The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-06-16
ENTPORIA NEWS.
june 18. 1871.
GRUMRLERS


A certain woman was so addicted to
grumbling that it was affirmed of her
she would be. sure to complain even
after she got to heaven, if at nothing
else, that there was nothing left to find
fault with. While there may be q rea-
sonable question entertained whether
the grace of grumbling will still find a
place in celestial chimes, certain it is
that grumbling finds ample room and
culture here below.
Even so far back as when Gideon
went out they growled-they found
fault when Moses led them toward Ca
naan. They pecked at him while he,
all Unconscious of their weakness, was
talking with God in their behalf. They
growled all through the wilderness,
and though the record is comparatively
silent here, have no doubt they contin
ued the cultivation of their gifts after
they bad come into the promised land.
There are many kinds of grumb lers-
old and young, rich and poor, fogies
and enthusiasts but of all kinds, the
Lord defend us most OF all from that
class which use as their weapon pious
cant; people who, while they are stab
bing noble effort in the back, are roll
ing their sanctimonious eyeballs toward
heaven In appropriate accompaniment
OF their hypocrilical words. The ugli-
est man in the world to deal with is he
VINO ls Conscientious III his stubbornness
and pious in his growl.
However people in common fail in
other gifts, neither age nor circum stance
Of necessity deprives them of the use
Of this. Says Byron:
"a man must serve his time at every trade
save censure. critics all ready made"
Almost every church rejoices in its
proportion of fault-finders of every
class, nor IS any kind OF wVrA oA1npt
from criticism.
Are you q conservative Then young
America lifts up his horn. You are
behind the age. Every thing and every
Spiritual prosperity depends on being
abreast Of the age, and your raft will
be sure to be found stuck fast in the
mud when the freshet is over.
Are you anxious to be astir and to
keep pace with the rapid march of
thought and of events? Somebody at
your elbow takes off his spectacles and,
Wiping them, with u sigh depiores the
departure OF the "good old times"
mourns that these tangled notions
are at such a fearful rate dispIacing
primitive simplicity" Qet a church
run In one rut fifty years, and at once
the sacred hole is primitive) and de-
slares you are altogether "too fast"
Does the pastor refuse to become a
common CAD and attend first to the
work of his study, and spend what time
he has left in visitation. At once some
body is afraid that the church will 90
to the dogs, because, forsooth, the pas
tor does not take enough pains to learn
the hearts and ways of his people. Wis
ltation is the grand thing in pastor.
1t doesn't matter how he breaches, but
We do want good pastor.
Is he man of social gifts, and does
he take pains to leave No room for cen
sure here! There is sure to be a set OF
spiritual dyspeptics, dissatisfied with
the nature of their spiritual meat. Thew
don't get fed. Their moral stomachs
are in fearful condition and it is all
the iault OF the pastor, who fails to
study enough.
Are you superintendent You black
board too much, or too little, your
voice is too loud, or too weak. You
are not familiar enough with the chill
dren, or you don't kiss the infant schoI-
ars. You sing too much, or don't sing
enough.
o, these gnatsl how they worry and
sting the builder that lays a stone or
that fastens n brace In the housed Never
mind build oil. The singing pnats
will die, one of these days, and your
building will stand.
1.-THE smallest fleas upon their backs
Have other fieas to bite 'em;
And those in turn have smaller ones,
And 80 Gd iTJiRituR."
-ReD. THEO. Il. X. GesaEeT, an Bap- |
ttSt Teacher.