Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-05-17

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drunk last night. Then Wesley ex-
claimed, "Thank God, the catalogue is
complete. When man marries he
marries for heaven or hell, and it is
more so when a woman marries. You
six young men in Fayette, O., had bet
ter look out.
Word the next: Do not rate yourself
too high Better rate yourself too low.
If you rate yourself too low the world
will say. "Come up" If you rate your
self too high the world will say, Come
down" 1t is a bad thing when a man
gets so exaggerated an idea Of himself
as did Earl Of Buchan, whose speech
Ballantyne, the Edinburgh printer, could
not set up for publication because ne
had not enough capital rs among his
type. Remember that the world got
along without you near 5000 years be-
fore you were born, and unless some
meteor collides with us, or some inter
nal explosion occurs, the world will
probably last several thousand years
after you are dead
Word the next: Do not postpone too
long doing something decided for God,
humanity and yourself. The greatest
things have been done before 40 years
of age. Pascal at 16 years Of age, Gro
thus at II, Romulus at 20, Pitt at %,
Whitefeld at "a, Bonaparte at 81, Igna-
thus Loyola at 80, Raphael at 81, had
made the world feel their virtue or their
vice, and the biggest strokes you will
probably make for the truth or against
the truth will be before you reach the
meridian Of life Do not wait for some
thing to turn up. Go to work and turn
it up. There is no such thing as good
luck. No man that ever lived has had
a better time than have had, yet l
never had any good luck But instead
thereof, a kind Providence has crowded
nv life with mercies You will never
accomplish much as long as you go at
your work on the minute you are ex-
pected and stop at the first minute it is
lawful to quit The greatly useful and
successful men of the next century will
be those who began half an hour before
they were required and worked at least
half an hour after they might have quit.
Unless you are willing sometimes to
work IL hours Of the day you will re-
main on the low levels, and your life
will be prolonged humdrum.
Word the next: Remember that 1t Is
only a small part Of our life that wo are
to pass on earth. Less than your finger
nail compared with your whole body is
the life on earth when compared with
the next life. suppose there are not
more than half a dozen people in this
world 100 years old But q very few
people in any country reach so. The ma
iority Of the human race expire before
30. Now, what an equipoise in such a
consideration. If things go wrong 1t is
only for a little while. Have you not
enough moral pluck to stand the jos
tling, and the injustices, and the mis-
haps Of the small parenthesis between
the two eternities? 1t is a good thing to
get ready for the one mile this side the
marble slab, but more important to get
fixed ND for the interminable mile;
which stretch out into the distances be-
yond the marble slab. A few years age
on the Nashville and New Orleans rail
road we were walked up early in the
morning. and told we must take car
riages for some distance. "Why?" we
all asked. But we soon saw for our
selves that, while the first four or five
spans Of the bridge were up, farther Oh
there was span that had fallen, anC
we could not but shudder at what might
have been the possibilities When you
rail train starts ON long bridge yoV
want to be sure that the first span OF th'
bridge is all right, but what if farther
ON there is a span Of the bridge that Il
all wrong; how then? what thenf IL
, one of the western cities the freshet
had carried away bridge, and MAJ
knew that the express train would sooI
come along. So he lighted lantern an'
started mp the track to stop the train
But before he had got far enough u
the track the wind blew out the light o
his lantern, and standing in the dark
ness as the train came up he threw tn
lantern into the locomotive, crying
"Stopl Stopp' And the warning wa
in time to halt the train. And If an
of you by evil habits are fastening Of
I toward brink or precipice or fallen span
, | throw this Gospel lantern at you
= mad career: Stopl Stopl The end there
of it DEATH Young man, you are cage
: now by many environments. but 20
, will after awhile get your wings out.
4 Some one Gagged Rocky Mountain
q eagle and kept him shut up betwee
the wires until all the spirit and coui
> age had gone out Of it. Released on
o day from the cage, the eagle seemed {
g want to return to its former prison. Th
q fact was that the eagle had all gone on
{ of him He kept his wings down. br
. after awhile he looked up at the sur
: turning his head first this side and the
o that side, and then spread one wing an
r then the other wing, and began I
: mount, until the hills were far unde
4 his feet, and he was out Of sight In tn
v empyrean. My brother. when you leav
t this lite, II by the grace Of God you al
prepared, you will come out Of the Gag
of this hindering mortality, and lookin
g MP to the heavenly heights you wi
a spread wing for immortal flight, lea
!. ing sun and moon and stars beneath
n your ascent to glories that never fac
+ and splendors which never die fot
K body is the cage Your soul Is the eagl
q Word the next: Fill yourself wit
). biographies Of men who did gloriousl
il in the business or occupation'or profe
d sion you are about to choose or have
ia ready chosen. Going to be merchan
,e Read up Peter Cooper and Abbot Law
Ia Rence and James LenoK and William
a Dodge and George Peabody. See no
j. most of the merchants at the sta
d munched their MONDAY luncheon mao
E. np of dry bread and hunk OF chees
y behind a counter or in storeroom,
10 they started in businesswhich brougl
a them to the top Of influences which e.
fe abled them TO bless the world WI
e, millions of dollars consecrated to hosp