The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

and it is little late to change the plans when the house is halfway up. The passing years emphasize this word. The young man will soon be the middle aged man. His character and habits are becoming more fixed each month. He may gladly listen to you now. A year from now he will tell you, you are too late. Then too we are not sure of the future for ourselves. I used to think there was ample time to do all one would care to do, but I find I was in error. IF ONE WOULD DO ANYTHING,
 there is but one time to do it, and that is now. Bare life is in these days won- derful inheritance, for upon us are found the accumulated treasures of the ages.
 How can our young people wisely ad- minister the affairs of so great an estate unless they come to appreciate to some extent their responsibility? Run, speak to this young man. But what shall we tell him? AS we have seen the young man of the text was told the good news, that the city he was planning was to be far larger than he thought. So we may say to our young men, the life you are planning may be far grander than you dream. Lay broad foundations. Be- lieve in your possibilities. AS some one says, "Aman's most useful years to his family and to the community, are those in which he has at command life's har- vest of wisdom. experience and tenn poral possessions" It is ours to benefit young men by sharing that harvest with them, any experience we may have had that will be likely to prove useful in the way of warning or inspiration:
 Build thee more stately mansions, my soul, As the swift seasons roll;
 Leave thy low vaulted past;
 Let each new temple nobler than the last,
 Shut thee from heaven with & dome more vast. As these lines occur to us, we wish the spirit of them had taken possession of our souls in youth, while we stood with measuring lines in our hands. We are confident that then our lives would have been nobler. This experience should impell us to help our young men to form the noblest ideals. Let us speak to this young man of our interest in him, for we have great interest in him. Let us speak and show our sympathy by speak ing. Some of us have stood where he stands to day, have been tempted as he is tempted,
 HAVE NEEDED ENCOURAGEMENT
 as he needs it, it may be without receiv- ing it. Why cannot we do for him what
 we should have been so glad to have had some one do for us? Let us speak 1 of our belief in him. He has faults, but l we will not allow them to hide all the poteneies for good in him. Let us con- vince him that we think as we do, that he will not disappoint his friends, but that he will develop the bes6 that is in him. Then when we are able to speak to his heart, let us sell him of that other young man who can never grow old, Jesus the Christ. It may be that as he stands with 8 measuring line, ready to lay out his life, he fails to see the im- portance of having Christ in it. He does not realize that much which he regards as having always existed, Is really the product of Christian life and work of other days. He may think of Jesus as 8 negative force, helpful in helping one back from sin, or as 8 oppressive influ- ence tending to interfere with his full enjoyment of life. The creed of Inger- soil may have some attraction for him. He believes s'that happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worshipper, humanity the only re ligion, and love the only priest.n Befor accepting thia creed, let us urge our young man to mark well the end, which Iugersoll himself aaid at his brother's