The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26
"Cp To You.'

ln' t@pression up to you is one of the
quaint terms that has taken hold of the
people, and which will not die out for
years. The people easily found out what
1t meant to convey.
1t is ''up to you" to do almost every.
thing that is calculated to do you good and
make you great blessing. You can CAIN
to be entitled to but very little. What you
don't have is often your own fault and
what you will have depends much upon
yourself
There is much in the words God helps
those who help themselves
1t Is up to you to make yourself be.
loved by those who surround you. Know
thyself' is the first thing to be done before
you can get the constant love of others.
we all have our weak spots, and they
should be attended to before we can be to
others what we would like to be-
How often YOU have heard people say
that they would think much of a certain
person It he or she would only not do some
thing that make the one alluded 20 dis.
agreeable.
Reforms should always begin with our
selves. Such course is up to Us. without
doubt.
Some things arc not up to Us. but are up
to others. You cannot do everything. but
must leave it to others to accomplish some
things. 1t is never up to me to sing. un.
less feel it my duty to punish somebody.
But 1t is up to me every day to do some
little good act Big deeds of kindness
are not to be despised, but, after all. it is
the little deeds OF kindness that :.,alie us
useful and blessing.
Yesterday ] received letter from a gem
tleman that made me feel certain that he
telt that it was up to him to write me one
OF the kindest letters | ever received. The
cost OF the letter was not much. but what
doses of cheer it contained. | thank him
for that bouquet OF love that is now on my
desk, for it is much better to have bouquets
/ thrown at YOU while alive than to have
them placed on your coffin after You have
ceased to see or to be able to return thanks
! 1t is up to You to look after me. and up
to me. to care for you. Reciprocity is a
good doctrine.
How thankful you ought to be that you
! can do something to make others happy
Deeds of love and kindness will stand YOU
| well in hand when you come to be Judged
according to the deeds done in the body
Many of my readers will hear, in the great
hereafter. about donation that they gave
! while on earth to my Black Lambs a
bleat from one of them in the better land
will sound like sweet music especially
when the words "lnasmuch,' etc. will he
heard from Him who once said Feed Ny
lambs"
! 1t is up to You. my young readers, to be
even better and more useful than YOUR
fathers and mothers, and that is asking
much of you
| This morning it struck me that | ought
to be a much better man than | am. The
mistakes of our lives are many, but that
is no reason why.we should keep on maxi
ing mistakes all the time or part of the
| time. Improvement is always in order
when we feel like it and when we do not.
! For many OF us are actuateI by our feel.
ings. We should be good even when we
do not feel like it, for that is the best
I time to be good You know that being
/ bad does not pay. A quarrel with your
neighbor early in the morning makes you
miserable all day. If YOU must quarrel
| don't begin until about five minutes to u
as near IL o'clock as possible.
! 1t IS up to YOU to love those whom
| you despise. Hard work." you say, but
that is the doctrine | am in duty bound
! to preach and also to practice.
/ Be lively in doing what duty calls upon
you to do, Ask not others to perform
what you should be so willing to do. There
are awards for those who tight good fights
and there are punishments ahead, for these
who neglect to come to time when called.
Ask not for a more convenient season.
for that time may never come. How
mean you must feel if laziness has control
of you. Strike out and be men, women,
boys and girls in the great army of well.
doers.
The harvest fields are already ripe. wait
ing for you to take advantage of the oppor.
tunity to reap and pluck that which make
you more like Jesus
The sun shines SO brightly to-day that it
is almost impossible to write about any.
thing but the bright and pleasant sides OF
life. Shine forth like the sun!-George II,
Scott, in Sabbath Reading.