St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-06-04

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the purchaser that the ground is al
under water; but it is generous in him
to do that, for he throws the water
into the bargain.
All. my friends, there is but one
standard of the everlasting right an6
of the everlasting wrong, and hat il
the Bible; and when that principle
shall get it's pry under our commercial
houses, l believe that one-half of them
will GO over. The ruin will begin al
one end of the street, and it will be
crash. crash! crash! all the way down
to the docks. ..What is the matter:
Has there been a fall in gold?' ''Oh,
no." ''Has there been a new tariff
No" HAS there been a failure in
crops?r NO" Has there been an un-
accountable panic??" NO" This. is
the secret: The Lord God has set up
His throne of Judgment in the ex-
change. He has summoned the right
ecu and the wicked to come before
Him. What was 1887? A day of judg-
ment! What was 1857? A day of
judgment! What was the extreme de-
preston of two years ago? A day of
judgment. Do you think that God is
going to wait until He has burned the
world up before He rights these
wrongs? l tell you, nay! Every day
is a day of judgment.
The fraudulent man piles up his
gains. bond above bond, United States
security above United States security,
emolument above emolument, until his
property has become a great pyramid;
and as he stands looking at it, he
thinks it never can be destroyed, but
the Lord God comes and with his little
finger pushes it all over
1ou build a house, and you put
into it a rotten beam. A mechanic
standing by says: 1T will never do to
put that beam in; it will ruin your
whole building" But you put it in.
The house is completed. Soon it be-
gins to rock. You call in the me-
chanic and ask: ''What is the matter
with this door! What is the matter
with this wall? Everything seems to
be giving out Says the mechanic:
You put a rotten beam into that
structure, and the whole thing has got
to come down." Here is an estate that
seems to be all right now. 1t has been
building u great many years. But Is
years ago there was a dishonest trans
action in that commercial house. That
n dishonest transaction will keep on
working ruin in the whole structure,
until down the estate will come in
wreck and ruin about the possessor's
ears-one dishonest dollar in the es-
tate demolishing all his possessions. l
have seen it again and again; and SO
have YOU.
Here is your money-safc. The manu-
facturer and yourself only know how
it can be opened. You have the key.
You touch the lock, and the ponderous
door swings back. But let me tell you
that, however firmly barred and bolted
your money-safe may be, you can not
keep God out. He will come, some day,
into your countIng-room, and He will
demand: "Where did that note of
hand come from? How do you account
for this security? Where did you
get that mortgaged from? What does
this mean?' If it is all right, God will
.'Wel done, good and faithful
servant. BE prospered in this world.
Be happy in the world to come" III
is all wrong He will say: depart, We
Be miserable for your iniqui-
ties in this life, and then go down and
spend your eternity with thieves, snd
horse jockeys and pickpockets."
Won hrv-o nv D11 ~E-.r-L A.
on your street. Why have those
nearly all changed within the
last 20 years? Does the passing away
a generation account for it? Oh, no.
the fact that there r hundreds
Of honest men who go down every year
for it? Oh, no. This is the
The Lord God has been walk !
great cities; and He has been adj
things according to the prin-
,iples of eternal rectitue.
The time will come when, through |
he revolutionary power of this Gospel,
! falsehood, instead of being called ex-
equivocation, or evasion, |
will be branded a lie! And s~tealings,
hat now sometimes go under the head
If percentages and commissions and
bonuses, will be put into the catalogue
state prison offenses. Society will
De turned inside out and upside down,
ransacked of Gods truth, until |
dishOnesties shall come to an
md, and all double dealing; and God
will overtnrn, and Overturn, and over
urn; and commercial men in all cities |
brow up their hands, crying ont:
These that have turned the world mp
ide down are come hither.'
The religion of Jesus Christ will pro-
luce \ revolution in ur churches. The
lon-committal, do-nothing policy of
he Church of God will give way to a
pirit of bravest conquest. Piety in
his day seems to me to be sailed down
ust so as to keep. 1t seems as If the
hurch were chiefly anxious to take
are of itself, and if we hear of want,
nd squalor and heathenism outside,
We say: What a pity and we put
III hands in our pockets and we feel
for q two-cent piece, and with
great flourish we put it upon the
late and are amazed that the world. is
OF converted in six weeks. Suppose
here were a great war, and there were
on, 600 soldiers, but Of all those 800, 600
oldiers, excepting ten men, were in
heir tents. or securing their muskets,
r cooking rations. You would say:
OF course. defeat must come in that
1t is worse than that in the
Millions of the professed
oldiers of Jesus Christ are cooking
or asleep in their tents, while
My M man here and there goes out
do battle for the Lord.
But, says ONE one, 1--WE are estab-
a great many missions, and 1
hink they will save the masses" No;
hey will not. Five hundred thousand
t them will not do it. They are doing
magnificent work; but every mission
is a confession of the disease and
'eakness of the church. 1t IS saying
D the rich and the well-conditloned:
If you can pay yolr pew rent, come
D the main audience room.. 1t is saw
1g to the poor man: Your coat is too
ad, and your shoes are not good
nough. If you want to get to Heaven,
will have to go by way of the mis-