Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-12-22

with every wing of angel and every thun-
dorDoit OF heaven pledged for his defense
and advancement--the difference between
| u young man alone and young man be-
fricnded by the Maker and Upholder of
tho universep The battle of life is so Sc
we're that no young man can afford to de-
| cline any help, and the mighticst help is
| God. one night in the year 1741 Count
Lessock won't to escort tho Princess Eliza
beth of Russia to II throne which was then
unoccupied. She halted she hcsitated,
she wondered whether sho had better go
to tho palace and mount the throne of all
tho Russias. Then Count Lessock drew
on paper two sketches, tho one of herself
and the count in disgrace and on tho scat
fold and the other of herself on throne
amid huzzaing subjects. When she saw
plainly that she must mako choice, she
chose tho throne. put before the young
mon of Washington and the young men of
America the choice between overthrow
and onthroncment. You may have what
you will Will you be the slave of passion
and sin and death or u conqucror en-.
palacedY Tho Spanish provorb was right
when it said, Tho read of BY and BY
leads to tho town of Never"
Get Close to God.
| More young men would take this ad.
vantage which l speak of if they did not
have the notion that religion puts ono into
depressing process They have heard for
instance, the absurd preachmcnt, you
ought to live every day rs though it were
your last Such lachrymosc man l
would not want anywhere around me On
the contrary, you ought to live as though
you were going to live IA great while in
this world and to live forever in tho next
11 h,r g 4. r
coffin lids in our genuine religion Get in
right relation with God through Jesus
Christ, and you need not bother yourself
the rest of your life for two minutes about
your death or about your funeral Here is
II manly religion, ono that will extirpato
front your nature all that ought to be cx.
tirpatCd and irradiGto 1t with every virtue
and make it glow with every anticipation.
Neither would l hnvo you adopt that
other absurd prcachmcnt, that the things
OF this world arc of little Importance az
compared with the next world. On the
contrary, you cannot sufficiently approci-
ate the Importance Of this world for it de-
cidcs your next world. You might as well
despisc u schuolhouse because it is not
university. In the schoolhousc wo prepare
for the university. If this world is of such
little Importance, do not think the first
born AMI the last born of heaven would
have spent 33 years down here to redeem
it.
! Do not POSTPONE to the flfties or even tho
fortics of your life that which you can I've
and do in the twenties or thirties If you
do not amount to much before 40 years Of
age, you will never amount to much JEFF
forson wrote the Declaration of American
/ Independence at 33 years of age William
Pitt was prime minister of England Mt "a.
Raphael great paintings were all finished
! before ho was 81 years Of ago. Cortcs was
! 81 when no ovcrcamo Mexico. Grotius
| was attorney general at 81. Gustavus
/ Adulphus expired at 80. At27 Calvin pub
lished his immortal institutes. Alex
andcr tho Great died at 81, ard lesser mon
I get armed for tho chief good or evil of
! their lives before they reach their midlfe
Start Right.
| Young man, start right, and the only
way to start right is to put yourself into
/ companiCnship with the best friend a
young man ever had-Christ the Lord
/ He Will give you cquipoise amid the rock
! ing of life 5 uncertainties. He will sup.
/ port you In day of loss. He will direct
you when you come to the forks of the
/ road and know not which road to take
| He will guide you in your home life, if
| you are wise enough to have homo of
your own. If you live on TO great pros
| perity, he will show yen how to manage q
| fortune. If your earthly projects fail and
! you arc put in financial straits, he will SEQ
/ to it that that il tho best condition for
/ your soul, and the discipline and the hard
! ship will make you more and more of a
man. If you live on to old age, he will
mako the evening twilight as bright rs
! a M hr ubt tor hnn hn
| ing twilight, and when your work on
earth is done the gates of better world
will open on expansions and enthronc-
mcnts and feicities which St John de-
scribes sometimes as orchards, sometimes
| as shaded streets and sometimes as "a crys-
! tallinc river and sometimes as an orchestra
with mighty Instruments, blown on by
! hips chtruEic or thrummod by fingers
soraphic, and inhabitants always fearless
and songtui and Respondent, so that the
/ miChticSt calamity of the universe is the
portion of that one who fails to enter it.
/ Young man, seek only elcvating and
improving companionship Do not let the
last scion of Il noble family, fellow with
IA hig name, but bad habits, for he drinks
and swears and is dissolute, take your
arm to walk down tho street or spend an
evening with you, either at your room or
his room. Remember that sin Ii the most
expensive thing in God 5 universe. l have
read that sir Brasil, the knight, tired out
with the chase had u falcon on his wrist
as they did in days of falconry, when with
hawks or falcons they went forth to bring
down pGrtridces or grouse or pigeons
and, being very thirsty, came to u stream
struggling from rock, and releasing the
falcon from his wrist, he took the bugle
which no carried and, stopping the mouth
piece OF his bugle with u tuft of moss, he
put this cNtemporized cup under the water
which came down drop by drop from tho
rock until the cup was full and then lifted
it tn drink, when the falcon he had re-
leased with sudden swoop dashed the cup
from his hand. BY tho same process he
filed tho cup again and was about to
drink when the falcon by another swoop
dashed down tho cup Enrnged at this in
science and violence of the Bird he cried
Il will wiring thy neck if thou docsU that
again" But, having filled tho cup third
time and trying to drink, IA third time the
falcon dashed it down. Then Sir Brasil
with his fist struck the bird, which flut-
.ercd and looked lovingly and reproach-
'ully at him and dropped dead Then Sir
Brasil, looking up to the top Of the rock
whence dripped the water, saw a great
green serpent coiled fold above fold tho
venom from his mouth dropping into that
from which Sir Brasil had filed his cup.
Then exclaimed the knight, what a kind
thing it was for the falcon to dash down
that poisoned cup, and what a sad thing
that l killed him, and what narrow