Telegram-herald., 1890-11-17

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dered. 4na the seii - nesrlY fezAr Thousand
years 40 as sg8k shre1xh thrsoild rock.
Wien Jacob geus wisely iBSlsted "a hzv-
ing as own weli he g4uget us not y ts
unnecessarily depen6snE on others. inae-
PeadeEce q has1rsss cssr&cteF, itcspea-
ceacc 81 E1oF1l character. i1depenarace
u religious eAsrseSer Have y0or oSn
vel Cf grace. your O9n vel of courage,
your own wei Of divine supply. II you are
ga invalid yo9 have 4 nghl % DC eepen-
dent on otheFs. But II God hAs given yoa
good health, common seCse, and two eyes
and two ears and two hands and two feet,
he equipped you for independence q all the
uniyerse except himself II he had meant
yea 10 pe dependent GA others you would
have bSea built with cord around your
waist % re fast 70 somebody else. No. you
are built with common sense 10 fashion
your own opinions, with eyes 90 find your
own way, VITA ears q select your own n1u-
sic, With hands TO night your own battles
There Il only one being IN the universe
whose advice you need and that l. tiod
Have your own well and the Lord will nh
it. Dig il II need be through two hundred
feet Of solid rock. Dig il with your pen.
or dig Il with your yard stick, or dig il
with your shovel, or dig il with your Bible
YOUNG MANI BUILD FOR YOURSELF.
In my small way | never accomplished
anything for God or the church. or the
world, or my family, or myself except in
contradiction 10 human advice and in obe-
dience 10 divine counsel. God knows every
thing, and Whist is the use of going for ad-
vice 10 human beings who know so little
that no one but the all seeing God can real
ize how little il iss l suppose that when
Jacob began 10 dig this we'll on which we
are sitting this nOontide people gathered
around and said, "W hat useless expense
you are going 10, when rolling down from
yonder Mount Gerizin and down from
yonder Mount Ebal and out yonder in the
valley is plenty Of water" "Oh, replied
Jacob, that is all true, but suppose my
neighbors should get an ed against me
and cut Off my supply Of mountain bcyer-
age, what would do, and what would my
family do, and what would my focks and
herds do. Forward, ye brigade of pick
axes and crow bars, and go down into the
depths of these rocks and make me indie
pendent of all except him who fills the
bottles of the cloudsl must have myown
wellr
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 dollars in
come year" says some one. Then spend
four hundred dollars of it in living, and 10
per cent. Of it, or ffty dollars, in beneyo-
lence, and the other fifty in beginning to
dig your own well. Or If you have a thou
sand dollars a year spend eight hundred
dollars OF it in living, 10 per cent, or one
hundred dollars, in benevolence, and the
remaining one hundred in beginning TO dig
your own well The largest bird that ever
few through the air was hatched out OF
one egg. and the greatest estate was brood
eu OUl Oh one QDlldr.
GCD WILL DO HIs PART.
/ suppose when Jacob began to dig this
well, on whose curb we are now seated this
December noon, it was dry season then
as 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 be no water 10 fill it.
would you not feel silly?" 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" Jacob replied, There
never has been well in Palestine or any
other country that once thoroughly dug
was not soonor or later filed from tie
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 snicker, and
the well remained as dry as the bottom oi
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 drizzle
and then great drops splashed all over the
well curb, and the heavens opened their
reservoir and the rainy season poured It's
floods 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 in the well
three feet deep, and fifty feet deep, an6
two hundred feet deep, and all the Bed
ouins of the neighbOrhOOd and all the
passersby realized that Jacob was wise in
having his own well. Ny hearer, IL il
your part TO dig your own well, and it i.
Gods part to Gil it, You do your part and
he will do his part.
Much is said about good luck" bat
people who are industrious and self deny
ing almost always have good luck. You
can afford to be laughed at because OF youl
application and economy, for when yor
get your well dug and filed it viii be youl
turn 10 laugh
THE MOUNTS OF BLESSING AND CURSING.
But look mp from this famous we'll and
sec two mountains and the plain between
them, on which was gathered the larges
religious audience that ever assembled or
earth, about five hundred thousand people
Mount Gsrizim, about eight hundred fee
hixh. on one side, and on the other Mount
Eb7l, the former called the Mount Of Bless
Ing and the latter called the Mount o.
CursinC. At Joshuas command SIX tribe,
stood on Mount Gerizim sns read th'
blessings for keeping the law. and SIX
tribes stood on Mount Ebal reading th'
curses fer breaking The law, while the five
hundred thousand people on the plain criec
Amen with an emphasis that must hsv'
made the earth tremble Il do not bcliev,
that says some one for those mountain
tops arc two miles apart, and how
could q voice BE- heard from TOP TO topt'