News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-09-15


kind words I can utter III the next 90
years9 will try | wonder how many
good deeds can do in the next so year5I
will try God help mel
The Right Direction.
That young man enters life He is buf-
feted, 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 battle, but he gets the
victory. The main course of his life is in
the right direction. He blesses every body
se comes in contact with God fOrgives
his mistakes and makes everlasting record
of his holy Nndeavors, and at the close of it
God says to him: well done, good and
faithful servant Enter into the joy of
thy Lord" My brother, my sister, l do
not care whether that man dies at 30, 40,
50, 90, 20 or 80 years of age. You can chisel
right under his name on the tombstone
these words: ellis life was worth living"
Amid the hills of New Hampshire In
olden times there sits mother. There are
six children in the household-four boys
and two girls. Small farm. Very rough,
hard work to coax living out of it.
year meet. The boys go to school in win
ter and work the farm in summer. Mother
is the chief presiding spirit. With her
hands she knts all the stockings for the
little feet, and she is the mantua maker for
the boys, and she is the millinery for the
girls. There is only one musical instru-
ment in the house-the spinning wheel
The food is very plain, but it is always
we'll provided. The winters are very cold,
but are kept out by the blankets she quilt
ed. On Sunday, when she appears in the
village church, her children around her,
the minister looks down and is reminded
of the Bible description of a good house
wife, Her children arise up and call her
blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth
her. "
Some years go by, and the two oldest
boys want collegiate education, and the
household economies are severer, and the
calculations are closer and until those two
boys get their education there is u hard
battle for bread. One of these boys enters
the university, stands in a pulpit widely
influential and breaches righteousness,
Judgment and temperance, and thousands
during his ministry are blessed. I he 9TH
er lad who got the collegiate education
goes into the law and thence into legisla-
tive halls, and after awhile he commands
listening senates as he makes plea for
the dOwntrOdden and the OutGast. One Of
the younger boys becomes 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
mother 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, 1.-The
same is my sister and mother. " The other
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 bene,
diction all along the way.
But one day there start five kilograms
from the village for these five absent ones,
saying: Come. Mother Is dangeraussZ.
i'll. " But before they can be ready to start
they receive another telegram, saying;
Come. Mother is dead" The old neigh
bors gather in the old farmhouse 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 l want to ask that group
around the casket one question, do you
really think her life was worth living?" a
life for God, life for others, life Of I'M
selfshness, n useful life, Christian life, is
always worth living.