The Butler weekly times., 1895-12-05

that will thrill him with unbearable
agony. I should not wonder if that
mems children grew up to be to him
a disgrace, and to make his life a
shame. | should not wonder if that
man died a dishonorable death, and
were tumbied into a dishonorable
grave, and then went into the gnash
ing of teeth. The way OF the un-
godly shall perish.
Oh. young man, you must have
industry 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 coun-
try to day 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. I should rather be An OK, plain
and plodding and useful, than be an
eagle. high flying and goodfor-noth-
ing but to pick out the eyes of car
casses. Even in the Garden of Eden
it was not safe for Adam to be idle,
SO God made him a horticultdrist;
and if the married pair had kept
busy dressing the vines, they would
not have been sauntering under the
trees, hankering after fruit that ruin
ed them and their posterity. Proof
positive of the fact that when peo-
pie don't attend to their business they
get into mischief. "Go TO the ant,
thou sluggard; consider her ways
and be wise; which, having no over
seer or guide, provideth her food in
the summer and gathered her meat
in the harvest Satan is a roaring
lion, aud you can never destroy him
by gun or pistol or sword. The
weapo's with which you are to beat
him back are pen, type and hammer
and adze, and saw, and pickaxe, and
yardstick, and the weapon of honest
toll. Work, work or die.
Another safeguard that want to
present to young men is high ideal
of life. Sometimes soldiers going
into battle shoot into the ground la.
stead Of into the hearts of their enc.
mics. They are apt to take aim too
low, and it is very often that the cap.
tain, going into conflict with his
men, will cry out, "Now, men, aim
high" The fact is that in life great
many men take no aim at all. The
Eartist plans out his entire thought
before he puts it upon canvas, be
fore he takes up the crayon or the
chisel. An architect thinks out the
entire building before the workmen
begin. Although everything may
seem to be unorganized, that archi-
tect has in his mind every Corinthian
column, every Gothic arch, every
Byzantine capital. A poet thinks
out the entire plot of his poem be-
fore he begins to chime the cantos
of tinkling rhythems. And yet there
are great many men who start the
important structure of life without
knowing whether it is going to be a
rude Tartar's hut, or st. Mark S
Cathedral. and begin to write out
intricate poem OF their life without
knowing whether it is to be a Ho
mer's "Odyssey' or a rhymester's 5
botch. Out of one thousand, nine
ty.nine have no life-plot. Booted
and spurred and caparisoned, they
hasten along, and run out and say:
"Hallo, man! Whittier away" "No-
where :hey-say. Oh, young man,
make every days duty filing up
of the great hfe-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 noun
tains and down by the valleys. They
sail with no chart. They gaze on
no star. They long for no harbor.
Oh! young man, have a high ideal
and press for it, and it will be a
mighty safeguard. There never
were grander opportunities opening
before young men than are opening
now. Young men of the strong arm,