St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-06-27

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kind father viii not divide the apple
among his children until the apple ID
ripe. In fuliillment Of the New Tesla
ment, 1.-THE meek shalt inherit the
earth, and the promise Of the Old Tes-
lament, He shall divide tho spoil
| with the strong" the world will be
apportioned to those worthy 70 pos
Eess it.
1t is not SO now. In this country,
capable of holding, feeding, clothing
and sheltering l.sO0. 0Oo. ON people, we
have only 60. O0O. 600 inhabitants, we
have 1000, 600 WHO can not get honest
work, and with their families an aGgre-
cation of 5, zoo, 600 that are ON the verge
of starvation. Something wrong, mos:
certainly. In some way, there will lie q
new apportionment. Many OF the
millionaire estates will crack to pieces
on the dissipation Of grandchildren
and then dissolve into the possession
of the Masses who now have an in
sufficiency.
What, you say, will become of the
expensive and elaborate buildings row
devoted to debasing amusements2
They will become schools, art CALLER.
les, museums, gymnasiums and
churches. The world is already get
ting Disguised with many of these
amusements, and no wonder. What
an importation Of unclean theatrical
stuff we have within the last few years
had brought to our shores! And pro
fessors of religion patronizing such
things! Having sold out to the devil.
why don't you deliver the goods
and 60 over to him publicly,
body, mind and soul, and withdraw
your name from Christian churches,
and say: ''Know all the world by these
presents that I am a patron of un.
cleanliness and a child of HE'LL" Sworn
to be the Lords, you are perjurers.
If you think these offenses are to &c
on forever, you do not know who the
Lord is God will not wait for the
Day of Judgment. All these palaces
of sin will become palaces Of right.
eousness. They will come into the
possession of those strong for virtue
and strong for God. HE shall divide
the spoil with the strong"
China and Africa, the two richest
portions Of the earth by reason Of
metals. and rare woods, and mex
haustible productiveness, are not yet
divided up among the good because
they are not ready to be divided. Wait
| until all the doors that Livingstone
opened in Africa shall he entered, and
Bishop Taylor, with his band Of self
supporting missionaries, have done
their work, and the Ashantees and
Senegambians shall know Christ rs
well as you know Him; and there shall
be on the banks of the Nile and the
Niger a higher civilization than is now
to be found on the banks of the
Potomac or the Hudson; then Christ
will divide up that continent among His
friends. Wait until Chi ma, which IL
half as large as all Europe, shall have
developed her capacities for rice and
tea and sugar am ong edibles; and her
amethyst and sapphire, and topaz, and
opal. and jasper, and porphyry, among
precious woods; and turned up from
her depths half-dozen Pennsylvania
of coal and iron, and 20 Nevadas Of sill
yer, and so CALIFORNIA; of gold, and her
SOC, OOo, 600 of people shall be evangel-
ICED; then the Lord will divide it up
among the good.
do not underrate tho enemy. Ju-
Illus Caesar got his greatest victories BY
fully estimating the vastness of his
foes. and prepared his men for their
greatest triumph by saying: ITO
morrow King Juba will be here with
30. 600 horses, 10000 skirmishers and
300 elephants" l do not underrat<
the vast forces of sin and death; but
do you know who commands us:
Jehovahjireh. And the reserve corps
behind US are all the armies Of
Heaven and earth, with hurricane and
thunderbolt. Tho good work Of the
worlds redemption-is going on every
minute. Never SO many splendid men
and glorious women on the side Of
right as to-day. Never SO many good
people as now. D;ogcnes has been
spoken of as wise man because he
went with q lantern at MONDAY say
ing he was looking for an honest man.
If he had turned his lantern toward
himself he might have discovered
a crank. Honest men by the ten thou
sands! Through the international
series t'of Sunday-school lessons
the next generation all through
Christendom are going to be wiser
than any generation since the world
stood. The kingdom is coming. God
can do it. No housewife with Z
channels cloth ever polished a silver
teaspoon with more ease than Chris.
| will rub of from this world the tar.
nish, and brighten it up till it glows
like Heaven; and then the glorious up
portionment! for my text is REINFORCED
by a score of other texts, when it says
Of Christ: HE shall divide the spoil
with the strong"
But" you say, this is pleasant t.
think of for others, but before that
time l shall have passed up into an.
other existence, and shall get no ad.
vantage from that new apportion-
ment." All, you have only driven
me to the other more exciting
and transporting consideration, and
that is, that Christ is going
to divide up Heaven In the same way.
There are old estates in the celestial
world that have been In the posses
sion of the inhabitants for thou.
sands of years, and they shall
remain as they are. There are old
family mansions in Heaven filled
with whole generations of kindred,
and they shall never be driven out
Many of the victors from earth have
already got their palaces, and they ars
pointed out to those newly arrived
Soon after our getting there we will
ask to be shown the apostolic resi-
dences, and ask where does Paul live
and John; and shown the patriarchal
residences, and shall say: "Whers
does Abraham live, Or jacob" and
shown the martyr residences, and say
ssWhere does John Huss live, and
Ridley?" We will want to see thu
boulevards where tho chariots O