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 Oliver J. Wbight. 
 
 1895. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 Upward and Onward has been written by one 
 who has been and now is, actively and busily engaged 
 in the stern realities of life. The thoughts have been 
 snatched from among the bustle and whirl of busi- 
 ness, by one who has never taken a month's vacation. 
 And if the gay and thoughtless pass it by with dis- 
 dain; we trust and hope the workers in God's vine- 
 yard will find some encouragement in it— the business 
 man some consolation — the temperance worker some 
 inspiration — and all who read it some word of kindly 
 advice they will send to the author, who will thank- 
 fully receive it. 
 
 The Author. 
 
Pkinted bv 
 
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 DEvSlQNEr^vS, ENQKAVERvS AND FKINTEI^vS, 
 
 1 6v5 Dearborn sSTrcet, 
 
 ClilCAQO. 
 
UPWARD AND ONWARD 
 
 Clifton Park Ave, and 22d St. 
 
 Chicago, III 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Work ...... 1 
 
 Home ..... 4 
 
 Friendship ..... § 
 
 Produce Your Cause . - - - 10 
 
 Mother's Influence - . - - 32 
 
 Twilight Musings .... 43 
 
 Manage Your Own Manouvers ... 47 
 
 Incentives to Prayer .... 55 
 
 Do Your Best . .... 73 
 
 Woman's Friendship ... - 82 
 
WORK. 
 
 Should you ask me what is noble, 
 Should you ask me what is grand, 
 
 Should you ask me how to prosper, 
 In this great and glorious land; 
 
 I would answer without pausing, 
 Not a doubting thought would lurk, 
 
 Its been proved too oft for question, 
 I would simply answer WORK. 
 
 Do you wish for wealth and station? 
 
 Do you wish for land and gold? 
 Do you wish for something greater 
 
 Than was ever bought or sold? 
 
 They are waiting for your coming. 
 They are beckoning to you; 
 
 Go and gain them by your labor, 
 Garlands claimed but by the few. 
 
WORK— Continued, 
 
 Do you spring of humble lineage, 
 Wish to stand among the great; 
 
 Do you wish an honored influence, 
 From your life to emenate? 
 
 You can gain the wished for station, 
 You can gain what e'er you choose, 
 
 For reward for toil is certain, 
 This the world cannot refuse. 
 
 While in Gods free land we'er living. 
 
 Would we happy ever be, 
 Would we gain a heavenly mansion, 
 
 hi His bright eternity, 
 
 We must labor in His vineyard; 
 
 And His wisdom ever trust, 
 Be content to ever labor, 
 
 Though we labor in the dust. 
 
WORK— Continued. 
 
 He allows no idle fraction, 
 Of His realms so great and grand; 
 
 From the stars that gild the heaven 
 To the flowers on the land; 
 
 An appointed course must traverse, 
 
 An appointed blossom bear; 
 Let us take advice from nature. 
 
 Willing be to do our share. 
 
 If our work we do with gladness. 
 Never shrink dispond or mourn. 
 
 We unto these Heavenly mansions 
 On Serephic pinions bourn. 
 
 Will ascend in robes of whiteness, 
 Decked with crowns — with honor blessed. 
 
 Will rejoice forever after. 
 And forever be at rest. 
 
HOHE. 
 
 The place we call our home on earth, 
 Though filled with sorrow or with mirth, 
 We're loth to bid a long farewell 
 And go in other homes to dwell. 
 
 For, though we know on earth we stay, 
 To learn the bright and shining way 
 That leads to friends, to Heaven, to God, 
 And find the path their feet have trod. 
 
 Yet from the place that gave us birth. 
 Although the lonliest place on earth, 
 We cling and cannot reason why. 
 That we should leave it with a sigh. 
 
 But as through life our way we find, 
 And leave that homestead far behind. 
 We learn that earthly homes were given. 
 In which to learn the way to heaven. 
 
HOME— Continued. 
 
 In which to learn our griefs to bear, 
 And with our friends their burdens share; 
 To be content come what there may, 
 Submitting humbly to God's way. 
 
 For this we'el find where'er we roam, 
 
 That joys and sorrows, friends and home. 
 
 Are mingled in this world of ours. 
 
 Like gleams of sunshine, clouds and showers. 
 
 Our troubles come, our sorrows too; 
 Our joys are with them small and few: 
 The years roll on, how short they seem, 
 And life is o'er just like a dream. 
 
 Our loved ones pass from earth away, 
 or go in other homes to stay; 
 And we are left for what? and why.? 
 Qur God will tell us by and by. 
 
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HOriE— Continued, 
 
 But life is short and we must find 
 The work for us the Lord designed; 
 And do it with a willing hand, 
 If we would gain that heavenly land. 
 
 For God designed for all mankind, 
 A noble work which he must find; 
 And finding which, must perserve, 
 With purpose firm and heart sincere. 
 
 And though our task seem hard to bear, 
 We'el cast on Him our every care; 
 And labor faithful to the end, 
 Though not on earth remain a friend. 
 
 For here on earth our lot is cast. 
 With that which was not made to last; 
 So, may the pleasures we shall ^air, 
 Be placed in Heaven, there to remain, 
 
HOME— Continued. 
 
 And loved ones on the further shore, 
 Be beacon lights to guide us o'er, 
 Or magnets powerful and grand, 
 Attract us to that better land. 
 
 And may our aspirations be 
 To help our fellow man to see, 
 That treasures which in Heaven are cast, 
 Are treasures that will always last. 
 
 While treasures laid up here below, 
 Like castles in the air must go; 
 But all who strive their cross to bear, 
 These realms of bliss may surely share. 
 
FRIENDSHIP. 
 
 When the cruel blasts of fortune, 
 
 Like a winters snowy gale, 
 Makes our courage lag and falter, 
 
 Makes our best endeavors fail; 
 
 When our labor and ambition. 
 
 Like our castles in the air, 
 All have vanished without traces, 
 
 Of existence any where; 
 
 What will give us back our courage? 
 
 What revive our lagging zeal? 
 What will make life seem worth living, 
 
 And a golden path reveal? 
 
 What inspire us with ambition? 
 
 What will melt the mists away? 
 What will make life bright and happy, 
 
 As rose tinted sunny may. 
 
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FRIENDSHIP— Continued. 
 
 Tis the golden hand of friendship, 
 Like the rainbow in the sky, 
 
 Pointing to the glorious sunshine. 
 That is coming by and by. 
 
 Tis a pure and holy friendship, 
 That a loving heart can feel; 
 
 Tis a sympathetic throbbing. 
 Of a heart true to our weal. 
 
" Produce Your Cause, Bring Forth 
 
 Strong Reasons Saith the Qod 
 
 of Jacob." 
 
