Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-09-18

Some yeaxD 90 BY. and the two Oldest
boys want collegiate education, and the
houscooid economies are severcr. and the
ssicuistions Are closer and until those two
battle Tor tread. One OF these bows enter
the university. stands in a pulpit widely In
nucntial and breaches righteousness ir,ig-
nent ana temperance. and thousands dur
ing ms ministry are blessed. The other lad
Who COZ the collegiate education goes into
the law. and thence into Legislative halls
aud after awhile he commands listening
senates a. ne makes n plea for the down
trodcen and the outcast. One OF ths
younger boys becomes a merchant. start
lug AZ the loot of the ladder. but climbing
ON up until his success and hts philanthro-
pies are recognized all over the land. The
other son stays at home because he prefers
farming lie. and then he thinks he will he
able 20 take care Of father and mother
when they set old.
OF the two daughters. whom the war
broke out, one went through the hOspifals
Of Fittshurg Landing aud Fortress Monroe.
cheering up the DYING and tire homcsick
and taxing the las message 20 kindred far
away. 80 that every time Christ thought 81
her he said, as OF old. The same i my sis
ter anu mother. The other daughter has
bright home % her own. ard ia the after
ncon-the forenoon having been devoted
10 her p2uSchoid-She goes forth 70 hunt
- the SICK and TO encourage the discOur-
aged. leaving smiies AMI beneiictlon oil
along the wav
But one day there start arc kilograms
rom the village for these five absent ones
saving. Come. mother Is inn.-.-ouSiv I'M =.
hat before they can be ready % start they
re'fiFe another Telegram. saving. Come
ui'tnrr - dead The oil neishhorS gather
an the old farmhouse 70 DO the last office 81
respect But a. the farming son and the
t."f-N nan. and the senator and the mer-
clant and tho two daughters stand bv tho
asker %. the dead mother taking the last
''ok. or lifting their littie children 70 SEQ
once more the face ~ dear old grandma 7
"an' 10 ask that group around the casket
was worth livinCs" 4 life Tor God. life for
o-acrs. a lie % unseIi~hncSs. useful life.
a .nristien life. Is always worth living.
would not and Il hurl u persuade Won
tlat the poor lal. Peter Cooper. making
glue Tor living. and then a.naSsi-.. n IRON,
fortune until ne could build q philanthropy
which has had its echo in ~. 900 phlan-
th-oVioS al over the colrfrs--T Svouis no.
Ant u hard 60 persuade vou that his life
was worth living. Neither would fnl IL
larl q uc-suafe YOU shat the lie % Sus-
aanan " Wesley WAS worth living. She sent
oAt on" son 20 orcani-o Methoii-n ana the
otAef son 20 ring his ant hens ail through the
ages. / would not fni 10 hari work TO
persuade YOU that the life az
Frances Leere was worth living. "a
she established IN En-ianl n school for the
scientific nursing 20 che sick. ana then
When the war broke out between France
ani Germany went tothe 'front.' AMI with her
own hands scranei the uui OF the bodies
at the soldiers dying in tho trenches AMI
win her weak arm-stanling one night In
re hos1itai-p1shin- back a German SOL
uier g. ms couch. as .il franriei with HIS
wounds. he rushed g. Che door anl said
LEX me 80, let m- g. O. my iieni. .,-,.-cr -
Ks.a f..s.
taiS naigel % mercy
Neither would I have hard work to PEP
-laie Won that Grace Darling lived a life
worth llvinc-the heroine % tho Nfehoat
4 on are not wonder that the Duchess OF
Nortnumh -riand came % soc her and that
people Of all lands asked Tor her lighthouse
AMI that the proprietor % the Aielphi
iaoatre IA London offered her 500 a night
iust 20 sit IA the iifeboat while some shin
wreck scene was being enacted.
brt k-9w- - nought ia the minds Of
hundreds 81 Won TODAY. lou saw "While
know All these lived lives worth living. I
don't think NV lie amounts 20 much" An.
nay friends. whether you live life eonspic-
nous or iucor-picn Gus IL 4 worth living
y you live Alright. And I want NV next
sentence 20 80 down into the depths Of
al your souls. You are 70 be rewarded
not according % the greatness Of your
work. hut acc0r ling % the holy industries
with which yol employed the talents YOU
really possessed. The majority % the
crowns 20 heaven will not be given % peo-
rie with ten talents. for mast 81 them were
TEN It"l only - serve themselves The
vast majority q the crowns OF heaven will
D. given % che people who hal one talent.
bar gave IL all % God. And remember that
our life here Is Introductory q another. II fs
the veStitule q q palace. but who dcSrises
the door - a Madeleine because there are
grander glories within, Your lfe. II
riSitly lived. l. the arst bar o. an eternal
1raSorio, aud who'desplses the nrst note q,
haydn : symghonies2 And the life Won
i've now i all the more worth livfn, he
cause Il opens into a life that shall never
IN y, ana the last letter OF the word time"
l. lie AFst letter of the word "eternity."