St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-08-20

/ AnACS uuuuICO sAuO StAtys uVe ECNOtW
tions in . year, and forward, rather
thah a65 revolutions in q year ant
back ward.
But hear ye! hear ye! while I tel
You how you may practically live you
life over again and be all the bettel
for it. You may put into the remain
ing years of your life all you have
learned Of wisdom in your past life
| You may make the coming ten year!
worth the preceding 40 or SO years
| When a man says he would like to liv.
his life over again because he would
do 80 much better, and yet goes right
on living as he has always lived, de
you not see he stultihes himself? LII
proves that il he could go back ht
would do almost the same as he ha.
done.
If a man can eat green apples some
Wednesday in cholera time aud is
thrown into fearful cramps, aud says
on Thursday: .Iwish I had been more
prudent in my diet; oh if l could live
Wednesday over again!" and then or
Friday eats apples just as green, he
proves that it would have been no ad
vantage for him to live Wednesday
over again. And if we, dcpl0ring oul
past life, and with the ide, of improve
ment, long for the opportunity to try
it over again, yet go on making the
same mistakes and committing the
same sins, we only demonstrate that
the repetition of our existence would
afford no improvement. It was green
apples before, and it would be green
apples over again.
As soon as a ship captain strikes q
rock in the >l;4.: II. sca he reports IL,
-nu u buoy is swung over that reef,
and mariners henceforth stand of from
that rock. And all our mistakes in the
past ought to be buoys, warning us to
keep in the right channel. There is
no excuse for us if we split on the same
rock where we split before. Going
along the sidewalk at night where ex-
cavations are being made we frequent
ly see lantern on a framework and
we turn aside, for that lantern says
keep out of the hole. And ali along
the pathway of life lanterns are set as
warnings, and by the time we come to
midlife we ought to know where it is
safe to walk and where it is unsafe.
Out yonder is u man very old at 40
years of age. ut time when he ought
to be buoyant as the morning. He got
bad habits on him very carly, and those
habits have become worse. lie is q
man ON fire, OH fire with alcoholism,
on fire with all evil habits, out with
the world and the world out with him.
Down, and falling deeper. His swollen
hands in his thr .adbare pockets, and
his eye fixed on the ground, rs he
passes through the street, and tie quick
step of an innocent child, or the strong
step of an young man, or the roll OF
n prosperous carriage maddens him,
and he curses society and he curses
God. Fallen sick, with no resources,
he is carried to the almshouse. a loath.
some spectacle, he lies all day long
waiting for dissolution, or in the night
rises on his cot and fights apparitions
of what he might have been and what
he will be. He started life with as
good a prospect as any man on the
American continent, and there he is,
bloatcd carcass, waiting for the show
els of public charity to put him Ave
feet under. He has only reaped what
he sowed. Harvest of wild oats! There
is II way that scemeth right to a man,
but the end thereof is DEATH
And then the reaping of the harvest
is so different. There is GRANDPA
Their now. lie has lived to old age be-
cause his habits have been good. His
eyesighs for this world has got some
what dim. but his eyesight for Heaven
is radiant Ills hearing is not so acute
as it once was. and he must bend clear
over to hear what his little grandchild
says when she asks him what he has
brought for her. But he easily
catches the music raincd from
spheres. Men passing in
the streets take of their hats in
and women say: .What
a good old man he is" Seventy
of 80 years, all Tor God and for making
this world happy. Splendid! Gloriousl
Magnificent! lie will have hard work
getting into Heaven, because those
whom he helped to get there will fill
up and crowd the gates, to tell him
how glad they are at his coming, until
he says: please 10 stand back little
till l pass through and cast my crown
at the fleet OF Him whom, having not
seen, love" do not know what you
call that, / call it the harvest of
Genesee wheat.
Invite you to quit all that AMI be-
gin a new life. Roland went into
battle. Charlemagne's army had been
driven back by the three armies OF the
Saracens. and Roland almost in despair
took up the trumpet aud blew three
blasts in one of the mountain passes,
and under the power OF these three
blasts the Saracens recoiled and fed in
terror. But history says that when he
trumpet broke. talk, this trumpet of
the Gospel and blow the first blast:
sWho soever will" blow the second
blast: "Seek yc the Lord while He
may be found" blow the third blast:
Now is the accepted time" But the
trumpet does not break. It was hand
ID down by our fathers to US, and we
Will ubuu IL uOWu " OuE CulAuECus tIsbt |
lfter we are dead they may blow the
telling the world that |
We have a parloning God, a loving |
Tod, sympathetic God, and that more
% Him than the throne on which lie |
its is the joy Of seeing prodigal put
ing his thumb on the latch of his Fa-
hers house. l remember that there |
we're two vessels on the sea, and in q
torn. 1t is very. very dark, and the
wo vessels were going straight for
ach other, while the captains knew il
lot. But after awhile the man on the
oolz-out saw the approaching ship, and
le shouted ''hard-a-larbo7rdw And
rom the other vessel the cry went up.
And they turned
ust enough to glance by, and passed in
afety to their harbors. Some Of you
re in the storm of temptation, and
on are driving on anu coming toward
earful collisions unless you CHI lnge
our course 'Hard-a-larboard!- Turn
e, turn We, for .why will We die, oh,
ouse Of Israeli"
A young Scotchman was taken cap
iva in hattie Inv n hand of Indiana /