St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-01-16

world undertake any enterprise %
Friday, forgetful Of the fact that Il
they look over the calendar Of the
world they win ESQ that Friday has
been the most fortunate day In al the
history Of the world
A near - I can tell, looking over
tho calendar Of the worlds history
more grand. bright beautiful things
have happened on Friday than any
other day Of the week. They would
not begin anything on Friday. They
would mot for the world 60 back te
the house for anything after they had
once started. Such people are ready
70 Be duped. Ignorance comes along,
perhaps in the disguise Of medical SCH
ence, and carries them captive; for
there are always some men who have
found some strange and mysterious
weed in some strange place. and pluck
ed it in the moonshine, and then they
cover the board fences with the adver.
tisemeuts of .'elixir." and ''panaeeas,"
and "lndlan mixtures." and timetable
cataplasms," and ''unfailing disin.
fectants," and lightning aalyee, and
instantaneous ointments," enough to
stun and scarify and poultice and kill
half the race. They are all ready to
be wrought upon by such impositionA
Ahl my friends. do not Be among such
dupes. Do not act the part. Of such
persons ~ l have been describing.
Stand back from all chicanery. from all
imposition. They who practice such
imposition shall be exposed in the
day of Gods indignation. They may
rear great fortunes. but their dapple
grays will be arrested ON tho road
some day, ~ was the as by the angel
Of God with drawn sword. The light
of the last day win shine through all
such subterfuges, and with voice
founder than that which accosted this
imposition Of the text: Come in, thou
wife Of Jeroboam; why feignese thou
myself to b snother9"-with voice
louder than that, God will thunder
down into midnigh dark ness and doom
and death all two-faced msn. and all
charlatans, and all knaves, and ell
jockeys, and all swindlerA Behold
how the people put on the masks, and
behold how the Lord tears them OIL
My subject also impresses me with
how precise and accurate and particu-
lar are Gods providenceA just 1t the
moment that woman entered the city,
the child died. Just ~ It WAS prophe-
sled, 30 1t turned out-so It always
turns out. Tho event occurs, the death
takes. place, the nation il born, the des-
potism Is overthr0wn 1T the appoint
ed time. God drives the universe with
stiff rein. Events do not just happen
SO. Things do not 60 slipshod. In all
the book of Gods providences there Is
not one ''if." Gods providences arc
never caught in dishabille. To God
there are NO surprises, NO dissppoint-
ments and no Academia The most in.
significant event flung out in the ages
il the connecting link between two
great chains-the chain Of eternity past
and the chain Of eternity to come. lam
NO fatalist, but should Be complete
" wretched II did not feel that all
the affairs Of my life are in Gods
hand, and all that pertains to me and
mine. just ~ certainly Is all the af-
fairs Of this woman Of the text, -
this child Of the text, - this King Of
tho text. were in Gods hand. You
may ask me . 100 questions I can
not answer, but shall until
the day of my death believe that
l Am under the unerring care of
God; and the Heavens may fall, and
she world may burn, and the judg-
ment may thunder, and eternal ages
hut hA&~ ~H~A1 f~1 $u,~>s
my head, not . sorrow shall transdx
my heart without being divinely Ar
BY . loving, SYM
pathetic Father. He bottles our tears,
He catches our sorrows, and to tho
orphan He will be father, and to
the widow He will be . hus-
band. and to the outcast He will
be . home, and to the most mis- |
cradle itch that this day crawls up
out of His abomination crying for
mercy, He will be m all-pardoning
God. The rocks shall turn gray with |
age, and the forests shall b unmoored
in the last hurricane, and the sum shall
shut its fiery eyelid. and tho stars shall
drop like blasted 6Rs, and the con-
shall 20 down like anchors In |
the deep. and the ocean shalt heave id
last groan and lsth itself with e1- |
piring agony, and the. world shall |
wrap itself in winding sheet of fame
and leap on the funeral pyre Of the
judgment day; but Gods love shall
not die It will kindle it, suns after |
al other lights have gone out It will |
Be billowy sea after the last ocean has
swept itself away. It will warm itself
BY the dre Of . consuming world. Il
will sing while the archangel's trum-
pet i pealing forth and the dir ID filed
with the crash Of broken sepulchers
md the rush Of the wings Of the ris-
ing dead. Oh. may God comfort all
this people with this Christian senti-
ment
BIRTH OF A FRENCH BABY.
The Legal For0alllieo that Most - ". |
The birth Of . new citizen In France
1t once gives rise to coudy1ess formali-
ties. and IN avalanche Of legal scrib-