 If we are basking in the sunlight 
 of prosperity, or shivering in the hut 
 of poverty. If we are at home sur- 
 rounded by friends, or a stranger in 
 a strange land. If we are almost the 
 world's hero, or if nearly all the world 
 be our superior; or whatever our sur- 
 roundings may be, there dwells with- 
 in each and everyone of us an inborn 
 spirit of worship, and a spirit of pride 
 adverse to worship, prompting us to 
 own or acknowledged no superior. 
 
 Upon the comingled guiding 
 influence of these, depend the joy or 
 
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sorrow, weal or woe, the degredation 
 or emolument of man or nations. 
 
 While these inate governing in- 
 fluences are antagonistic; men or 
 nations are unhappy and discon- 
 tented; or illiterate, selfish and de- 
 graded; but when united and har- 
 monious they are prosperous, happy 
 and intelligent. 
 
 When they are proud to own 
 they worship a Superior, proud to be 
 governed by a common law of freedom, 
 equity and justice to all, proud to own 
 a governing influence guiding them 
 to a grand eternity at the close of 
 time; peace and happiness attend 
 their way and crowns their existance 
 with undying nobility. 
 
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And wlien I say there is a God 
 in Heaven for us to worship, whom 
 we should be proud to own and ac- 
 knowledge, not only as our Superior, 
 but as our Saviour ready to assist and 
 able to save all who call upon Him 
 in humble faith : and a way to know 
 how to worship, and how to be proud, 
 so easily learned that "A wayfaring 
 man though a fool, need not err there- 
 in." When I have said this I have 
 produced my cause, and with the help 
 of His word, can bring forth strong 
 reasons why each and every one 
 should raise their thoughts and voice 
 to God in suplication, adoration and 
 praise. 
 
 A little over three hundred years 
 ago a man was born in England who 
 
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became tlie prince of poets. And even 
 to-day the world is compelled to own 
 that in this one particular it cannot 
 produce his equal. His words have 
 jingled through the world for ages; 
 his name is written with indelible 
 letters on the page of story, and his 
 precepts studied by so many that 
 to-day, few are the homes that cannot 
 boast a copy of the writings of the 
 immortal William Shakespeare. But 
 grand as they are, I defy the world to 
 prove we can gain more useful 
 knowledge through the study of his 
 writings, than we can from many, 
 many other sources, for it cannot. 
 
 Many have risen to distinction, 
 climbing far up the ladder of knowl- 
 
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edge, honor and usefulness, wlio 
 knew little or nothing of what he has 
 written. 
 
 Men o'er whose name 
 
 The pen upon the page of story, 
 In golden letters there have placed 
 
 A diadem of glory; 
 Have lived, have learned, have taught, 
 
 Have died, and lived again. 
 Who knew far less of Shakespeare 
 
 Than the average noted man. 
 
 Another book was written many 
 long centuries before Shakespeare 
 was born, whose author still lives, 
 whose teachings are in every civilized 
 home beneath the stary heavens. And 
 all who never heard of that book, or 
 read its teachings, are but little sbove 
 the very brutes. And this fact alone 
 
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should give us a sacred patriotism 
 in upholding, protecting and develop- 
 ing our nation's laws, hopes, pros- 
 perity, liberty, love and intelligence : 
 for they are all founded on God's 
 Holy Bible. 
 
 And this book asks : 
 
 ''Why do the Heathen rage and 
 the people imagine vain things"? And 
 its teachings enables us to answer, 
 because they have no God; because 
 they are proud of their inferiority 
 instead of God's superiority. 
 
 Where no Bibleis found, schools, 
 colleges and churches are unknown. 
 
 Where people know nothing of 
 the bible they are ignorant of every 
 other source of knowledge, refinement 
 
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or civilization. Search the wide world 
 over and you will invariably find, that 
 they who know most of the bible, and 
 its teachings, and practice them; are 
 most happy. 
 
 It raises nations from barbarity 
 to civilization; from poverty to afflu- 
 ence; from imbecility to intellectual 
 nobleness. And if it can raise nations 
 morally, financially and intellectu- 
 ally; Can you and I doubt its ability 
 to raise us, or doubt its 'author's love 
 and power? 
 
 Study if you will the face of one 
 acquainted with its teachings, and 
 the face of one who never saw a bible. 
 Upon the one the sunlight that Hea- 
 ven alone can give; upon the other 
 the shade of savage ignorance. 
 
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This world must have been placed 
 here by the author of all cause and 
 effect. Its builder and maker must 
 have been God. And yet how slow 
 are we to acknowledge His superior- 
 ity. We feel and know and realize 
 that there is a propelling power bear- 
 ing us rapidly through this world, 
 but pause not to think of that power. 
 
 Silently but oh! how rapidly the 
 years roll by. Why do you not stop 
 them? Why do you not stop the 
 moon, the stars, the sun from mov- 
 ing on in their majestic splendor, or 
 reverntly bow to the majestic power 
 that moves them? 
 
 We consider life and its realities 
 but stop at death. We search for 
 
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knowledge but scorn its author. We 
 love life, honor and happiness, but 
 fail to honor their producer. 
 
 We know the mind gathers 
 knowledge, but do not stop to think 
 of Him who created mind. 
 
 We instinctively despise author- 
 ity, but as instinctively seek a leader. 
 From the smallest home to the great- 
 est nation there must be authority. 
 Judgment and justice, must have an 
 authorized distribution. Innocence 
 must have protection and wrong a 
 punishment. All movements whether 
 animate or inanimate must have a 
 guiding hand. The ingenuity of man 
 cannot invent perpetual motion that 
 time and tide cannot defy. 
 
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From the watch ticking within 
 your pocket, to the ship upon the 
 ocean, each must have a guiding 
 power. 
 
 And can this world float through the air, 
 Unless a God has placed it there? 
 And whence the air so pure and free, 
 That's worth e'en life to you and me? 
 And whence the light from Heaven above? 
 But radience from the God of love. 
 And is there power on earth, to keep 
 The mighty billows of the deep, 
 From rushing madly from their place, 
 And floating through eternal space. 
 Unless some power beyond this earth. 
 Has given the mighty ocean birth? 
 What is home without a mother? 
 What a school without a teacher? 
 What a community without officers? 
 What a world without a God, 
 
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We gaze upon the starry heavens- 
 we are rocked to sleep upon the 
 bosom of the ocean; we traverse the 
 land; we climb the majestic mountain; 
 live upon the pure free air; partake 
 of the blessings that only an infinite 
 God can provide; and then instead of 
 claiming the promises of that God 
 and praising Him for these wonder- 
 ful creations; we say of our insignifi- 
 cant little self; how great and grand 
 am I. 
 
 If our simple power enables us 
 to cause a leaden bullet to resist the 
 attractions of this earth; resist the 
 natural inclination God has given it, 
 to keep it down to this earth, so that 
 we cause it to fioat a few miles 
 
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through space; we think we have ac- 
 complished considerable: not thinking 
 how God causes, not bullets to float 
 for seconds, but worlds for ages. 
 
