Milford chronicle., 1907-01-04

Immediately after dinner. There
} sometimes work on until after mi
night. If did not do so, would 10.
thousands upon thousands of dolla
each year" What You cannot affol
70 make your boys your companion,
| What. You cannot afford to give up
part Of each day for the spiritual d.
veiopment OF your children? Is IL
dollar question so malforming your Iii
that for a gold brick you are willing t
let the spiritual lives of your childre
absolutely become a deserted Califol
MA mesa. filed with the serpents @
temptation and the hideous polsonou
tarantuias OF SIM Let 90 that money
Every dollar that stands between yo
and the proper spiritual development
OF your home, let it go-let it gol
Let IL Go.
But. II the dollar which stands be
tween the spiritual lives OF your love-
ones and sin should be sacrificed, how
much more should every dollar or ev
cry position OF lie which tends t
draw US away from Christ be will
ingly sacr.fcedl For, say what yOU
will, the mishtiest agency for good Of
evil for the lives of our dear ones
IS the example of what we ourselves
truly are in reference to our relation.
ship to Jesus Christ. Now my friend
as sensible man can you afford to
sacrifice the higher spiritual purposes
of life to the lower and to the mate
rial? Are you willing to sacrifice your
spiritual hopes of this world and of
the next merely to attain some posi-
ton of worldly honor which may
bring to you only suffering and per-
haps premature death from over
work? Have you set your heart upon
winning an earthly throne, as did the
little Princess Marie Antoinette, car
ing not what the occupancy Of that
throne may cost you in this life or in
the next?
When Mozart was a mere child, he
visited the Austrian court and became
pet Of the great empress, Maria The
'esa. At that time Marie Antoinette was
| little girl Together the princess of
blood and the prince of the
oval house of harmony played day
litter day. When the time came for
PARTING Mozart said to his little friend:
Goodby, Princess Marie. l go now.
}ut when I am a grown man I will
ONE back and marry you" With that
laria Theresa's daughter drew herself
p as she replied: Mozart, are you a
ing? Are you the son Of a king? l am
princess, and when I marry l must |
larry a king When I leave mammals |
curt as a queen shall go to the court |
king Aye, the naughty young
rincess, naughty even as a child, had T.
IT her heart upon a throne She reach
it. Her home was in the Tuileries.
ut, oh, the suffering and the agony of
lat palace! She reached the throne. h
ut, alas, that throne became the step
ng stone by which she mounted the
lillOtine! Her lady in waiting was
langed for the eXecutiOner who touch
the fatal button and cut off her
al and made it the plaything of a
oh and the eXecrated object Of cut
roats. Oh, can it be that some Of us
We set OR hearts upon an earthly
rome? Like Marie Antoinette, are we
ldy to mount it at any cost? Can it
that for wealth or power or fame ,
are ready to let our spiritual lives
come like The deserted farm lands Of
California mesa, filed with the ser
lts Of sin ana the tarantulas OF deg
lation. which viii sting US with the
son Of an eternal death?
Sacrificing the Higher Life.
n how many departments Of life,
s, we see men and women who are
rifcing the higher life and letting
If spiritual hopes go to waste and Is
decay. Charles Wadsworth in one "p
his wonderful sermons gives a vision NJ,
an eastern city which was being =
legged. The night before the at ~
k a mighty magician changed the -
ole city into stone. There stood
paving war horse, with nostrils F[
ended, caparisoned for battle. There W
ID the mailed champion ready to 20
ng to his seat and lay lance in
for the onset But, alas, the T.
ng arm was cold stone on the neck Po'
he petriied charger! There stood --
serried infantry. with armor and r
nes and DUPLICATING banners, but 4
man cold, GREATNESS. lifeless.
eye had a stony glare Hand,
r, lip, were frozen to marble"
III we go through life we, too,
, find men with spiritual hearts
one and spiritual lips of stone and IN
tual eyes Of stone. Their spiritual
seem to be like the hard baked
of that deserted California mesa. Roi
ard and thick that it was an i'm kar