The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-11-29

any olHtI way. ne judgment DAY can
only reveal the awful holocaust of tangled
nerves and the suicidal habits of much OF
our social life. The obituary Of such reads
well, for the story is suppressed about how
they got their death while standing in at
tire OF gauze waiting for the carriage on
a raw night on the front steps
Nhile in their lifetime they possessed
all the ability for the relief OF pain and
impoverishment. yet they have no time
for visitation OF the poor or to win the
blessing OF such as comes upon those who
administer to those who arc ready to per-
ish. Enough flowers in their dining halls
to bewltch a prince, but not one tuft Of
hchotropc 60 perfume the room of that
rheumatic on the back street So whom
the breath of one flower would be like
the opening OF the front door of heaven.
Find me one man or one woman who i'm
all the rounds OF pleasure and selhshness
has found piece of happiness as large az
that half dollar which the benevolent and
Christlike soul puts into the palm of the
hand OF that mothe. whose children are
crying for bread. Queen Victoria, riding
IN triumph through London at her iubi
lee, was not so sublime figure as Queen
Victoria in a hut near Balmoral Castle
reading the New Testament to a poor dy-
ing man.
Let all the gadabounts for happiness
know that in kindness aud usefulness and
self abncgatiOn arc to be found a satisiac-
ton which all the gaycties Of the world
aggregated cannot afford.
Among the race of gadabouts arc those
who neglect their homes in order that
they may attend to institutions that arc
really excellent and do not SO much asl;
for help as demand il.
l am acquainted, as YOU are, with WON
en- who are members OF SO many boards OF
direction OF benevolent institutions and
have to stand at a booth in so many fairs
md must collect funds for 30 many orphan
ages and preside at so many philanthropy
ic meetings and are expected to be in so
many different places at the same time
that their children are left to the care OF
irresponsible servants. aud ii the little
ones waited TO say their prayers at their
mothers Knee they would never say their
evening prayers at all. Such woman
makes her own home so unattractive that
the husband spends his evening at the
clubhouse OF the tavern. The children OF
that house are as thoroughly orphan as
any ot the iatherless and motheress lii
Tie ones gathered in the orphanage Tor
Whch that gGdabOut woman is toling so
ndustriOusly
BY all means let Christian women fos.
ten charitable institutions and give them
but the first duty of that mother is the
duty she owes 60 her home.
lhe book Of Samuel gives a Photograph
oi Mophibosheth lame IN both feet. When
we see any one lame in one foot or lame
N both feet we always wonder by what
accident he was lamed. Perhaps il NAV
have been IN battle for his country. or
he may have been run over by some rccl,.
less driver or some explosion did the dam
age. So You wonder how Mcphibosheth
became lame in both feet. The Bible for
good reason gives us the particulars. II
tells us that when he was child his
nurse dropped him. She must have
dropped him vcl = hard. for he never again
got over the effect of that fall. Long af.
ter the accident we find him at King
Dayid's table. but still our attention ia
called To the fact that his feet were Grip.
pied, though so long before his nurse
dropped him. And mark you that to-day
in all departments of life there are those
crippled in habits, crippled in morals, Grip.
pied for all time. The accident happened
IN this way: Their mothers were gada-
bouts and neglected their homes, and the
work OF training them was given over to
incompetent nurses, and the nurses let
them fall into bad habits. told them de-
praVlng stories and gave them wrong no
tions of life and practically ruined them.
But Mephibosheth was taken by King
David into tie palace and seated at the
royal table 30 by ~ grao, of the hoav-
enly King these unfortunate ones may vet
be seated at the Kings table in the King s
palace, though the nurses did drup them
so that morally they were lame in both
feet.
Now, what * the practical use of the
present discourse? This Whereas So
many have ruined themselves and ruined
others by becoming gadaboutS among oc.
equations, among religious theories among
churches, among neighhorhoods, therefore
resolved that we will concentrate upon
what is right thought and right behavior
and waste no time in vacllatons and in.
decisions and uncertainties. running about
IN places where we have no business to
be. Life is so short we have no time to
play with it the spcndt hrift Find out
whether the Bible is true and whether
Your nature is immortal and whether
Christ IL the divine and only Saviour, and
whether You must have Him or be dis
cOmtited and whether there will probably
ever he more auSpiClous moment for
your becoming HIS adheren,. and then
make tins IL O'Clock at noon OF November
70, the most illustrlous minute that YOU
will ever have passed since the dav of
your birth "ntil the ten millonth cycle of
wv N'llilhE 'tNIHlNNf bO'dNSc ny complete
surrender of thought and will and aifec-
,tion and life to God, through Jesus
Christ you became II new man. a new
woman a new soul, and God the Father
and God the Son and God the Holy
Ghost and all angeldom. Cherubim and
Seraphim and archangcl became your al.
lies
Found among the papers of the learned
Samuel johnson was prayer inscribed
with the words, when my eye was re.
stored to its use, and it is a great mo.
ment when we get over our moral blind.
ness and gain spiritual cyesight. That is
moment from which we may well date
everything All the glory of Henry II. of
France vanished when in a Tournament
n lance eXtingushed his eye, and the worst
disaster that can happen to us is 10 have
the vision OF our soul put out. If you
have gone wrong SO far, now go right. II
the morning and noon of your life have
been "A moral defeat, make the evening OF
your life victory. The battle of Maren-
go, lost at o'clock in the afternoon. was
gloriously won at q, and in your life and
mine 1t is not too late to achieve some
thing worthy of an immortal Start right
and keep on. Do not spend too much time
IN tacking ship. David felt the impor-
tance of iixedness of purpose when he
cried out "hlv heart is fixed, o God, my
heart is fXed!"