The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-15

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Clear back In the country there is q
boy who wants to 20 to college and
get an education. They call him d
bookworm. Wherever they find him
IN the barn or In the house--he is read
ing book. What pity it is," they
say, "that Ed can not get an educa-
ton" His father, work as hard as he
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family by the product Of the farm.
One night Ed has retired to his room
and there is family conference about
him. The sisters says: Father,
wish you would send Ed to college; if
you will, we will work harder than we
ever did, and we will make our old
dresses do" The mother says: Eyes,
will get along without any hired
help" The father says: well, I
think by husking corn nights l can
get along without any assistance"
Sugar is banished from the table, but
ter is banished from the plate. That
family is put down on rigid, yea,
suffering economy, that the boy
may go to college. Time passes on.
Commencement day LAS come. Think
not that mention an Imaginary case.
God knows it happened. Commence
ment day has come, and the professors
walk in on the stage in their long
gowns. The interest of the occasion
in passing on. and after awhile in
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valedictorian is to be introduced. Ed
has studied so hard and worked SD
well that he has had the honor con-
ferred upon him. There are rounds
of applause, sometimes breaking
into vociferation. 1t is great
day for Ed. But away back in
the galleries are his sisters in their
plain hats and their faded shawls and
their old-fashioled father and mother
dear me, she has not had new coat
for six years-and they get up and
look over on the platform, and they
laugh and they cry, and they sit down,
and they look pale, and then they are
very much flushed. Ed gets the gar
lands, and the old-fashioned group in
the gallery have their full share OF the
triumph. They have made that scene
possible, and in the day when God
shall more fully reward self-sacrifices
made for others, He will give grand
and glorious recognition. "As His
part is that goeth down to the battle,
so shall His part be that tarwieth by
the stuff"
Fret not, We aged ones. Jtst larry
by the stuff and wait for your share Of
the spoils. Yonder they are coming.
I hear the bleating of the fat lambs
and see the jewels CLINT in the sun.
1t makes me laugh to think how you
will be surprised when they
throw chain of gold over your
neck, and tell you to go in
and dine with the King. see you
out because you feel un-
worthy. The shining ones come up
on the one side, and the shining ones
come up on the other side, and they
push you on, and they push you up.
and they say: Here is an old soldier
Of Jesus Christ" and the shining ones
will rush out toward you and say:
Eyes, that man saved my soul;"
Or they will rush out and say: "Oh,
yes, she was with me in the last sick
ness" And then the cry will go round
The circle: "Come in, come in, come in,
come; we saw you away down there.
old and sick and decrepit and dis
because you could not go to
the front, but as his part is that goeth
down to the battle, so shall his part be
that tarrieth by the stuff"
Cheer up, men and women of unap-
preciated services You will get your
reward. if not here, hereafter. When
Charles Wesley comes up to judgment.
and the thousands ofsouls which were
waited into glory through his songs
shall be enumerated, we will take his
throne. Then John Wesley will come
up to Judgment, and after his name
has been mentioned in connection
with the salvation of the mil
lions of souls brought to God through
the Methodism which he founded, he
will take his throne. But between
the two thrones of Charles Wesley and
John Wesley. there will be throne
higher than either, on which shall sit
Susanna Wesley, who with maternal
in Epworth rectory, Lin
,olnshire, started those two souls on
their triumphant mission of sermon
and song through all following ages.
Oh, what day that will be for many
who rocked Christian cradles With
weary foot, and who patched worn-out
and darned socks, and out OF
, small income made the children COM
Portable for the winter. What a day
hat will be for those to whom
he world gave the cold shoulder, and
called them nobodies. and begrudged
hem the least recognition, and
who, weary and worn and sick, tainted
DIV the Brook. Besor. oh, that will be