The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-09-11

IN s---6 ouos ~ are Dorm. All you
demonstrations Of indignation onlv II
naust yourself You might as wei !,
IN some summer night when the swarm
p u insects are coming up from til,
meadows and disturbing yo,, and dis
turDing your family, bring IN som,
Or great swamp angel" like that which
numbered over Charleston, and trv
70 snoot them down. The game is toe
small 1or the gun. But what. then.
are you to do with the abuses that
come upon you in lifep You are "a
!. I'VE them down? saw farmer %
out to get back swan of bees that
$ nad wandered off from the hive A.
ne moved amid them thew bnzzed
], around his hands, and bpzzed arornd
ms 1eet. II he had killed one of them
they would have stung him to death.
; nut ne moved In their midst in per-
rect placidity until he had captured
'ne swarm OF wandering bees. And
= nave seen men moving
amid the annoyances and the
vexations, and the assaults of life
IN such calm, christian dcliberation
That all the buzzing around about
tneir soul amounted to nothing. Thew
conquered them, and, above all. thew
conquered themselves ''Oh," you saw.
that's very good theory to preach
on a hot day, but it won't work" It |
Will work. 1t has worked. I believe
it is the last Christian grace we win
You know there are Fruits which
we gather in June, .and others in
July, and others in August. and
others In September, and still 9TH
ers In October, and I have to
ADMIT that this grace of Christian for
giVeness is about the last fruit of the
Christian soul. We hear great deal
ABOUT the bitter tongue, and the sar.
castle tongue, and the quick tongue.
ana the singing tongue; but we know
very little about "the soft tongue that ;
oreaketh the bone" We read Hudi-
oras, and Sterne and Dean Swift. and =
the other apostles of acrimonv. Int :
give little time to studying the EXAM :
pie OF Him who was reyiled. and vet :
reviled not again. o, that the Lord .
oy bis spirit, would endow us all with
the soft tongue that breaketh the
bone"
pass now to the other thought that il
desire to present, and that is kind n
aess as means Of usefulness. In all g,
Z, you find skeptical men. G.
through early education, or through o,
me maltreatment of protested Chris ne
ian people, or through prying curios- CT
" about the future world, there are on
great many people who become ra
keptical in religious things. How M
nail you capture them for Godp us
harp argument and sarcastic retort in,
ever won single soul from skepti- tn
SIN to the Christian religion. Willis 20
oWerful books on 1.-THE Fv;. we
.nces OF Christianity" have their
ission in confirming Christian neo. he]
Q in the faith they have already int
lopted, have noticed that when bel
ept'cal people are brought into the bee
ngdom OF Christ it is through the me
arm OF some genial soul, and not by con
at all. Men are not saved par
rough the head; they are saved pri;
rough the heart. A storm comes full
OF It's hiding place. 1t says, Now sha
~ hrst rouse up all this sea-" and it saw
lkes great buster, but it does not ing
,ceed. Part Of the sea is reused m logi
perhaps one-half of it or one-fourth wal
1t. After awhile the calm moon. met
cid and beautiful, looks down and nor
ocean begins to rise. It fun,
mes up, to the high-water mark. sern
embraces the great headlands. It is
'merges the beach of all the CONT. Ki
'es. ~ Is the heart-throb of the our
rlo against the heart-throb of an The
er world And have to tell you was
I while your storms of ridicule and CLAN
rms OF sarcasm may rouse up the to ty
SION OF an immortal nature, nothing hom
THAN the attractive power of that
lstian kindness can ever raise the was
Ihless spirit to happiness and to brotl
. l have more faith in the PRAYER CLAIM
cnlia nve years old, in the way of Judg
ging an infidel back to Christ and to sa
eaven, than have in all the Kissing son '
1derbolts of ecclesiastical contro- posto
y. You can not overcome men Matt
religious augmentation. If Won Engl
at skeptical man with an ar wears
ent on behalf of the Christian re- heard
d. you put the man on his mettle. to be
avs: see that man has a car robe.
III use my carbine. I'll answer He W
argument with my argument was
II you come to that man, persuad- court
him that you desire his happi- panel
on earth and his eternal welfare bride,
le world to come, he can not an. man
~ - to tn
all. 80. 40 Juse as true In was
a., 60. -. 'no openly vicious. gave
thro,,ah .r orunhard TO be verde
rarao W, afica.ure OF right
. sta, 90 az vi tne stag to hav
~ s"iSA tongue, and Hold
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