Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-01-28

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BURNING CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS.
Editor Democrat:
Perhaps there is not a single one
of your readers VINO a not heard or
read the above expression, yet there
undoubtedly are many who have failed
to gather any useful life-lesson from
this familiar saying. To light a can
die at both of its ends would be abso-
luteiy the most crazy proceeding in
which any rational creatue could be-
come engaged, yet foolish as it might
seem, it would be exactly, in a literal
Sence, what thousands Of young men
and boys and possibly some of the
other sex are doing for themselves in
this day of ours. Think of human
beings in the most enlightened age of
the world burning and melting out the
temples, God gave them, as though a
candle burning at both ends.
Let the burning candle at both ends
be standing up and what happens-let
it be lain down and see the destruc
ton, as it goes to nothing, so the pro-
cess of exhaustion of the young mans
/ uman figure, is accelerated, doubled,
~threbbled, yea, lightning-speeded.
Have some of u young people for
gotten that they are human structures,
fitted up with delicate mechanism and
that housed within them are wonderful
complications, intricate machinery,
formed by the hand of the Almighty,
with most perfect gearing, and yet de-
pending so much upon proper use and
care, that thereon, hangs what we call
human health, human happiness, hu-
man usefulness and even human life
itself?
What is a human life destitute of
health? Simply broken-run-down ma
Chinery, never to be duplicated. a life
without usefulness, without pleasure.
without happiness, utterly helpless
respondent, discouraged, miserable, a
mere sleepy shadow like the ancient
Egyptians, only to embalm themselves
in death, because they cannot pre-
serve themselves in life and health.
Young man and young woman, If with
In your power, avoid such calamity
To be sure 1t cannot always be done.
and some of the most useful AM
eaintly souls existing, are l~ife-invalids.
We have reference to those thoughtless
idle people, often found in omr-towns
and cities, and wilfnlly wreck and ruin
their own lives.
Then again, WE have people who are
content to allow others to do their
thinking for them not lovingly advis-
ing them, as friends) and some ven
wabble along, without and thinking at
! all, Or ever taking the thoughts of
others, unless it be from a self con-
stituted high-fying profligate. Imi-
tation of this kind Of ~"curs," often
lead otherwise worthy boys, to their
downfall. A boy should have the
courage of his convictions if it leads
l i'm to his death. Galilio was put to
death because of the truth he taught
the world in his day-not so much be-
cause, he taught a truth, but because
he taught that which was contrary to
the wicked practices of the men of his
/ generation,
We are all more or less influenced
by birth and surroundings and our
mental attitudes are most always
shaped by the garments, mentally of
those who are about and around us
and by those who preceded US, rather
than by what may be, even the robe"
of eternal truth. We seem to be so
constituted that the Dust of Mummies"
appeals a thousand times more loudly
to us, than vital scientific, or living
religious truths. Being "eyes to the
LIND, feet to the lame, making the
Widows heart to leap for joy-and low
sig the Lord our God with all our
heart, mind and strength, and our
reighbor as ourself," makes no such
appeal to the "Mummy-Dust" fellow, as
Creative Days, Fall of Adam, Bible
Chronology, Prophetic Visions, Full
fillment of Time, Latter days, Millen-
NAL Dawn, Downfall of C~hristendom.
Battle of Armageddon, Spiritual
Israel, and such other lingo" as you
will find, Christ himself played shy of,
when here on earth.
Then again We seek the Medicine
man" to cure us, while we ourselves
do not know what disease is, nor the
cause of it, and do not consider it our
business to know. We take his drugs,
and when he leaves, we send for our
spiritual adviser and have him invoke
the Creators blessing on our Attic
ton as a ~providential occurrence, sent
to humble us in our cratic career.
One of them gives us anticipation to
kill the bacterial germs within us land
maybe the life nerves. while the other
administers to us a few dogmatic To-
items, to help US off this mortal coil
and between the two, the patient is so
quickly gone that his legal adviser is
deprived of supplying the departing