6G THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSLAY, SEPTEMBER oa “iy 1597, ‘8S LIFE WORTH LIVING? Rev. Dr. Talmage Question. To Enjoy the Journey Man Mast Endeavor to Do What Is Right This Life i# But the Beginning of Another. The latest sermon from the popular Washington divine is devoted to the problem of life and concerns the hap- piness of all people. His text was James 4: 14: “Wha? is your life?” If we leave to the evolutionists to guess where we came from and to the theologians to prophecy where we are going to, we still have left for consid- eration the important fact that we are here. There may be some doubt about where the river rises, and some doubt about where the river empties, but there can be no doubt about the fact that we are sailing on it. So I am not surprised that everybody asks the question, ‘Is life worth living?" Solomon, in his unhappy moments, says it is not.’ "Vanity," “vexation of spirit,” “no good,” are his estimate. The fact is that Solomon was at one time a polygamist, and that soured his disposition. One wife makes a man makes But Solomon was converted from polygamy to 1s he ever wrote, as far as we happy: more than one Aretceh monogamy, ast wor can read them, were the words “*"Moun- tair ( spice it Jeremiah says book sup answer | 3 2 od th living n the kin nillionaires rs grinder on Li r Brooklyn wi ney as the y fortunes veRt the NRK etting, falling far d affluence, estimated 1 4 ony two out of a business abont hundred ve anything worthy the names of success A man who spends his life with the one dominant idea of flnancia ace life not worth living. imulation spends a So the idea of worldly approval 1 § | that be dominant in a man's life he is miserable. Every years the two most unfortunate men in this country are the for the presidency. The reservoirs of abuse, and diatribe, and malediction gradu. ally fill up, gallon above gallon, hogs- head above hogshead, and about mid- summer these reservoirs will be brimming full, and a hose will be at. tached to each one, and it will play four two men nominated two away on these nominles, and they will have to stand it, and take the abuse, and the falsehood, and the caricature. and the anathema, and the eaterwaul ing, and the flth, and they will be rolled in it and rolled over and over in it until they are choked, and sale merged, and strangulated, and at every sign of returning consciousness they will be barked at by all the hounds of | politienl parties from ocean to ocean And yet, there are sa hundred men to day who are struggling for that privi- lege, and there are thousands of men who are helping them in the struggle Now, that is not a life worth living. You ean get slandered and abused cheaper than that! Take it on a smaller scale. Do not be so ambitious to have » whole reservoir rolled over on you. Bus what you see in the matter of high politienl preferment you see in community in the struggle for what is ealled social position. Tens of thousands of people trying to get into that realm, and they ure under terrifie | know Answers the | intelligence wealth, or a show of wealth, is abso i position. | and-out | morals him | | way and the | | large | reign | words 1 can utter in the next sixty tension. What Is social position? Tt is on difficult thing to define, bat we what it is are and buat Good not Morn's HECessary, Thege lately indispensable are men | to-day as notorious for their Tibertinism as the night is famous for its darkness who move in what is ealled high social There are hundreds of outs rakes in American soclety whose names are mentioned among the distinguished guests at the great levees. They have annexed all the known vices and are longing for other worlds of diabolism to conquer. Good are not necessary in many of the exalted circles of society Neithor is intelligence necessary. { You find in that realm men who would not know an adverb from an adjective if they met it a hundred times ina | day, and who could not write a letter of acceptance or regrets without the aid of a secretary. They buy their libraries by the square yard, only suxious to have the binding Russian, Their ignorance is positively sublime, making English grammar almost dis- reputable. And yet the finest parlors open before them. morals and intelligence are not necessary, but wealth or a show of wealth, is posi tively indispensable. It does not make any difference how you got your wealth, if you only got it The best for you to into position is for you to Good get social buy =a then your ife's amount on in pre ferred ereditors Cro put your property fow then make name, have a pear from ing of the nioeteenth century. at I an # unt Nas OF of age Bh ROCK years 2 here, and I must Here 1 have which is 8s divinely constructed J I must put it to the take stock a body very best uses, and I must allow nothing to daa age this rarest T owe feet, and they Two of machinery mean ooomolion, capacity to plek Two ears, and they are the telephones of communication the outside mean capacity to and the voloes of friendship eyes, and they mean out my own way with all world, and d they catch sweetest music the very A tongue, 1 almost in- finity of articulation. Yes, hands wit} which 4 best music y welcome, or resist, smite, or bless —h thers world orf wave myself and help which if battling