The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-01-25
MANUFACTURED
hard TIMES.
An Interesting Letter From
Rev. j. Ii. GaENbcli.
EXTRAVAGANCE
CAUSES.
The Man CheWS Mean Tobacco
and His Wife CaDpOI
Chew Meat
Jackson Bureau, y. 0. Picayune.

Jackson Bureau, n. 0. Picayune.
There is no man more familiar
to the great masses Of the people
of Mississippi than that of the
eminent Baptist divine, J. B. Gam
brell. DR.. Gambrell was for many
years the distinguished editor Of
the Baptist Record, of this State.
DR.. Gambrell is now president of
MERCER College, Georgia. A vi
golous, thoughtful writer, he now
and then finds time from his school
duties to contribute to the public
press. His "Hard Times" article
recently contained in the Baptist
Standard Record, of Waco, Tex,
canno, fail to be read with interest
by Mississippians, and is gwen be-
low in full:
"Not many of us ever heard so
much talk about hard times, though
for myself, l can say times have
been hard ever since | came into
this world. Several times recent
ly some one has risen to remark
that times are not hard; that peo-
pie have contracted q habit OF say.
ing SO, and keep on, in spite of
plenty.
"These amiable persons are
both right and wrong-right in de-
claring there is enough in the land
for all, and wrong in supposing
that fact like that has much to
do with hard times. Such writer's
are good reasoners from one side
of the question, out very poor ones
from the other side ofit-the main
side-which is human nature.
Now, the truth is, the average
American is incapable Of anything
but hard times. One might al
most say we would be very miser-
BILE if we could not manufacture
hard times to suit all seasons and
all conditions Of life, The politi-
cal craftsmen are all at work tink-
erlng the times. No doubt they
are, IN part, responsible for good
deal of current trouble. If we
could get back to constitutional
money and drop all government
devices for helping trade; if we
could get stable currency and
open field for every man to work
out his fortune, we would be better
off, beyond doubt. But what the
American people reed most is in
ward medicine given to individ-
uals, net national remedies applied
wholesale.
"a A. tie risk of being very tedi.
Gus, l shall go into particulars,
with the gentle request that my
readers will linger over this article
long enough to make the applica-
tons at the right places. My con-
tention is that we make hard times
for ourselves; in fact, will not al
low ourselves any good times no
matter how much God does for US.
If this contention be true, then
there is a great home mission field
open to us all, and the whole pop
ulation ought to be turned loose on
it to cultivate it. Following cur
Lords idea Of teaching, | shall
take concrete cases to represent
principles. 4 good many years
ago | met a brother preacher on
the street, and he fell to telling
me his troubles. He was in great
straits. He was ashamed to tell
me, but did tell me, with deep
emotion, that he could not supply
meat for his wife and one small
child. While we were talking. at
short intervals he would open his
mouth and pour stream of tobac.
co juice. ! got it out of him tina,
his tobacco cost him So a month
That would have furnished his
wife and boy with meat. Time:
were hard with him; who made
them so? He could not chew NEAR
tobacco and it turned out that his
wife could not chew meat.
"Sir Isaac Newton gave as his
reason for not learning to chew to-
bacco that he was not willing t.
create for himself new necessities
Wise mani Thousands will read
this and go right on splitting tobac
co juice and talking hard times.
II knew a church once in hare
lines financially. The deacons
and leading members met at the