The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-11-21


having his own well he taughs rs not to
be unnecessarily dependent on others
Independence of business character.
hide pendence Of moral character. In
dependence of religious character.
Have your own well of grace, your own
wei or courage, your own we'll OF divine
supply. If you are an invalid you have
a right to be dependent on others But
II God has given you good health, COM
mon sense, and two eyes. and two ears,
two hands and two feet He equipped
! you for Independence of all the universe
except Himself If He had meant you
| to be dependent on others you would
have been built with cord around your
/ waist to tic fast to somebody else No;
you are buil5 with common sense to
fashion your own opinions, with eyes
| to md youcr own way, with ears to
| select your own music, with hands to
| fight your own. battles There is only
one being in the universe whose advice
| you need and that is God. Have your
own well and the Lord will fill it Dig
it If need be through two hundred feet
| OF solid rock Dig it with your pen, or
dig it With your yardstick, or dig 1t with
your shovel. or dig it with your Bible.
In my small way never accomplished
any thing for God or the church. or the
| world, or my family, or myself except
in contradiction to human advice and
in obedience to divine counsel God
knows every thing and what is the use
of going for advice to human beings
who know SO lit5 q that no one but the
sIl-seeing God can realize how little
1T is i suppose that when Jacob
began to dig his we'll on which we are
/ sitting this noDntide, people gathered
/ around and said what a useless ex-
pense you are going to. when rolling
down from yOnder Mount Gerizim and
| down from yonder Mount Ebal and out
| yonder in the valley is plenty OF water"
] 30 - rRnlipd Jacob Sg al
/ but suppose my neighbors should get
| angered against me and cut off my sup
] ply of noun tain beverage what would
| do, and what would my family do and
what would my flOcks and herds do?
| Forward, We brigade of piclaxes and
crowbars and go down into the depths
/ of these rocks and maze me independ-
ent of all except Him who fills the bot
ties of the clouds! 1 must have my own
wellT'
Young man, drop cigars and cigar
cites, and wine cups, and the Sunday
! excursions and build your own house
and have your own wardrobe and be
| your own capitalist ''Why, / have only
$500 income n year!' says some one.
| Then spend $500 of it in living and ten
| per cent of i or $50 in benevolence and
the other $50 in beginning to dig your
own we'll Or, If you have 81. 600 a year
/ spend $500 of it in living-ten per cent,
/ or 500 in benevolence and the rema n
/ ing 500 in beginning to dig your own
| we'll
I suppose when Jacob began to dig
/ this we'll on whose curb we are now
| seated this December noon, it was dry
/ season then a. now and some one comes
up and says: Now Jacob, suppose
/ you get the we'll fifty feet deep or two
/ hundred feet deep and there should be
no water to fill it, would you not feel
! stlly?" People passing along the road
and looking down from Mount Certain
/ or Mount Ebal near by would laugh and
| say: That is Jacobs well, great
/ hole in the rock, illustrating the mans
| folly" Jacob replied, There never
has been we'll in Palestine or any
other country, tina once Thoroughly dug
was not sooner or later filed from the
| clouds, and this will be no exec ption."
For months after Jacob had completed
| the we'll people went by and out of re-
spect for the deluded old man put their
| hand over their mouth to hide a snicl1er
and the we'll remained as dry the
| bottom of kettle that had been hang
! ing over the fire for three hours But
one day the sun was drawing water and
| the wind got round to the east and it be-
| gan to drizzle and then great drops
| splashed all over the well curb and the
/ heavens opened their reservoir and the
rainy seasons poured its flood for six
| weeks and their came maidens to the
/ well with empty pals ana carr Cd IheTn
| away full and the caulels thrust their
| mouths into the troUghs and were salts
| fed and the water was IN the we'll three
| feet deep and fifty feet deep and
| two hundred feet deep and all the
| Bedouins of the neighborhood and
| all the passers-by realized that
| Jacob was wise in having his vn
| we'll. My nearer, it is your part
to dig your own we'll and it is Gods
part to fill it. You do your part and He
will do HIS part
Much is said about good luck" but
| people who are industrious and self-de-
nying almost always have good luclS.
You can afford to be laughed at because
OF your application and economy. for
when you get your we'll dug and filled it
will be your turn to laugh.
But look up from this famous well and
see two mountains and the plain be-
tween them on which was gathered the
| largest religious audience that over as
sem bled on earth, about 500 600 people.
| Mount Gerizim. about 500 feet high, on
| one side, and on the other Mount Ebal,
| the former called the Mount of Bless
| ing and the latter called the Mount of
| Cursing. At Joshua's command six
tribes stood on Mount Gerizim and read
the blessings for keeping the law, and
six tribes stood on Mount EDsl reading
/ the curses for breaking the law, while
| the 500 coo people on the plain cried
amen with an emphasis that must have
| made the earth tremblo. Il do not
believe that" says some one, for those
noun tain tops are two miles apart, and
/ how could 4 voice be heard from top to
| top?" My answer is that while the tops
are two miles apart, the bases of the
| mountains are only half a mile apart
and the tribes stood on the sides of the
mountains. and the air is SO clear and
| the acoustic qualities of this great
natural amphitheater so perfect that
voices can be distinctly heard from
mountain to noun tain, has been
demonstrated by travellers fifty times in
fifty years
Can you imagine any thing more
thrilling and sublime and overwhelming
than what transpired on those mounta n
sides, and in the plain between, when
/ the respons service went on, and
| thousands of voices on Mount Gerizim
cried; blessed shalt thou be in the
! CITY, and blessed shalt thou be in the