The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-05
MISSIONARY PlOWMAN.


Go Hand in Hand.
1t will be homogeneous and inexcusa-
bic if we, the honored recipients, the
chief benefciaries, of ever-expanding
bounties and blessings, fail to move in
harmony with divine arrangement that
strews our path with increasing good.
1t is ordained that improvement shall
eliminate in perfection. We make a
fatal mistake if we fail to see that this
applies to small things as we'll as
great. Human advancement has to do
with innumera BILE particulars, all re-
lated to each other and to the final
contamination. 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
to help the forward movement.
The moral and the material are
inseparably connected =; they 60
hand in hand. Intellect, soul and
body must each be ministered unto.
They are missionaries laboring for the
worlds regeneration who put better
fruit, bread, vegetables. milk, butter
on the marke t, giving honest measure.
It needs to be known that the man who
makes a barren spot productive, an
unsightly place attractive, a. malarial
region healthful, helps to usher in
1.-The good time co ming" He who
gives 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 it's
best garb-elevate and improve be-
holders, diverting them from frivoli-
ties, fOllies and gross sensualities.
Character is formed by environment
to an extent little understood and APP
preciated. Preaching and teaching
will do little good to people living in
lamp, dark. dismal, uninviting tene-
nents, opening into narrow, dirty al
.eys: God is better served by furnish
ing the poor with hou ses fit to live in
Snd at a lower rent than by building
costly churches where pride is more
conspicuous than piety. To make the
homes of hard -working men and wom-
IN more conv enient, comfortable and
,omely will for many years af-
lord employment to people inclined
10 make things better Whoever
determines to leave things better
than he found them. and with
purpose and persisten &c labors for that
and, develops beauties and utilities
tend, but what is of more consequence
to him personally. acting from such i'm
pulses and working for such ends, the
refle X influence benefits him PERSONAL
" even more than he benefits his sur
roundings. Imperfect work in any Gs-
partment Of business demoralizes the
worker. Every painstaking and con-
scientious performance invigorates the
moral sense. Doing with sole reference
20 immediate gain. doing for the
present. develops selfshness. The
habit, early formed, of doing every
thing we'll is a moral safeguard, it pre-
vents frauds and manifold chcatories.
When each one tries to make every
thing better the world will advance
r,apidly toward the millennium. Maj.
Hugh +. Brooks. in n. I. Tribune.