Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-12-15

therefore, ! will put aside all desires
which will swcryc me from my main
purpose Of life, ANA will study study.
study | will work. work. work. and |
will never be satisfied until | achieve
that end" My friends. when our boys
and girls start out with great and
noble purpose In life aud nj the same
time If they viii carefully look after
their ~ steal health they are travel.
I'M urcst road to long life OF
call influence
There is mistaken idea abroad that
hard mental labor will shorten our
lives Some OF the longest lived men
have been men OF intense mental ap-
plication. GOethc Palmerston. Glad
stone. DiSraeli. Mommscn. Michael An.
gelo. Hugo. Humboldt Isaac Newton,
the llerschcls. both father and son.
and hosts Of others whom might
name. all lived to be old These men
not only lived 10 be old. but they were
continually branching out into new
fields of mental labor clear up to the
end. just Il few months before Han
nah More's death she started a new
work After she had started IL she
wrote 10 her old friend Wlihcrforce
these words The night cometh But
II Is Il comfort to me TO think that
though may bc dust and ashes with
IN few weeks. yet 10y that time this
business will be IN actual motion"
When the death angel pcrched at the
study doors of thousands upon thou
sands Of our great men and women he
always found them busy And me-
thinks he postponed calling many OF
them for years because the very in
tensity Of their work not only kept
them at their tasks. hut kept their
physical faculties bright and active.
There i no power this side ~ heaven
which VIII make n man triumph over
his physical ailments and overcome his
troubles and trials So surely as the in
SEPARATION Of some high purpose Of life
which will never allow him one mo
ment 10 cease labor. "What. sick. Iiga-
RUS" said Brutus 10 his friend In the
great Shakespearean tragedy. 40.
BrutuS." answered IigarluS to the as
sasSin Of Caesar III thou hast any
noble enterprise on hand am we'll"
That means oh. HrutuS. II thou hast
some work for me To- do some worthy
prize for me 10 strive after that high
aim of life will rouse my tagging ener-
giles and | can do the work Of n giant"
nrt s.f. u
that my parents are true Christians
and that they are begging me to reach
ont for higher mental ana spiritual
lifef Perhaps they do not inspire me
Alright and that is the reason am not
doing as they advise and am satisfying
myself with small things When
you preach that sermon said my aged
friend 10 me. "hc sure Ia cmpha size
the fact that parents may be just as
neglcctful in pleading with their chill
dren for the higher educational and
spiritual life as the children them
selves are In not seeking H." Perhaps
you are right. my friend, but think
such conditions are exceptional. My
experience in talking with parents In
all parts of the country is that they are
anxious for the advancement Of their
children | know instances In which
fathers and mothers are denying them
selves Injuries that they may pay the
expenses OF their sons through college.
In earlier years. when son is only
boy ut school. the father or the mother
will try to kndlc his ambition and
promise him that il he will study at
school and do his utmost % get on
they win not grudgc the cost OF n high
er education for him Is not that Your
experience My brother. Will you not
crafty your parents ambition? Think
of it. In houorlug them by fulfilling
their hopes You are laying the founda-
ton of long and useful life
But" some one says. Il cannot fol
low the advice OF my father aud moth
er. am not II young man. ain mid
die aged. and my hair is already turn
ing gray am not a child. am u
parent and have children OF my own.
All. sir. | wish had done rs You ad-
wise thirty years ago. But it Is too late
now. The past can never be recalled.
My father died nearly quarter of
century ago and my mother ten years
later. cannot follow their advice. for
their dead hands are now lying over
their silent hearts In the village grave
yard" What my friend you cannot
follow your fathers and mothers adj
vice because they are deadE Why,
man. your mother Is never so much
alive to you as today
When Thomas Guthrie, the great
Scotch preacher. grew old he seemed
to become child again. When lie was
on his dying bed he would call 10 his
devoted wife and say. My dear, sing
me BARNS song" Yes, nothing
soothcd him 50 much rs the old songs
with which his mother used To lullaby
him 10 sleep. Though for awhile you
may have driftcd away from Your
dead mothers influence, yet her looks,
her songs, the touch of her hand ana
her advice are becoming more real to
you every day Only last week when
You were travelling the old road of self
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