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

many time Just before going 70 the
parallel bars and punching bags and
pullies and weights, l thought Satan
was about taking possession Of society
and the church and the world, but after
one hour of climbing and lifting and
pulling / felt like fastening home so as
TO be there when the millennium set in.
Take good stout run every day. L flnd
in that habit, which l have kept up
since at IS years 1 read the aforesaid
Todd's Manual, more recuperation than
in anything else. Those six men OF Ohio
will need all possible nerve and all pos
sible eyesight and all possible muscular
development before they get through the
terrific struggle Of this life.
Word the next: Take care Of your in
tellect. Here comes the food Of novel
cites, 90 out Of 100 belittling to every
one that opens them. Here come de-
praved newspapers. submerging good
and elevated American journalism. Here
comes a whole perdition Of printed
abomination, dumped on the breakfast
table and tea table and parlor table.
Take at least one good newspaper with
able editorial and reporters columns
mostly occupied with helpful intelli-
gence, announcing marriages and deaths
and reformatory and religious assem-
blaees, and charities bestowed, and the
doings of good people, and giving but
little place TO nasty divorce cases, and
stories Of crime, which, like cobras,
sting those that touch them. Oh, for
more newspapers that put virtue in
what is called great primer type and
vice in noupareil or agate!
You have all seen the photographers
negative. He took picture from it ten
or 20 years ago You ask him now for a
picture from that same negative. He
opens the great chest containing the
black negatives of 1885 or 1875, and he
reproduces the picture. Young men,
your memory is made up OF the mega
tives Of an immortal photography. All
that you see or hear goes into your soul
TO make pictures for the future. You
will have with you till the Judgment
day the negatives of all the bad pictures
YOU have ever looked at, and Of all the
debauched scenes you have read about.
Show me the newspapers you take and
the books you read, and will tell you
what are your prospects for well being
in this life, and what will be your resi-
dence a million years after the star on
which we now live shall have dropped
out Of the constellation I Inever travel
on Sunday unless it be a case Of neces-
sity or mercy. But last autumn l was
in India in a city plague struck. By the
hundreds the people were down with
fearful illness. We went to the apothe-
cary's to get some preventive Of the fe-
yer. and the place was crowded with in
valids, and we had no confidence in the
preventive we purchased from the Hin
docs The mail train was to start Sab
bath evening I said, Frank, 1 think
the Lord will excuse us if we get out OF
this place with the first train, and we
took it, not feeling quite comfortable
till we were hundreds Of miles away. l
felt we were right in flying from the
plague. Well, the air in many Of our
cities is struck through with a worse
plague-the plague Of corrupt and dam
nable literature. Get away from 1t as
soon as possible. 1t has already ruined
the bodies. minds and souls Of a multi
tude which, if stood in solid column,
would reach from New York Battery to
Golden Horn. The plaguel The plague
Word the next: Never go to any place
where you would be ashamed to die.
Adopt that plan, and you will never 60
to any evil amusement, nor be found IN
compromising surroundings. How many
startling cases within the past few years
, of men called suddenly out Of this
, world, and the newspapers surprised Ms
when they mentioned the locality and
the companionship. To put it on the
, least important ground, you ought not
, to 20 to any such forbidden place, be-
cause if You depart this life in such cir
o cumstances you put officiating ministers
, in great embarrassment You know that
! some of the ministers believe that all
! who leave this life 60 straight TO heav-
en-. however they have acted in this
, world, or whatever they have believed.
To get you through from such surround
o ings is an appalling theological under
!, taking. One of the most arduous anC
; besweating efforts Of that kind that
ever knew Of was at the obsequies OF
man who was found dead in snow
. bank with his rum jug close beside him
! But the minister did the work Of happy
transference as we'll as possible, although
it did seem a little inappropriate whei
he read: blessed are the dead who di'
:, in the Lord They rest from their La
bors. and their works do follow them. ,
= II you have no mercy upon yourself hav
:. mercy upon the minister who may b
called to officiate after your demise Di
at home, or in some place Of homes
business, or where the laughter is clean
q or amid companionships pure and elevat
a ing. Remember that any place we g
- to may become our starting point TO
II the next world When we enter the har
q Dor Of heaven, and the officer Of ligh
comes aboard, let us be able to shoY
- that our clearing papers were dated
" the right port
% Word the next As soon as you can
- by industry and economy, have hom
- of your own What do / mean by
Q homer mean two rooms and the bless
- ing Of God on both of them; one roor
os for slumber, one for food, its prepara
= ton and the partaking thereof. Mar
: you, would like you to have a HON
i with 80 rooms, all upholstered, piC
~ ~ tured and statuetted, but l am putting
- - down at the minimum. A husband an
- wife who cannot be happy with a hon
10 made up Of two rooms would not !
80 happy in heaven If they got there d
- who wins and keeps the affection OF
: good practical woman has done glor
- ously. What do mean by goo
J, woman? / mean one who loved God b
- - fore she loved you What do mean 3
:. q practical woman? mean one WI
% can help you to earn a living, for
~ time comes in almost every mans III
y ,vhan ha Ia hun0 of hard misfOrtun