Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-25

the very man who hands him the poor box
81 the church is the one who relieved him
d his mnneyi Pus never mind, the deacon
u lls hl'.ek cont On now. lie looks sol
a ard goa hG.ae talking about "the
b.e eFmU1"
g4lE WHEAT AND CHAP SOW MINGLED.
lftha wheatint churrhesshould be put
intoa hopper, the first turn Of the crank
woald make the chat fly, ! tell you. Some
OF these men are great sticklers for Gospel
preaching They say; You stand there in
bands and surplice and gown and preach
Preach like an angel, aed we will stand out
here and attend to business. Don't mix
things Don t get business and religion in
the same bucket. You attend to your
matters aad we will attend to ours. y
They do not know that God sees every
! cheat they have practced in the last six
4 years; that he can look through the iron
wall Of their fireproof safe; that he has
| counted every dishonest dollar they have
In their pocket, and that a day of judg-
| ment will come These inconsistent Chris
tian men will sit on the Sabbath night in
the house Of God singing ut the close of
the service Rock of Ages, cleft for me, .
and then when the benediction is pro
nounced shut the pew door and say as
they go out "Goodby, religion, I'll be back
next Sunday"
think that the Church of God and the
Sabbath are only an armory where we are
| oget weapons When war comes, If aman
wants to fight for his country he does not
90 to Troy or Springfield to do battling.
but he goes there for swords and muskets.
look upon the Church of Christ and the
Sabbath day as only the place and time
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| Christian conflict; but the battlefield is on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday "St. Martins" and
"Ilenox" and odd Hundred do not
amount to anything unless they sing all
the week. A sermon is useless unless we
can take it with us behind the pillow and
the counter The Sabbath day is worthless
il IL lust only twenty-four hours.
There are many Christians who say,
1--WE are willing to serve God, but we do
not want to do it in these spheres about
which we are talking; and it seems so in
sipid and monotonous, If we had some
great occasion, If we had lived in the time
OF Luther if we had been Paul's travelling
companion, if we could serve God on a
great scale, we would do it, but we can't
in this everyday life" | admit that "A
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| Wntry of life have disappeared before the
advance of this practical age. The ancient
temples Of Rouen have been changed into
storehouses and smithies. The residences
OF poets and princes have been turned into
brokers' shops The classic mansion of
| Ashland has been cut up into walking
Sticks. The groves where the poets said
the gods dwelt have been carried out for
Il,
about have disappeared before the emf.
graut'saX and the trapper's gun, and that
man who is waiting for life bewitched Of
wonders win never find it.
THE GREAT FIELD or DAILY LIFE.
There is, however, field for endurance
| and great achievement, but it is in every
day life There are Alps to scale, there are
Tablespoons to swim, there are fires to
brave; but they arc all around us now
This is the hardest kind of martyrdom TO
bear 1t took grace to lead l4atimer and
| Ridley through the fire triumphantly
when theirarmed enemies and their friends
were looking on; but it requires more
grace now to bring men through persecu
tiOu, when nobody is looking on. | could
! show you in this city a woman who has had
rheumatism for twenty years. who has en-
grace than would have made twenty mar
tyrs pass triumphantly through the fire.
II you are not faithful in an Insignificant
position in life, you would not be faithful
IN Il grand mission. If you cannot stand
the bite Of u midge, how could you endure
the breath Of a hasilisk?
DO not think that any work God gives
you TO do in the world is on too small a
scale for you to do The whole universe is
not ashamed to take care of one little
flower say: What are you doing down
here in the grass, You poor little tlower2
Are you not afraid nights2 You win be
neglected, you win die Of thirst, you Will
not be fcd Poor little Aowerl" NO"
says star "I'll watch over it tonight"
"No," says a cloud, "pll give it drink.
mo, says the sun, I'm warm it in my
bosom.n Then see the pulleys going, and
the clouds are drawing water, and say,
"WLat are you doing there, o clouds"
And they reply, owe are giving drink to
that flower"
Then the wind rises and comes bending
down the wheat and sounding it's psalm
through the forest, and | cry, whittier
away on such swift wing, o wind?" Aud
it replies, 1--WE are going to cool the check
of that flower" And then bow down and
say, "Will God take care of the grass of
the held?" And a flower at my foot re-
spends "Yes. he clothes the lilies Of the
field, and never yet has forgotten me,
poor little flower" Oh, when | see the
great heavens bending themselves to what
seems insignificant mnistrations, when
find n.l chat God does not forget any bios
som of the spripsr or any snowflake of the
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