 Oh! how ideotically blasphemous 
 is a little sentence in our language 
 repeatedly used. From the darkest 
 abodes of sin, to the house of God; you 
 will hear it echoed and re-echoed: 
 and its reverberating accents though 
 thoughtlessly spoken, and usually 
 thoughtlessly received; still comes 
 ringing down the corridors of time. 
 We catch the silvery notes, and with 
 egoistical profane selfish insanity; 
 raise our voice for others to hear us 
 say, do right. While the response to 
 the command we give and receive on 
 our part sinks in oblivian. 
 
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Oh man! consider thy destiny. 
 Submit thy haughty spirit to the will 
 of Him who gave it, and the blessings 
 of civilization, knowlege, honor, re- 
 spect and distinction are thine. For as 
 from God all blessings flow, from 
 God comes power to us to choose — 
 Mansions in heaven or darkness in woe. 
 And choosing which our lot is cast 
 In reahns that will forever last. 
 We'l Hve in crescent golden bowers, 
 Or deaths dark agonies be ours. 
 A nations honors can't compare 
 To a single hour over there. 
 Here are mingled with sorrow or pain, 
 But over there joy reigns supreme. 
 
 Young man! young woman! these 
 golden splendors are not gained in 
 death; they are gained in life. They 
 
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are gained at churcli, at home, at 
 school, at work, in the office, behind 
 the counter, with the shovel, and on 
 the farm. Amid the crowding cares of 
 life, and in recreations happy mo- 
 ments. But the inate selfishness of 
 our natures is continually rearing 
 obstructions, which like the wav^s of 
 the ocean seem mountains to our 
 beclouded visions: barring our way, 
 and preventing the sunlight of God's 
 holy spirit from surrounding us. But 
 as the mighty wave is parted by the 
 ship, so do all barriers to our better 
 advancement melt away, as we bow 
 in adoration to an infinite God. Why 
 do we act against our better judg- 
 ment, why do we separate ourselves 
 
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from God, His temple and the crown- 
 ing joys that await only the followers 
 
 of an infinite Saviour? 
 
 O! brother, 
 
 May you feel within yourself there is a God. 
 
 There is'^a world beyond this vale of tears 
 
 That mortals here below may gain; 
 
 And gaining which may live in endless joy, 
 
 Freed from the law, from sins black bondage 
 
 free. 
 Dwelling with those we love in God's eternity. 
 
 Are you passing the better 
 things of this life unnoticed? If so in 
 the name of all you hold most dear 
 
 I beg you to stop. 
 
 We are plunging forward on 
 the down grade to eternity so rapidly, 
 that the voices of our friends calling 
 us to down breaks, are scarcely audi- 
 ble. And altogether we know that 
 
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unless we with all the energy at ouJt 
 
 command, — 
 
 Strive to cease the downward motion, 
 
 And produce an upward start; 
 
 We shall reach an awful vortex; 
 
 Know the meaning of depart. 
 
 Still we sit with blinded eyes and deafened ears 
 
 Whirling onward to that fearful end. 
 
 In the morning of life we start 
 
 upon a comparatively level plain: but 
 in manhood the grade changes, the 
 speed increases, and in old age the 
 velocity is so great, that we are seldom 
 able to overcome the power and cause 
 a reaction. Hence it behooves us in 
 youth to start aright, in middle age 
 to stop e'er it be too late. And if in old 
 age, (like a drowning man grasping at 
 the last straw,) strive with the help of 
 God to 
 
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Leave the way we'er m, 
 And on a better road, 
 Begin our life again; 
 
 And on the road to friends, to 
 Heaven and God; how glorious the 
 thought that we may soar to Heaven 
 on pinions of faith; to know that the 
 creator of the universe has prepared 
 a brighter and a better home than 
 this. How beautiful to think of that 
 home over there, and how home-like 
 Heaven may seem to us, if we allow 
 the Holy Spirit to guide our thoughts 
 and permeate our lives. 
 
 May we see the way clearer, 
 The distance seem shorter. 
 And Heaven grow dearer, 
 As life wears away. 
 And to-day, if we have not the 
 assurance of a home awaiting us at 
 
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the end of lifes journey, remember — 
 'We know not what a day, or an 
 hour may bring forth". Let us be will- 
 ing to receive his guiding influence, 
 submitting all to God — yes, give all 
 to God. Father take my property, my 
 friends, take all; they are all thine. 
 ''Thy will, not mine, be done." If I 
 may continue to oversee this prop- 
 erty as heretofore, I thank Thee 
 Lord. If I may still continue at the 
 old home, I thank Thee more. If my 
 friends can be spared, I rejoice and 
 thank and praise Thee more: but if 
 it will benefit the world, take one or 
 all, ''In thine own good pleasure"; for 
 "The child of a King" remembers, 
 *'Thou doest all things well", and in 
 
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Thine own good pleasure. And feeling 
 thus, the windows of our soul shall 
 be open to receive the sunlight of 
 His boundless mercy. 
 
 But do not look for God to come 
 from a distance, He is near thee 
 even now. 
 
 "Wherefore if they say unto you, 
 behold he is in the desert; go not forth: 
 behold; he is in the secret chambers; 
 believe it not. For as the lightening 
 cometh out of the east, and shineth 
 even unto the west; so shall also the 
 coming of the Son of man be — 
 Mathkw 24. 
 
 But perhaps you are not ready 
 now, and are waiting for a more con- 
 venient season. 
 
 Dear friends, if this be so; will 
 
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you or can you give tlie devil, man 
 or God a reason why. Can you pro- 
 duce a cause why you should con- 
 tinue out from among the friends of 
 civilization — out from among the 
 friends of education and churches — 
 out from among the wisest and best? 
 Castingyourinfluenceforheathonism, 
 darkness, degredation and sin. You 
 call upon christians to produce their 
 cause; you call upon them to produce 
 strong reasons for the hope they 
 have for eternal happiness. You crit- 
 icize their ways, you doubt their 
 honesty, you ridicule their prayers; 
 but you fail to produce a cause, or 
 bring forth a reason for your course. 
 Christians if you have a hope, you 
 can produce a reason for that hope, 
 
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and live so tliat tte world can see 
 there is an unseen spirit guid- 
 ing your walk and conversation: and 
 by so living, you are letting ''your 
 light shine", so that others seeing 
 your good works, will glorify our 
 Father in Heaven. We must each 
 produce our own cause, and bring 
 forth our own reasons for the hope 
 we have. We cannot produce a cause 
 for the hope that others have, nor 
 expect the Holy Spirit to come in the 
 same way, or from the same cause. 
 
 We have our destiny in our own 
 hands, rough hew them though we 
 may. God places the beautiful and 
 true beside the false and gloomy, and 
 leaves us to choose. He has placed us 
 
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tere upon earth, but next to the 
 angels, He has given us a mind capa- 
 ble of resisting a Devil or a God, not 
 both. We stand between the living 
 and the dead, the past and the future. 
 The follies and the virtues that sur- 
 round us should be an example to 
 shun or follow. The life and death of 
 Christians should be compared with 
 others, and if we choose a christians 
 death. Remember — 
 
 ''It is the life we live, and not 
 the death we die, stands first in judg- 
 ment. 
 
