The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1895-05-23

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| went 10 tho apothccary's to get some pre-
veptItive OF the fever. and the place was
crowded with invalids, and we had no conf
| dence in the preventive we purchased from
, the Hindoos. Tho ms1 tfaih was % start
| Sabbath evening. ! said, Frank, ] think
tho Lord Will excuse US if we get out of this
| place Y ith the first train, and we took it,
! not feeling quite comfortable till we were
hundreds of miles away. | felt we were right
in flying from the plague, Well! the Sir II
many of our cities IS Struck through with a
worse il5g.e the plague of corrupt and
| eamnable literature. Get away from it as
soon as possible 1t has already ruined the
| bodies. minds and souls of multitude
which, If stood In solid column. would
reach from New York Battery to Golden
Horn. The plague' The plagued -
Word the neXtl Never go. to any place
where YOU would be ashamed to die. ADOPT
that pian and tou will heter Cd to tn$ eSil
amusement nor be found in compromising
surronndings. How many startling cases
within the past few years of men called sud
denly out Of this world, and the newspapers
surprised us when they mentioned the local
ity and the companionship. To put 1t on the
least important ground. you ought not to go
to any such forbidden place, because II you
depart this fife In such circumstances you
put officiating ministers in great embdrrass:
ment. You know that some Of tho ftiihist6ra
believe that all WHO leave this life 20
straight TO heaNeh. however they have act
ed il this world, or whatever they have
believed. To get you through from such
surroundings is an important theological I'M
dertazing One of the most arduous and
besweating efforts of that kind that l
ever knew of was at the obsequies of n man
who was found dead in a snowbauk with his
rum jug close beside him; But the minister
did tho wefk Of happy tr3IisferoDce as well
as p6$3iblS; altholighit did seem little map
propriate when he read blessed are the
dead who die in the Lord. They rest from
their labors, aud their works do follow
them" If you have no mercy upon yourself
have mercy upon the minister who may be
called to offciate after your demise. Die at
home. or In some ;laee Of honest basinrSS
or WHORE tht laughter is clean; Or amid com
Partnerships pure and elevatng. Remember
that any place we go to may become our
starting point for the next world. When We
enter the harbor of heaven; and the, officer
flight comes aboard; let It's be able to show
that our clearing papers were dated at the
right port.
Word the next: As soon as you can, by in
dustry and economy, have home of your
own. What do mean by home2 l mean
two rooms and the blessing of God on both
of them; one room for slumber, one for food,
its preparation and the part8kina thereof
Mark you, would lilo YOU to have d home
with thirty f6dnis. all upholstered, pictured
and statuetted. but / am putting it down at
the minimum. A husband and wife who can
not be happy with homo made up of two
rooms would not be happy in heaven If they
got there. He who wins and keeps the affec-
ton of a good practical woman has done
gloriously. What do ] mean by q good
woman ! mean one who loved God before
she loved you. What do I medn by d pr,icti-
cal woman? | mean one who can help you
to earn a living, for time comes in almost
every man life when he is dung Of hard mis-
fortune, and you do not want q weakling 60
ing around the house whining and suiiiing
about how she had it before you mar
ried her. The simple reason why thou
sands of men never get on in the world
is because they married nonentities and
never got overit. Tho only thing that Jobs
wife proposed for his boils was a warm poul-
tco of profanity, saying. Course God and
die" 1t adds to our admiration Of John
Wesley the manner in which he conquered
domestic unhappiness. His wife had SIAN
dered him all over England until, standing
in his pulpit in City Road chapel. he com
planned to the people saying, II have been
charged with every crime in the catalogue
except drunkenness;' when his wife arose
in the back part Of the church and said:
"John, you know you were drunk last
night" Then Wesley exclaimed, "Thank
God. the catalogue ia complete" When
man marres he marries for heaven or hell,
and it is more SO when woman marries.
You six young men in Fayette, Ohio, had
better 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 ups" If you rate yourself too high
the world will say, "Come down" 1t is a
bad thing when 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 he
had not enough capital is among his type.
Remember that the world got along without
you near G000 years before you were born,
and unless some meteor collideS with us, or
some internal 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 forty years of age. Pascal at
sixteen years Of age, Grotius at seventeen,
Romulus at twenty, Pitt at twenty-five,
Whtefeld at twenty-four, Bonaparte at
twcnty-seven. Ignatius Loyola at thirty,
Raphael at thirty-seven, had made the world
feel their virtue or their vice, and tho big
truth or against the truth will be before you
reach the meridian of life. Do not wait for
something to turn up. Go to work and turn
1t up. There is no such thing as good luck.
No man that ever lived has had better time
than l have had, yet l never had any good
luck. But instead thereof, a kind Providence
has crowded my life with mercles. You will
never accomplish much as long as you go at
your work on the minute you are expected
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 twelve hours of the day you will re-
main on the low level and your life will be u
prolonged humdrum.
Word the next: Remember that it is only
a small part of our life that wei are to pass on
earth. Less than your finger nail compared
with your whole body is the life on earth
when compared with tho next life. | sup
pose there are not more than half dozen
people in this world 100 years old. But a
very few people in any country reach eighty.
The majority of the human race expire be-
fore thirty. Now, what an eluipoise in such
a consideration. If things so wrong it is
only for u littlewhile. Have you not enough
moral pluck to stand the jostling, and the
injustices, and the mishaps of the small par
enthesis between the two eternities? 1t is Il
Good thing to get ready for the one mile this