord Cardigan, OF
the Muscovite guns, and all the havoc
was done in 25 minutes. the charge be-
| ginning at 10 minutes past II o'clock,
and closing at 80 minutes past II, and
vet nothing left on the field but dying
and dead men, dying and dead horses.
But a smaller proportion OF the men
and women who 60 into the battle OF
life come out unwounded. The slaugh-
ter has been and will be terrific, and
we all peed God aid we need him now
and we need him all the time. And let
| me saw there is a new woman, as there
is a new man, and that is tho regener-
ated woman made such by the ransack-
ing, Transforming, upbuilding, triumph
ant power Of the spirit who is so supe-
rior TO all other spirits that he has been
called for ages the Holy Spirit Quicker
| than wheel ever turned Oh its axis;
quicker than feetest hoof ever struck
the pavement; quicker than zigzag
| lightning ever dropped down the sky,
the ransoming power I speak Of will
revolntiOnize your entire nature. Then
you can start ont on q voyage OF life,
defying both calm and cyclone, saying
with Dean Afford:
One who has known IN storms to sail
have on board;
| Above the roaring Of the gale
hear my Lord.
He holds me when the pillows smile
I shall not fall;
II short it's sharp, II long It's light;
lie tempers all.