Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-05-10

tessly called to order and answered sharp an
suppressed until it Is wossder that undo
such processes they do not all turn out Nc
docs and Mana Sahibs.
! What is your influence upon the neighbor
hood, the town or the city Of your residence
l will suppose that your are q star OF wit
w hat kind OF rays do you shoot FORTH d.
you use that splendid faculty to irradiate thu
world or to rankle its bless all the apos
tolic college Of humorists The man thai
makes me laugh is my benefactor. do moi
thank anybody to make me cry. can d.
that without any assistance. We all cry
enough and have enough to cry about. GOD
bless all slilfuI punsters, all reparteeists, an
propounders of ingenious conundrums, all
those who mirthfully surprise us with UNI
usual juxtaposition Of words Thomas Hood
and Charles Lamb and Sidney Smith had 4
divine mission, and 70 have their successors
in these times They stir into the acid bevcr-
age Of life the saccharine. They make the
cup OF earthly existence, which IS sometimes
stale: effervesee and bubble. They pIacate
animosities. They foster longevity. Thev
slay follies and absurdities which all the
sermons OF all the pulpits cannot reach.
they have for examples Elijah, who. made
fun OF the Baalites when they called down
ire and it did not come, suggesting that their
heather god had gone hunting, or was OF
on q journey, or was asleep and nothing but
vociferation could wake him, saying: sCry
aloud for he is god either he Is talking or
pursuing or peradventure he sleepeth and
must be awaked.n They have an example in
Christ, who with healthful sarcasm showed
up the lying, hypocritical Pharisees, BY sue-
costing that such perfect people like thenl-
selves needed no Improvement saying: s.The
whole need not q physician, but they that
are sickn
But what use are you making Of your will
Is 1t besmirched with profanity and unclean-
nesss Do you employ It in amusement at
physical defects for which the victims are
not responsible1 Are your powers OF mfmicry
used to put religion in contemptl Is it a
bunch of nettlesome invectiveg Is it a bolt
of unjust scorn! Is it fun at others mis-
fortunea Is it glee at their disappointment
and defeat! Is it bitterness put drop by drop
into cups Is it like the squeezing of arte-
misia absinthium into draught already dis
tastefully pungents Then you are the star
NORWOOD. Yours is the fun Of rattle
snake trying how well 1t can sting. 1t is the
fun Of hawk trying how quick It can strike
out the eye of dove,
But viii change this. and will suppose
you have large opportunity. You can en-.
courage that artist by buying his picture.
You can improve the fields, the stables, the
highway, by introducing higher style Of
fowl aud horse and COW and sheep. You can
bless the world with pomological achieve
menus III Ju6 OIcuaEuss lou can d0VaICo
arboriculture and arrest this beautiful icono-
clasni of the American forests. You can put
piece of sculpture into the niche of that
public academy You can .endow q college,
You can stocking tho jhnd bare feet from
the winter frost. You can build q church.
Yon can put missionary OF Christ on that
foreign shore. You can3elp ransom world
rich man with his heart right. Can you
tell me how much good a James Lennox Or 4
George Peabody or Peter Cooper or d Will
lam =. Dodge did while living, or is doing
now that he is dead2 There is not city,
town or neighborhood that has not glorious
specimens of consecrated wealth.
But suppose you grind the face Of the poor.
Suppose when mans wages are due you
make him wait for them because he cannot
help himself. Suppose that because his
family is sick and he has had extra expenses
he should politely ask you to raise his wages
for this year, and you roughly tell him If he
wants better place to go and get it. Sup
pose by your manner you act as though he
were nothing and you were everything.
Suppose you are selfish and overbearing and
arrogant Your first name ought TO be At
tia, and your last name Attila, because you
are the star Norwood and you have EN-
FILTERED one-third, if not three-t thirds, of the
waters that roll past your employees and
operatives and dependents and associates,
and the long line Of carriages which the UNI
dertaker orders for Your funeral in order to
make the occasion respectable, will be filed
with twice as many dry, fearless eyes as there
are persons occupying them. The clumsy
pail bearers may make the gates of your
handled coffin against them. but the world
will feel no jar as you go out of it.
There is an erroneous idea abroad that
there are only a few geniuses There are
millions of them; that is, men and women
who have especial adaptation and quickness
for tfiro l.,f me
be small The circle may be like the circurn-
ference Of the earth or no larger than q
thimble. There are thousands of geniuses
here this morning, and in some one thing
you are star. What kind Of star are
youa You will be in this world but few
minutes As compared with eternity the
stay of the longest life on earth is not more
than minute What are we doing with
that minutea Are we embittering the domes-
tic, or social. or political fountains, or are
we like Moses, who, when the Israelites in
the wilderness complained that the waters
of Lake Marah were bitter and they could
not drink them, their leader cut on the
branch of a certain tree and threw that
branch into the water, andit became sweot
and slaked the thirst Of the suffering hostl
Are we with branch Of the tree OF life
sweetening all the brackish fountains that
we can toucha Dear Lord, send US all out
on thy mission. All around us embittered
BY hypercriticism, einbittered BY poverty,
embiftered by pain, embittored BY In
justice, embittered by sin. Why not
60 forth and sweeten them BY smiles,
by inspiring words, by benefactions
by hearty council by prayer, by
gospelized behavior. Let us remember
that il we are wormwood to others we are
NORWOOD to ourselves, and our life will be
bitter and our eternity bitter. The Gospel
of Jesus Christ is the only sweetening power
that is sufficient It sweetens the DISPOSE
tion. It sweetens the manners. 1t sweetens
life 1t sweetens mysterious Providences
It sweetens Affections. It sweetens death.
1t sweetens everything. have heard people
asked in social company: If you could have
three wishes gratified what would your three
wishes be r II could have three wishes
met this morning tell you what they would
be- First More Of the grace OF God. Sec-
ond--More OF the grace of God. Third
More Of the grace of God In tho door yard
of my brother John, missionary in Annoy,
China, there Is tree called The emperor
tree. the two characteristics Of which Gro.
that il always grows higher than Is sur
roundings and lis leaves take the torm q :
crown. II this emperor tree Is planted By I
rose bush It grows : little higher than The
BUSH and spreads out above Il crown. II
Il be planted BY the 9ide Of anotheF tuee u
grows little higher than that troo and
spreads above Il 8 crown. Would God that
this religion q Christ : morn wonderful
emperor tlee mlsht overshadow "a your