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MOTHER^S INFLUENCE. 
 
 1 wrote a long letter to mother, 
 
 For I was her only boy ; 
 And knew if she thought I was happy, 
 
 It would fill her heart with joy. 
 
 And so with words that were written, 
 
 A ripple of harmless fun, 
 Chased my pen through the letter, 
 
 Never stopued till my letter was done. 
 
 And I thought as I sealed my letter. 
 Now mother will never think 
 
 That I'm very unhappy sometimes. 
 And sometimes wicked and drink. 
 
 I would not tell her for a fortune. 
 
 How dizzy I was that night; 
 Or the terrible words 1 uttered. 
 
 That caused the disgraceful fight. 
 
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nOTHER'S INFLUENCE— Continued. 
 
 I wouldn't tell her, or any old friend, 
 I knew when I lived on the farm ; 
 
 They thought if only I smoked segars. 
 Even that might do me some harm. 
 
 I can handle the eucher deck now, 
 And win as much as I loose; 
 
 And if I have not much cash on hand, 
 I earn as much as I use. 
 
 And a strong segar tastes mighty fine, 
 After an evening of fun ; 
 And lager, wine, and whiskey I drink. 
 And I love them every o ne. 
 
 There's billiards, too, I handle with luck. 
 And rattle around complete : 
 
 But that never costs me much, you see, 
 I manage mostly to beat. 
 
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MOTHES'S INFLUENCE -Continued. 
 
 Boys, if mother should happen to hear, 
 I was drinking with you to-night. 
 
 This would almost slip from her grasp, 
 And never again seem bright. 
 
 Satan is after me mighty spry, 
 
 And after you every one. 
 And trying to keep us all I judge. 
 
 The worst way under the sun. 
 
 My pants are thin and my coat is too, 
 
 My boots are needing a patch, 
 I'm a fellow that feels mighty blue; 
 Feel like the very old scratch. 
 
 Here boys, this glass of liquor I pass; 
 
 Pour it back in the keg; 
 Makes me think of the Devil, I swear! 
 
 He would like to make me beg. 
 
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MOTHER'5 INFLUENCE— Continued. 
 
 What! And don't be a baby say you. 
 Take up that Hquor and drink. 
 
 I never deceived or cheated yet, 
 Am I fooHng- you now do you think? 
 
 Whether I drank or played with } ou boys 
 
 You always called me a man. 
 I'm more of a man if I stop it now; 
 
 Deny the fact if you can. 
 
 Your friendship boys I prize very much, 
 
 I want it true as I'm here; 
 But friendship sure would be mighty poor, 
 
 Purchased with whiskey or beer. 
 
 What is the reason I stop? say you; 
 
 I've told you plain as can be; 
 But if some other reasons I give, 
 
 My reasons you sure can see. 
 
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MOTHER'S INFLUENCE— Continued, 
 
 I never have lied to mother, boys, 
 
 Or deceived her any way, 
 Till I sent her the letter I wrote, 
 
 And put in the office to-day. 
 
 Didn't deceive her much to be sure 
 
 But it made me fell so small; 
 When I thouhht how good she'd been to me, 
 
 I tried to deceive her at all, 
 
 And when I stood at my desk to-day, 
 
 My employers voice I heard. 
 I did not intend to listen boys, 
 
 But understood every word. 
 
 He told how prompt and steady I was 
 
 Never went off on a spree; 
 I felt like a liar or thief boys. 
 
 And little as I could be, 
 
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MOTHER'S INFLUENCE— Continued. 
 
 This wasn't all set me thinking, 
 But I dreamed a dream last night, 
 
 And all of us were out in a boat. 
 And every one of us tight. 
 
 But the boosiest fellow there, boys, 
 
 Was the landlord at the bar; 
 He had the helm pretending to steer, 
 
 While smoking a huge segar. 
 
 The day was fair as you ever saw, 
 The river smooth as could be; 
 
 But soon the clouds began to arise, 
 As we drifted toward the sea. 
 
 And when the wmd and the lightning came. 
 We tried to pull for the shore; 
 
 But the way landlord managed the helm. 
 The farther otT we were borne. 
 
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MOTHER'S INFLUENCE— Continued. 
 
 But the people on the shore we saw, 
 
 As plain as I can see you, 
 And every one that we saw there. 
 
 Was somebody that we knew. 
 
 Sister I saw almost wild with grief, 
 Father was there with her, too; 
 
 But the fearfulest sight that I saw. 
 Was the mothers of that crew. 
 
 Oh, God ! I can almost hear the growns 
 And shrieks of mothers on shore, 
 
 As on mad rushing waters we rode, 
 From mothers we'd see no more. 
 
 And just as the breakers sealed our fate, 
 Came my mother's dying cry; 
 
 Dropping dead, her last were, 
 "Boy oh my boy must you die"! 
 
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nOTHER'S INFLUENCE— Continued. 
 
 Then as the breakers covered my head, 
 
 The waters rang in my ears, 
 And I thought of heaven and hell, boys, 
 
 As not for many long years. 
 
 And although it was naught but a dream, 
 You see it all may come true, 
 
 And so I got off from that boat boys, 
 God save the rest of the crew. 
 
 I found an old pledge in my trunk, boys, 
 And tackled it with my name; 
 
 And I want you to tackle it too; 
 Sam take the lead, do the same. 
 
 I did not come here to preach to you, 
 I (blackest sheep in the flock), 
 
 Know it would take but a little more, 
 To make me a downright sot. 
 
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MOTHER'5 INFLUENCE— Continued. 
 
 I have tried an occasional glass, 
 
 Have tried a moderate share, 
 Occasional is^ too slow. 
 
 Moderation we never can bear. 
 
 We may climb the ladder of life boys. 
 
 With slow reliable tread; 
 But stop for an occasional drink, 
 
 Some one else gets our place that's ahead. 
 
 And sure as action is natures law. 
 
 Everything is bound to change; 
 If men can moderately manage drink. 
 
 And nothing else it is strange. 
 
 You are passing that pledge around, 
 
 In an intelligent way, 
 And you that have written your names down, 
 
 Will all have something to say. 
 
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nOTHER'5 INFLUENCE— Continued. 
 
 Well landlord you are the very last, 
 
 That I expected to win: 
 May God bless you all my dear comrades, 
 
 Starting ilfe over again. 
 
 And comrads if the serpants venom, 
 Has passed beyond our control, 
 
 Then we'el call upon Dr. Keeley 
 Boys, to make our body whole. 
 
 And then with a soul redeemed by God, 
 
 A body redeemed by man, 
 Once more we're ready to conquer, boys, 
 
 The Devil and all his Clan. 
 
