The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-08-09


hem out. and by them gain wealth and
ylory and the envy of our neighbOrs.
In the meantime, as We can't get down
20 the unseen pearls and they cant get
up to US, we must accept the stars we
have as the best of their several kinds.
there may be preachers
more eloquent than Mr.. Beecher. |
lecturers more popular and earnest
than Mr.. Cough, .funnier" humorists |
there may be than Mr.. Clemens. But
I do not know where they are. They |
do not preach, neither do they lecture,
nor vet do they write books. Conse-
auently, 1 have no clue by which | may
find them. And what shall it profit an
eloquent man if he have lecture as
long as whistle and have no audience?
How shall the poet sing if he can find
no publisher to string his yoiceful Tyre
with golden cords? Why do not these
blushing flowers cease to waste their
sweetness on the desert and bring their
wares to buoyant market? Is 1t not
because they lack the diligence
which enableth men to stand before
Kings, and is not the diligence just as
essential as the talent?
THE BURIED TALENT.
O. dearly beloved, the talent that Is
hid in a napkin, buried in the earth, IS
ever A curse to the man to whose stew
ardship it has been committed. 1t you
have nothing, nothing will be expected
of you; but II you dig in the ground and
bury the talent that is given you, that
Won NAV not be bothered with the care
of it. Improbable and lazy servant that
you are, you shall be cast upon the curb
stone where there is weeping and wall
ing. And the lively fellows. who have
gone on the street jingling their talents
and taking flyers with the boys, will
laugh you to scorn and mock at your
shornness, while they divide your tai
ent among themselves. And the fellow
who hid his talent, my son, did just
what all other lazy men do. He kicked.
He complained of his master, who gave
him q start and set him up on the street.
| He said he was hard man, on the cent
per day lay, that never laid a dollar
down unless he could pick up two,
while the lazy man was too honest to
touch any business of that kind, and
doubtless he talked the same way about
his fellow servants who were making
things hum, and just doubling their
money on every deal. he probably
button holed every stranger who came
to their village and showed him the
poinps on, and said that he could dc
lust as well as these other fellows, ant
double his capital even more easily
but he was too modest or to honest Of
too proud, or something of that sort
The fact is, he was too lazy. He hat
the capital, he had the business laid on
for him, but he wasn't sdiligent." 81
when he essayed to stand before thu
King, the King kicked him. 1t is on
thing to run in front of the King, m,
son, it is another thing to .'stand" be
, fore him.
KINGS AND KINGS.
HE shall stand before Kings" M,
dear, young brother, that is all wei
, enough, if, when you shape your am
bilious plans to the attainment of tina
honor, you are careful in the selection
, of your Kings. Is there young ma
within the sound of my voice thi
, morning who would be proud to stan
/ before King Kalakaua? There are Al
: rican monarchs, my hearers, Kings "b
l the grace of Cod as much as an
/ King to-day, who wear no clothes an
, eat their missionaries rare. Is it
: coveted honor to stand before the:
: Kings? There are Kings of Wall Stree
I and if you stand before them Ion
1 enough they viii skin you alive. Thel
/. is . King over in Russia, and IT 20
n should offer to stand before him, B
' would have You seized and searched fl
a glass bomb. There is King in Blu
nah who kills all his relations in ordt
e to avoid family quarrels. There al
: Kings that are higher than Agag ar
) there are Kings not fit for door mats
/ respectable houses. Now, to some pc
d pie King is King, but you want to
n little particular about your royalt
Y my son, or the publisher will get aws
o with every dollar of it. In the light
6 this Christian day and generation Hem
n VIII. is to you figure no grander tn;
l. Brigham Young; not so grand, indee
If for Brigham excelled the English XII
e in his own specially and left wide
that occupied every room in the O
Ladies' Home. And then we were ,
,e young ourselves; some of us more
l. than others.
- So, beloved, if the Kings before who
9. other people delighted TO stand plea
/. you not, you have no reason to be en-
n Gus of those misguided people
IS diligent that you may stand before mo
b. archs mightier and greater, Kings W
is are only Kings because they were DO
N unto throne they never won. a
n couldn't help it, and the Kings befo
re whom you stand will be honored
ID your service.
ID The collection this morning will
,e devoted to the servants with five a
rs ten talents. They have all they wal
ne but the trustees and deacons have {
re cided that they ought to have more.
a the improbable servant doesn't
a anything in the hat, take his watch
lie Robert J. Bardette, in Brooklyn EaS
'ir "A correspondent who has pass
l some years in Russia states that in
re village of Velkotti, in the St. Pete