The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-25
will be barlsed at by all the hounds OF

| helplng them IN tnat struggle. NOW
that is not life worth living. Yor
can get slandered and abused cheaper
than that! Take it on smaller scale
Do not be so ambitious to have a whole
reservoir rolled over on you.
But what you see in the matter OF
high political preferment you see in
every community in the struggle for
what is called social position. Tens OF
thousands of people trying to get into
that realm, and they are under terrific
tension. What is social position? IL is
difficult thing to define, but we all
know what it is. Good morals and in
telligence are not necessary, but
wealth, or a show of wealth, is ALSO
lutely indispensable. There are men
to-day as notorious for their libertin-
ism as the night is famous for its dark
ness who move in what is called high
social position. There are hundreds
of out-and.out rakes in American so
ciety whose names are mentioned
among the distinguished guests of the
great levees. They have annexed all
the known vices, and are longing for
other worlds of diabolism to conquer.
Good morals are not necessary in many
of the exalted circles of society.
| A life of sin. life of pride, life of
indulgence, life of worldliness, life
devoted to the world, the flesh and the
devil is failure, dead failure, an in
definite failure. l care not how many
| presents you send to that cradle, or how
many garlands you send to that grave,
| you need TO put right under the name
on the tom bstone this inscription: Bet
ter for that man if he had never been
| born"
But shall show you life that is
worth living. 4 young man says: II
am here. / am not responsible for my
| ancestry; others decided that | am
not responsible for my temperament;
God gave me that. But here | am, in
the evening of the nineteenth GEN.
fury. at 20 years of age. am here,
and | must take an account of stock.
Here | have body which is a di-
vinely-constructed engine. must
put it to the very best uses, and L
must allow nothing to damage this
rarest of machinery. Two feet. and
they mean locomotion. Two eyes, and
they mean capacity to pick out my own
way. Two ears, and they are tele-
phones of communication with the out
side world and they mean capacity to
catch sweetest music and the voices of
friendship-th very best music. a
tongue, with almost infinity of articu-
lation. Yes, hands with which to well
come or resist, or lift, or smite, or
wave, or bless-hands to help myself
and help Others.
Here is world which after 5000
years OF battling with tempest and ac-
cident is still grander than any archi-
tect, human or angelic, could have
drafted. | have two lamps to light me
"a golden lamp and silver Tampa
golden lamp set on the sapphire man
tel of the day, silver lamp set on the
| Jet mantel of the night. Yea, l have
that at 20 years OF age which defies all
| inventory of valua bles-a soul. with
capacity to choose or reject, to re-
! joice or to suffer, to love or to hate.
Plato says it is immortal. Seneca
says il is immortal. Confucius says it is
immortal. An old book among the
family relics-a Book with leathern
cover almost worn out and pages
almost oblitcrated by oft perusal, joins
the other books in saying | am i'm
mortal. l have eighty years for life
time. sixty years yet TO live. | may
not live an hour, but then | must lay
out my plans intelligently and Tor a
long life Sixty years added to twenty
l have already lived, that will bring
me to eighty. l must remember
that these eighty years are only
brief preface to the five hundred
thousand millions of quintillons OF
years which will be my chief residence
and existence. Now, | understand my
opportunities and my responsibility ties.
II there is any Being in the universe all
wise and all benchcent who can help
man in such a juncture, want Him.
The old Book found among the family
relics tell me there is a God, and that
for the sake of His Son, one Jesus,
lie will give help to a man. To
Him l appeal. God help me. Here,
have 60 years yet to do for myself
and to do for others. ! must develop
this body by all industries, by all gym
nastics, By all sunshine, by all fresh
| air, by all good habits. And this soul
must have swept and garnished, and
illumined, and glorifed by all that
can do for it and all that can get God
to do for it. 1t shall be q Luxembourg
of fine pictures. 1t shall be an orches-
ira of grand harmonies. 1t shall be n
palace for God and Righteousness to
reign in. / wonder how many kind
words l can utter in the next go
years? / will try. 1 wonder how many
good deeds l can do in the next 60
years? | will try. God help me.
That young man enters life. He is
buffeted, he is tried, he is perplexed.
A grave opens on this side and grave
opens on that side. He falls, but he
rises again. He gets into hard bat
tie, but he gets the victory. The main
course Of his life is in the right direc-
ton. He blesses everybody he comes
in contact with. God forgives his mis-
takes, and makes everlasting record of
his holy endeavors, and at the close of
1t, God says to him: "Well done,
good and faithful servant; enter
| into the low of thy Lord - Nv brotb