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TWILIGHT MUSINGS. 
 
 As the twilight shadows were wrapping, 
 The day in its mantle of night: 
 
 And as I sat thinking of Heaven, 
 That beautiful city of light. 
 
 And comparing with earthly splendor, 
 The beauties that must be up there: 
 
 And thinking of those that are waiting, 
 Mid those splendors free from all care, 
 
 Thinking of lifes beautiful missions, 
 Its duties and crosses to bear: 
 
 Then methought this life is worth living; 
 If its lived for the life over there. 
 
 If its lived for a loving Saviour, 
 That fashions these splendors divine; 
 
 With eye ever single to duty, — 
 I prayed may these virtues be mine. 
 
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TWILIGHT MUSINGS— Continued. 
 
 May I though I'm weak in His service, 
 Grow strong in my love for His cause, 
 
 Be nerved for the conflict before me, 
 Be never e'en tempted to pause. 
 
 And while I was praying that evening 
 For wisdom and intellect grand, 
 
 To proclaim to the world the beauties. 
 That wait in that bright golden land. 
 
 All at once it seemed I was nearer. 
 To the dear ones, heaven and God; 
 
 The rough paths before me seemed smoother 
 Than any I ever had trod. 
 
 My weakness had always been mountains, 
 Divirting God's sunlight from me, 
 But now. I resolved to do something, 
 
 Though little that something might be. 
 
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TWILIGHT nUSlNGS— Continued. 
 
 1 had always waited for others, 
 
 To speak of His glories divine, 
 And prayed — my Father forgive me. 
 
 Their words are more gifted than mine. 
 
 But now from that bright golden temple, 
 These words seemed were spoken to me, 
 
 "Open thy mouth and I will fill it" — 
 "My grace is sufficient for thee." 
 
 If others all waited in silence, 
 How then could the story be told; 
 
 Go work yourself in His vineyard, 
 And He will pay you at night in gold. 
 
 You are living on earth, remember. 
 You've not reached that bright golden shore 
 
 And while on this earth you are living, 
 Improvement should come evermore. 
 
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TWILIGHT MUSINGS— Continued, 
 
 This world is a world of improvement, 
 And even in heaven they grow, 
 
 For have you not heard how the angels, 
 From glory to glory go. 
 
 So if you are weak in His service. 
 And wish to grow strong in Hisgrace, 
 
 Start at the foot of the ladder, 
 With the lowliest take your place. 
 
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riANAQE YOUR OWN MANOUVERS. 
 
 If a man should meet misfortune, 
 That decreased his worldly store — 
 
 If the Guiding Power of heaven 
 From his home his loved ones bore. 
 
 If his labor and ambition, 
 Like his castles in the air — 
 
 All have vanished without traces 
 Of existance any where. 
 
 If he totters on the vortext, 
 Of discouraged yawn ing chasm — 
 
 And misfortunes twitch and torture 
 Like a hydrophobiac spasm. 
 
 As he glances from the debras, 
 To the unbenignant world — 
 
 Sees fortunes friends, are traitors now, 
 With their banners all unfirled. 
 
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riANAGE YOUR OWN MANOUVERS— Con- 
 tinued. 
 
 Sees that those with smiling faces, 
 Who have fed from off his store, 
 
 Are gnawing at his character 
 With a glutton's greediest lore. 
 
 Sees that Aunts with smiling faces. 
 Their miscreant sons would teach. 
 
 To gobble all his dollars 
 That come within their reach. 
 
 Then entwine his name elastic. 
 With play ball sarcastic sound. 
 
 So that all his aunts and cousins. 
 May receive and pass it round. 
 
 Sometimes caught by hands that save it. 
 
 From a bats ternfic whack, 
 That would warped it just a little, 
 
 If it had not made a crack. 
 
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MANAGE YOUR OWN flANOU VERS— Con- 
 tinued. 
 
 As it passes through creation, 
 
 Like a feather in the air; 
 And he's powerless to arrest it, 
 
 And he's ready to dispar. 
 
 As he looks upon the torrents , 
 That are raging round his name. 
 
 Of course' he' II grin and bear it, 
 He had better not complain. 
 
 For although with fair intentions, 
 
 He intreated for a rest, 
 The devil keeps things lively. 
 
 That will serve his cause the best. 
 
 When hells agents flock around him, 
 His perceptions to beguile, 
 
 With their promises to help him. 
 And their fiendish angel smile. 
 
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ilANAGE YOUR OWN flANOUVERS— Con 
 tinued. 
 
 When they tell him how dame fortune, 
 With a lavish willing hand; 
 
 Will supply his emptied coffers, 
 And his enemies disband. 
 
 If he'll only kneel before them, 
 And submit to them his will, 
 
 He will find his dose of trouble, 
 A nice sugar coated pill. 
 
 How the world upon their shoulders, 
 They can balance like a poll; 
 
 How they carry all the virtues. 
 That will save his very soul. 
 
 Do you wonder that he's blinded, 
 By wiles of classic features. 
 
 And mistskes for angels smiling, 
 Some of earth's malignent creatures.? 
 
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MANAGE YOUR OWN MANOUVERS— Con- 
 tinued. 
 
 Who artistically point downward, 
 
 In reference to a Heaven: 
 Saying that he wants to go there, 
 
 With perhaps some less than seven. 
 
 Just because he answered kindly. 
 
 With perhaps a bit of vim; 
 Something about my own business, 
 
 Which should have been ours to them. 
 
 And speaks out with some decision, 
 
 And perhaps a firmness too; 
 What I've lost is my misfortune. 
 
 What I've left is not for you. 
 
 Could you wonder if their language, 
 
 And their hell polluting rod; 
 With their bogus boasted virtues. 
 
 Almost turned him from his God? 
 
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MANAGE YOUR OWN MANOUVERS— Con- 
 tinued. 
 
 When they told why friends forsook him, 
 Why his relatives went back ; 
 
 And that all his friends and neighbors, 
 Would soon all be on his track? 
 
 To scourge, to beat and to spurn him. 
 As they named them one by one. 
 
 Would common human nature. 
 Keep quite virtouusly mum? 
 
 Or would it rouse his Adam 
 With a kind of virtuous spunk; 
 
 To stink some small opposition. 
 To something else that — that stunk? 
 
 Some perhaps would bourn the perfume. 
 
 But I poor deluded soul, 
 Let the wind out of their bubble. 
 
 With a sharp pen pointed pole. 
 
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MANAGE YOUR OWN flANOUVERS— Con= 
 tinued. 
 
 Then settled down contented, 
 Like a schoolboy with a grin; 
 
 When he sees some other fellow, 
 Sit down on a crooked pin. 
 
 Now to all dear friends and neighbors, 
 
 And relatives most dear; 
 The author of this nonsense, 
 
 Still pursues his mad career — 
 
 Still exists among the rubbish. 
 Of his wasted misspent years; 
 
 Looking on the wild confusion 
 With some smiles, and many tears. 
 
