Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-12-04

the body as we'll as the soul demands this In
stitation, Our bodies are seven day clocRf
that must DO wound up as often as thar OF
they will run down. Failure must come
sooner or later 10 the man who breaks the
Sabbath. Inspiration has called 1t the LORDS
day, and he who devotes It to the world Y
guilty of robbery. God will not let the SIN
60 UNPUBLISHED either in this world or the
| world 10 come.
This is the statement OF man who has
broken this divine enactment: II was en-
gagged in manufacturing on the Lehigh
River. On the Sabbath / used to rest, but
never regarded God In 1t. One beautiful
Sabbath when the noise was all hushed, and
the day was ell that loveliness could make
1t, l sat down on my piazza and went to work
inventing d new shuttle. neither stopped
to eat nor drink till the sun went down. BY
| that time ! had the invention completed.
| The next morning exhibited 1t and boasted
Of my days work, and was applauded. The
shuttle was tried and worked well, but that
| Sabbath days work cost me $50, 900. We
branched o1t and enlarged, and the curse
| OF heaven was upon me from that day on
ward"
While the divine frown must rest upon
him who tramples upon this statute, Gods
special favor will be upon that young man
who scrupulousy observes II. This day,
properly observed, will throw hallowed
influence over all the week. The song and
sermon and sanctuary will hold back from
presumptuous sins. That young man who
begins the duties Of life with either secret or
open dlsrespect 10 the holy day, venture to
prophesy, will meet with no permanent sue
cesses 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
L., 1n~ ~ % al fof
said that wonderful child was born In Bag
dad, and n magician could hear his footsteps
5000 miles away. But can hear In the foot
step Of that young man on his way to the
house OF worship to-day the step not only OF
a lifetime OF usefulness but thu oncoming
step Of eternal ages OF happiness yet millions
OF years away.
A noble ideal and confident expectation Of
approximating TO 1t are an infallible de-
Tense. The artist completes In his mind the
great thought that he wishes to transfer to
the canvas or the marble before he takes up
the crayon or the chisel. The architect
plans out the entire structure before he
orders the " orkmen 10 begin, and, though
there may for a long while seem to be moth
ing but laundering and rudeness, he has in
his mind every Corinthian wreath and Gothic
arch and Byzantine capital. The poet
arranges the entire plot befora he begins to
chime the first canto OF tiDgling rhythms.
And yet, strange to say, there are men who
attempt to build their character without
Knowing whether in the end 1t shall be
ru ie Tartar's tent or St. Marks Of Venice
men who begin to write the intricate poem
Of their lives without knowing whether 1t
shall be Homers odyssey" or rhym-
ester's botch
Nine hundred and ninety-nine men out Of
III It,,f.. x,,skh
plot. Booted and spurred and plumed, and
urging their swift courser In the hottest
haste, l ask: "Hello, man. Whittier away"
His respones, Nowhere" Rush into the
busy shop or store OF many one and taxi
ing the plane out OF the mans hand or lay
ing down he yardstick, say, "What, man, is
all this about--so much stir and sweat2''
The reply will stumble and break down
between teeth and lips Every days duty
ought only to be the filling up Of the main
plan Of existence. Let men be consistent.
II they prefer misdeeds to correct courses OF
action, then let them draw 1.-The DESIGN Of
Knavery and cruelty and plumber. Let every
days falsehood and wrong doing be added
as cooring to the picture. Let Bloody deeds
red stripe the picture, and the clouds Ola
wrathful God hang down heavily over the
canvas, ready 10 break out in clamorous
tempest. Let the waters be chafed and
froth tangled and green with immeas-
urable depths Then lake torch OF
burning pitch and scorch into the frame
the right name for tt-the SOULS suicide.
II one entering upon sinful drec-
lions would only in bis mind or on pa-
per draw out In awful reality this dreadful
future, he would recoii from it and say, "Am
Dante that by my own life should write
another Tnferno?'" But If you are resolved
to live life such as God and good men will |
approve, do not let 1t be vogue dream, an
indefinite determination, but IN your mind |
or upon paper sketch II in all its minutiR. |
You cannot know the changes to which you
may be subject, but you may know what |
always will be right and always will be |
wrong. Let gentleness and charity and ver-
acity and faith stcnd In the heart OF the
sketch.
On some still brooks bank make a lamb |
and lion lie down together. Draw two or
three Of the trees Of life, not frost stricken,
nor ice glazed, nor wind stripped, but with
thick yerdue waving like the palms OF |
heaven. On the darkest cloud place the |
rainbow, that pillow OF the dying storm.
You need not print the title on the frame.
The dullest will catch the design at q
glance and say, "That is the road TO heav-
en-" All, mel On this sea Of lie what in
Vulnerable ships, heavily laden and we'll
rugged, yet seem bound for no portl Swept |
every whittier Of wind and wave, they go up
by the mountains, they go down by tho
valleys and are at their wits end. They
sail by no chart they watch no star, they
long for no harbor. l beg every young man
to day to draw out sketch of what. by the
grace OF God, he means to be. Think no
excellence so high that you cannot reach
ii. He who starts out in life with high
ideal OF character and faith in its attain
ment will find himself Incased from q
thousand temptations There are mag
niicent possibilities before each Of you,
young men OF the stout heart, and the buoy
ant step and the bounding spirit. 1 would
marshal you for grand achievement God
now provides for you tho field aud the
arrnor and the fortidcation. Who Is on
Tho Lords side? A captain in ancient
lines, to encourage his men against the
Immense odds on the side OF their enemies.
said: "Come. my men, look these fellows
In the face. They are 5000; you are 300.
Surely the match is even" That speech gave
Them the victory. Be not, my hearers, dis
mayed at any time by what seems an i'm
mense odds against you. Is fortune, Is want
Of education, are men, are devils against you,
though the multitudes OF earth and hell con-
front you, stand up to the charge. With
| 900. 600 against you, the match Is just even
nay, You nave ueclded advantage. II
God be for Us, who can be against US? Thus
you need not spend much time in
your assailants.
Many years ago word came 10 me that two
mposters, as temperance lecturers, had been
speaking in Ohio in various places and CIV
ing their experience, and they told their
audience that they had long been intimate
with me and had become drunkards by din
ing at my table, where always had liquors
Of all sorts. Indignant to the last degree,
went down to Patrick Campbell, chief OF