St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-09-25

Wnlcn the muscles are 0lStenOe0, ana
the veins stand out and the blood
starts, the swarthy habit falls under
the knee of the victor--escaped ut last
rs with the skin of his teeth."
There are others who. in attempting
to come to God, must run between =
great many business perplexitiea fa
man 60 over to business 1t 10 o'clock
in the morning and come away at s
o'clock in the afternoon, he has some
time for religion; but how shall you
find time for religious conte mplation
when you are driven from sunrise t.
sunset, and have been for five years
going behind in business, and are
frequently dunned by creditors
whom you can not pay, and
when from Monday morning antil
Saturday night you are dodging bills
that you can not meet? You walk day
by day in uncertainties that have kept
your brain ON fire for the past three
years Some with less business trou-
bles than you have gone crazy. The
clerk has heard q noise in the back
counting room. and gone in and found
the chief man of the firm . raving
maniac; or the wife has heard tho
bang of pistol in the back parlor and
gone in, stumbling over the dead body
Of her husbands suicide. There are
men pursued, harassed, trodden down
and scalped of business perplexities,
aud which way to turn next
they do not know. Now. God will
not be hard ON you. lie knows what
obstacles are in the way of you being
Christian. and your first effort in the
right direction He will crown with sue
cess. Do not let Satan. with cotton
bales, and kegs. and hogsheads, and
counters, and stocks Of unstable
goods. block up your way - Heaven.
Gather up all your eBergies. Tighten
the girdlc about your loins. Take IN
agonizing look into the face of God,
and then say. Here goes one grand
effort for life eternal. and then bound
away for Heaven, escaping 'tas with
the skin of your teeth"
find in the community . large class
Of men who have been so cheated, 30
lied about, 80 outrageously wronged,
that they have lost their faith in every
thing. In world where everything
seems SO topsy-turvey. they do not sec
how there can be any God. They arc
confounded, aud frenzicd. and mis-
anthropic. Elaborate arguments to
prove to them the truth of Christian
ity, or the truth Of anythinR else, touch
them nowhere. Hear me, all such
men. I preach to you no rounded
periods. no ornamental Discourse; but
put my hand on your shoulder. and in
vite you iuto the peace OF the Gospel.
Here is rock on which you may stand
firm. though the waves dash against it
harder than the Atlantic, pitching its
surf clear above Eddystone lighthouse.
Do not charge upon God all these
troubles of the world. As long - the
world stuck to God, God stuck to the
world; but the earth seeded from His
government, and hence all these out
RACES and all these woes. God is good.
For many hundreds of years He has
been coaxing the world to come back
to Him; but the more He has coaxed,
the more violent have been men in their
resistance, and they have stepped back.
aud stepped back until they have drop
ped into ruin.
Try this God, 20 who have had the
bloodhounds after you and who have
thought that God had forgotten you.
Try Him, and see If He will not help.
Try Him. and see II He will not pardon.
Try Him, aud see If He will not save.
The flowers of spring have NO bloom
SO sweet as the Towering Of Christ's
affections The sun has NO warmth
compared with the glow of His heart.
The waters have NO refreshment like
the fountain that will slake the
thirst of thy soul. At the
moment the reindeer stands with his
| lip and nOstril thrust in the cool noun
tain torrent, the hunter may be coming
through the thicket. Without crack.
| ing . stick under his. foot he comes
close TO the stag, aims his gun, draws
the trigger. and the poor thing rears il
its death agony and falls backward, its
antlers crashing on the rocks; but thu
painting hart that drinks from thu
water-brooks Of Gods promise shal
never be fatally wounded, and shall
never die.
This world is . poor portion for you
soul, oh, business man! An eastern
king had craven on his tomb tw,
fingers. represented Is sounding OF
each other with . snap. and undel
them the motto: "All is not wortl
that" Apicius Coelius hanged himsel
because his steward informed him tha
he had only ESQ. 900 sterling left ALI o
this worlds riches make but small in
heritance for q soul. Robespierre 1t
tempted to win the applause Of tn,
world; but when he was dying WON
IN came rushing through the crowd
crying to him: Murderer OF my kin
dred, descend to hell, covered with tn
curses of every mother in France!
Many who have expected the plaudit
Of the world have died under It
Anathema Maranatha.
Oh. find your peace in God. Max
one strong pull for Heaven. No half
way work will do it There some
times comes . time on shipboard whe1
everything must b sacrificed to saw
the passengers. Tho cargo 10 nothing
the rigging il nothing. The captain
puts the trumpet to his lip and shouts
sCut away the mast" Some o
Won have been tossed and driven, an
you have, in your efforts TO keep tn
world, well-nigh lost your soul
Until you have decided this matter le
everything else 60. Overheard wit
ali those other aaxisties and burdens
You will have 70 drop the sails q
vour pride and cut away the mast
With one earnest cry for help. put you
causo into the hand Of Him who helpe.
Paul ont OF the breakers Of Aelita. an
who. above the shrill blast OF tn