The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-10-06

norant school .mas'crs. and no oppor-
tunity, you may have so much good in
your soul and so mu, h OF heaven in your
every day life that you will be mightier
for good than any who went through the
curriculum of Harvard or Yale, or Ok
ford, yet never graduTiel in the school
of Christ. When you get up to the gate
of Heaven no one will ask You whether
You can parse the first chap'er of Genesis,
but whether YOU hav learned the fear OF
the Lord, which is the beginning OF Wis
dom; nor whether you know how 10 square
the circle, but whether yoa have lived a.
square life in a round world. Mount Zion
is higher Than Mount Psrnassns.
1. But what other inulttndes' there are
under other disadvantages! Here is the
Christian woman whose husband thinks
religion a sham, and while the wife prays
the children one way the husband swears
them another. Or here is Christian man
who is trying TO do his BEST for God and
the Church, and his wife holds him back
and says on the way home from prayer
meeting, where he gave testimony for
Christi
"What a fool you make Of yourself! I
hope hereafter you will keep STILL"
And when he would be benevolent and
give fifty dollars, she critcise' him for
| giving fifty cents. ! must do justice, AMI
publicly thank God that never proposed
at home to give anything for any cause OF
humanity or religion but the other part.
ner in the domestic firm approved it, And
when il seemed beyond my ability and
faith in God was necessary, she had three--s
fourths of the faith. But l know men
who, when they contribute to charitable
objects, are afraid that the wife shall find
it out What a whitening curse such a
wife must be to good man!
Then there are others under the great
disadvantage of poverty. Who ought to
get things cheapest! You say those who
have little means. But they pay more.
You buy coal by the ton, they buy it by
the bucket. You buy -four by the barrel,
they buy it by the pound. You get ap.
parel cheap because you pay cash. They
lpay dear because hey have to get trust
ed. And the Bible was right when II said:
The destruction OF the poor Is their power
~.
Others have unfortunate predominance
of some mental faculty, and their RASH
ness throws them into wild enterprises, or
their trepidation makes them decline
great opportunity, or there is vein Of
melancholy in their disposition that de-
feats them, or they have an endowment of
over. mirth that causes the impression Of
insincerity.
Others have mighty obstacle in their
personal APPEARANCE, for which they are
not responsible They forg t 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 the general
. appearance; and they forget that muc',
Of the worlds best work, and the
1 church's best work, has been
:, done by homely people; and that Paul the
= Apostle Is said to have been hump backed,
. and his eyesight weakened by ophthalmia,
while many of the finest in appearances
have passed their time before hattering.
looking glasses, or in studying killing at.
titudes, and in displaying the richness Of
!. wsrdrobes-not one ribbon, or vest, or
|. sack, or glove, or button, or shoestring Of
v which they have had brains enough to
= earn for themselves.
= Others had wrong proclivities from he
start. They were born wrong, and that
= sticks to one even after he is born again.
They have a natural crankiness that 10
two hundred and seventy five years old.
). It came over with their great.grandfath =
70 ers from Scotland, or Wales, or France. II
was born on the banks of the Thames, or
: the Clyde, or the Tiber, or the Rhine, and
has survived all the plaques and epidem-
= les of many generations, nn'l is living to-
Y day on the banks of the Hudson, or the
u Androscoggin, or the Savannah, or the La
u Plata. And when q man tries to stop this
evil ancestral proclivity he is like man
II on rock in the rapids of Niagara hold
ing on with grip from which the swift
!. currents are trying to sweep him into the
70 abyss beyond. ifr '- t0i.r
= In the way of practical relief for all dis
:. advantages and all woes, the only voice
- that is worth listening to on this subject
;. is the voice of Christianity, which
= 10 the voice Of Almighty God. Whether
~ have mentioned the particular dis
advantage under which You labor on
;. not, distinctly declare, in the name OF
!. my God, that there is way ont and z way
10 up for all of you. You can not he say
!, worse Of than that Christian young
=. woman who was in the Pemberton mills
when they fell some years ago. and from
:. under the fallen iimbers she ~..s heard
a. singing:
/. am going home 70 die no more.
:. Take good courage from that Bible, al
y Of whose promises are for those in bad
- predicament. There are better days ioI
: you, either on earth or in Heaven. l put
y, my hand under your chin and lift voul
~, ~ face into the light of the coming dawn
Have God on your side, and then yor
= have for reserve troops all the armies Of
- Heaven, the smallest company of which il
= 10000 chariots, and the smallest battalion
az $4,000, the lightnings Of Heaven ,he
:. drawn swords.
Of An ancient warrior saw an oveypower
ing host come down upon bis small com
in pany Of armed men, and, mounting hi
tn horse with a handful of sand, he threw i
f. in the air, crying:
%, "Let their faces be covered with confu
y. siony"
of And both armies heard his voice. anj
sh history says it seemed as though the dus
C. thrown in the air had become so man,
n. angels of natural deliverance, anl
Oh the weak overcome the mighty, and tin
We immense host fell back, and the small