St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-12-26


fruit which destroyed then and their
tootefityj peOof positive for all
aga ~ eosA9 tAat those VIA do mot At |
teaA 70 their businses ere sure to get
into mischief
do not know that the peodi6al IN
Scripture would ever have been ~
claimed had ho not given mp his idle |
habits and gons - 1ssding swine for .
living. The devil don mot 20 often At
tack the man who = busy With the
pen, and the book. and the tEowel. and
the saw and the hammer. He 10 afraid
Of those weapons. But woe to the
man whom this roaring lion meets
with his hands in his pockets.
Do not demand that your toll always
be elegant and eiesnly and refined.
There 10 . certain amount of drudgery
through which We must al pass, What-
ever b our occupation. lou know
how men sre sentenced 10 . certain
number Of years to prison. and after
they have suffered and worked out the
time, then they are allowed to 60
free. So It is with all Of Ms God
PASSED on M the sentence; by the
sweat Of thy brow shalt thou eat
bread" We must endure our time OF
drudgery. snd then. after awhile. We
will be allowed to 20 into comparative
liberty. We must be willing to en-
dure the sentence. We all know what
drudRery IL connected with the Begin
ming Of any trade or profession; but
this docs not continue all our lives, II
it be the students. or the merchants,
or the mechanics life. know You
have 1T the beginning many hard
time. but after awhile these things
will become easy. You will b your
own master. Gods sentence wiz be
satis6ed. You will be discharged fre0
prison.
Bless God that you have brsin -
think, and hands to work, and feet TO
walk with, for in your constant aetjv.
ity, O. young man, il one q yosr
strongest defenses. Put your eFoee IN
God and do your best. That child had
il right when the horses ran away
with the load Of wood and he sat on it.
When asked II he was frightened, he
said1 mo. I prayed to God and hung
on like beaver"
Respect for the Sabbath will be to
the young man another preservative
against evil. God has thrust into the
toll and fatigue of life . reereativs
day, when the soul u especially to be
fed. II is NO newsfangled Dotion Of =
wild-brained refofmers bat N institu-
tion established Ut the beginning. God
has made natural and moral laws 20
harmonious that the body - we'll -
the soul deman ds this institation.
Our bodies are seven-day clocks. that
must be wound up as often - that o.
they will run down. Failure must
come sooner or later to the man y -
breaks the Sabbath. Inspiration hao
called it the Lords day, and he who
devotes It to the world il guilty Of rob
berry. God will not let the sin 70 M
punished either in this world OF the
world to come.
This Il the statement Of man who
has broken his Divine epactment: 81
was engaged in manufacturing on the
Lehigh river. On the sabbath / used
to rest. but never regarded God In It
One beautiful Sabbath when the. noise
was all hushed. and the day WAS al
that loneliness could make it, ] sat
down on my piazza, and went toswork
inventing . new shuttle. neither
stopped to eat nor drink till the sun
went down. BY that time ! had the In
vention completed. The next morning
I exhibited il and boosted Of my days
work, and IVES applauded. The shut
tie was tried, and worked well, bat
that Sabbath days work cost me So
600. We brsnched out and enlarged,
and the curse Of Heaven WAS upon ne
from that day onward
A noble ideal and confident expecta-
ton of experimenting 20 It are An in
fallible defense. The artist completes
in his mind the great thought that he
wishes to transfer to the canvas or the
marble before he takes up the crayon
or the chisel. The architect plans out
the entire structure before he orders
the workmen to begin. and though
there may for = long while seem to b
nothing but laundering and rudsness,
he has in his mind every Corinthian
wreath and Gothic arch and byzantine
capital. The poet arrangcs the entire
plot before he begins to chime the frat
| canto of tingiing rhythms. And yet,
strange to Say, there are mon who at
tempt to build their character without
knowing whether in the end it shall
be . rude Tartar's tent or st. Marks
of Vince who begin to write
the intricate poem Of their lives
without knowing whether 1t shall b
= Homer's Odyssey" or rhymester's
botch. Nine hundred and ninety-nine
men out Of !. 900 are living without any
great life-plot. Booted and spurred
and plumed. and urging their swift
courser in the hottest haste. ask.
Halo! man; whittier away" Rusl,
into the busy shop or store Of many Z
one, and, taking the plane out of the
mans hand. or laying down the yard.
stick, say: what. man. 10 al this
about. % much stir and swcat?" The
reply will stumble and break down be.
tween teeth and lips. Every DAYS
duty ought only to be the filing mp Of
the main plan Of existence. Let
men be consistent. II they pre-.
fer misdeeds to correct courses
Of action then let them draw
out the design Of knavery
and cruelty and plumber. Let ever
days falsehood and wrong doing b
added ~ colorinR to the picture. Let
bloody deeds red-stripe the picture
and the clouds Of . wrathful God hans
down heavily over the canvas, ready
to break ont in clsmorous tempest
Let the waters b chafed and froth
tangled, and green with immeasurabll
depthA Then take . torch Of burn
ing pitch and scorch into the frame the
right name for 1.-THE souls suicide
II one entering upon sinful direction,
would only, in his mind or on paper
draw out in awful realty this dreadful
future. he would recoil from it AND
say: Am . Dante, that by my owl
life should write another 'Infernal?'
But if you are resolved to live . lif,
such - God and good men will ~