The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-05-20

populations. Do you want housesp II,
wood furnishes the wall for the homea
and its leaves thatch them. Do WOW
need supply for the pantry? Il Weld,
sugar and starch and oil and sago and
milk and salt and wax and vinegar and
candles.
Oh, the palm! IL has variety of en-.
dowments, such rs no other growth
that ever rooted the earth or kissed the
heavens To the willow God saws.
Stand by the water courses and weep. ~
10 the cedar he says Gather the hur-
ricane into your BOSOM" To the fig
tree he says, "Bear fruit and put Il
within the reach OF all the people" But
10 the palm tree he says: "Be garden
and storehouse and wardrobe and rope
walk and chandler and bread and ban
quet and mandatory, and, then, be
type OF what / meant when inspired
David, my servant, to say: "The right
eous shall flourish like a palm tree. F"
Oh, Lord God, give us more palm trees
men and women made for nothing
but to be useful; dispositions, all
abloom; branches of influence laden
with fruit; people good for everything,
as the palm tree. II kind words are
wanted, they are ready to utter them.
IL helpful deeds are needed, they are
ready to perform them. II plans of use
fulness are to be laid out, they are ready
to project them. II enterprises are to
be forwarded, they are ready TO lift
them. People who say: Eyes! yes!"
when they are asked for assistance by
word or deed, instead Of "No! mol"
Most Of the mysteries that bother
Others do not bother me, because ad-
1ourn them, but the mystery that really
bothers me is why God made SO many
people who amount to nothing so far as
the worlds betterment is concerned.
They stand in the way. They object.
They discuss hindrances. They suggest
possibilities of failure. Over the road
of life, instead of pulling in the traces,
they are laying back in the breechings.
They are the everlasting No.
They are bramble trees; they are will
lows, always mourning, or wild cherry
trees, yielding only the bitter, or crab
apple trees, producing only the sour,
while God would have us flourish like
the palm tree. Planted in the Bible
that tree always means usefulness.
But, how little any or all Of us accom-
plish in that direction. We take twenty
or thirty years to get fully ready for
Christian work, and In the afterpart of
life we take ten or twenty years for the
gradual closing Of active work, and that
leaves only so little time between OPEN
Ing and stopping work that all we ac-
is 80 little an angel of God needs
TO exert himself to see It at all. Nearly
I see around beneath and
above in the natural world, suggests use
full service. II there is nothing in the
Bible that inspires you to usefulness, go
out and study the world around you this
'pring-time and learn the great lesson
If usefulness. "What art thou doing up
here, little star? Why not shut thine
we and sleep, for who cares for thy |
'hining?" NO" saith the star, II will |
lot sleep. guide the sailor on the sea.
cheer the traveller among the mount
Inns. l help tip the dew with light.
the window of the poor
mans cabin l cast beam of
rope, and the child on it's moth
RS lap asks in glec whittier l
.ome and what do and whence go.
70 CLEAN and glitter God set me here
Away! / have no time to sleep" The
nowfake comes struggling down.
"Frail, tickle wanderer, why contest
hou here?" Il am no idle wanderer,"
hn Ha1y snrh -,
he air was born, the child of the rain
nd the cold, and at the Divine behcst
ONE, and l am no straggler, for God
els me where to put my crystal heel.
% help cover the roots Of the grain
nd grass, to cleanse the air, TO make
portsmen more happy and the ingle
re more bright l come. Though so
ght am that you toss me from your
luffier and crush me under your foot,
IN doing my best TO fulfill what was
,ade for. Clothed in white, come on
heavenly mission, and, when my work
done and God shall call, in the morn
ny vapor shall go back, drawn by the
cry courses of the SUM-" what
oest thou, insignificant grass-blade,
nder my feet?" II am doing n work."
ays the grass blade, "as best can. {
help to make up the soil beauty {
field and lawn. am satisfied il,
18th millions of others no bigger than s
we can give pastures TO the flocks {
nd herds. am wonderfully made.
@ who feeds the ravens gives me susie I
ance from the soil and breath from Z
he air, and He who clothes the lilies of 9
he field rewards me with this coat of '
reen. "For what, lonely cloud goest 4
lou across the heavens?" Through the
right air a voice drops from afar, say 9
Il: up and down this sapphire floor l n