THE INVESTMENT OF A LIFE. 
Subject of Sermon by T. L. Frost at Uuion 
Service Last Sunday Evening. 
The subject of Rev. Theodore Ly- 
man Frost’s sermon delivered at the 
union service held at the Congregational 
church, Manchester, Sunday evening 
was the ‘‘Investment of a Life.’’ He 
took for his text 1 Tim. 4:8,—‘‘ For 
godliness is profitable for all things hav- 
ing promise of the life that now is and 
of the life that is to come.’’ He said 
in part: 
‘The problem of investment is more 
and more difficult. Not only is it hard 
to know how to invest money (provided 
you have any), but it is almost as hard 
to know how to invest all the activities 
of our lives, bodily and spiritual. 
‘“ There are certain inquiries an inves- 
tor should make. The first oneis: Is the 
investment safe? Some stock is watered 
and you run a risk if you invest in it. 
Some companies promise rates of inter- 
est too high to be safe. Some so-called 
investments are frauds. Others have 
small capital, small surplus and uncertain 
dividends. Some banks have bad men 
on their investment committees. 
“The second question an investor 
should ask is: Is the investment profit- 
able? What will be the return on what 
I invest? A man has aright to expect 
an adequate return from what he invests. 
Every man should be a laboring man. 
Every laboring man should receive not 
only enough to support his wife and little 
ones but should be able to have some of 
the luxuries of life. Some who are in 
positions of power and influence are 
unwilling that others receive an adequate 
compensation for their toil. “The labor- 
ing man should have social justice. 
““T should like to consider with you 
godliness as an investment. Paul was a 
pretty shrewd man, and he speaks of 
godliness as being profitable.’’ 
Mr. Frost defined godliness as a 
life laid out according to God's 
will, living according to the will 
of Jesus Christ. He then asked several 
questions: 
1. “‘Is it safe? Is God safe? It is 
foolish for us to ask such a question. 
The one who is guiding the affairs of 
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2. ““Isit profitable? Yes it is profitable 
for all things: this life and the one which 
isto come. It enriches earthly things, 
and is also prophetic of the glory of the 
heavenly. Menare willing to believe 
that religion is a good thing to die by. 
‘They would be unwilling, even the most 
godless of them, to have their bodies 
consigned to the grave without any 
funeral, just as if a funeral service and 
made-to-order funeral sermon would 
alter God’s judment of a misspent life. 
Religion, however, is good to live by. 
It lays hold of a man’s whole nature; 
purifies the body; illumines and _ sancti- 
fies the intellect; strengthens the will; 
penetrates business, amusements, social 
intercourse and private devotion. 
3. ‘‘Does it make a man less happy? 
Many make a mistake by thinking that 
godliness requires a long face. It is 
just the other way. It makes a man 
capable of enjoying life all the more, 
and when the temptations and the trials 
and sorrow roll in upon the soul they 
cannot deprive the true Christian of joy 
and peace. His life is hid with Christ 
in God. 
4. ** Godliness compared with ascet- 
icism. The godly life is not the ascetic life. 
He who is most godly seeks to invest his 
life in the lives of his fellow men. 
Christ was no monk, no ascetic. He 
came eating and drinking. Men called 
Him a glutton and a wine-bibber, but He 
was neither. We should seek to elimin- 
ate from our lives only what would de- 
base our own lives and exert an evil in- 
fluence on others. 
5. ‘“When should a life invest in god- 
liness? ‘The time for a life to invest in 
godliness is as a child. Then the life 
starts abreast of every advantage with the 
possibility of making the most possible 
out of life. The ten most important 
years in the life of an individual are from 
six to sixteen. Possibly the larger part 
of these who pass twenty-one irreligious, 
never get converted at all. 
Christ has said that except we be- 
come as little children we can in 
nowise enter the kingdom of heaven. 
Let us not expect too much of the chil- 
dren. We must not expect them to be 
perfect. We must not require of them 
a higher standard of life than we are 
willing to set before them. If the chil- 
dren go wrong, the parents and older 
Christians are largely to blame. 
“It would be wise for us to invest 
our lives in Christ now, for godliness is 
profitable for all things, having promises 
of the life that now is and of the life that 
isto come. After we have walked with 
Christ the dusty dirty streets of life in- 
troducing him to our relatives and 
friends, then at last we shall see the 
streets of the new Jerusalem and walk 
with Him the streets of gold and enjoy 
His blessed smile and presence.’’ 
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Lincoln’s Birthday—Feb. 12-—may be 
observed in Manchester by special patri- 
otic exercises in the Town hall on that 
night under the auspices of the W. R. 
C. Recognition is being given to the 
day generally. At Beverly Farms an 
elaborate program is being arranged. 
At the meeting of the Manchester 
Launch club held at the rooms of the 
Winthrop club Monday evening to con- 
sider the proposition submitted by the 
latter club relative to taking over the 
membership of that club and acquiring 
their clubhouse and furniture, was acted 
upon favorably by the launch club and 
the two clubs will combine forces, with 
headquarters in the present rooms of the 
Winthrop club over the police station. 
Another meeting will be held sometime 
soon to take final action on the matter. 
Some of our readers may not know of 
the rights which they have on the ponds 
and lakes in this section, especially those 
in the vicinity of Chebacco lake, in the 
woods back of Manchester. A number 
of persons that we know about have ex- 
perienced being driven off one of the 
ponds in particular and not being allowed 
to fish or skate or anything else. One 
Manchester young man, however, knew 
his rights and maintained them. Now 
Coy’s pond is considered the finest pond 
of the lot for pickerel fishing. It be- 
longs to the state and therefore anybody 
and eve.ybody has equal rights in it. A 
few weeks ago Forster Tenney and his 
father went to the pond to fish. They 
set their traps in the section of the pond 
near Princemere, the home of Frederick 
H. Prince. “They had hardly started 
when they had orders to leave there and 
go to some other pait of the pond, and 
when one of the employes failed to route 
them another tried, but the Manchester 
men knewtheir rights. A few days after- 
ward Forster Tenney went to the pond 
alone and fished in the same location. 
This time he had an encounter with Mr. 
Prince, he says, after the employes failed 
to drive him away. Among other things 
Mr. Tenney claims Mr. Prince did was 
to break up his traps set for the pickerel 
and throw his axe into the pond through 
one of the holes. Mr. Tenney took 
the matter up with a Boston lawyer and 
afew days ago he received a_ check 
through Mr. Prince’s attorney in settle- 
ment. 
Letters remaining unclaimed at Manchester, 
Mass. P. O. for week ending Jan. 9. Mrs M 
C Bouve, Miss Antoinette Dunjou, Miss 
Christina E Danielson, Dr Fred F Fisher, Miss 
Bertha Griffin, Arthur Logg, Malcholm Mc- 
Neill, Mrs Charles T Reed, Michael Scannell, 
Mrs A S Thomson, Mrs Aras Willeston. 
SAMUEL L. WHEATON, Postmaster. 
