Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-15

they contribute to charitable objects, are
afraid that the wife shall find it out. What
whitening curse such O woman must be
to q good man!
Then there are others under the great
disadvantage of poverty. Who ought to
get things cheapest? You say those who
have but little means. But they pay more.
You buy coal by the ton, they buy it by the
bucket. You buy flour by the barrel, they
buy it by the pound. You get apparel
cheap because you pay cash. They pay
dear because they have to get trusted. And
the Bible was right when it said: "The de-
structlon of the poor is their poverty"
Then there are those who made mis-
take in early life, and that overshadows all
their days. "Do you not know that that
man was once in PRISON." is whispered.
Or, "Do you know that that man once at
tempted suicide?" Or, "Do you know that
that man once absconded?" Or, "Do you
know that that man was once discharged
for dishonesty" Perhaps there was only
one wrong deed in the mans life, and that
one act haunts the subsequent half century
of his existence.
OF some mental faculty, and their rashness
throws them into wild enterprises, or their
trepidation makes them decline great OPP
portunity, or there is a vein of melancholy
in their disposition that defeats them, or
they have an endowment of overmirth that
causes the impression of insincerity.
Others have mighty obstacle in their
personal appearance, for which they are
not responsible. They forget that God
fashioned their features, and their COM
plexion, and their stature, the size OF their
nose, and mouth, and hands, and feet, and
gave them the gait and general appearance;
and they forget that much of the worlds
best work, and the church's best work, has
been done by homely people, and that
Paul, the apostle, is said to have been
humpbacked, and his eyesight weakened
by ophthalmia, while many Of the finest in
appearance have passed their time before
tiattering looking glasses, or in studying
killing attitudes, and in displaying the
richness of wardrobes-not one ribbon, or
vest, or sack, or glove, or button, or shoe
string of which they have had brains
enough to earn for themselves.
Others had wrong proclivities from the
start. They were born wrong, and that
sticks to one even after he is born again.
They have natural crankiness that is 275
years old. 1t came over with their great
grandfathers from Scotland OF Wales or
France. 1t was born on the banks of the
Thames or the Clyde or the Tiber or the
Rhine, and has survived all the plaques
and epidemics of many generations, and is
living to-day on the banks of the Hudson
Or the Androscoggin or the Savannah or
stop this evil ancestral proclivity he is like
a man on rock in the rapids of Niagara,
holding on with q grip from which the
swift currents are trying to sweep him into
the abyss beyond.
Oh, this world is an overburdened
world, an overworked world! 1t is an
awfully tired world. 1t is a dreadfully I'M
fortunate world. Scientists are trying to
find out the cause Of these earthquakes in
all lands cisatlantic and transatlantic.
Some say this and some say that. have
taken the diagnosis of what is the matter
with the earth. 1t has SO many burdens on
it and so many fires within it it has a fit.
1t cannot stand such circumference and
such diameter. Some new Cotopaxi or
Stromboli or Vesuyius will open, and then
all will be at peace for the natural world.
But what about the moral woes of the
world, that have rocked all nations, and for
six thousand years science proposes moth
ing but knowledge, and many people that
know the most are the most uncontrolled:
In the way of practical relief for all disad-
vantages and all woes, the only voice
that is worth listening to on this subject is
the voice of Christianity, which is the
voice of Almighty God. Whether 1 have
mentioned the particular disadvantage
under which you labor or not, I distinctly
declare, in the name of my God, that there
is way out and q way up for all OF you.
You cannot be any worse off than that
Christian young woman who was in Penn
berton mills when they fell, some years
ago, and from under the fallen timbers she
how, i
no more"
Take good courage from that Bible, all
of whose promises are for those in bad pre-
dicament. There are better days for you.
either on earth or in heaven. I put my
head under your chin and lift your face
into the light of the coming dawn. Have
God on your side, and then you have fol-
reserve troops all the armies of heaven, the
smallest company of which is 10000 char
lots, and the smallest battalion AZ, 900, the
lightnings of heaven their drawn sword.
An ancient warrior saw an overpowerine
host come down upon his small company
of armed men, and, mounting his horse,
with handful Of sand, he threw it in the
air, crying: "Let their faces be covered
with confusion!" And both armies heard his
voice, and history says it seemed as though
the dust thrown in the air had become Sc
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and the weak overcame the mighty, and the
immense host fell back, and the small
number marched on. Have faith in GOD,
and though all the allied forces of discour-
agement seem to come against you in battle
array and their laugh Of defiance and con.
tempt resounds through all the valleys and
mountains, you might, by faith in God.
and importunate prayer. pick up handful
of the very dust Of your humiliation and
threw it into the air, and it shall become
angels of victory over all the armies OF
earth and hell. The voices of your ad-
yersaries, human and satanic, shall be COW
cred with confusion, while you shall be not
only conqueror, but more than conqueror,
through that grace which has so often made
the fallen helmet of an overthrown an
tagonist the footstool of Christian VIC
tory.
A Good Dakota Lie.
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