Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-11-29

ouf dragoman took pebbles and
dropped them in, and from the time thew
lel0 ms mana to the instant they clicked
on the bottom you could heal it wss
ueep, though not as deep as once for
every DAY travellers are APPLYING the
same test, and though in the time of
Maundrell, the traveller the we'll was a
hundred and sixty-fve feet deep. now it
IS only seventy-five. So great is the
curiosity of the world to know about that
well that during the dry season Capt
Anderson descended ilto this we'll. at
one place the sides so close he had to put
MS hands over his head in order to get
through and then he tainted away. and
| lay at the bottom of the we'll as though
dead until, hours after his recovery. he
| came to the surface.
! 1t is not like other wells, digged down
to fountain that fills it, but a reservoir
to catch the falling rains and to that
Christ refers when speaking to the
samaritan woman about spiritual sup
ply he said that he would. if asked. have
given her Giving water:'' that is, water
! from t1owing spring in distinction from
the water OF that we'll which was rain
water. But why did Jacob make a res
erVOlr there when there is plenty of
water all around and abundance of
springs and fountains and seemingly no
need of that reservoir? Why did Jacob
! go to the vast expense of boring and dig
ging well perhaps two hundred feet
deep as first completed, when, by going
Il little way off he could have water from
other fountains at little or no expense.
All, Jacob was wise! He wanted his own
we'll. Quarrels and wars might arise
Of ts.ih Il
might be cut off, so the shovels and pick
axes and boring instruments were or
! dered and the we'll of nearly four thou
sand years ago was sunk through the
solid rock.
When Jacob thus wisely insisted on
having his own well he taught us not to
be unnecessarily dependent on others
Independence of business character. In
dependence of moral character. indie
pendence of religious character. Have
your own we'll Of grace, your own well
of courage, your own we'll of divine sup
ply. If you are an invalid you have a
right to be dependent on others. But if
God has given you good health, common
sense and two eyes and two ears and two
hands and two feet, He equipped you fol-
Independence of all the universe except
himself. If He had meant you to be de-
pendent On others you would have been
built with cord around your waist to
tie fast to somebody else. No; you are
built with common sense to fashion your
own opinions, with eyes to find your 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 chat is God.
Have your own we'll 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 it with your shovel, or dig it with
your Bible.
In my small way never accomplished
ANYTHING 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
everything, and what is the use of going
for advice to human beings who know SC
little that no one but the all seeing God
, can realize how little it is? | suppose
that when Jacob began to dig this well
ON which we are sitting this noontime
people gathered around and said, "What
a useless expense you are going to, when
rolling down from yonder Mount GeriZlm
and down from yondcr Mount Ebal and
out Wonder in the valley is plenty OF
water!'' oh replied Jacob, that is
all true: but suppose my nelghbors
should get angered against me, and cut
off my supply of mountain beverage,
what would do, and what would my
family do, and what would my hocks and
herds do? Toward, ye brigade OF pick
axes and crowbars, and go down into the
depths of these rocks, and make me in
dependent of all except Him who ILLS
the bottles of the clouds! 1 must have
my own wellt'
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 capltai-
list. s:Why, | have only five hundred
dollars income u year.. says some one.
| Then spend four hundred dollars or IL III
| living: and ten per cent. OF IL or My
dollars in benevolence, and the othel
fifty i'm beginning to dig your own wen.
Or. if YOU have ii thousand dollars year,
spend eight hundred dollars of it III NV
ing. ten per cent. or one hundred doliars
in henevolence. and the remaining one
hundred in beginning to dig your own
we'll. The largest bird that ever fe"
| through the air was Matched Out Oh one
eog. and the greatest estate was brooded
out of one dollar.
On.and on we ride until now we nave
come to Shiloh, Il dead clty on NH sur
rounded by rocks, sheep, goats owe
gardens. and vineyards. Here good Eli
foil backward and broke his neck, ana
law dead at the news from ms PAD ooys'
Phineas and Hophni; and life is not
worth living after ones children turned
~ hodlv and more fortunate was Eli,