with tempest and ac cident ls still grander than any archi tect, human ¢ drafted Here Is » after 6.00 years or angelic, could rolden tel of the day. a silver lamp jet mantel of the night that at % inventory of vale to of set on the years of age which defles all a bles—a soul, with pacity HORE OF to suffer, to love or to hate, Plato says is ime Is says it is immortal ong the athern itis immon Neneca savs it morta J wi Yo rm family relics cover almost 1 ges almost obliterated he other books in I have 50 y Oo live | but then | must iny out my ADS and for years to the lived, that will bring | must remember that these 80 years are only a brief preface to the five hundred thousand millions of quin- tillions of years which will be my chief residence and existence a long life Sixty added 20 I have already me to Now I understand my opportunities and my responsibilities. If there is any being in the mniverse all wise and all beneficent, who ean help a man in such a juncture, I want him. The old book found among the family relics tells me there is a God, and that for the sake of his son, one Jesus, he will give help ton wan. To Him 1 appeal God help me! Here, I have 00 yoars yet to do for myself and to do for others. I must develop this body by all industries, by all gymnastios, by all sunshine, by all fresh alr, by all habits. And this soul 1 must swept and garnished, and illo- mined, and glorified by all that I can do for it and all that I can get God to do for it. It shall be a Luxembourg of fine pictures. It shall be an orches- tra of grand harmonies It shall be ns palace for God and righteousness to in. I wonder how many kind Hox wl have years? 1 will try. I wonder how many good deeds | can do in the next sixty years? 1 will try. God help me! That young man enters life. He is buffeted, he ls tried, he is perplexed. A grave opens om this side and a grave opens on that side. He falls, but he vines again. He getsinton hard battle, But he gets the victory. The main course of his life is in the right direc tion. He blesses everybody he comes in contact with, God forgives his mis takes, and males overlas record of his holy endeavors, and at the close of it, God says to him: “Well done, good sud faithful servant; enter into the joy of thy Lord" My brother, my sister, I have | I have two lamps to light me ~a golden lamp and a silver lamp-—a | lamp set on the sapphire man- | Yea, I have | reject, to re jolee or | ears | rina ac at or 80 yvenrs of do not enre whether that 30, 40, BO, 60, TO you can chisel right under his naive oa the tombstone these words: “lls life was worth living.” Amid the hills of New Hampshire, in olden times, there sits a mother, There are six children in the household-—~four boys and two girls, Sumll farm. Very rough, hard work to conx a living out of it. Mighty tug to make the two ends of the year meet. The boys go to school in winter and work the farm in summer, Mother is the chief pre- siding spirit. With her hands she knits all the stockings for the little feet, and she is the mantuamaker for the bovs, and she is the milliner for the girls. There is only one musical instrument inthe house—the spinning wheel. The food is very plain, but is always well provided. The winters are very cold, but are kept out by the blankets she quilted On Sunday, when she appears in the village church, her children around her, the minister looks down, and is reminded of the Bible description of a good housewife: “Her children arise up, and call her her husband and praiseth her nye, blessed; also, he " Some years go by, and the two eldest boys want a collegiate education, and the household economies LTre severer, aud un- calculations are closer get their « battle for bre enters the and the til those there is a two boys ducation hard of these boys puipit nd preaches rig on stands in a widely HOSS IRLIIGH temperance, and the anther house to d the last hat farming i the sens merchant, and by the mother 1 in the ast clergyman, ar respect fut and the the the tw casket of the inst or hildren 0 see « face « old grandma, 1 w, sod daughters stand dead LOOK, lifting their noe more Lhe 1% to ask the around the cas ket one question ‘ u really think her life was w A life for God, a life for h living? ers 6 fish ness 4 ri life e, a Christian | is alw GYS W iving I would not find it hard to persuade you that the poor lad, ter Cooper making glue for a and then fortune until he a philanthropy which bas 0 in 10,000 philsnthropies all over the country--I would not find it hard that his worth liv er would I find it life of ving, Amassing a great could build had its ech persuade § ife was Neit! hard to persuade you Susannah Wesley She sent out ogee on ing that the was worth living organize son to rng en. | work to per son Methodism and the ther all through the s it hard if Frances sing of the sicl War broke out na Lert nanny went i with their own hans the mud off the } lying in the trenches, and weak arm--standing one night hoapital—pushing Lack a Ger couch, as, scraped bodies of the soldiers with her in the man s all fren gied with his wounds, he rushed to the Let me go, let me mutter major gen back to let pass this dier to his door, and sald go to my erals standing angel of mercy Neither would I have hard work to persuade you that Grace Darling lived a