The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-07-05

uCate their children, and they Will lie
the ones that will hold the public Of
fees. unless the farmers educate their
children, and give them an equal ad-
vantage in that respect. We find that
Office-holders, with some exceptions,
are growing more and more corrupt,
and unless the farming class of pco-
| pie educate themselves and have some
control of public affairs, the time will
come when they will I've held almost
! the same az slaves. But perhaps
some will say, how can we educate
our children when il takes all our time
and theirs too to makca livingi There
are not many who cannot read or who
cannot send their children to school
long enough to read and write; and
after child gets that far, with little
encouragement, they will go farther.
1t is true it will cost something to fur
nish them with books, but if you will
\ do that, and when one book is well
read, get them another. and not let
them get their minds entirely off their
studies, in that way you can give
them an ordinary education without
much cost, and while they are at that
they are laying up something that will
be useful in the future; hut as it is.
they are running and playing from
! Saturday at dinner till Sunday night.
and when Monday comes they are in
worse fix for work than they were
when they quit Saturday ut dinner.
You say children will play, and so
they will, but if you will give them Il
chance, and encourage them, they
will study more than they will play,
and there is a great deal of time
! through the winter they can neither
work nor play out of doors, and then
would be your time to have them hard
| down at their books. Brethren, look
around you and see how many of your
neighbors after they sell two bales of
cotton, trade it out, and get Il bill of
it, can look over that bill. make their
calculations and tell whether they
were cheated or not' How many of
you can tell what 1871 pounds of cot
ton would come to any price you
might name7 How many of you can
write a note, order or receipt as it
should be? Brethren, tell you we
must educate or we must suffer. l
would like to show you the kind of
letters most of we farmers write, but
time forbids it.
Moral means, pertaining to manners
in reference to right and wrong. We
are all, or at least we claim to be,
moral men. but there is room for
great improvement with most of us.
I There Is one great moral rule found
/ in the Bible that should govern us.
/ 1t says, Whatsoever We would
that others do unto you, do
We also unto them" While there
are. | suppose, none of us guilty
of any great crimes. still near
ly all of us have done things to others
that would displease us if We were
treated the same way. For instance,
| if You loan neighbor a sharp pillow
to do piece of work and he keeps it
till You have to go after it. and you
find it in the field dull and dirty, you
don't like it, but perhaps if you will
look back Oh your past life you will
find that you have done him worse
than that. You would not like for
man TO cheat You in horse swap nor
trade of any kind; but, my friends,
most of lis like to get the best end of
the bargain, and now just let me adj
wise YOU to remember that rule, and
not only remember it, but practice ii.
and | think you will feel much better
when YOU think of the kind of life You
have lived.
Social means, society or friendship.
But am very much afraid we are not
bound together in hrotherly love as
we should be, because how often we
see difficulties arise between brothers
i'll the Alliance, brothers in the church,
and sometimes brothers by birth.
This should not be so, yet it is.
| '"IiS passion tempts one mothers son
To rage against another;
So wicked Cain was hurried on,
Till he had slain his brother.
! Hard names at first and angry words,
Which are bnt noisy breath,
May grow TO clubs and naked swords,
To murder and to death.
The wise will let his anger cool,
At least before It's night;
! But in the bosom of IA fool,
1t burns till morning hight"
But, my friends, we have pledged
ourselves not to do that; we are un-
der solemn obligation to always
speak the truth, and to take the Bible
for our way-bill through life. We
are to do all i'll our power to keep
peace and happiness. 1t is our duty
to see that all are ut peace in our COM
munity, but as general thing if two
people fall out, it is all right just as
long as they keep our names out of it,
but if they bring us in in any way, we
are ready to make the row still worse,
and if somebody says something about
us that is not just what it ought to
be, we are ready to deal them blow
and have satisfaction. But if you
will examine yom Bible you will find
where it says, ''Vcngeance is mine,
will repay, saith the Lord" and we
very often make the matter worse by
talking about, OF doing something to
some one to get satisfaction for what
they have done to us, and when it
finally ends we have more to bear
than we would have had if we had
passed it by unnOticed. We have
agreed to always speak the truth, but
how are we to do it if we handle the
general gossip that is going about the
land doing so much mischief. | have
a remedy that if it is applied, will
stop that at once. 1t is this, get you
ii small book, one you can carry in
your pocket, and also a pencil, and be
certain you carry them with YOU all
the time, and when you meet a friend,