Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1899-11-18

are really worth visiting. Carthage bur
led in the cemetery of dead nations Not
one altar 10 the true God did she rear.
! Not one OF the Ten Commandments but
she conspicuuuSly violated Her doom
was settled in heaven when il was decid-
ed far back in the cternities that the ma
ton and kingdom that will not serve God
shall perish.
Tombs of Nations.
Walk on in the cemetery OF nations ami
see the long lines OF tombS-Thchcs and
Tyre and Egypt and Babylon and Medo-
Persian and Macedonian and Roman and
Saxon hcptarchy. great nations. small ma
tions. nations that lived year and ma
tions that lived 500 years.
Our own nation will be judged by the
same moral laws by which all other ma
/ tions have been judged. The judgment
day for individuals win probably come
far ON in the future. Judgment day for
nations is every day. every day weighed
every day approved or every day con
demned. Never before in the history ~
this country has the American nation
been more surely in the balances than il
is this minute. DO right. and we 90 up
DO wrong. and we ga down. ] am not so
anxious 10 know what this statesman or
that warrior thinks we had better do
with Cuba and Porto Rico and the Phil.
| ippines as | am anxious To know what
God thinks we had better do The dcs.
tiny Of this nation will not he decided on
yondcr capitoIinc hill or at Manila or NJ
the presidential ballot box. for Il will be-
settled in heaven.
1. -. -, =.
place is that happiness is the result 81
spiritual condition and not Of earthly en-.
vironment. II we who may sometimes
have n thousand dollars to invest find il
such a perplcxity To- know what to do
with IL and soon after find that we in
vested il where principal and interest
have gone down through rogucry or pan
ic. what must be the worriment Of those
having millions 10 invest and whose losses
correspond in magnitude with their re-
| sources, People who have their three
or four dollars a day wages are just as
happy rs those who have an income Of
SjOo.oOO n year. Sometimes happiness is
seated on a foofstool and sometimes mis-
cry on the throne. All the gold Of earth
in one chunk cannot purchase five min
utes of complete satisfaction. Worldly
success is an atmosphere that breeds the
maggots Of envy and jealousy and hate
There are those who will never forgive
you IL You have more emolumcnts or hon
or or ease than they have To take you
down is the dominant wish of most OF
those who are not as high as you are
They will spend hours and days and year,
10 enirnp ynu. They will hover around
newspaper offices to get one mean line
printed deprcciating you. Your heaven
is their hell.
Warning Against Politics.
A dying president of the United States
said many years ago in regard TO his
lifetime ~ experience. 1T doesn't pay"
The leading statesmen OF America in
letters Of advice warn young men 10
keep out Of politics. Many of the most
successful have tried in vain To drown
their trouble in strong drink. On the
other hand. there are millions of people
who ON departing this life will have
nothing to leave but a good name and a
/ life insurance whose illumined faces are
induces Of illumincd souls They wiSl.
everybody well. When the fire bell rings,
they do not go To- the window nj midnight
ia see II il is their store that il on fire,
FOR they never owned a store and when
the September equinox Is abroad they do
not worry lest their ships founder in
gale. for they never owned n ship. and
when the nominations are made for high
I political Office they are not fearful that
their name vii. bc overlooked. for they
never applied for office. There is so
| much hcaTtineSs and freedom from care
| In their laughter that when you hear il
you are compelled 10 laugh In sympathy.
although you know not what they are
laughing about.
When the children Of that family as.
semble in the sitting room Of the old
homestead a. hear the fathers will read.
they are not fearful Of being cut off with
q million and half dollars. for the old
man never owned anything more than the
farm ~ ~ acres. which yielded only
enough plainly TO support the household
| They have more happiness In one month
than many have in whole lifetime.
Would to God had the capacity TO ex-
plain TO you on how little a man can be
happy and ON how much he may he
wrctched, Get your heart right and all
Is right. Keep your heart wrong. and all
Is wrong. That is a principle settled in
heaven.
Another thing decided in that high
place is that this world is schoolhouse
or college for splendid or disgraceful
/ kiHuuuAlitl. W ltEiN III ftlf FRESHMAN
class ~ good or evil aud then pass into
the sophomore and then into the junior
and then into the senior. and from that
we graduate angels or devils. In many
colleges there is an elective COURSE"
where the student selects what he will
study-mathematic or the languages or
chemistry or philosophy-and it is an
elective course we all take in the school
house or university Of this world.
We may study sin until we are satu-
rated with IL or righteousness until we are
| exempliiicaiiors OF IL. Graduate we all
must. hut we decide for ourselves the style
| of graduation. II is an elective course.
| We can study generosity until our every
| word and every act and every contrihu-
| tion Of money or time will make the
| world better. or we may study mcanness
until our soul shall shrink up tu a small
ness unimaginablc. We may under God.
| educate ourselves into a self control that
| nothing can anger or into an Feasibility
that will ever and anon keep our face
flushed with wrath and every nerve
a-quiver. Great old schoolhouse Of
world in which we are all being educated
for glory or perdiiion.
beginning Active Life.
Some have wondered why graduation
day In college Is called commencement
day when il is the last day Of college
exercises. but graduation days are prop
erly called commencement day. To all
the graduated il Is the commencement ~
active life. and our graduation day from
| earth will be- 10 Us commencement Of Our
chief life our larger life. our more tire
mendous life. our eternal life. But what
day commencement day ON earth Is.
The student never sees any day like IL.
At any rate. ! never did. Old Niblo's
thcater in New York comes back 10 me.
The gowned aud taSscl halted professors
! behind us. and our kindred and friends
before us and above IA. and the air redo
lent with gnrlands 20 bc thrown To- us.
What commencement day il was for all
! of MS about 10 graduate, But mightici
| day will il hc when we graduate from
this world Will IL be Kisses ~ condcm-
nation or Handspring Of approval? viii
/ there be flung 10 rs nettles or wreaths?
viii II be- resounding Come" or n re-
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