Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-12-30
FREE MORAL AGENTS.
TkLMAcE's WHOLESOME ADVICE on
RULES OF LIVING.

Are the hniheEr 81 iheir own Destiny
aud They Are Admonished to Build
On the Right Foundation.
Trxr: Run, sneak to this Young nan. &"
-Zrchariah IT,, 4.
There was no STOW On the beard Of the
prophet Of my text and no crows feet mad
left their mark near his eyes. Zeehariah
was young man, aud 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
Zr9hariah should be Well Informed about
the rebuilding of that city. its circumfer-
ence and tho height OF its walls, and he SAYS
to the other angel, Run, speak TO this
young man" Do not walk, but run. for the
message is urgent andimminent. SO every
Young man needs to have Immediate ad-
vice about the dimensions, the height and
the circumference of that which, under
God. He ia to build-namely, His own
character and destiny. No slow or lagCard
pace will do. A little further on, and
counsel will be of no advantage. Swift
footed must be the practical and I'M
porlant suggestions. or they might as
well never be made at all. Run at the pace
OF five miles the hour, and speak to that
young man. Run. before this year Of 1899
is ended. Run, before this century il closed.
Run, before his character Is inexorably
decided for two worlds, this world and
the next. How many of us have found out
hy long and bitter experience things that
we ought to have been told before we we're
twenty-five years OF age. Now l propose
to tell you some things which, IL you will
seriously and prayerfully 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 eli
macterir, begin on the outside edge of that
advice, which will be moro and more i'm
portant as the subject untolds.
Now, If you would be master of the situa-
tion, do not eXpend money before You get
it. How many young men irretrievably
mortgage their future because of resources
that are quite sure to be theirs. Have the
money either in your hand, or in a safety
deposit, or in a bank, or in 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 On an
inheritance from your father or uncle. The
old man may live on good deal longer
than You expect, and the day of your en-
forced payment may come before the day
Of his decease. You cannot depend upon
rheumatism or heart failure or senlity to
improved that you cannot depend upon
people dying when YOU think they ought
to. They live to be septuageuarians, or
OctoGenarians, or nOnaSenarians, or even
centenarians, and meanwhile their heirs
go into bankruptcy, or, tempted to
forgery, or misrepresentation of trust
funds, or watering of railroad or mining
stock, 60 into the penitentiary. Neither
had you better spread yourself ont because
Of the fifteen or twenty per cent. you ex-
pect from an investment, Most of the tif-
teen or twenty per cent. investments are
apt to pay nothing save the privilege of be-
ing assessed to meet the obligations of the
company In the affairs OF which you get
involved Better get 80 per cent. from
government bond than be promised fifteen
per cent. from a dividend which will never
be declared, or paid only once or twice, so
as to tempt you deeper in before the grand
smash up, and YOU receive, instead OF
payment of dividends, a letter from the
president and secretary Of the company
saving that they are very sorry.
DO not say you have no chance, but re-
member Isaac Newton the greatest
astronomer Of his day, once peddling cab
bageS in the street, and Martin Luther
singing on the public square for any
pennies that he might pick up, and John
Bunyan meuding kettles, and the late
Judge Bradley. of the United States
Supreme Court, who was the son of "a
charcoal burner, and Turner, the painter,
who was the son of barber, and Lord
Give, who saved India to England, shipped
by his father to Madras as a useless boy
whom he wanted to get rid or and
PrideauX, the world renowned scholar and
theOlogian securing pots and pans to work
his way through college, and the mother of
the late william l.. Dodge, the phllanthro-
pist and magnificent man, Keeping IL
thread and needle store, ana Peter
Cooper, who worked on small wages IN
glue factory, living to give S5OO O0O Tor the
founding of an institute that has already
educated thousands OF the poor sons ana
daughters OF America, ana sowdltch, the
scientist, beginning ms nsetnl learning ana
al1uent career ny feadlhE the DOCKS that
had been driven ashore from shipWreck
ut Salem. There Is, young man, great
financial or literary or moral or rellSiouS
success awaiting YOU II you only know now
TO coup ana take IT, Iheh thKe II or get
ready to take 1t. Inc miGAtlcr the oppo-
Sition the grander the triumph when you
have con1nerei.
Again, II you would master the SITUATION,
when anGrJ 90 not inter- word or write
letter, put before you speak Wot" or
write word SIM, verse OF some hymn
In tune arranged lii minor KEY
an" having no s'accato passages
If very angry, sihStwo verses. II in posi-
tive rage, sing three verses. First Of all,
tho uuhral1hiest thinG on earth is TO get
/ mad. 1t ianEIeS the nerves, enlar=ts the
spleen and sets che hear; into IL wild tAump-
ing. MANY man AM many, a woman has
in time OF such mrntHl and phvsieat aSlta'
ton dropped dead. NoS only that, but II
MAKES enemies out o. friends, anu makes
enemies more Vlrulehy, ana anger !. partla
or cohsumtna'e suIcIae' Hreh' ATTORNEYS
| UNDERSTANDING nus, nave "Itoh won tn .,
cause of "'I'IuIlE throwing the oPposinL
eouhse! INTO Il rage iNero IS one man you
Mu9E manage or one woman you must , cen