The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-23

| had he not given up his idle habits and
| gone to feeding swine for living. The
| devil does not so often attack the man
| who Is busy with the pen, and the book,
! and the trowel, and the saw, and the ham
mer. He is afraid of those weapons. But
| woe to the man whom this roaring lion
meets with his hands in his pockets!
| DO not demand that your toll always be
| elegant and clearly, and refined. There is
| a certain amount of drudgery through
which we must all pass whatever be our
occupation. You know how men are sem
| fenced certain number of years to prison
and after they have suffered and worked
! out the time then they are allowed to go
| free So 1t is with all of us. God passed
| on us the sentence: by the sweat of thy
brow shalt thou eat bread" We must en-
dure our time Of drudgery, and then, after
| awhile, we will be allowed to go into com
parative' liberty We must be willing to
endure the sentence. We all know what
drudgery is connected with the beginning
Of any trade or profession; but this does
not continue all our lives, if il be the stud
ent's, or the merchants, or the mechanics
life. l know you have at the beginning
many a hard time, but after awhile those
things will become easy. You will be your
own master. Gods sentence will be sat
shed. You will be discharged from prison.
Bless God that you have brain to think,
and hands to work, and feet to walk with,
for in your constant activity, O young
man, is one of your strongest defenses.
Put your trust in God and do your best.
That child had it right when the horses
ran away with the load of wood and he
sat on it. When asked If he was fright
ened, he said: No, / 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 toll and
ia inT1n of tive Il
soul is especially to be fed. 1t is no new
tangled notion of a wild-brained reformer,
but an institution established at the be-
ginning. God has made natural and moral
laws so harmonious 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 down. Failure must come sooner or
later to the man who breaks the Sabbath.
Inspiration has called it the Lords day.
and he who devotes it to the world is
guilty of robbery. God will not let the sin
go unpublished either in this world or the
world to come.
This rs the statement of man who has
broken this Divine enactment: II was en-
gagged in manufacturing on the Iehigh
river On the Sabbath I used to rest
but never regarded God in it. One beau
titul Sabbath when the noise was all hush
ed, and the day was all that loneliness
could make 1t, l sat down on my piazza.
and went to work inventing a new shut
tie | neither stopped to eat nor drink till
the sun went down. BY that time l had
the invention completed. The next morn
ing exhibited it, and boosted of nv DAYS
work, and was applauded. The shuttle
was tried, and worked well, but that Sab
path days work cost me thirty thousand
dollars. We branched out and enlarged
and the curse of heaven was upon me
from that day onward "
While the Divine frown must rest upon
MIN VINO tramples upon this statute. Gods
special favor will be upon that young man
who scrupulously observes It, This dav
properly observed, will throw a haIlowed
influence over all the week. The song and
sermon ana sanctuary will hold back from
presumptuous sins That young man who
begins the duties of life with either secret
or open disrespect to the holy day, 1 ven
ture to prophesy, will meet with no per-
manent successes. Gods curse will fall
upon his ship, his store, his office. his
studio, his body, and his soul The way
or the wicked he turneth upside down In
one OF the old fables it was said that a
wonderful child was born in Bagdad and
magician could hear his footsteps six
thousand miles away, But 1 can hear in
the footstep of that young man on his way
to the house of worship to-day the step
not only of lifetime of usefulness, but the
| oncoming step of eternal ages of happi-
ness yet millions of years away
noble ideal and confident expectation
of approximating to it are an infallible de-
fence. The artist completes in his mind
the great thought that he wishes to trans
| fer to the canvas or the marble before he
| takes up the crayon or the chisel The
| architect plans out the entire structure be-
| fore he orders the workmen to begin, and
though there may for long while seem
to be nothing but laundering and rude
| ness he has in his mind every Corinthian
wreath and Gothic arch and Byzantine
capital. The poet arranges the entire
| plot before he begins to chime the first
| canto of tingling rythms. And yet,
| strange to say, there are men who attempt
| to build their character without knowing
| whether in the end 1t shall be a rude Tar
| tars tent or a st. Marks of Venice-men
| who begin to write the intricate poem OF
| their lives without knowing whether il
| shall be a Homers Odyssey" of a
| rhymester's botch. Nine hundred and
| ninety-nine men out of a thousand are liv.
| ing without any great life-plot. Booted
and spurred and plumed, and urging their
| swift courser in the hottest haste, l ask
Halo. man, whittier away?" His re.
/ Spouse is, Nowhere" Rush into the
| busy shop or store of many a one, an6
taking the plane out of the mans hand OIL
1 laying down the yard-stick say: What
man, is all this about, so much stir and
| sweat?" The reply will stumble anC
break down between teeth and lips Every
days duty ought only to be the filling VI
| of of the main plan of ex
| istence. Let men be consistent
If they prefer misdeeds to correct
courses of action, then let them draw gu
the design of knavery and cruely ant
plumber. Let every days falsehood ant
wrongdoing be added as eoloring to thu
picture. Let bloody deeds red-stripe tn,
picture, and the clouds of a wrathful Coo
hang down heavily over the canvas, ready
to break out in clamorous tempest LIE
the waters be chafed and froth-tangled anC
green with Unreasonable depths. Their
take a torch of burning pitch and scorcl
into the frame the right name for It'll,
souls suicide. If one entering upon sin
full directions would only, in his mind o.
on paper, draw out in awful reality thi
dreadful future, he would recoil from i
and say: Am l a Dante that by M
own life ] should write another Inferno?' ,
But If you are resolved to live a life sucl
as God and good men will approve, do no
let 1t be a vague dream, and indefinite de
termination. but, in your mind or upon pa
per sketch 1t in all it's minutiae You can