 He has stood the target practice, 
 Has received the balls they sentj 
 
 .And remains the same old target, 
 JBut with now and then a dent. 
 
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ilANAGE VOUR OWN MAN0UVER5— Coil^ 
 tinued. 
 
 But from out the dire confusion, 
 Following such an evil wake; 
 
 There is some good all can gather, 
 Some lessons all can take. 
 
 If the world seems all above you, 
 And you are tumbled in a heap, 
 Or see others in such troubles. 
 Trying to regain their feet. 
 
 Do not think 'twill gain you glory, 
 
 To direct a man to hell. 
 The world will think your on the way, 
 
 For you know the road so well. 
 
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INCENTIVES TO PRAYER. 
 
 No text is broad enough, no 
 thought is deep enough, no words 
 explicit enough to do the subject 
 justice. 
 
 For me to write of the incentives 
 to prayer would be to write of what 
 we are and what we hope to be; of our 
 life and our life work terrestrial 
 and celestial, from our cradle to our 
 grave, from time to eternity. There- 
 fore hastily glancing at a few points 
 and mingling with them a little per- 
 sonal experience, I shall leave the 
 subject to be continued and devel- 
 oped by the reader. 
 
 Let us notice the natural or in- 
 
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bom spirit of worship that dwells 
 within the heart of each and every 
 hnman being. And as nature has not 
 and does not endowe us with any un- 
 attainable aspiration or inclination, 
 or give us a desire to do that which 
 cannot be done, we know the natural 
 incentives with which we are en- 
 dowed, and which are prompting us 
 to ask a Superior Being for assistance 
 and guidance in our aims and aspir- 
 ations, and for the things we are in 
 need of, is 7iot a delusion. And we 
 know that. That Being must be the 
 author and finisher of perfection. 
 We know that He must be perfection 
 because we are totally incapable of 
 uttering a word in faith, in a petition 
 
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for anything that is not for a good 
 cause, or for the elevation of tlie world 
 in general. 
 
 No robber ever started on his 
 journey of pillage and plunder with 
 a prayer to God for guidance and 
 success. No murderer ever drove the 
 knife to his victims heart with a faith- 
 ful petition for Divine approval. 
 
 No being ever fostered an evil 
 aspiration, or inclination, and prayed 
 for a Divine blessing thereon. 
 
 If then there is not, and never 
 has been in existence, any who were 
 inclined or capable of prayerfully 
 prompting, or encouraging any evil 
 propencity, or anything that would 
 work evil to mankind — but on the con- 
 
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trary every grand and noble action, 
 or impulse seemed to Have originated 
 
 BY PRAYER. 
 
 If tHen I say, it is impossible to 
 pray for the accomplisbment of an 
 evil design: and almost as impossible 
 to keep from praying for tHe accom- 
 plisbment of a good purpose. Is not 
 prayer a safe and beautiful way to 
 discern between good and evil? Is it 
 not prayer tbat enables us to gain 
 tbe beautiful and true and avoid the 
 false and gloomy? Is it not prayer 
 that enables us to climb the ladder of 
 faith to an elevation from which we 
 may discern the good even in the 
 distance that is slowly and steadily 
 ^advancing, retarded only by the evil 
 
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that is before it? And is it not prayer 
 that gently, thoughtfully, humbly, 
 gladly and triumphantly, enables us 
 to pass around the evil and secure 
 the good? Is it not prayer that en- 
 ables us to climb even to the summit 
 of what we ever hope to be? Yes, and 
 even to the crowning glories of eter- 
 nity. And yet we hear many say, I 
 have met with so many troubles and 
 toils from which I have prayed for 
 deliverance. I have met with so many 
 disappointments in my earthly career 
 thus far. I have failed to have so many 
 prayerful requests granted. Nothing 
 turns out as I expected. There has 
 never a year passed wherein my ex- 
 pectations have been fulfilled by my 
 
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aspirations culminating in realization: 
 that I Have almost lost the little faith 
 I had, and am unable to get more. 
 The Lord pity you. Have you 
 been praying for time or eternity? 
 Have you been marking out the road, 
 and showing God the way, or have you 
 been looking for the way and asking 
 God to show it to you? Have you been 
 praying for a few earthly pleasures 
 to enjoy to-day, and weary of to-mor- 
 row. Or have you been praying for 
 the grand celestial pleasures of God's 
 eternity, for yourself, and others? 
 
 Have you remembered that your 
 mind was your spirit, your heart 
 your sGiil? Have you remembered, 
 that mind, heart, spirit and soul are 
 
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synonymous words? And have you 
 remembered that you never spent an 
 hour or a moment for the improve- 
 ment of that mind and met with a 
 disapointment? You went to school 
 to learn and you learned. And you 
 have that knowledge to-day, and you 
 will have it in eternity. You read 
 the bible and you pray to learn the 
 way to heaven and you learn it. You 
 search for wisdom and the develop- 
 ment of the mind, and every mo- 
 ments effort has its sure reward. And 
 failure never has been, never will be, 
 and never can be known. You pray 
 for the crowning glories of time, and 
 meet with disapointment, for they 
 are bubbles. But pray for the glories 
 
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of eternity and find they are diadems 
 
 that will some time deck your crown 
 
 of glory. Find them — 
 
 Golden chariots to ride in, 
 Golden mansions to abide in, 
 
 The work we do to obtain the honor, 
 joys, comforts and necessities of this 
 life, must occasionally meet with 
 disappointment and failure: for they 
 are ''of the earth earthly". But the 
 labor we perform for the elevation ot 
 our own mind, and the minds oi 
 others, will never be wasted or mis- 
 spent moments. And those moments 
 though shining brightly upon earth, 
 will shine brighter in heaven. There- 
 fore if God sometimes denies the 
 earthly things we ask for, we should 
 thank Him for so doing, for He 
 
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knows our needs. And we will pray 
 with deeper earnestness and purer 
 faith, for the heavenly blessings that 
 He never denies. And for a knowL 
 edge of the earthly blessings, He is 
 so willing to bestow and for which 
 He desires us to pray. 
 
 Dear reader, if you are happy 
 and are not praying for that, which 
 produces it; let me say to you, that, 
 that happiness is transitory. If that 
 happiness diverts you from the ac- 
 complishment of good to yourself 
 or to the world, it cannot last. If that 
 happiness prevents you from learning 
 the way to heaven or becoming better 
 acquainted with God, or from foster- 
 ing a prayerful spirit, or from praying. 
 
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That happiness is a dream that is 
 almost ended. But the joys that fill 
 our hearts with gratitude to God. The 
 joys for which we raise our hearts in 
 greatful thanks to the Author of 
 happiness; are the joys that remain 
 with us, whether they be for this 
 world, or for heaven, or for both. 
 Well do I remember when a boy, of 
 how I longed for a span of horses I 
 could call my own. And while but a 
 boy, by my prayers and my own ex- 
 eritions, that wish was gratified. Well 
 do L remember how I received it as a 
 God like fruition. Reverently and 
 prayerfully received it, and as truly 
 thanked the God, I faithfully knew 
 must be the giver. That pleasure 
 
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has always remained. And as long as 
 it teniis heavenward, or I desire or 
 need it, God will provide it. 
 
