Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1882-12-05
Diligence in Business.
A lay Sermon,

| DtdTlN UtiONeu, YOU VIII not lis
ten to any Scripture in other pull
pits this marning that carries NOR,
truth to tbeAsqnare inch than this
And the especial attention OF the
young men i'll the congregation il
called to the text.
The reason why, or at leafs one
reason why, the Psalu list, after he
had been young, and was old, could
not remember ever to have seen the
righteous forsaken or bis seed beg
ging bread, was because n lazy man
cant be very righteous. Not'right.
eous to hurt him. The spectacle OF
"A lazy Christian would be as great
u rarity as a fat skeleton.
If your Bible teaches you any.
thing it teaches you that there is no
room in this hive for a drone. "The
hand Of tue diligent shall bear rule;
but the slothful shall be under trib.
ute "The way of the slothful man
is rs hedge of ihorns; but the
way Of the righteous is made plain
"The desire of the siothfui kiileth
him, for his hands refuse to labor"
"Thr sluggard will not plow by rca.
son of the cold, therefore shall he
beg in harvest and have nothing
"The soul OF the sluggard desireih,
and hath nothing; but the soul Of
the diiigent shall be made fat
"Not stothful in business; fervent in
spirit serving the Lord" "An idle
soul shall suffer hunger" a lazy
Christian, brethren, would find but
cold comfort if he should exert him.
self to read his Bible.
The diligent soul always possess.
tu tuc IdIlu' -NOt tue Hltil OI W.
man who steps into IA dead mans
shoes and II fortune, but the boy
and girl who learn in their teens
what dollar Is worth, and how to
gain and use a power that money
cannot buy, are the people who
move the world. Grifiord, the first
editor of the Quarterly Rerie,c was
only n common sailor; Ben johnson
was bJicklayer; John Bnnyan was
a tinker; Hugh Miller was quarry.
man; Shakespeare's father was so
illiterate he didn't know how to
spell his sons name; neither did his
sou, and no more do you, for that
matter; De Foe, the author of Rob.
inson Crusoe, was almost wholly
selftaught; Edgar A. Poe was the
son OF strolling players; Ben. Frank
lin, the printer, was the son of II
tallow chandler; Sir Richard Ark
wright, inventor of the cotton spin.
ming machine, WAS barber; Tom
Moore was The son of a grocer; Gen
eral Massey began life as an erraHd
boy; and taNton, who set mp the
first printing press in England, WAS
IA wca,er's apprentice; John Adams
was the son %. II farmer; President
Lincoln WAS Il farm hand and fiat
boatmaH; Andrew Jackson was q
tailor; Grant was tanner; Garfield
was a canal boy-none of these
men were renowned for their great
wealth, perhaps, but they were dill
gent in their business, and the,
stood before Kings; long, Ions
ways before most Kings. There il
no particular merit in being King
Amy man who happens to be borr
at the right time into the righ
family, can't help being a King
But all the kingcratt in the worlt
couldn't make a DE Foe, Hugh
Miller, Burns, or Banyan, il th'
boy didn't make himself.
Dearly beloved, it may he thai
this congregation is not made VI
exclusively of future Presidents
and of people whose names shall b'
written the foremost Of all in tbei
time. But there is little doubt tina
| it is largely made up of men ane
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