life worth living-—the heroine of the lifeboat Hebe But I know the thought in the minds | of hundreds of you today. You say ‘While I know all these lived lives worth living, | don't think my life amounts to much.” Ah, my friends, whether you live a life consplonous or inconspicuous, it is worth living, if you live aright. And | want my next sen. tence to go down into the depths of all your souls. You are to be rewarded, to the greatness your work, but sccording to the holy industries with which you employed the talents you really possessed The majority of the crowns of Heaven will not given to peo ple with ten talents, for most of them were tempted only toserve them. selves, The vast majority of the erowns of Heaven will be given to peo- ple who had one talent, but gave it all to God. And remember that our life here Is introductory to another. It is the vestibule to a palace; but who des. pises the door of a Madeleine because there are grander glories within? Your life if rightly lived is the first bar of an eternal oratorio, and who despises the first note of Haydn's symphonies? And the life you live now is all the more worth living because it opens into a life that sball never end, and the last letter of the word "time" is the first letter of the word “eternity!” not according be | tion, { tions of The Times and other journals | are read alond to the | four big dishes full of of : | them we had the strong thorns, three or | on these th BUSY QUEEN VICTORIA, Very Conscientious About Letter Writing. How She Gets the Daily News, Queen Victoria's private letters num- ber many hundreds every year. Bhe | writes to her numerous relatives, forget. ting no anniversary or cocasion on which | & letter might be welcome, The London Chronicle saye that to the younger mem. bers of the royal family she never fails to send birthday gifts, accompanied by a few loving words of greeting. Every day the birthday book is consulted--not that birthday book in which singers, actors and other personages are asked to write, but that smaller volume reserved for relatives and intimates. Then there are numerous letters of a semiprivate | nature which are written by the queen herself—lotters of condolence, letters of congratulation to brides who have been connected with the court, letters to for. ¢ign monarchs. Besides all these epis- tiles, written in the blackest of ink on paper slightly edged with black, there are thousands which are penned by the private socretary and his assistants The queen's day begins early and ends late. After broakfast-—a meal which she still enjoys eating in the open air when possible— there are the newspapers and private correspondence claiming atten. With regard to the former, por- queen by a lady specially appointed for this purpose Very rarely does the queen comment on the news, except in the case of ity, when her sympathy is n calam quickly ex racy in an tore pressed in a telegram. Inaceu portant newspaper as t royal ma Was Composing Room. A Bupernstural Volos Heard In the typesetting fraternity habit and never in nxiderable day ths any « him 1d come to a bad end ** ‘If over 1 n you, Frank, In, I will call general ©" ave I tried t pt He and that set k later I was busy the inside cellar. The clock in struck midnight Suddenly 1 heard my name called | thought it was one of the boys in the officx ing, and 1 Again I beard some distinct voice. This time I recognized it as Blank's voion ‘Blank is out in the ou, Frank,’ said one of the DO purposs was a headstrong fellow, tled 1. About a we at the forme, getting ready to send to the the city hall had just who was call made immediate reply one call in a very : street, is calling ¥ ipositors I walked « threw np the sash CO ver to the front window and peered out. street was silent and deserts wis bite Hving thing **What do ye was to be seen 1 want, Blank * I called I shut tie wi mek to the page which | had been making ug ‘‘1 thought that I heard voice,’ I said to my assistant So did,’ he replied heard him call.’ ““And so they had. The next telegram reached the office saying that Blank had been run over and killed by sn train near Norfolk about miduight. Blank had kept his word, He called on me when he was in trouble. He prob. dow and went you ‘We all day a | ably died calling for me. "= Washington | Rear Delicious Saalis of Provenes, The Provencal snails, which feed in a gourmet fashion upon vine leaves, are peculiarly delicious, and there was a murmur of delight from: our company as the four women brought to the table them, and for a while there was only the sound of eager munching, mixed with the clatter on china of the ompty shells. To extract four inches long, of the wild acacia, and little brown morsels wore carried to the avid mouths and eaten with a bit of broad sopped in the sance, and then the shall was subjected to a vigorour sucking, that not a drop of cance lingering within it should be lost, «Thomas A. Janvier in Century A Saree Ad. "Have we had a protest from any one recently?" asked the sultan ae be Jit a fresh cigarette, “No, your grand vigler, “No nation has deigned to ory ont against the continuance of the Otto. man empire?’ said the sultan, scowling. “*None, your highnoss, '' ' have some more Arienians killed at once. 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