 Once I was in trouble in regard 
 to a financial transaction. I started out 
 with no definite idea of how I should, 
 or would proceed. But went prayerful- 
 ly. It seemed as though my reputation 
 was at stake, and must be burned in 
 martydom by those financial heritics, 
 with which our world is filled. I went 
 on my own way in sadness — but with 
 a prayer to God for guidance, and a 
 little bit of faith that he would see 
 me safely though. I met a friend — 
 and as I stopped to pass a friendly 
 greeting he asked me to do for him 
 a favor: the doing of which, though 
 
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lie knew it not, would dispel tlie gloom 
 that surrounded my pathway as beau- 
 tifully, and as quickly as the rising 
 sun dispels the darkness of night, or 
 disolves the mists of the morning. 
 
 Could I fail to pray again — or 
 could I fail to see an incentive to 
 prayer? 
 
 Once I said to the sisters of a 
 dying girl? do you believe there is a 
 power beyond this earth that can save 
 — and can you believe that prayer will 
 bring that power to your assistance? 
 Do you believe that 'When two or 
 three are agreed as touching one 
 thing it shall be done"? And they 
 said — God is able to let us pray. And 
 as we reverently knelt to offer our 
 
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supplication; I think it was the ex- 
 perience of each of us that the reful- 
 gent beauties of eternity never dawned 
 upon our visions; or surrounded us 
 with so holy a magnifiicense as at 
 that time. Do you suppose the pre- 
 vious thoughts of our hearts were 
 words that our lips could utter? Do 
 you suppose that our human selfish- 
 ness prevailed at that moment, or 
 would the heavenly halo that sur- 
 rounded us, enable, and cause us to 
 ask God to take the selfishness out 
 of our hearts? And if it was His will 
 that she must go — to make our cross 
 her crown — to make our loss her gain- 
 to make our sorrow her joy, and to 
 make us feel that we had not laid up 
 
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the treasures in heaven we might 
 have done; and therefore God has 
 come and taken our treasure and 
 placed it in heaven, that our hearts 
 might be there also. 
 
 The prayer that we had thought 
 to offer remained unspoken — withheld 
 in a manner that God alone can ac- 
 count for, and in its place the parting 
 words of our blessed Saviour, '^Not 
 my will, but thine, Oh! God, be done". 
 And as the spirit was wafted heaven- 
 ward to the God who gave it, as it 
 approached the dark river with en- 
 thusiastic courage, and calm reliance, 
 that caused even death to be ^'Swal- 
 lowed up in victory", the members 
 of that prayer circle turned from the 
 
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scene with a knowledge that, prayer 
 was the pleasure boat on which she 
 joyfully glided over the dark waters 
 to that better land. 
 
 Was this an incentive to prayer? 
 They learned that prayer is a life 
 boat, and must be ready for use at all 
 times, and in all places. They learned 
 that the darkness of eternity is made 
 bright and beautiful by it. They 
 learned that there is a pathway 
 through earth that leads to heaven: 
 and that only prayer will enlighten 
 the way, so that we may keep therein. 
 They learned that all that is worth 
 living for, both here, and hereafter; is 
 gained by the prayers of faithful 
 christians. 
 
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Are not these incentives to 
 prayer? But there has been many 
 times during my life, I have found 
 myself praying for something, I was 
 not working faithfully to get. And 
 here is where I loose my faith. Here 
 is where I have found that prayer is 
 not prayer, or in other words — my 
 thoughtless request was not a prayer. 
 What we pray for, must earnestly be 
 desired. What we desire must earn- 
 estly and energetically be worked 
 for. 
 
 God Himself does not get any- 
 thing He does not work for. He de- 
 sired a world once and labored a week 
 before He finished it. And after the 
 finishing touches were put on, He 
 looked it over and said it was a good 
 
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world; and I heartily agree witH 
 Him, and give Him praise and thanks 
 for permitting me to live in it. And 
 that world with millions of other 
 worlds He set in motion, and by His 
 watchful care and unceasing devoted 
 labor. He has kept revolving ever 
 since, without a collision that He 
 did not intend, and without a pause 
 in their grand and complicated im- 
 mensity. And with all this work, that 
 for us must be done, can we expect 
 Him to do for us what we can do for 
 ourselves with a little of His help? 
 Or can we fail to learn that prayer is 
 faith, and thought, and desire, and 
 love, and words? And the incentives — 
 
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All that makes life happy and worth living, 
 
 All that makes death victorious, 
 
 All that makes heaven our home, 
 
 All that makes eternity bright and beautiful. 
 
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DO YOUR BEST. 
 
 Not from any lack of labor, 
 Or never stopping to rest, 
 Can I give as any reason, 
 
 For not having done my best. 
 
 I've worked with a double purpose, 
 I have done enough for two, 
 
 And what three have left unfinished, 
 I have succeeded to do. 
 
 While others rested I labored. 
 
 Recreation seldom took; 
 I loved to think and to study, 
 
 And I loved my pen and my book. 
 
 But rough hand labor was plenty, 
 Money must somehow be had; 
 
 But reading seldom brings money, 
 Money it takes to buy bread. 
 
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DO YOUR BEST— Continued. 
 
 And so I labored for riches, 
 To help me to do my best; 
 
 And thought with the help of riches, 
 I could accomplish the rest. 
 
 I oft neglected the churches. 
 My mission for God forsook, 
 
 Humanities needs I slighted. 
 Social pleasures seldom took. 
 
 With a mind too full of business. 
 And a mind not over large, 
 
 Went back on my constitution. 
 Like a gun with an overcharge. 
 
 And it also hit my pocket. 
 
 So I failed to meet bills. 
 And when creditors gti grumbling. 
 
 It leads to many ills. 
 
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DO YOUR BEST— Contiuned. 
 
 This all would have been avoided 
 Had I worked more for my God, 
 
 For He knew how things were going, 
 So He gently used the rod. 
 
 I have changed— the Lord has blessed me, 
 For He changed the other part, 
 
 And my creditors are happy, 
 For I've got another start. 
 
 My life is more than half ended, 
 
 A round up I try to take. 
 And find how many lost chances. 
 
 My search for riches will make. 
 
 Had I worked more in God's vineyard, 
 
 Been in society found, 
 I think I'd be near heaven, 
 
 And not so near underground. 
 
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DO YOUR BEST— Continued. 
 
 It is not all the sweat of the brow, 
 
 We need in doing our best; 
 The Lord has never intended 
 
 Us never to take a rest. 
 
