The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-01-21
BREAD IN ABUNDANCE.
From the Troy Messenger.

that | have such confidence in that
cannot bear even the thought of
abandoning the old ways and SEEK
ing bread, or cheap money, in the
new ways now so fippantly advised
by vain persons. God has ordained
that man shall eat bread at the ex-
pense of patient toll. ''In the sweat
of thy face shalt thy eat bread till
thou return unto the ground, is the
fat of an Advise Creator, and acr
cept it, hope with becoming defer
enCe. Goa never intended the no.
blest work of His hands to eat bread
he did not earn, neither did He in
tend for this same noble workman
ship to borrow money he could not
pay back; neither did He intend
that noble specimen of His skill TO
prey upon the substance clone who
tllleth his lands we'll for naught:
neither did he intend Tor him to eat
who does not work, for He has SAID
s., and believe it. He that tilleth
his land shall have plenty CT bread
IS sub7erted in these latter days into
he that makes all cotton shall have
plenty of bread, when it has been
proved tor more than twenty years
in succession chat this method bare
ly gives man bread enough to keep
soul and body together. Each sue
ceeding year has shown such teach
lngs tc be wrong-whoily wrong.
Yet the same practice of making
more cotton than can be sold for a
profit is chung to like grim death to
a raw hide, until one half of the
farmers, by their own willful dis
obedience of the divine decree, could
not afford themselves a plain pine
box for a coffin and lay the under
taker for it.
Where is the man who tilleth his
land with view of producing plenty
of food Cor his family, who is not
doing we'll? Is he in Pike county
or any other county OF the state :?
Is there man in Pike county, who
uses proper economy in all his deal
ings and raises supplies for the farm
who is clamoring for sub-treasury
or begging the government to lend
him money on real estate? If ihere
is-a good look at him would cure
sore eyes,
Let's turn to the old primitive
methods of eating bread in the sweat
of the face and tilling the land to
make bread plenty, and quit our
foolish way of following vain persons
who will lead US away from plenty
Of bread, God and "our native land"
as we'll. These same vain persons
never dug a ditch, split rail, plow-
ed turrow or made an ear of corn.
OK picked pound of cotton in all
their useless lives. Yet in their
vanity they advise you to cling to
OLD ways that satisfy not, but ways
that are carrying you onward to
ruin and bankruptcy as fast as the
days 60 by, and all this comes from
not tilling the land wisely-tilling it
to make bread plenty is the divine
plan, but these vain persons say and
proclaim as they 90 on their unholy
mission, follow us and you shall have
poverty enough. OF course they do
not use these very words, but logi-
cally interpreted, this is exactly
what they mean.
If a man follow vain persons in
! stead of tilling his land, he ought to
suffer for bread and he will suffer,
because he is violator of the d.
vine will.
If man is in debt and he can't
pay out, be had hetter make full
surrender of everything he has and
force compromise than to pursue
the foolish way Of tilling the land
in that which will not satisfy hun
ger. Yes, get out CT debt and stay
out. By rigid economy you will
sooner or later find yourself standing
on the solid foundation of self sup>
port-then you'll be your own man
and not belong to the money lend
er or be a sert of your own govern
ment. But to my text. He that
tilleth his land shall have bread