The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-11-15

ed far back in the eteqnities that the ma
ton and kingdom that will not serve God
shall perish.
Tombs of Nations.
Wax on in the cemetery of nations and
see the long lines of tombs-Thebes and
Tyre and Egypt and Babylon and Medic
Persian and Macedonian and Roman and
Saxon 5eptarchy, great nations, small ma
tons. nations that lived year and ma
tions that lived 500 years.
Our own nation will be judged by the
same moral laws by which AL other ma
tons have been judged. The judgment
day for individuals will 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.
Another thing decided in the same high
place is that happiness is the result of
spiritual condition and not Of earthly en-
ylronmenf. If we who may sometimes
have a thousand dollars to invest find it
such perplexity to know what to do
with it and soon after that we invested
it where principal and interest have gone
down through roguery or panic, what
must be the worriment Of those having
millions to invest and whose losses CORE
spond in magnitude with their resources!
People who have their three or four dol
lars day wages are just as happy as
those who have an income Of 100000
year. Sometimes happiness is seated on
a footstool and sometimes misery on the
throne. All the gold Of earth in one
chunk cannot purchase five minutes 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 if you
have more emoluments or honor OF 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 years to entrap you.
They viii hover around newspaper Of
fees TO get one mean line printed depre
ciating 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 Of experience, 1T doesn't pay"
The leading statesmen of America in
letters of advice warn young men to
keep out Of politics. Many Of the most
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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 illlmined faces are
induces of illumined souls. They wish
everybody well. When the fire bell rings,
they do not go to the window at midnight
to see if it is their store that is on fire,
for they never owned a store, and when
the September equinox is abroad they do
not worry lest their ships founder in a
gale, for they never owned ship. and
when the nominations are made for high
political office they are not fearful that
their name will be overlooked, for they
never applied for office. There is so
much heartiness and freedom from care
in their laughter that when you hear it
you are compelled to laugh in sympath
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 to hear the fathers will read
they are not fearful of being cut off with
a million and half dollars, for the old
man never owned anything more than the
farm of seyenty-fye acres, which yielded
only enough plainly to support the house
hold. They have more happiness in one
month than many have in whole life
time. Would to God l had the capacity
to explain to you on how little man can
be happy and on how much he may be
wretched! Get your heart right and all
is right. Keep your heart wrong, and all
is wrong. That is principle settled in
heaven.
Another thing decided i'm that high
place is that this world is school house
or college for splendid or disgraceful
graduation. We begin in the freshman
class of good or evil and 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
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS or the languages or
chemistry or philosophy it is an cleo
tive course we all take in the schoolhouse
or university OF this world
We may study sin until we are satu-
rated with it or righteousness until we
are exemplifications of it. Graduate we
all must, but we decide for ourselves the
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course. We can study generosity until
our every word and every act and every
contribution Of money Or time will make
the world better, or we may study mean
less until our soul shall shrink ND to a
smal.ness unimaginable. We may. under
God, educate ourselves into a self-control
that nothing can anger or into an irasci-
bflity 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 perdition
Beginning Active Life.
Some have wondered why graduation
day in college is called commencement
day" when it is the last day Of college
exercises, but graduation days are prop
erly called commencement day. To all
the graduated it is the commencement of
active life, and our graduation day from
earth will be to us commencement Of our
chief life, our larger life, our more ire
mendous life, our eternal life. But what
day commencement day On earth is!
The student never sees any day like it.
But mightier day will it be when we grad
uate from This world. Will it be Kisses
of condemn alton Or hon olo -