The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-13

He gets into a hard battle, but he gets
the victory. The main-course of his life
is in the right direction. He blesses every
body he comes in contact with. God for
gives his mistakes, and makes everlast-
ing record of his holy endeavors and at
the close Of IL, God says 10 him: We'll
done, good and faithful servant; enter
into the JOY of thy Lord" My brother
my sister do not care whether that man
dies thirty forty, fifty, sixty, seventy
or eighty years OF age; you can chisel
right under his name on the tombstone
these words His life was worth living"
Amid the hills of New Hampshire, in
olden times, there sits a mother. There
are six children in the househOld-four
boys and two girls. Small farm. Very
rough. hard work to coax living out of
1t. Mighty tug TO make the two ends of
the year meet. The boys go to school in
winter and work the farm 10 summer.
Mother is the chief presiding spirit. With
her hands she knits all the stockings for
the llttle feet, and she is the mantuamaker
for the boys and she IS the mllliner for
the girls. There Is only one musical In
strument In the house-the spinning
wheel. The food Is very plain, but IL is
always well provided. The winters are
very cold but are kept out by the blankets
she quilted. On Sunday. when she APP
pears in the village church, her children
around her the minister looks down, and
is reminded of the Bible description of "A
good housewife-"Her children arise up,
and call her blessed; her husband also,
ana he praseth her."
Some years go by, and the two Oldest
boys want a collegiate education, and the
household economies are severer, and the
calculations are closer and until those
two boys get their education there is a
hard battle for bread One of these boys
enters the university, stands in a pulpit
widely influential, and breaches righteous
thousands during his ministry are bless
ed. The other lad who got the collegiate
education goes into the law, and thence
into legislative halls, and after awhile
he commands listening Senates as he
makes plea for the downtrodden and the
outcast. One of the younger boys be-
comes merchant, starting at the foot
of the ladder but climbing on up until
his success and his philanthropies are
recognized 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 moth
er when they get old.
OF the two daughters: when the war
broke out one went through the hospitals
of Pittsburg Landing and Fortress Mon.
roe, cheering up the dying and the home
sick, and taking the last message to kin
dred far away, so that every time Christ
thought of her he said as of old: ''The
er daughter has a bright home of her
own, and in the afternoon-the forenoon
having been devoted to her household
she goes forth to hunt up the sick and
to encourage the discouraged leaving
smiles and benedction all along the way
But one day there start five kilograms
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, say
ing: 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 clergyman, and the
senator, and the merchant, and the two
daughters stand by the casket of the dead
mother taking the last look or lifting their
little children to see once more the face of
dear old grandma, I want TO ask that
group around the 6dsket one question:
DO you really think her life was worth
livng?" a life for God, life for others,
life of unse.fishness, a useful life,
Christian life is always worth living.
l would not find it hard to persuade you
that the poor lad. Peter Cooper. making
glue for d living, and then amassing
great fortune until he could build philan-
throphy which has had its echo in ten
thousand philanthropies all over the
country-1 would not find it hard to per-
suade you that his life was worth living.
Neither would l find it hard to persuade
you that the life of Susannah Wesley was
worth living. She sent out one son TO or
ganize Methodism and the other son to
ring his anthems all through the ages. 1
would not find it hard work TO persuade
you that the life of Frances Leere was
worth living, as she established in Eng
land 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 off the bodies of the SOL
diers dying in the trenches, and with her
weak arm-standing one night in the hos
pital-pushing back a German soldier 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 per-
suade you that Grace Darling lived life
worth living-the heroine of the lifeboat.
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
&delphi theater, in London, offered her a
hundred dollars a night just to sit in the
lifeboat while some shipwreck scene was
| being enacted.
But know the thought in the minds of
hundreds of you to-day: You say: while
l know all these lived lives worth living
Ali my friends whether you live a life
conspicuous or inconspicuous, it is worth
living, if you live Alright. And | want my
next sentence to so down into the depths
of all your souls. You are to be reward
ed 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
crown of heavens 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 given to people who had one tai
ent, but gave it all to God. And remem-
Der that our life here is Introductory to
another. 1t is the vestibule to a palace:
! but who despises the door of a Madeleine
| because there are grander glories with
in? Your life if rightly lived is the first
bar of an eternal oratorio, and who de-
spises the first note of Haydn's sympho-
MES? And the life you live now is all
the more worth living because it opens
into a life that shall never end, and The
last letter of the word time" is the irst
letter of the word "eternitvrp