The Penn's Grove record., 1897-09-17

1HN NNN 49, IV0 hOt hAO hAANV lOa ~
drop.
There are thousands to-day In that realm
who are anxious to keep in It. There are
thousands in that roalm who are nervous
for fear they will fall put OF 1t, aud tiere
are changes going on every year, n ev cry
month, and every hour which involve heart
breaks that are never reported. High Sc
eial life is constantly In q fiutter about the
delicate question as to whom they shall let
in n whom they shall push out, and the
battle is going on-pter mirror against pier
mirror, chandelier against chandelier, wine
cellar against wine cellar, wardrobe against
wardrobe, equlpage against e~quipage. I'm
certainty and Insecurity dominant In that
realm, wretchedness enthroned, torture Of
a premium and a life not worth lIvingl
But l shall show you a life that is worth
living. A young man says: 81 am here.
l am not responsible for my ancestry.
Others decided that. am not responsib le for
my temperament. God gave me that. But
here l am in the evening Of the nineteenth
century, at twenty years OF age. / am
here, and | must take an account Of stock.
Here l have a body, which is q divinely con-
structed engine. i must put 1t to the very
best uses. and I must allow nothing to
damage this rarest OF machinery. Two
feet, and they msan locomotion. Two
eyes, and they mean capacity to pick out
own way. Two ears, aud they IRE tel
ephones Of communication with all the out
side world, and they mean capacity to
catch the sweetest music and the voices OF
friendshfp-the very best music. A tongue,
with almost infnity of articulation Yes,
hands with which to welcome or resist or
LIT or smite or wave or bless-hands to
hely myself and help others.
Here Is a world which after 5000 years OF
battling with tempest and accident Is still
grander than any architect, human or an-
gelic, could have drafted. 1 have two
lamps to light me-a golden lamp and a
silver Tampa golden lamp set on the
sapphire mantel Of the day, a silver lamp
set on the jet mantel of the night. Yea, /
have that at twenty of age which de1es all
inventory of valuables-a soul with capac-
ity to choose or reject, to rejoice or to
suffer, to love or to hate. Plato says 1t is
immortal. Seneca says 1t Is immortal.
Confucius says it is immortal. An old
book among the family relics, q book with
leathern cover almost worn out and pages
almost obliterated ny 1i perusal. joins the
other books In saying I am immortal. /
have eighty years for a lifetime, sixty years
yet to live. 1 may not live an hour, but
then / must lay out my plans i~ntelligently
and for a long life. Sixty years added
to the twenty / have already lived-that
will bring me to eighty. I must remember
that these eighty years are only a brief
P=efac6 to the five hundred thousand mill
ions o. auintiilions of years which will be
chief residence and existence. Now
understand ny opportunities and my re-
sponsibilities, II there Is any being In the
universe all wise and Oh benefcent who can
help n man in such a j~uneturc, 1 want him."
The young man enters life. He is buff
feted, he Is tried he is p~erpiexed. A grave
opens on this side aud q grave opens on
that side. He falls, but he rises again. He
gets into q ard battle, but he gets the VIC
tory. The main course Of his life is In the
-f..EN If-.nkfOr II "a Hlno1na n,,o~r,I4l., ln
comes in contact with. God forgives his
mistakes aud makes everlasting record OF
his holy e~ndeavors, and ct the close OF it
God says to him; "Well done, good and
faithful servant. Enter into the Joy OF thy
Eord.p My brother, my sister, 1 do not
care whether that man dies at 80, 40, so, GO,
70 or so years OF age; you can chisel right
under his name on tho tombstone these
words, ellis life was worth living"
Amid the hills of New Hampshire, in
olden times, there sits q 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 In summer. Mother is the chief
presiding spirit. With her hands she knits
all the stockings for the little feet, and she
Is the mantua maker for the boys, and she
is the milliner for the girls. There Is only
one musical instrument In the house, the
spinning wheel. The food Is very plain,
but it is always well provided. The winters
are very cold, but are kept out by the
blankets she quilted. On Sunday, when
she appears In the village church, her
children around her, the minister looks
down and is reminded OF the Bible deserip-
ton OF a good housewife. 'Her children
arise up and call her blessed; her husband
also, and he praiseth her"
aan~o -N hr ond fhn fruO nldaaf
boys want q collegiate education, and the
household economies are s%egerer. and the
calculations are closer, and until those two
boys get their education there is a hard
battle for bread. N of these boys enters
the university, stands In u pulpit widelyin-
Quentia6esfc ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, JUG
ment and temperance, and thousands dur
ing his ministry are blessed. h otherlad
who got the collegiate education goes into
the law. and thence into legislative halls,
and after awhile he commands listening
senates as he makes a plea for the down
trodden and the outcast. One OF the
OUNCE boys becomes n merchant, start
ing at the foot OF the ladder, but climbing
on up until his success and his philanthro-
pies are recognized all over the land. The
other son stays Mt home because he prefers
farming life, and then he thinks he will be
able to take care OF father md mother
wheQ they get old.
or the two daughters, when tho war
broke out, one went through the hospitals
OF Pittsburg Landing aud Fortress Monroe,
cheering up the dying and the homeSick
and-taking the last message to kindred far
away, so that every time Christ thought of
her he said, as OF old: ''The same Is my sis
ter md mother Tta other daughter has
a bright home Of her o, n, ard In the after
noon--the forenoon having been devoted
to her household -she goes forth to hunt
- Akn 0aaH- awA 80 n. a. . ~ thu diaaaIr.
aged, leaving smil1s and ~benedictlon all
along the way
Eat one day there start FIVE kilograms
from the village for theSe five absent ones,
.h1ying, "Come, nlotheri, dangerously Ill.,"
but before they can be rtady to start they
receive another telegram, saying, Come,
mother is dead The old neighbors gather
ia the old farmhouse to do the last office OF
l, !. espect. But as the farming son n the
Clergyman, and the Senator and the mer-
vkhant and tho two daughters stand by the
Wasket OF the dead mother taking the last
Sfok, or lifting their little children to see
q sce more the face Of dear old grandma, /
'ssrsnt to ask that group around the casket
'ae question, "Do you really think her life
. "a worth living2' A life for God, a life for
q Lrers, q life OF unseliishneSs, q useful life,
: christian life, is always worth living.
'ed, would not find 1t hard to persuade you
TIT the poor lad, Peter Cooper, making
1 lay tUI u living, uuu tuoH dulaSSiuR dktont
inc until he could build a philanthropy
'ugnhh has had its echo In 1900 phflnn-
lid hies all over the eountry-I would not
anel hard to persuade you that his life
Gin Forth living. Neither would I find 1t
~,'einSE.o persuade you that the life of Sus-
: SAY Wesley was worth living. She sent
,oneas son to organize Methodism and the
iataIalnto ring his anthems although the
fa would not ind 1t hard work to
fer p.tIoyou that the life OF
twas fuf sere was worth living, as
Il third, he'd in England a school for the
~ ,,ursing OF tho sick, and then
tn IN Ngwar broke out between France
throt,tny went to the front and with her
81 p scraped the mud of the bodies
y Oilers dying In the trenche and
weak arm-standing one night in
q. tal-pushing back q German SOL
,pinsoLs couch, as, all irenzied with his
III wel,he rushed to the door and said,
-kina Hgo, let me go to my liebe mutter."
H. generals standing back to let pass
tics eotl OF mercy.
SDinson would l have hard work to per.
lmkins-4u that Grace Darling lived a life
Won W. ing-the heroine of the lifeboat.
fol;o mot wondering that the Duchess of
f"iAh6 nharlaud came to see her and thai