The Penn's Grove record., 1896-11-27

trust 10 GOD ana do your best. That chiTo
had 1t right when the horses ran away with
the load OF wood and he sat on 1t. When
asked II he was frightened. he said, mo, l
prayed to God and hung on like a beaver"
Respect for the Sabbath will be to thu
Young man another preservatiye againt evil.
God has thrust into the toll and fatigue OF
lifea reoreative day, when the soul is espe-
cially to be fed. 1t Is M new fangle notion
OF n will Drained reformer, but an institution
established at the beginning. God has made
natural ard moral laws so harmonious that
the body as we'll as the soul demands this In.
stitutioD. Our bodies are seven day clockf
that must be wound up as often as that OF
they will run down. Failure must come
sooner or later 10 the man who breaks the
Sabbath. Inspiration has called It the Lords
day, and he who devotes 1t to the world is
guilty OF robbery. God viii not let the sin
go UNPUBLISHED either in this world or the
world 10 come.
This Is the statement of q man who has
broken this divine enactment: II was en-
gagged in manufacturing on the Lehigh
River. On the Sabbath l used to rest, but
never regarded God In it. One beautiful
Sabbath when the noise was all hushed, and
the day was all that loveiiness could make
Ii, ] sat down on my piazza and went to work
inventing a new shuttle. / neither stopped
to eat nor drink till the sun went down. BY
that time / had the invention completed.
The next morning l exhibited 1t and boosted
OF my days work, and was ~applauded. The
shuttle was tried and worked well, but that
Sabbath days work cost me ESQ, 600. We
branched out and enlarged, n 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
anacl,f fuxrnr will ha nnAn that vN,anu m
who scrupulously observes II. This day,
properly observed, will throw a 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 disrespect TO the holy day, l venture to
prophecy, will meet with no permanent sue
cesses. Gods curse will fall upon his ship,
his store, his Office, his studio, hts body and
his soul. The way OF the wicked He turDeth
upside down. In one of the old fables II was
said that a wonderful child was born In Bag
dad, and a 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 oil
a lifetime OF usefulness, but ths oncoming
step of eternal ages OF happiness yet millions
OF years away.
noble ideal and confident expectation of
npproximating to It arc 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 chisei. The architect
plans out the entire structure before he
orders the workmen TO 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 before he begins to
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And yet, strange to say, there are men who
attempt TO build their character without
knowing whether in the end It shall be a
rude Tartar,s tent or a St. Marks Of Venice
men who begin to write the intricate poem
OF their lives without knowing whether II
shall DO a Homer's Odyssey or a rhym-
ester's botch.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine men out o.
Athousand are living without any great life
plot. Booted and spurred and plumed, and
urging their swift eourser in the hottest
haste, / ask: s'Hello, mani Whittier away?'
His respones, "Nowhere." Rush into the
busy shop or store OF many a one and tax
ing the plane out Of the mans hand or Law
Ing down the yardstick, say, "What, man. Is
| all this about-so much stir and sReat2''
The reply will stumble and break down
between teeth and lips. Every DAVIS 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 oil
action, then let them draw out the design OF
knavery and cruelty and plumber. Let every
days ~falsehood and wrong doing be added
IS coloring to the picture. Let bloody deeds
red stripe the picture, and the clouds of a
wrathfuis God hang down heavily over the
canvas, ready 10 break out In clamorous
tempest. Let the waters be chafel and
froth tangled and green with immess-
urable depths. Then take a torch OF
burning pitch and scorch into the frame
the right name for 1.-THE souls suicide,
n one entering upon sinful direc.
lions would only in his mind or on ma.
per draw out In awful reality this dreadful
future, he would recoii from II and saw. sam
[ a Dante that by my own life l should write
another Tnferno?'" But II you are resolve
to live a life such as God and good men will
approve, do not let it be a vague dream. ar
/ indefinite determination. but in your mind
or upon paper sketch 1t In all It's minutim,
You cannot know the changes to which Won
may be subject, but you may know what
always vii, be right and always will be
wrong. Let gentleness and charity and YER
acity and faith stand In the heart Of the
sketch.
On some still brooks bank make a lamb
and lion lie down together. Draw two oil
three of the trees OF life, not frost stricken
nor Ice glazed, nor wind stripped, but witt
thick verdue waving like the palms Of