Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-01-13

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opportunity in every island Of the sea
and every continent Young menl You
reed 10 be wiser, braver, better men
than We have ever been TO meet tho
crisis.
Live According TO the word.
Again, if you would be master Of the
situation, and name it last, because i
is the most important. for you know
that which is last mentioned is apt to
be best remembered, / charge you see
into your heart and life, your converse.
tion and your manners, your body, mind
and soul, the near 6, ,000-year-old reli-
gion Of the Bible. Why so: Because the
large majority Of people quit this life
before 25 years Of age, and the possibil-
ity is that if you do not teke possession
Of this religion and religion does not
take possession of you while you are
young, you will never come 1870 Eli
ance. Mrs Mckinley, the moth'r Of
our president. said 10 mo at ila y hite
House, Il am living on borrowed l.me,
for am over so years of age. My re
ply 10 her was the reply | make u son
"All those who are over IS yesT'oi age
are living on borrowed time, since the
majority Of. people 70 out Of the world
before % years of age.
Heraclitus, according to Plato. said
that no man bathes twice in the scme
river. But suppose you live to be octo-
genarians, do you not see that postpone
ment is an awful waste Of nerve and
muscle and brain. What is the use of
your pulling a heavy load all your life
when you can hay9 two Of the white
horses tLat st. John saw in heaven bar
messed T. your loady Suppose you have
O great mill wheel to turn fou can
uu that mill wheel where it VII he
turned y mill race Of wafer one foot
deep, poured by small brook. or You
can PIT il along the deep and swift st.
Lawrence, which will roll through tire
mill race tons Of water every second of
time are you going 10 run your life
by the shallow drippiugs If earthly in
hueuce or by the rolling rivers ri omnip-
orent power: Are you going % under
take the work Of life with nothing hut
your oten brain or aria, or with yo1r
own brain aud arm backed CD tyali The
terrestrial and all fh8 celestial forces Of
tie Almighty: make as great an oier
a. ras ever uad- by man. l offer y-l
God. He -eils ne 10 make that p0iut
blank proposition # you WAIT them,
you can have them on your SIC. .af lie
earnest asEing-omniscIence, O. -
ence, omuiroteucei Can ycI i-a-iul a
greater contrast than a yCDug r-. o.
dertaking life aloDe-life, wirI ..l -
conirou,ments Of temptation and c9-
staCle-and a young ran rdtlul'Dg
life with every wing Of angel aad every
thunderbolt Of heaven pledged for his
defense and advanoement-the differ
ence between q young man alone aud
a young man befriended by the Maker
and UpholdeH Of the universe The bat
tie Of life is 20 severe that DO young
man can afford to decline any help, and
the mightiost help is God One night in
the year l74l Count Lessock went 10
escort the Princess Elizabeth Of Russia
to throne which was then unocCupled
She halted, she hesitated, she wondered
whether she had better 90 to the palace
and mount the throne Of all the hussias'
Then Count Lessock drew upon a paper
two sketches, the one Of herself and the
count in disgrace and on the scaifold
and the other Of herself on throne
amid huzzaing subjects When she
saw plainly that she must make
choice, she chose the throne. / pat be-
fore the young men of Washingt,l aud
the young men Of America the choice
between overthrow and euIhr,ucmCnt.
You may have what you Will. VIII you
be the slave Of passion and sin and
death or conqueror ompalaccd: The
Spanish proverb was right when II said,
"The road of BY and BY leads to the
town Of Never. "
No Colin Lid Religion.
More young men would ta.e this ad-
vantage which 1 speak Of II lucy did
not have the notion that rciialo1 puts
one into depressing process lacy Lave
heard. for instance, the ab,1rd lf.acl-
ment, "You ought to live eyeiy cay as
though 1t were your last such
iachrymose man wOuld not want any
where around me- On the contrary you
ought 10 live as though you wCie going
to live "a great while in this world and
TO live forever in the next world. Ih re
Is no smell Of varnlsh Of colin ids IN
our genuine religion. Get i'll rght rela'
riou with God through Jesus Christ ard
you need not bother yourself the rest OF
your life for two minutes about your
death or about your funeral. Here is a
manly religion, one that will extirpate
from your nature all that ought to 10
extirpated and irradiate it with every
virtue and make it glow with every an
tici cinaiion.
Neither would l have you adopt that
ether absurd preach1'eut, that the things
Of this woiii are oi little Importance as
compared with the next world. On the
contrary, you cannot sufficiently apPre-
ciata the importance Of this world, for
it decides your next world. You might
as well despise a schoolhouse because it
is not a university. In the schoolhonse
we prepare for the university. II this
world is Of such little importance, DO
not think the first born aud the last born
of heaven would have spent 33 years
down here to redeem it.
Do not postpone to the flties or even
the forties of your life that which you
can be and do in the twenties or thir-
ties If You do not amount to much be-
fore 40 years Of age, you will never
amount to much. jefferson wrote the
Declaration Of American Independence
at 33 years Of age. William Pitt a.
prime minister Of England at "a Ra-
phaels great paintings were all finished
before he was 81 years Of age. Cortes
was 81 when he overcame Mexico Gro
thus was attorney general at "a. Gus
tavus Adolphus expired at SS. At ~
Calvin published his immortal "lnsti-
tutes. Alexander the Great died 81,
and lesser men get armed for the chief
good or evil Of their lives before they
reach thair midljfe.