St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-08-28

IN icicle that hung through the day
from the caves OF the house. So you
prophecies falsely. List winter va
coming, AID the people said: I'VE
shall have unparalleled suffering
among the poor. It will be dreadful
winter" Sure enough it was = cold
winter; but there were more large
hearted charities than ever before
poured out on the country; better pro.
vision made for the poor. SO that there
have been scores Of winters when the
poor had . harder time than they did
last winter. Weather prophets say we
will have frosts this summer which
will kill the harvests. Now. let me
tell you, you have lied twice about the
weather. and believe you are lying
this time!
Some people are 20 overborne with
the delorousness of the times that they
say We shall have communistic out
RACES in this country such As they had
in France. l do not believe it. The
parallel does not run. They have no
Sabbath. no Bible, NO God in France.
We have all these defenscs of our
American people. and public opinion
is such that If the people in this coun-
try attempt q cut-throat expedition
they will land in Sing Sing, or from
the gallows 60 up on tight rope. do
not believe the people Of this country
will ever commit outrages and riot and
murder for the sake of getting bread.
But all this lugubrosity of tone and
face keeps people down.. Now,
will make contract. II the
people of the United States for
one week will talk cheerfully, will
open all the manufactures; will give
employment to all the unoccupied men
and women; I will make . lively
market for your real estate that is eat
ing you up with taxes; will stop the
long professions ON the way to the
poor house and the penitentiary. and
will spread = plentiful table from
Maine to California and from Oregon
to Sandy Hook. and the whole land
shall carol and thunder with national
jubilee. Bnt says some one: Il will
take that contract; but we can't affect
the whole nation" My hearers and
readers. representing Is you do all pro-
LESSONS, all trades, and all occupa-
tions If you should resolve never again
to utter = dolorous word about
the money markets, but by manner
and by voice and by wit and
caricature, and above all by faith in
God. to try to scatter this national
gloom, do You not believe the influ-
ence would be instantaneous and wide
spread? The effect would be felt
around the world. For Gods sake,
and for the sake of the poor and for
the sake Of the employed, quit Rrowl-
ing. Depend upon it. il you men in
comfortable circumstances do not stop
God will blast your har-
vests, and see how you will get along
without . corn crop; and He will
sweep you with floods: and He will de-
YOUR you with grasshoppers; and He
will burn your city. If You men in
circumstances keep on
God will give you some
thing to complain about Mark that!
The second prescription for the allie
viation of financial distresses is proper
Christian investment God demands
Of every individual state and nation .
certain proportion their income. We
are parsimonious! We keep back from
God that which belongs to him. and
when we keep back anything from God
he takes that which we keep back, and
he takes more. He takes it by storm,
by sickness, by bankruptcy, by any
one of the ten thousand WAYS which he
can employ. The reason why many of
you are cramped in business is because
you have never learned the lesson Of
generosity. You employ an
agent You give him . reasonable
salary, and, To-! you find out that he is
appropriating your funds beside tho
salary. What do you do? Discharge
him. Well, we are Gods agents.
He put in our hands certain moneys.
Part is to be ours; part is to be His
Suppose we take all; what thenf He
will discharge us; He will turn US over
to financial disasters and take the
trust away from US. The reason that
great multitudes are not prospered in
business is simply because they have
been withholding from God that which
belongs to Him. The rule is. give and
you will receive: administer literally
and you shall have more to administer.
I am in full sympathy with the man
who was to be baptized by immersion,
and some one said: ''You had better
leave your pocketbook out, it will get
wet" mo-" said he, II want to 20
down under the wave with everything.
I want to consecrate my property and
LII to God" Aud 50 he was baptized.
What We want in this country is moro
baptized pocketbooka
So that one of the recipes for the cure
81 individual and national finances is
more generosity. Where you bestowed
Dne dollar on the cause of Christ. give
Two. God loves to be trusted, and He
IS very apt to trust back again. He
saws: THAT man knows how to handle
money; he shall have more money to
and very soon the property
that was ON the market for . great
while gets = purchaser, and the bond
that was not worth moro than 50 cents
On . dollar goes to- par, and the open
ing of . new street doubles the value
Of his house, or inone way of . million
God blesses him.
Once the man finds out that secret,
md he goes on to fortune. There are
men whom have known for ten years
have been trying to pay God 81, 900.
They have never been able to get it
paid. for just Is they were taking out
from one fold Of their pocketbook
bill, mysteriously somehow in some
other fold Of their pocketbook there
came . larger bill. You tell me that
Christian generosity pays in the world
70 come. I tell you it pays now. pays