The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-25

| uren around her, the minister look:
down, and is reminded of the Bible
description of a good house wife--'lIeI
children arise up and call her blessed;
her husband also. and he praiseth
her.
Some years go by. and the two old.
est boys want collegiate education,
and the household economies arc Sc
verer, and the calculations are closer
and until those two boys get their edu.
cation their is a hard battle for bread.
One of these boys enters the university.
stands in a pulpit widely influential,
and breaches righteousness, judg.
ment, and temperance, and thousands
during his ministry are blessed. The
other lad who got the collegiate
education goes into the law,
and thence into legislative halls,
and after awhile he commands listen
ing senates as he makes plea for the
downtrodden and the outcast. One of
the younger boys becomes n merchant,
starting at the foot of the ladder, but
climbing on up until his success and
his philanthropies are scattered all
over the land. The other son stays at
home because he prefers farming life,
and then he thinks he will be able to
take care of father and mother when
they get old.
OF the two daughters: when the war
broke out one went through the hoSpi-
tails of Pittsburg Ian ding and For
tress Monroe, cheering up the dying
and the homesick, and taking the last
message to kindred far away, SO that
every time Christ thought of her He
said, as of old: The same is my sister
and mother" The other daughter has
bright home of her own, and in the
afternoon-thc forenoon having been
devoted to her household-she goes
forth to hunt upCthe sick and to en-
courage the discouraged, leaving smiles
| and benediction all along the way.
But one day there start five tele-
grains from the village for these five
absent ones, saying: Come, mother
is dangerously ILL.," But before they
can be ready to start they receive
| another telegram, saying: Come,
mother is dead" The old neighbors
gather in the old farm house to do
the last offices of respect. But as
that farming son, and the clergy
man, and the senator, and the
merchant, and the two daughters
stand by the caskct of the dead moth
er taking the last look, or lifting their
little children TO see once more the
face of dear old grandma, l want to
ask that group around the casli ct one
question:: do you really think her
life was worth living?" A life for God.
8. s 4 ~.
useful life, Christian life IS always
worth living.
would not find it hard to persuade
you that the poor lad Peter Cooper,
making glue for living and then
| amassing great fortune, until he
could build philanthropy which had
its echo in 10000 philan thropies all
over the country would not find it
hard to persuade you that his life was
worth living. Neither would l find it
hard to persuade you that the
life of Susannah Wesley was
also worth living. She sent
out one son to organize Methodism
and the other son to ring his anthems
all through the ages. would not
I find it hard work to persuade you
that the life of Frances Leere
was worth living, as she estab-
lished in England school for the sci
entihc nursing of the sick, and then
when the war broke out between
France and Germany went to the front,
and with her own hands scraped
the mud off the bodies of the soldiers
dying in the trenches, and with her
weak arm standing one night in the
hospital pushing back German sol.
der to his couch, as all frenzied with
his wounds, he rushed to the door, and
said: Let me go, let me go to my liebe
mutter" -major-generals standing back
to let pass this angel of mercy.
| Neither would have hard work to
! persuade you that Grace Darling lived
Il life worth living-the heroine of the
! life boat. You are not wondering that
| the duchess of Northum berland came
up to see her, and that people of all
lands asked for her lighthouse and
that the proprietor of the Adelphi.
theater in London offered her 500 q
| night just to sit in the lifeboat while
some shipwreck scene was being en-
acted.
INV hhON bhS eiiouShb III Vic lulhNio
of hundreds of you to-day. You say:
"While L know all these lived lives
worth living, | don't think my life
amounts to much" All! my friends,
whether you live life conspicuous or
inconspicuous, it is worth living if you
live Alright. And | want my next SEN
tencc to go down into the depths of all
your souls. You are to be rewarded,
not according to the greatness of your
work, but according to the holy in
dustrics with which you employed the
talents you really possessed. The ma
jority of the crowns of Heaven will not
be given to people with ten talents. for
most of them were tempted only to
serve themselves. The vast majority
of the crowns of Heaven Will be Civ
en- to people who had one talent, but
gave it all to God. And remember that
our life here is Introductory to another.
1t is the vestibule to the palace; but
who despses the door of Mag
dalinc because there are grander glo-