The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1893-04-21

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have ten less bushels to the acre than
their neighbors. But who declines be-
ing a farmer tecause there are so many
poor farmers?
There are thousands Of incompetent
merchants They buy ut the wrong
time. They get cheated in the sale Of
their goods Every bale Of goods Is to
them bale of disaster. They fail
after while and 60 out of business
But who declines to be merchant be-
cause there are so many incompetent
, merchants? There are thousands Of
poor lawyers They can not draw u
declaration that will stand the test
, They can not recover Just dam
ages They can not help de-
PENDANT escape from the injus-
tice of his prosecutors They are the
worst evidence against any case in
which they arc retained. But who de-
clines To he a lawyer because there arc
SO many incompetent lawyers? Yet
there are tens of thousands Of people
l~no decline being reogious because
are nothing S(SlA1s 5d5I5 - 6es. pot
physicians are nothing against medi.
cine, poor farmers are nothing against
agriculture, and mean con .emptiblc
professors of religion are nothing
against our glorious Christianity.
Sometimes you have been riding
along on a summer night by a swamp,
and you have seen lights that kindled
over decayed egetation-lights which
are called Jack-o. lantern or Will.o'-the-
wisp. These lights are simply poison.
Gus miasmata My friends, on your
way TO Heaven you will want better
light than the Will-o'-the- wisps which
dance on the rotten character Of dead
Christians Exudations from poison.
Gus trees in our neighbours garden will
make very poor balm for our wounds.
Sickness will come and we will be
pushed out toward the Red Sea, which
divides this world from the next, aud
and not the Inconsistency of Christians,
but the rod of faith will wave back the
waters as a commander wheels his
host The judgment will come, with
its thunder-shod solemnities, attended
by bursting mountains and the deep
laugh of earthquakes, and suns will fly
before the feet Of God-like sparks from
the anvil, and ten thousand burning
worlds shall blaze like banners In the
track Of God omnipotent Oh! then we
will not stop and say, ''There was q
mean Christian; there was cowardly
Christian there was a lying Christian;
there was an impure Christian" In
that day, as now, IF thou be wise,
thou shalt be wise for myself; bnt 10
thou soonest. thou alone shall bear 1t"
Why, my brother. the inconsistency OF
Christians so far from being an argu-
ment to keep you away from God, ought
to w an argument to drive you to Him
Inc Iest place FOR u s!,;liful doctor is
in neighborhood where they are all
poor doctors; the best place for an en-.
terprising merchant TO open his store is
in place where the bargain-makers do
not understand their business, and the
best place for you who want to become
the illustrious and complete Christian
the best place for you Is to come right
down among US who are SO incompetent
and Inconsistent sometimes
Other persons apologize for not be-
coming Christians because they lack
time. As though religion muddied tho
brain of the accountant or tripped the
pen of the author. or thickened tina
tongue of the orator, or weakened the
arm OF the mechanic, or scattered the
briefs OF the lawyer, or interrupted the
'ales OF the merchant. They bolt their
ioors against il. and fight it back with
rowels and with yard-stick and cry,
Away with your religion from our
tore, our office, our factoryr'
They do not understand that religion
n this work-a-day world will help you
o do anything you ought to do. It can
ay keel, it can sail ship, it can buy
cargo. it can work q pulley, it can
ave street, it can dit a wristband, it
an write a constitution, il can marshal
host 1t is as appropriate to the as.
as his telescope; to the chem.
It as his laboratory; to the mason az
is plumb-iine: to the carpenter rs his
lane; to the child as his marbles; t.
he grandfather as his staff.
No time to be religious here, You
ave no time not to be religious Yo,
light as well have no clerks in your
tore, no books in your library, no com.
ass on your ship, no rifle in the battle,
o hat for your head, no coat for your
ack, no shoes for your feet. better
-avel on toward eternity 5archeaded
nd barefooted and houseless and home
SIS and friendless, than to go through
fe without religion.
Did religion make Raleigh any less of
statesman, or Havelock am less Of
oldier, or Grinnell any les bf MGR.
hant, or West any less of a painter?
eligion is the best security In every
argain, IL is the sweetes. note in every
ong, it is the brightest gem in every
oronet No time To be religious! Why
GU will have To take time to be
clS, 10 be troubled, to die. Our world
only the wharf from which we are TO
mbark for Heaven. No time to secure
he friendship of Christ No time TO
NY lamp and trim 1t for that
'alk through the darkness, which 9th.
rwise will be illumined only by the
bitterness of the tombstones No time
D educate the eye for heavenly splen.
or, or the hand for choral harps, or
he ear for everlasting songs, or the
oul for honor, glory and Immortality,
me would think we had time for moth.
ng else.
Other persons apologize for not enter.
ng the Christian life because it is time
nough yet That is very like those
ersons who send their regrets and say,
I will come in perhaps at II or IL
clock. | will not be there at the open
ng of the banquet, but will be there
I the close" Not yet. Not yet!
The Only Dinerenccp
The people Of Wyoming, who permit
women 10 vote, according 10 Harper's
,azar, are apparently not in sympathy
With the English bachelor Of long ago,
Who got himself into a controversy on