 The sweat of the brow is needed, 
 To start the sweat of the brain: 
 
 And social pleasures are needed, 
 Vigor and strength to retain. 
 
 For unless my friends we're social, 
 As angels we'd be a disgrace, 
 
 And loose the deed to our mansions, 
 And probably loose our place. 
 
 Man never was made with cog wheels 
 
 To tick a regular round, 
 Or he'd have springs and endless chains. 
 
 And somewhere he could be wound. 
 
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DO YOUR BEST— Continued. 
 
 Man must work some in God's vineyard, 
 
 When he is doing his best, 
 And the change from earthly labor, 
 
 He will find a blessed rest. 
 
 To quicken his mind for business, 
 A pleasure trip now and then. 
 
 Will give him some new ideas, 
 And teach him the ways of men. 
 
 Now I believe in religion. 
 And going to heaven at last, 
 
 But not in working to hard, 
 And going to heaven too fast. 
 
 If Christians want to make money, 
 
 In a regular business line, 
 They have got to use religion^ 
 
 And put it in every time. 
 
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DO YOUR BEST— Continued. 
 
 When religion is part of man, 
 He is bound to work on the square, 
 
 For he's part of heaven himself, 
 And crooks must keep out of there, 
 
 Religion will mix in politics. 
 
 If its only big and stout, 
 To stand a thump from every stump. 
 
 And never get clean kicked out. 
 
 Religion is good in churches, 
 Some preachers get it right smart, 
 
 They go to college to find it. 
 And don't have it when they start. 
 
 They think there is money in it. 
 But God will not hear them pray. 
 
 But He takes away the profit, 
 So they can't afford to stay. 
 
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DO YOUR BEST— Continued. 
 
 But there is now and then a preacher, 
 With commission from above, 
 
 They get their pay for laboring. 
 From the people that they love. 
 
 By working for God in earnest. 
 
 And doing their level best. 
 They have never yet been needy. 
 
 And they trust God for the rest. 
 
 Now friends don't bank your religion- 
 Keep it circulating round — 
 
 Keep your saw and hammer ready — 
 Keep your ax and chisel ground. 
 
 Keep them bright by constant using— 
 Try and do your level best — 
 
 Don't sit down and give up working; 
 That would never give you rest. 
 
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DO YOUR BEST— Continued. 
 
 Work — work hard for God in heaven, 
 Work for health, for friends, for gold; 
 
 Keep your manhood, keep your credit, 
 Spend your dollars and be bold. 
 
 Bold to say — I've learned to labor. 
 Where the Lord may choose to send — 
 
 And ril help my friends to labor 
 By my friendship to the end. 
 
 Then, go build the walls of Zion — 
 Build up manhood, body, soul— 
 
 For moral, mental, and physical, 
 Is what makes a perfect whole. 
 
 The world will not miss your body, 
 But it may remember thought, 
 
 And influence you exerted. 
 And the lessons you have taught. 
 
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DO YOUR BEST— Continued, 
 
 Then work for a noble manhood, 
 And strive for a perfect mind, 
 
 Pray for a heavenly influence, 
 While living for all mankind. 
 
 81 
 
WOMAN'S FRIENDSHIP. 
 
 Go if you can in this enlightened day, 
 Where no one cares for Mrs. Grundy's say, 
 Where womans noblest nature shapes her course, 
 Where her grand friendship from its holy source 
 Pores forth its bright heaven born refulgent ray, 
 As God directs, and not as people say. 
 
 And there you'd find her noble friendship's worth 
 
 Men know, and prize, and cherish here on earth; 
 
 Are guided heavenward by its power. 
 
 Are gathering manhood neath its bower. 
 
 But when her golden friendship she withdraws. 
 
 Men drown for friendship grasping after straws. 
 
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WOMAN'S FRIENDSHIP— Continued. 
 
 Men are in contact more than women think, 
 With other evils just as bad as drink, 
 And if he does not sink to rise no more, 
 A woman's friendship left ajar the door, 
 Where he could enter and a welcome find, 
 With her pure friendship elevate his mind. 
 
 Men as a mass our mighty nation through. 
 Deem women perfect, holy, good and true. 
 Believes that she possesses -and he's right- 
 More power thats pleasing in God's sight. 
 Than any man that lives benearth the sky. 
 He gives no reason and he cares not why. 
 
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WOMAN'S FRIENDSHIP— Continued. 
 
 Woman we prize your friendship more than life, 
 And seek it long before we seek a wife; 
 Why pass us then with word akin to frown, 
 And wonder why in drink our cares we drown. 
 When by an invitation sent by you, 
 Will Christians be and all try to be true. 
 
 Once, twice or thrice perhaps we come to you. 
 We oifer friendship and you take it too; 
 And in return methinks I hear you say. 
 If not in words, in actions plain as day — 
 There's Mr. Jones who often comes this way. 
 If you come, too, pray what will people say.? 
 
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WOMAN'S FRIENDSHIP— Continued. 
 
 Our visits then must cease, sad words but true, 
 
 Drink once again friendship forsaken crew. 
 
 Why can't you take us men for what we're worth? 
 
 Withhold your friendship here upon this earth 
 
 We sink in sin, as starving beggars fall. 
 
 Oh ! give us friendship, hear our starving call. 
 
 It is not love we ask so pure and grand, 
 But friendship with its welcome through the land, 
 For men without a home to keep them brave, 
 Who in a manly way your friendship crave. 
 Of you whose storehouse ever yields pure gold. 
 Be it in friendship or in love untold. 
 
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WOMAN'S FRIENDSHIP— Continued. 
 
 But men you say must ever dig for gold. 
 
 Yes, dig, wait, starve, grow wrinkled, gray and old, 
 
 We'er brothers and as sisters you we seek, 
 
 If you will friendly be and plain words speak, 
 
 Nor treat as poodle, Indian or bear. 
 
 In true manhood we'el climb the golden stair, 
 
 S6 
 
If we are as energetic as Colum- 
 bus, as devoted as Luther, as orator 
 ical as Demosthenese, as poetical as 
 Homer, or as philisopHcal as Plato; 
 we could not please every body. But 
 hope for the best, prepare for the 
 worst, be willing to work in humble 
 places: and we will find the day is 
 not far distant when the world will 
 admit that it is none the worse for 
 our sojourn in it: and we shall have 
 an approving conscience and the 
 smile of Heaven. 
 
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THE!LATEST THING OUT. 
 
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 Useful Ornamental, 
 Convenient, Durable. 
 
 30 ARTICLES IN ONE^— ia. 
 
 IRONING BOARD, STEP IJIDDEK, 
 
 TUB BENCH, WRITING DESK, 
 
 SEWING TABLE, HAMMOCK BACK, 
 
 PAKLOK TRUCK, INVAUCD'S TABLE, 
 
 CUTTING TABLE, SETTEE, 
 
 AND 20 OTHER USEFUL ARTICLES 
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 185 Dearborn St., Chicago. 
 
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