Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-17
AMONG. THE BEDOUINs,
Continued from second Page

uId jacob ma1e reservoir there when
there il plenty 81 water all around aud
abundance az springs and fountains and
seemingly no need Of shat reservoir? Why
did Jacob 70 to the vest expense Of boring
and digging a well perhaps two hundred
feet deep as first completed, when, by go-
ing little way of, he could have water
from other fountains at little or no ex-
pense2 All, Jacob was wise lie wanted
his own WELL Quarrels and wars might
arise with other tribes and the supply Of
water might be cut Off, SO the shoYels and
pickaxes and boring Instruments were or
dered, and the well Of nearly four thousand
years ago was sunk through the solid rock.
When jacob thus wisely insisted OH httv-
ing his own wen he taught us not to be
unnecessarily dependent on others. indie
pendence Of business character, indepen.
dence Of moral character, independence
Of religious character Have your own
well of grace, your own wen Of courage,
your own well Of divine supply If youare
an INVALID you have right to be depen-
dent on others But II God hos given you
good health, common sense, and two eyes
and two ears ana two hands and two feet,
he equipped yet fol' Independence of all the
universe except himself II lie had meant
you to be dependent on others you would
have been built with a cord around your
waist to tic fast TO somebodyelse. No; you
are built with common sense TO fashion
your own opinions, with eyes to find your
own way, with cars to.select your own mu-
sic, 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 win fill
it. Dig it IL need be through two hundred
feet of solid rock Dig it with your pen,
or dig it with your yard stick, or dig it
with your shovel, or dig itwith your Bible.
YOUNG MANI BUILD FOR YOURSELF
In my small way l never accomplished
anything for God or the church, or the
world, or my family, or myself except in
contradiction to human advice and in ODE
dience to divine counsel God knows every
thing, and what is the use Of going for adj
vice to human beings who know so little
thatno one but the all seeing God can real
lie how little it is? Isuppose that when
Jacob began to dig this well on which we
are sitting this noontide people gathered
around and said, "What a useless expense
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 waterw "Oh,n replied
Jacob, "that is all true, but suppose my
neighbors should get angered against me
and cut off my supply Of mountain bever-
age, what would do, and what would my
family do, and what would my focls.and
herds dor Forward, We brigade Of pick
axes and crowbars, and 20 down into the
depths Of these rocks and make me indie
pendent of al except him who fills the
bottles of the clouds must have my own
welllp
Young man, drop cigars and cigarettes
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 five hundred dollarsin-
come yearn says some one. Then spend
four hundred dollars Of it in living, and 10
per cent. Of it, or fifty dollars, in benevo-
lence, and the other fifty ia beginning to
dig your own well. Or if you have a thou
sand dollars year spenl eight hundred
dollars of it in living, 10 per cent, or one
hundred dollars, in beneyolence and the
remaining one hundred in beginning to dig
your own we'll The largest bird that ever
flew through the air was Matched out Of
one egg, and the greatest estate was brood
ed out Of one dollar.
GOD WILL DO his PART,
suppose when Jacob began to dig this
well. ON whose curb we are now seated this
December noon, it was a dry season then
rs now, and some one comes up and says;
"Now, Jacob, suppose you get the well
fifty feet deep or two hundred feet deep
and there should ho no water to Gil ii,
would You not feel silly2" People passing
along the road and looking down from
Mount Gerizim or Mount Ebal near by
would laugh and say, 'That is Jacobs
well, great hole IN the rock, illustrating
the mans folly.n Jacob replied, "There
never has been a well in Palestine or any
other country that once thoroughly dug
was not sooner or later filled from tho
clouds, and this will be no exception"
For months after Jacob had completed
the well people went by, and out of respect
for the deluded old man put their hand
over their mouth TO hide o smoker, and
the well remained az dry as the bottom OF
kettle that has been hanging over the
fire for three hours But one day the sun
was drawing water, and the wind got
round to the east and it began to driz2le,
and then great drops splashed all over the
reservoir and the rainy season poured its
foods for six weeks, and there came maid
ems to the well with empty pals and car
ried them away full, and the camels thrust
their mouths into the troughs and were
satisfied, and the water was y the well
three feet deep and fifty Neep, and
two hundred feet deep, ana all the Bed
ouins of the neighborhood and all the
In
having his own well. My hearer, il is
your part TO dig your own well, and it is
Gods part 60 fiil II, You do your part and
he will do his part,
Much is said about "good .luck,n but
people who are Industrious and self deny
ing almost always have good luck. You
can afford to be laughed ut because ofyour
application and economy for when you
get your well dug and filed it viii be- your
turn to laugh.
THE MOUNTS or BLESSING AND CURsING,
But look up from this famous well and
see two mountains and the plain between
them, on which was gathered the largest
religious audience that ever assembled on
earth, about five hundred thousand people.
Mount Gerizim, about eight hundred feet
high, on one side, and on the other Mount
Ebai, 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 Ebal reading the
curses for breaking the law, while the five
hundred thousand peopleon the plain cried
Amen with an emphasis that must have
made the earth tremble. Il do not believe
that.n says some one, 'fer those mpuntain
tops are two miles apart, and how
could voice be heard from top to topi"
N.Y. answer is that while the tops are