The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-16
aged, leaving smiles and beneiietion all

aged, leaving smiles and benedietion all
along the way.
But one dav there start five kilograms
from the villaSs for these five absent ones,
saving "Comc. mother is dangerously Ill.
But before they can h" ready to start they
receive another telegram. saving, Come,
mother is dead" The OH nnichborS gather
in the old farmh0as" 10 q" the last Office OF
respect But as TIE farming son aai the
clergyman, aud the Senator and the mer-
chant and the two daughters stand by the
casket OF the dead mother taking the last
look, or lifting their little children to sec
once more the face OF dear old grandma.
want to ask that group around the casHet
one question, DO You really think her life
was worth living?" A life for God, life for
others, a life of unselfis lness, useful lie,
a 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 ne could build philanthropy
which has had its echo in 10, 900 philan-
thropies all over the country-I would not
find it hard to persuade you that his life
was worth living. Neither would find 1t
hard to persuade you that the life OF Sus-
annah Wesley was worth living. She sent
out one son to organize Methodism and the
other son to ring his anthems all through the
ages. I would not find 1t hard work to
persuade you that the life OF
Frances Leere was worth living, as
she established in England school for the
scientific 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 of the bodies
of the soldiers dying In the trenches and
with her weak arm-standing one night IN
the hospital-pushing hack German sol
dier to his couch, as, all frenzied with MS
wounds, he rushed to the door and said,
.I.et me 90, let me go TO my liebe mutter,
major generals standing back TO let pass
this Sngel Of mercy.
Neither would have hard work to per-
suade you that Grace Darling lived lie
worth liying--the heroine OF the liieooat:
You are not wondering that the Duchess OF
Northumberland came to see her and that
people Of all lands asked for her lighthouse
and that the proprietor OF the Adelphi
theatre In London offered her 300 night
lust to sit in the iifeboat while some ship
wreck scene was being enacted.
But know the thought in the minds OF
hundreds Of you to-day. You say, "Whiie
know all these lived lives worth living, l
don't think my life amounts to much" An
nv friends, whether you live life conspic-
uous or inconspicuous, it is worth living,
II you live Alright. And / want my next
sentence 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 industries
with which you employed the talents you
really possessed. The majority OF the
crowns OF heaven will not be given to peo-
pie with ten talents, for mast Of them were
tempted only to serve themselves. The
vast majority of the crowns Of heaven will
be given to the 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 palace, but who despises
the door OF a Madeleine because there are
grander glores withinp Your life, II
rigidly lived, is the first bar OF an eternal
oratorio, and who.despises the first note OF
Haydn's symphonies? And the life you
live now is all the more worth living be-
cause it opens into life that shall never
end. and the last letter OF the word "time"
is the first letter Of the word eternity"