The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-04

making his home pest and q dis
grace. should not wonder il he poe,
70 miserable grave, and beyond /,
into the gashing Of teeth. The way
OF the ungodly shall perish.
NY young friends, there is no way
10 genuine success except through
toll, either Of head or hand. AT the
battle Of Crecy, in 1916, the prince d
Wales, finding himself heavily pressed
by the enemy, sent word to his father
for help. The father, watching the
battle from wind mill, and seeing
his son was not wounded and could
gain the day II he would, sent word:
mo, l will not come. Let the boy
win his spurs, for, il God will, desire
that this day be his with all its hon
ors-" Young man, ight your own bat
tie, all through, and you shall have
the victory Oh, it is a battle wortl,
fighting! Two monarchs Of old fought
duel, Charles v. and Francis, and
the stakes were Kingdoms, Milan and
Burgundy. You fight with sin, and
the stake is Heaven Or hell.
Do not get the fatal idea that you
are genius, and that, therefore,
there is no need Of close application.
1t is here where multitudes fail The
curse OF the age is the geniuses; men
with enormous self-conceit and ego
tism, and nothing else. I had rather
be an OK than an eagle; plain and
plodding and useful, rather than high
flying and good for nothing but to
pick out the eyes of carcasses. Extra
ordinary capacity without work. is ex-
traordinary failure. There is no hope
for that person who begins life re-
solved to live by his wits, for the proba-
bility is that he has not any. 1t was
not safe for Adam, even in his unfall-
en- state, to have nothing to do, and,
therefore, God commanded him to be
a farmer and horticultural. He was
to dress the garden and keep it, and
had he and his wife obeyed the divine
injunction and been at work, they
would not have been sauntering under
the trees and hankering after that
fruit which destroyed them and their
posterity; a proof positive for all
ages to come that those who do not at
tend to their business are sure to get
into mischief.
do not know that the prodigal in
Scripture would ever have been re-
claimed had he not given up his idle
habits and gone to feeding swine for
living. The devil does not SO often at
Jack the man who is busy with the
pen, and the book. and the trowel, and
,he saw and the hammer. He is afraid
IT those weapons. But woe to the
nan whom this roaring lion meets
With his hands in his pockets.
Do not demand that your toll always
De elegant and clearly and refined.
There is certain amount of drudgery
through which we must all pass, what
'ver be our occupation. You know
low men are sentenced to a certain |
lumber of years to prison, and after
hey have suffered and worked out the
ime, then they are allowed to go
rec. So it is with all of us. God |
,assed on us the sentence; by the
weat Of thy brow shalt thou eat
read" We must endure our time of
rudgery, and then, after awhile, we
will be allowed to go into comparative
iberty. We must be willing to en-
ure the sentence. We all know what
rudgery is connected with the begin
ing of any trade or profession; but
his does not continue all our lives, if |
! be the students, or the merchants,
r the mechanics life. L know you
ave at the beginning many a hard
me, but after awhile these things
ill become easy. You will be your
wn master. Gods sentence will be
ltisfied. You will be discharged from
rison.
Bless God that you have brain to
link, and hands to work, and feet to
ak with, for in your constant activ-
y, o, young man, is one of your
defenses. Put your trust in
cd and do your best. That child had
right when the horses ran away
18th the load of wood and he sat on it.
hen asked if he was frightened, he
lid: mo, prayed to God and hung
i like beaver"
Respect for the Sabbath will be to
ne young man another preservative
yainst evil. God has thrust into the
Ill and fatigue of life a recreative
ay, when the soul is especially to be
d. 1t is no new-fapgled notion of a
reformer, but an institu-
on established at the beginning. God
rs made natural and moral laws so
that the body as well as I
Ie soul demands this institution.
nr bodies are seven-day clocks. that
ust be wound up as often as that or |
ev will run down. Failure must
me sooner or later to the man who
-eaks the Sabbath. Inspiration has
He'd it the Lords day, and he who
votes 1t to the world is guilty ofrob-