Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-05-29


will be when it blossoms and leaves
and flashes and resounds with it's
coming glory. God will save it any
how, with me or without me, but I
want TO do my share. / have some
cquipment-not as much as some
others, but what / have / will use.
l have power to frown, and L will
frown upon iniquity. L have power
to smile. and l will smile encourage
ment upon all the struggling. i have
vocabulary not so opulent as the
vocabulary of some others, but /
have storehouse of good words,
and L mean to scatter them in help
fulness. / will ascribe right motives
to others when it is possible. If 1 can
say anything good about others, /
will say it. If L can say nothing but
vile of them, / will keep my lips shut
az tight as the lips of the sphinx,
which for 1900 years has looked off
upon the sands of the desert and
uttered not one word about the desc
lation. The scheme of recons truct-
ing this world is too great for me
to manage, bat 1 am not expected to
boss this job. / have faith to believe
be well executed. Give me a brick
and a trowel and 1 will begin now
to help build the wall. / am not a
soloist, but l can sing Rock of Ages
TO sick pauper. L cannot write
great book, but L can pick n cinder
out of child's eye or a splinter
from under his thumb nail. / now
enlist in this army that is going to
take the world for God, and / defy
all the evil powers, human and satan
10, to discourage me. Count me into
the service. L cannot play upon a
musical instrument, but L can polish
a cornet or string a harp or applaud
the orchestra"
All through that mans experience
there runs faith that will keep him
cheerful and busy and triumphant.
like the watchword of Cromwelrs
Ironsides, the men who feared moth
ing and dared everything. going into
battle with the shout: The Lord OF
hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is
on refuge! Selah!" No balance that
human brain ever planned or human
hand ever constructed is worthy of
weighing such spirit. Gold and
precious stones are measured by the
carat, which is four grains. The
dealer puts the diamond or the pearl
on one side of the scales and the
carat on the other side and tells you
the weight. But we need omething
more delicately constructed to weigh
that wonderful quality of faith which
/ am glad to know will be recognized
and rewarded for all time and all
eternity. The earthly weighman
counterpoises on metallic balances
the iron, the coal, the articles of hui
man food, the solids of earthly mer-
chandisc, but he cannot test or an
nounce the amount of things spirit
ual. Here is something which the
Attic and Babylonian weighing sys-
TENS of the past and the metric
weighing system of the present can
not manage. The Lord weighcth the
spirits"
Put also into those royal scales the
ambitious spirit. Every healthy man
and woman has ambition. The lack
of it is n sure sign of idiocy or inn
morality. The only question is. what
shall be the style of our ambition?
To stack up stupendous fortune, to
acquire a resounding name, to sweep
everything we can reach into the
whirlpool of our own elfishness-that
Is debasing, ruinous and beautiful. If
in such spirit we get what we start
for, we only secure gigantic diseon-
tent. No man was ever made happy
by what he got. 1t all depends upon
the spirit with which we get il, and
the spirit with which we keep it, and
the spirit with which we distribute it,.
Not since the world stood has there
been any instance of complete happi-
ness from the amount of accumula-
ton. Give the man of worldly ambi-
tion 60 years of brilliant successes.
He sought for renown, and the nations
speak his name. He sought for afflu-
ence. and he is put to his wits end
TO find out the best stocks and bonds
in which he may make his investments
He is director in banks enough and
trustee in enough institutions and
president of enough companies to
bring on paresis, of which he is now
dying. The royal balances are lifted
to weigh tie ambition which has con
tro'led lifetime. What was the
worth OF that ambition? How much
did yield for usefulness and Heaven?
Les. than scruple, less than "A grain
OF sand, less than an atom, less than
nothing. Have a funeral "a mile long
with carriages, let the richest robes
OF ccclesiastics rustic about the cas-
ket, caricature the scene by choirs
which chant: blessed are the dead
hat die in the Lord" That mans life
l. failure, and If his heirs scufIie
ir the surroRate's court about the in
Ca 9acity Of the testator to make n
last Nill and testament it will only
he rolongation OF the failure. The
son, through dissipation. spent his
share of the fortune before the father
died and so was cut off with a dol.
Tar. The daughter married agains his
viii. ard she is disinherited. Relatives
whom he could never hear tho ei0bf q, r