The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-31
MISSIONARY PLOWMAN.
Why Moral and Material Interests should
Go Hand in Hand.

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1t will be incongruous and ineXcusa
BILE If we, the honored recipients. the
chief beneficiaries, of ever-expanding
bounties and blessings, fail to move in
harmony with divine arrangement tina.
strews our path with increasing good.
1t is ordained that improvement shall
eliminate in perfection. We make q
fatal mistake if we fail to see that this
applies to small things as well as
great. Human advancement has to do
with innumera BILE particulars, all re-
lated to each other and to the final
consummation. This opens the way for
work as diversified and different as
human character and capabilities. 1t
gives everybody something to do,
something they can do, something
The mora al and the material are
inseparably connected they go
hand in hand. Intellect, soul and
body must each be ministered unto.
They are missionaries laboring for the
world s re generation who put better
fruit, bread, vegetables, milk, butter
on the market, giving honest measure.
1t needs to be known that the man who
makes barren spot productive, an
unsightly place attractive, malarial
region healthful, helps to usher in
1.-THE good time co ming" He who
gives Il better form, a richer color a
sweeter perfume to the flower; he who
adds grace and beauty to the trees and
shrubs that adorn our homes takes his
place among public benefactors. He
who plants trees by the road side, re-
moves deformities and smooths the
path where weary men and weary
horses tread, has not lived in vain.
We need to be often reminded that
things of beauty-nature arrayed in its
best garb-elevate and improve be-
holders, diverting them from frivoli-
ties, foilies and gross sensualitica.
Character is formed by environment
to an extent little understood and ap-
preciated. Preaching and teaching
will do little good to people living in
damp, dark, dismal. uninviting tene-
ments, opening into narrow, dirty al
leys. God is better served by furnish
ing the poor with hou ses fit to live in
and at lower rent than by building
costly churches where pride is more
conspicuous than piety. To make the
homes of hard working men and WON
en- more conv enient, comfortable and
comely will for many years af-
ford employment to people inclined
to make things better. Whoever
determines to leave things better
than he found them, and with
purpose and persistence labors for that |
end, develops beauties AMI utilities |
wherever his efforts and influence eX-
.end. but what is of more consequence
20 him personally. acting from such i'm
pulses and working for such ends, the
'ehex influence benefits him personal
y even more than he benefits his sur
Imperfect work in any de-
)artment of business demoralizes the
worker. Every painstaking and con
'cientlous performance invigorates the
moral sense. Doing with sole reference
% immediate gain, doing for the
PRESENT, develops seliishness. The
habit, early formed. of doing every
hing we'll is a moral safeguard, II pre-
rents frauds and manifold cheateries.
When each one tries TO make every
hing better the world will advance
rapidly toward the millennium. Maj
iugh T. Brooks, in N. Y. Tribune. !