Connecticut western news., 1896-11-26

ing after that fruit which destroyed them and their posterity, a proof posi- tive for all ages to come that those who do not attend to their business are sure to get into mischief.
 Iio 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 a living. Tho devil does not so often at- tack the man who is busy with the pen, and the book, and the trowel, and the saw, and the hammer. He is afraid of those weapons. But woe to the man whom this roaring lion meets with his hands in his pocketsl
 Do not demand that your toll always be elegant and cleanly and refined. There is certain amount of drudgery through which we must all pass, what ever be our occupation. You know how men are sentenced a certain number of years to prison, and after they have sui fered and worked out the time, then they are allowed to go free. So it is with all of us. God passed on US the sentence, "By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread' We must endure our time of drudgery, and then, after awhile, we will be allowed to go into comparative-liberty. We must be will ing 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 it be the students, or the merchants s, or the mechanics life. know you have at the beginning many a hard time, but after awhile those things will be- come easy. You will be your own mas- l ter Gods sentence will be satisfied. You will be discharged from prison. Bless God that you have a brain to | think and hands to work and feet to walk with, for in your constant activi- ty, o young man, is one of your strong est defenses. Put your trust in God and | do your best That child had it right l when the horses ran away with the load of wood, and he sat on it. When asked if he was frightened. he said, 'No; I prayed to God and hung on like a l beaver. ''
 Respect For tho Sabbath.
 Respect for the Sabbath will be to the young man another preservative against | evil. God has thrust into the toll and | fatigue of life recreative day, when l the soul is especially to be fed. It is no | new tangled notion of 8 wild brained | reformer, but an institution established | at the beginning. God has made natu- ral and moral laws so harmonious that l the body as we'll 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. Inspira- tion has called 1t the Lords day, and he who devotes it to the world is guilty l of robbery. God will not let the sin go unpunished, either in this world or the | world to come.
 This is the statement of a man who has broken this divine enactment: "I was engaged 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 all that loveliness could make it, sat down on my piazza and went to work inventing a new shuttle. I neither stopped to eat nor drink till the sun went down. By that time had the invention complet- ed. The next morning exhibited it and boasted of my days work and was ap- plauded. The shuttle was tried and worked we'll. but that Sabbath day s work cost me $S0. 900. We branched out 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 stat ute, Gods special favor will be upon that young man who scrupulously ob- 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 presump- tuous sins. That young man who begins the duties of life with either secret or open disrespect to the holy day, l ven-
 ture to prophecy, 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
 of the wicked he turneth upside down.
 In one of the old fables it was said that wonderful child was born in Bagdad,
 and magician could hear his footsteps
 6, 900 miles away. But can hear in the
 footstep of that young man on his way
 to the house of worship today the ster
 not only of lifetime of usefulness, but
 the oncoming step of eternal ages oi
 happiness yet millions of years away.
 High Ideals.
 A noble ideal and confident expecta
 tion of approximating to it are an infal
 lible defense. The artist completes II
 his mind the great thought that h' 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
 workmen to begin, and, though there
 may for a long while seem to be nothing
 but laundering and rudeness, he has in
 his mind every Corinthian wreath and
 Gothic arch and Byzantine capital.
 The poet arrnnges the entire plot before
 he begins to chime the first canto O,
 tingling rhythms- And yet. strange tc
 ray, there are men who attempt to build
 their character without knowing wheth
 CT in the end it shall be rude Tartar.
 tent or a St. Marks of Venioe-meI
 who begin to write the intricate poem
 of their lives without knowing whethe,
 it shall be a Homer's Odyssey" or [
 rhymester' botoh.
 Nine hundred and ninety mine mer
 out of a thousand are living without
 any great life plot. Booted and spurret
 and plumed and urging their swift
 courser in the hottest haste. I ask Hello, man; whither away7" His re
 sponse is, Nowhere. Rush into tn,
 busy shop or store of many one, and
 taking the plane out of the mans hand or laying down the yardstick, say
 "What, man, is all this about-so muol stir and sweatp" The reply will stumbl, and break down between teeth and lips