The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-02-19
BEECHER'S THOUGHTS.
Pertinent Saying Taken From His
Sunday Discourse.


lie burden being Love Your Enemies
In the course OF his sermon Mr.
Beecher said
The supreme art of life a owe all
other arts Is the art of living together
Justly and charitably-na other thing
so taxing ..requiring So much wisdom,
So much practice-how t. live with
eur fellow men.
Everywhere, in all nations, men
can get along with everything else
than with the Highest creation OF
God.
As a rule men gef along very well
win natural law-everywhers ont
side of their stomachs.
A man gives to the bara-yud fowl
what the barI yard fowi wants; he
makes It's necessities the ruie OF his
conduct. No man cherishes a turtle
a. he would a canary bird.
When We reach the spncre "a man,
<upremriy endowed. carrying within
himself more than ali the rest oi
animal creation altogether it Is there
that men break down, and hardly
anybody Knows how to get along
wisely and well win man or ever
has known.
Men don't keep Step-ihey don't
marcii to the same music, so that tney
=re out az sympathy with each other
in various moods. And vet what a
whiri there -; what a drive of
intensity there II Men a;c swept
Slong with mas@e4 of men
In poll ical affiliations me- 90 on
together. WHAT would h rebellion
Of one thread IN nay coat am"nat to!
It can't heip Itself; II j. woven IN.
80 men are wcven into party when
they try 10 work themselves Gus they
eDly MAKE rent.
Oh, II ones life might be ike the
life of skitf or vacht, or any boat
ef single sail, in a seggest9lei lake,
where tie Winds did not low too
hard, If ones soul could Withdraw,
il would be easy to live-,haf is, il
would be easy to live if there we're
not so many men around.
Can y man carry himself in this
fanatic world of p0pu'ati0n aud love
his enemy-do good tn ta",e who
hate him! wonder how many pray
ers you ever sent up for those who
hate you? 1t wouldn't take uD the
top Of the page in the angels record
cook
When a large house dog comes out
With an announcement or himself.
man knows what he has got 90 meet:
but when one of these hasty lit e
Spi dogs, without bark at all, runs
behind and nips, You don't knoo
whether to run or stand sill, wheth
30 fight or give it up. Now, an
enemy that is an enemy outward.y
and strikes fair blow. can be mat,
but whisp rers, back biters, mean foil
folks who follow Won and nip V, u and
sneak I'D and cut The fe0ce 10 save
themse,yes-anG We are commanded
% pray for them. You don't need
any command to damn 'em. That
nature dictates. But grace turns
that all out The meanest kind Of
men. who, with all the manner Of a
coward have the venom of serpent.
Oh, mavn't | damn 'em? Ne, not
bill you have prayed for them first.
Into this maelstrOm Of human life
nen are sent without knowledge,
without experience; not of their own
volition. We wake up and fnd our
selves here; We are not responsible
for being born as We are.
| don't wonder that some mothers
veep when their daughters are born.
and cry, Oh. that il had been q son
There are some sad experiences that
would lead q mother to pray that
every one of her children be men.
If yon had the opportunity of say
ing whether Won would 60 al |
through this life again. would you |
do it? / wouldn't. With what !
know of this world now, if | should be- |
asked, Will you so through another?
/ might do it for Gods sake, but
for scarcely any other reason would
accept ii repetition of the varied ex-
periences of such life as this. Once
H enough.
l never saw a fat spider on a sum-
sers day peering out of his retreat
sntil a gauzy fy strikes his net. |
when he pOunces upon him, that [ |
don't want to hit him be spider /
myself for while and fight him.
Pick out the worst, the meanest. |
The dirtiest rascal Of the crowd-bad |
rs be is, there is within him a pearl. |
You haven't done il last year; will /
YOU endeavor to do it next year.