St. Landry democrat., 1886-06-19

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/ lists, who are denied every picture anG
, every sweet song and every musical in.
strument. Oh let me cheer such persons
by telling them to look up and behold the
inheritance that God has reserved for
them. The King of Babylon had hang
ing garden that was famous in all the
ages, but you have hanging garden bet"
ter than that. All the heavens are yours.
They belong to your Father, and what be.
long to your Father belongs to you.
But have no time this morning longer
to dwell upon the hardships and the trials
of those who toll with hand and foot, for /
must go on to offer some grand and glori-
Gus encouragements for such: and the first
encourag ement is, that one of the greatest
safeguards against evil is plenty to do.
When men sin against the law Of their
country, where do the police detectives go
to find them? Not amid the dust of fac.
tories, not among those who have on their
"overalls;" but among those who stand
with their hands in their pockets around
the doors of saloons and restaurants and
taverns. Active employment is one of the
greatest sureties for pure and upright
life. There are but very few men with
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secutive idleness.
Sin is an old pirate that bears down on
vessels whose sails are Tapping idly in the
| wind. The arrow of sin has hard work to
puncture the leather of an old working
apron. Be encouraged by the fact that
| your shops, your rising walls, your anvils
are fortresses in which you may hide, and
from which you may fight against the
temptations of your life. Morning, noon
and night, Sundays and week days, thank
God for plenty to do.
Again, / offer as encourag cement that
| you have so many opportunities of gain
| ing information. Plato gave 81 800 for two
| books. The Countess of Anjou gave 200
| sheep for one volume. Jerome ruined him.
| self financially by buying one copy of
| Origen. Oh, the contrast. Now there are
tens of thousands of pens gathering up
information. Type-setters are calling for
| "copy-" All our cities quake with the
rolling cylinders of the Harpers and the
Appletons, and the Lippincots and the
Petersons and the Ticknors, and YOU now
buy more than Benjamin Franklin ever
knew for fifty cents A hard working
man comes along toward his home, and he
looks into the show window of the book
store and sees an elegantly bound volume.
He says:
81 wish had that book; there must be
a great deal of information in it,"
A few months pass along, and though
that book which he looked at cost five
dollars, it comes now in pamphlet shape
and costs him fifty cents. The high wall
around about the well of knowledge is be-
ing broken down, and people come, some
with porcelain pitchers and some with
pewter mugs, to dip up the living water
for their thirsty lips. There are people
who toll from seven O'Clock in the morning
until six O'Clock at night, who know more
about anatomy than the old hysiologsts,
and who know more about astronomy
than the old philosophers. If you should
take the learned men of two hundred
years ago and put them on one bench, and
take twenty children from the common
schools in Brooklyn, and put them down
on the other bench, the children could ex.
anime the philosophers and the philoso.
piers could not examine the children.
o! rejoice that you have all these oppor.
tunities of information spread out before
you, and that, seated in your chair at
home, by the evening light, you can look
over all nations and see the descending
morn of universal day.
One more encoura cement: Your tolls in |
this world are only intended to be disci-
pline by which you shall be prepared for
heaven. "Behold bring you glad tidings |
of great joy" and tell you that Christ, |
the carpenter, of Nazareth, is the work.
ingman's Christ. You get his love once |
in your heart, O, workingman, and YOU |
can sing on the wall in the midst of the
storm, and in the shop amidst the showing
of the plane, and down in the mine amid
the plunge of the crowbar, and on
shipboard while climbing ratlines. If
you belong to the Lord Jesus Christ he
will count the drops of sweat on your
brow. He knows every ache and pain you
have ever suffered in your worldly occu.
patton. Are you weary! He will give
you rest. Are you sick? He will give you
health. Are you cold? He will wrap
around you the warm mantle of his eter-
nal love. And beside that, my friends, you
must remember that all of this is only
preparatory-a preparatory and introduce
tory. see great multitude before the
throne of God. Who are they? "O," you
say, ''those are princes. They must have
always been in royal family. They
dress like princes; they walk like princes;
they are princes. There are none of the
common people there-none of the people
that ever toiled with hand and foot" All,
you are mistaken. Who is that bright
spirit before the throne? Why, that
was sewing girl, who, work as hard as
sh could, could make but two shillings
the day. Who is that other illustrious
soul before the throne? Why, that man
toiled amid the Egyptian brick kilns. Who
is that other illustrious soul before the