St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-10-24

toners, who have plenty Of fault-hnd-
ing for every imperfection Of handi-
work, bat NO praise for twenty ex.
cellencies. What does that BRAIN
raclked, hand-blistered man care for
Zwingle's Doctrine Of Original Sin"
or Augustine's "Anthropology7" You
might Is we'll 60 to . man who has
tho pleurisy and put on his side plss-
ter made out Of DR.. PARIS Treatise
on Medical Jurisprudence"
In all our sermons there must b
help for everyone somewhere. You 20
into an apothecary store. We see others
being waited on; we do not complain
because We do not Immediately get the
medicine; we know our turn will
come after awhile. And SO. while all
parts Of . sermon may not BE- appro-
pirate to our case, If we wait prayer
fully, before the sermon is through we
shall have the Divine prescription.
say to these young men who are go
ing to preach the Gospel, these theo-
logical students-I say to them: We
metaphysics, nor more Imagination,
nor more logic, nor more pro-
fundity. What we want in our
sermons and Christian exhortations
is more sympathy. When Father
Taylor preached in the Sailors Bethel
At Boston the jack tars felt that they
had help for their duties among the
ratlines and the forecastles. When
Richard Weaver preached to the opera
tives in Oldham, England. all the
workingmen felt they had more grace
for the spindles. When DIR. South
preached to kings and princes and
princesses. all the mighty men and
women who heard him felt preparation
for their high station.
Do you not know that this simple
story Of q Saviour's kindness is to re-
deem all nations? The hard heart Of
this worlds obduracy is to be broken
before that story. There is in Antwerp,
Belgium, one of the most remarkable
pictures ever saw. 1t is 1.-The De-
scent of Christ from tho Cross" 1t is
one of Rubens' pictures. No man can
stand and look at that descent from
the Cross" as Rubens pictured it,
without having his eyes flooded with
tears, il we have any sensibility at all
1t is an overmastering picture; one
that stuns you and staggers you and
haunts your dreams One after
noon q man stood in that ca
thedral looking at Bubens' DE
scent from the Cross" He was
all absorbed in that scene of . Saw
iour's.sufferings,w when the janitor came
in and said: 1T is time to close up
the cathedral for the night. l wish
you would depart" The pilgrim looked
at that Descent from the Cross. !"
turned round to the janitor and said:
mo. no; not yet. Wait until they get
Him down." o. it is the story
of Saviour's suffering kind
ness that is to capture the
world. When the bones of that
great behemoth OF iniquity which
has trampled all nations shall be
broken and shattered, it will be found
out that the work was not done by the
hammer of the iconoclast, or by the
sword of the conqueror, or by the
torch of persecution, but by the plain,
simple. overwhelming force eff 1.-The
soft tongue that breaketh the bone"
Kindness! We all need more of it in
our hearts, our words and our behavior.
The chief characteristic of our Lord
was kindness. A gentleman in En-
gland died, leaving his fortune by will
to two sons. The son that stayed at
home destroyed the will and pretended
that the brother who was absent
was dead and buried. The absent
brother after awhile returned and
claimed his part Of the property.
Judges and jurors were to be bribed
to say that the returned brother and
son was no son at all, but only an inn
postor. The trail came on. Sir
Matthew Hale. the pride of the
English court room and for GO
years the pride of Jurisprudence,
heard that this injustice was about
to be practiced- He put of his official
robe. He put on the garb of a miller.
He went to the village where that trial
was to take place. lie entered the
courtroom. He somehow got i'm.
paneled as one of the jurors. The
briber came around, and the
man gave ten pieces of gold
to the other jurors, but as this
was only poor miller the briSer
gave to him only FIVE pieces of gold. A
verdict was brought In rejecting the
right of this returned brother. He was
to have no share in the inheritance.
Hold! my lord" said the miller.
.'Hold! we are not all agreed on this
verdict. These other men have received
ten pieces of gold in bribery and have
received only Eve" 'Who are you?
Where do you come FROM" said the
Judge on the bench. The response
was: Il am from Westminster Hall;
my name is Matthew Hale, lord chief
of the kings bench. OF of that place,
thou villain!" And so the injustice
was balked, and SO the young man got
his inheritance.
It was a1l for anotherthat Sir Mat
thew Hale took of his robe and put on
the garb of miller. And so Christ
took OF His robe of royalty and
put on the attire of humanity, and
in that disguise he won our
eternal portion. Now are we the sons
OF God? Joint heirs! We went OF
from home sure enough, but we got
back In time to receive our eternal in
heritance. And il Christ was SO kind
to us. surely we can afford to be kind
to each other.
DRESS OF A CHINESE LADY.