The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-10-06

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ssThere Is that scattereth abroad,
which tendeth to increase. There IL
that w,thholdeth more than IL meet
which tend eth to poverty" Proverbs IL
chapter "a and Is verse.
How many, I wonder, who have read
these words, have read them understand
ingly or thought Of all the conditions to
which they fly apply. You 60 out up
on the street, careworn,; and of sad
but as you pass along you
meet one upon whose face IS the smile
of a carefree heart, or, better, 1t may be
of heart o'erburdened with trials, yet,
leaning on the everlasting arms, is able
to face the world bravely and cheerfully.
With a sudden forgetfulness of your
worry you return his cheerful greeting
in kind, and 10! you are no longer bow
ed down by sorrow, but as you 90, you
scatter aboad of that which you received,
and strange paradox! the more you sea-
tier the more you have!
Who can measure the good done by a
bright smile or a hearty handshake?
Or, it may be, you meet one who needs
the helpful hand, and kindly sympathy,
and as you assist the needy one, behold
again a strange paradox! You have
done but q small act Of kindness, yet you
have set two hearts in glow. In Civ
ing little you have given much, and in
return, have received hundred-f0ld in
satisfaction and content. You have
scattered abroad yet increased. And SO
in every turn of LIES pathway are end
less opportunities, which If embraced,
tend to increased the store of Joy and
peace we possess. Buff we neglect to
use the opportunities for the exercise Of
the better side of our, natures, we lose
what we might have possessed and what
we do have shrinks and wastes away
for want of use; for ''fr0m him that hath
not shall be taken even that he hath
''There is that withhOldeth more than
is meet which tendeth to povertv.''
Can we afford then to withhold aught
of good when we ourselves are the
greatest losers? Oh! if We only knew, Il
we could but realize how much of life &
pleasures are created by little things,
seeds from which great joys grow.
And that which is of the purer and
better elements of our natures is also
true of the lower order of emotions, an
ger, hatred, jealousy, lying, licentious-
ness, hypocrisy, o! What terrible array
of increase stands before us as we con.
template the many, many times we have
''scattered abroad" the angry retort, the
bitter words of hate, the falsehoOds
wanton deeds, hypOcritical words Of
actions. Each starting, as it were, like .
pebble at the top of a mountain, which il
started by light breeze, and as it roll
gathers momentum and dislodge stone
which in turn dislodges a boulder, an(
they other boulders, until at last (.
mountain barmlet is blotted out of ex.
istence by a mighty avalanche. So oul
evil words and wrong doing 60 round
round and round the world ever in.
creasing in force and number until the
time of Christ's coming when they shall
be cast into the lake of fire together
with all who are carried onward by theil
might Force unless they are redeemed
by His precious blood.
Oh, what warning for US in this
thought! What host of evils we may
avert if when they reach us they were
blotted out by the blood of Christ
What host of good deeds we might
start around the world did we but make
the effort.
But let us look at our text in the sense
in which it was meant by the sacred
writing. Do we not too often withhold
the help we might give to the needy;
And in the work of the church, how Otter
/ is that which is given given grudglingly
or as though it were a freewill offering
Do you ever give freewill offering
Think over what is yours and see If yOl
have given the 1.-THE which the Lore
asks of you. a meagre tenth of what hi
gives you, to be returned that His lambs