Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-11

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discuss hindrances. They suggest pos.
sibilities of failure. Over the road OF
life instead of pulling in the traces they
are lying back in the breechings. They
are the everlasting No. They are BRAN
BILE trees; they are willows always
mourning, or wild cherry trees yielding
only the bitter, or crab apple trees pro-
ducing only the sour, while God would
have us all flourish like the palm tree.
Planted in the Bible that tree always
means usefulness. But, how little any
of us or all of us accomplish in that di-
rection. We take twenty or thirty
years to get fully ready for Christian
work, and in the after part of life we
take ten or twenty years for the gradual
closing of active work, and that leaves
only so little time between opening and
stopping work that all we accomplish is
so little an angel of God needs to exert
himself to see it at ALL
ALL THINGS ARE OF USE
Nearly everything l see around, be-
meath and above, in the natural world
suggests useful service. If there is moth
ing in the Bible that inspires you to USE
fitness, go out and study the world
around you this springtime, and learn
the great lesson of usefulness. what
art thou doing up there, little star?
Why not shut thine eye and sleep, for
who cares for thy shining?" NO" saith
the star, 81 will not sleep. guide the
sailor ON the sea. | cheer the traveller
among the mountains. / help tip the
dew with light. Through the window
of the poor mans cabin | cast o beam of
hope, and the child on her mothers lap
asks in glee whittier | come and what /
do and whence / 60 To CLEAN and
glitter, God set me here. Away! | have
no time to sleep" The snowflake comes
struggling down. "Frail, tickle wan
derer, why contest thou hereY' 81 am
no idle wanderer," responds the snow
fake. High up in the air was born
the child of the rain and the cold, and
at the divine behest come, and | am no
straggler, for God tells me where to put
my crystal heel. To help cover the
roots of the grain and grass, to cleanse
the air, to make sportsmen more happy
and the ingle fire more bright, l come
Though so light am that you toss me
from your muffler and crush me under
your foot, l am doing my best to fulfill
what / was made for Clothed in white
| come on a heavenly mission, and
when my work is done and God shall
call in morning vapor / shall go back,
Il 1,vy+ ,P
"What doest thou, insignificant grass
blade under my feet?" 81 am doing a
work" says the grass blade, "as best /
can. help to make up the soft beauty
of field and lawn. | am satisfied if,
with millions of others no bigger than /,
we can give pasture to the focks and
herds. | am wonderfully made. He
who feeds the ravens gives me susre-
nance from the soil and breath from the
air, and he who clothes the lilies of the
field rewards me with this coat of green. ="
"For what, lonely cloud, goest thou
across the heavens?" Through the
bright air voice drops from affair, say
ing: up and down this sapphire floor |
pace to teach men that, like me, they
are passing away. | gather up the
waters from lake and sea and then,
when the thunders toll, / refresh tho
earth, making the dry ground to laugh
with harvests of wheat and fields of
corn. | catch the frown of the storm
and the hues of the rainbow. At even
tide on the western slopes l will
pitch my tent, and over me shall dash
the saffron and the purple and the fire
of the sunset. A pillar of cloud like Inc
led the chosen across the desert, and sur
rounded by such as / the judge Of
heaven and earth will at last descend,
for Behold he cometh with cloudsr"
Oh, my friends, if everything in the in
animate world be useful, let us immor-
tai men and women be useful, and In
that respect be like the palm tree. But
l must not be tempted by what David
says Of that green shaft of Palestine,
that living and glorious pillar in the
eastern gardens, as seen in olden times
the palm tree; | must not be tempted
by what the Old Testament says of it 10
lessen my emphasis Of what John the
Evangelist says of it in my text.
A LAWFUL ROBBERY.
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