Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-12-05


smile, or flower. Take good boo
and read a chapter to that blind man
Go up that dark alley and make tina
invalid woman laugh with some goo
story. Go to that house from whicl
that child has been taken by dealt
and tell the father and mother wha
an escape the child has had from tn,
winter of earth into the springtime 0
Heaven. For Gods sake make som
one happy for ten minutes, if for
longer time. A young woman boun
on such mission, what might she no
accomplish. Oh, there are thousands
these manufacturers of sunshine. They
are "King's Daughters" whether in sid,
or outside that delightful organization
They do more good before they ar
twenty years of age than selfisl
women who live ninety, and they ar
so happy just because they make 9th
ers happy Compare such young
woman who feels she has such mis-
sion with one who lives a round of van
tiles, card-case in hand, calling OF
people for whom she does not care.
except for some social advantage, ant
insufferably bored when the call is re
turned, and trying to look young after
they are old, and living life of insin
cerity and hollowness. and dramatiza
tion and sham. Young woman. live Il
make others happy and you will b.
happy. Live for yourself and you will
be miserable. There never has beer
an exception to the rule; there never
will be an exception.
Advice the fifth: Plan out your lif,
on big scale, whether you are a far
mer's daughter, or a shepherdess among
the hills, or the flattered pet of draw
ing room filled with statuary, and pic
lures, and brio a-brac Stop where 20,
are and make plan for your lifetime
You cannot be satisfied with life
frivolity, and giggle, and indirection
Trust the world, and it will cheat you
if it does not destroy you. The Re
doubtable' was the name of an enc
my's ship that Lord Nelson spared
twice from demolition, but that
same ship afterward sent the ball
that killed him, and the world or
which you smile may airl at you
its deadliest weapon. BE Gods wo.
man. This moment make as mighty
change as did college student OF
England. He had neglected his studies,
rioting at night with dissipated com.
panions 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
pillow, and said TO him, ''Paley, you
are fool. You are wasting your on
portunities. Do not throw away youi
ife.' Paley said, II was SO struck
with what he said that | lay in bed
until had formed my plan for life. J
ordered my fire to be always laid ov !
night ! arose at five and read steadi',
ali day. Allotted to each portion o
the day its proper branch of study an
became the senior wrangler." What
an hour that was when a resolution
definitely placed changed young man
from a reckless aud wasting stu
dent to.a consecrated man, who stoppe
not until all time and all eternity shat
be debtor to his pen and influence,
Young woman, draw out and decid,
what you will be, and do, GOD helpin~
Write it out in plain hand, not ike
the letters which Josephine received
from Napoleon in Italy, the wr ting st
scrawling and scattered that it was
of war. Put the plan on the wall o
your room. or write it in the opening
of blank book, or put 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 Gods wo-
man now. henceforth, and forever
Clasp hands with the Almighty. Py-
thagoras represented life by the letter
Y, beAuse it early divides into two
ways. Look out for opportunities OF
cheering, inspiring, rescuing, and saw.
ing all the people you can. Make a
league with the eternities. seek
your present and everlasting safety
David Brewster said that comet be
longing to our system called Lexell's
comet is lost, as it ought to have ap.
peared thirteen times, and has not
appeared at all. Alas! it 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
at the charge of the Light
immortalized by Tennyson.
Only few of the six hundred got back
from the charge under Lord Cardigan,
Of the Muscovite guns, and all the havoc
was done in twenty-five minutes. The
charge beginning at ten minutes past
II o'clock, and closing at thirty five
past IL, and yet nothing left
On the field but dying and dead men,
lying and dead horses. But a smaller
of the men and women who
70 into the battle of life come out un-
wounded. The slaughter has been and
will be terrific, and we all need God.
md we need Him now, and we need
Him all the time. And let me say there
S new woman, as there is new
nan, and that is the regenerated wo-