Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-12-02

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Extraordinary capacity without work
Is extraordinary failure There is
no hope for that person who begins
lie resolved TO live by his wits. for
the probability is that me has not any.
Ii was not SAFE for Adam. even in his
unfailen state. to have nothing to do.
and. therefore, God commanded him to
be farmer and horticulturist. He
was TO dress the garden and keen il.
and had he and his wife obeyed the
Divine injunction and been at work.
they would not have been saunterinr
under the trees and laundering after
that fruit which destroyed them and
their posterity; proof positive for all
ages to come that those who do not ut
tend TO their business are sure to get
into mischief
do not know that the prodiral in
Scripture would ever have been re-
claimed had he not given up his idle
habits and gone TO feeding swine for a
liv'og. The devil does not so often at
tack the man who is busy Nith III.
pen. and .be book, and the trowel. and
the saw, and TIE hammer. He is
afraid OF those weapons. But woe TO
the man whom this roaring lion NEE Is
with his hands in his pockets.
do not demand that your toll ALWAYS
he elegant and cleanly. and refined.
lhere Is certain amount OF drudgerv
through which we must all pass. what
ever oe our occupation. You know
now men are sentenced n certain num-
Der OF years To prison, and after they
have suffered aud worked out the time.
then they are allowed to go free. So il
Is with all of Us. God passed ON us the
sentence: by the sweat of thv
brow shalt thou eat bread" We
must endure our time of drudg-
cry, and then. after awhile.
we will be allowed TO go into com
p"rative liberty. We must be willing
TO endure the sentence. We all know
what druogery is connected with the
beginning of any trade or profession;
but this does not continue all our lives
II IT be the students or the merchants
or the mechanics life. / know Won
have at the beginning many n hard
time, but after awhile those things
will become easy. You will be your
own master. Gods sentence will be
satisfied. You will be discharged from
prison.
Bless God that you have n brain TO
think, and hands 10 work, and feet to
walk with, for in your constant activ-
icy, % young man, Is one OF your
strongest defenses Put your trust in
God and do your best That child had
/. right when the horses ran away with
the load of wood and he sa. on it
When asked il he was frightened he
said: mo; Il prayed to God and hung
on like a beaver"
Respect for the Sabbath will be To
the young man another preservative
against evil. God has thrust into the
ton and fatigue of life a recreative day,
when the soul is especially To be fed
1t IS no new-fangled notion of a Wild
Drained reformer, but an institution
established at the beginning. God has
made natural and moral laws so har-
monious that the body as well as the
soul demands this institution. Our
bodies are seven-day clocks, that must
be wound up as often as that, or they
will run dowl. Failure must come
sooner or later to the man who breaks
the Sabbath. Inspiration has called IL
the Lords Day and he who devotes it
to the world is guilty OF robbery. God
will not let the sin 90 unpunished
either in this world or the world TO
come.
This is the statement of n man who
has broken this divine enactment: II
was engaged in manufacturing on the
Lehigh river. On the Sabbath / used
to rest, but never regarded God in it.
One beautiful Sabbath, when the noise
was all husned and the day was all
that loneliness could make 1t. / sat
down on my piazza, and went to work
inventing a new shuttle. / never
stopped to eat or drink till the sun
went down. BY that time had the in
vention completed. The next morning
L exhibited il, and boosted of my DAYS
work, and was applauded. The shut
tie was tried and worked well, but that
Sabbath days work cost me $50. 600
We branched out and enlarged, and
the curse of Heaven was upon me from
that day onward
While the Divine frown must rest
upon him who tramples upon this stat
ute, Gods special favor will be upon
that young man who scrupulously OBJ
serves it. This day, properly observed,
will throw a hallowed influence over
all the week. The song and sermon
and sanctuary will hold back from pre-
sumptuous sins. That young man who
begins the duties of life with either Sc
cret or open disrespect TO the holy day,
/ venture to prophesy will meet with no
permanent success. Gods curse will fall
upon his ship, his store, his Office, his
studio, his body. and his soul. The
way OF the wicked he turneth upside
down. In one OF the old fables IL was
said that wonderful child was born
In Bagdad. and magician could hear
his footsteps 5000 miles away. But 1
can hear in the footsteps OF that young
man on his way 20 the house Of worship
TODAY the step not only Of "a lifetime OF
usefulness. but the oncoming step OF
eternal ages Of happiness yet millions
of years away.
noble ideal and confident expecta-
ton Of approximating 20 IL are an in
fallible defense. The artist completes
in his mind the great thought that he
wishes 20 transfer TO the canvass or
the marble before he takes No the
crayon ur the chiseL The architect
plans out the entire structure before
lac orders the workmcn 10 begin. and
though there may for a long while
seem TO be nothing but biunderinp and
rudeness. he has in his mind every
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