The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-12-30

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TEXT: "Run. speak to this youss man..
-Zechariah H., 4.
There was no snow on the beard OF the
prophet OF nv text and no crows feet had
left their mark near his eyes. Zechariah
was a young man, and in a day dream he
saw and heard two angels talking about
the rebuilding OF the city OF Jerusalem.
One OF these angels desires that young
Zechariah should bs we'll informed about
the rebuilding OF that city, its circumfer-
ence and the height OF it's walls, and he says
to the other angel, "Ruu. speak to this
young man." Do not walk but run. for the
message Is urgent and imminent. SO every
young man needs to have immediate ad-
vice about the dimensions, the height and
the circumference OF that which. under
God. He is to buiid-namely, His own
character and destiny. No slow or laggard
pace will do. little further on, and
counsel will he Of no advantage. Swift
footed must be the practical and I'M
portant suggestions, or they might IA
we'll never be made at all. Run Mt the pace
OF five miles the hour, and speak to that
young man. Run before this year OF 1898
ia ended Run, before this century Is closed
Run before his character Is ineNorably
decided for two worlds. this world and
the next. How many OF us have found out
by long and bitter experience things that
W. ought to have been told before we we're
twenty-five years OF age. Now I propose
to toll you some things which. IL you will
seriously and praverfullv observe, will
make you master OF the situation in which
you are now placed and master OF every
situation in which you ever will be placed
And in order that my subject may be cli-
macteric, begin on the out side edge Of that
wsia .he s subject be mH5s "aoss Ssa
Now, II you would be master OF the situa-
ton, do not expend money before you get
1t. How many young men frretrievably
mortgage their future because OF resources
NI,,k Ikna kS>h hn khatr IIax-n he
money either in your hand, or in safety
deposit. or In n bank, or in a United States
bond before You make purchases, or go into
expensive enterprises or hitch spanking
team to glittering turnout, or contract
for the building OF mansion on the PO:o-
mac or the Hudson. Do not depend en- an
inheritance from your father or uncle. The
old man may live on II good deal longer
than YOU expect, and the day OF your en-
forced payment may come before the dav
of his decease. You cannot depend upon
rheumatism or heart failure or senility to
do its work. Longevity is so wonderfully
improved that you cannot depend upon
people dying when YOU think they ought
to. They live to be septuagsnnrians. or
octogenarians, or nOnagenarians, or even
centenurians, AMI meanwhile their heirs
20 into bankruptcy. or, tempted to
forgery, or misrepresentation OF trust
funds, or watering OF railroad or mining
| stock. go into the penitentiary. Neither
! had you better spread yourself out because
! Of the hfteea or twenty per cent. you ex-
! pect from an Investment Most Of the tlf-
! teen or twenty per cent. Investments are
! apt to pay nothing save tue privilege Of be-
! ing assessed to meet the obligations OF the
| "omruny in the affairs of which YOU get
! involved Better get 81 per cent. from n
government bond than be promised fifteen
| per cent. from II dividend which will never
hs declared, or paid only once & twice, SO
Payment of dividends, i letter from thas =
president and secretary of the company
saving that they are very sorry.
Do not say you have no chance but re-
membor Isaac Newton, the greatest
astronomer OF his day, once pe'dlinC cab
haSes in the street and Martin Luther
singing on the public square for any
pennies that he might pick up. and John
Bunyan mending kettles, and the late
Judge Bradley, o; the United States
Supreme Court, who was the son of a
charcoal burner, and Turner the painter,
who was the son of Il barber, and Lord
Give, who saved India to England shipped
by his father to Madras as Il useless Dov
whom he wanted TO get rid o. and
Prideaux, the world renowned scholar and
theoloGinn, securing pots and pans to work
his way through college and the mother OF
the late William +. Dodge, the philanthro-
n'st and magnificent man, keeping n
thread and needle store and Peter
Cooper, who worked on small wages in Il
glue factory, living to give $500 900 for the
rounding OF an institute that has already
daughters OF America, and ::owditch, the
scientist. beginning his useful learning and
aflurnt career by reading the books that
had been driven ashore from shipwreck
at salem. There is, young man, a great
financial or literary or moral or religious
success awaiting you II you only know how
to COUP and take it. Then take it or get
ready to take it. The mighticr the oppo-
sition tho Srander the triumph MtWrIta~H
nay" conquered. word or
ban "rranged i'm minor lynn
T1n Hnu having no staccato "'nos nossy Key
tive race "nsfy, si singt verses. Irin a posi-.
.ne uhhealthiest thing on eartb =, VI All.
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'paeen I ana sets the heart into a wild th, tue
in fi,o uaHS man ana many a woman ha,
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ION dropped dead Not ontv tbt aSta-
nes 'nanaI enemies out OF friends. and naI ui II
~ a'.1 more virulent, and anger 10 nantioS
nSorn,ate iinate suicide. Great uttnrn.'.
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~ iinhhS" or one woman Won nms, y ~"
@ ~, III order to please God and mntn lin,
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ssly irascirIe and Al your nature is hope :,
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