Natchitoches populist., 1898-04-08

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,oa1 ine VAST majority OF people will new
lead an army, will never write a Stata ~
stitution, will never electrify Spnnte WI WI
never make IN Important invnntion w, w
never decide the fate Of Il nation, Won W. :
not expect to. yon do not want r. W
VIII not be a Moses to lead nation ort =
bondage. You will not be a Joshua to ,' NJ,
'.ns '13ns tne daylight until you can shut fiy
Hahss IN cavern. You will not be a s,
Uonh Uot n 10 unroll an Apocalypse. You wi
oI, nVn pe ra"l 10 preside over all aposlol
Somneso. You Will not be a Mary to mothe
aunrIst' You will more probably be Asyu
'1Is, or fhleSol, or Harmas, OF Patrobas
Ut hermes. or Philoiosus. or -I-i:-
M"ny OF you are women 1t the haai n
u,ou5eholds: ~, Every morning you plan fo
the day. The culinary department Of tn,
nTusehold ~ Is your dominion. You deoiJ,
ah questions OF diet. All the saDitar,
| .esulatlohs or your house are unde, you,
| supervision. TO regulate the food and
the apparel and the habits, and decide tha
thousand questions OF home life is tax
upon braln and nerve and general health
absolutely appalling if there BIZ no divine
alleviation. N' 't''ne
They who provide the food of the world
ueelde the health of the world. You bnvn
only 10 90 on some errand amid the tav.
elns ana hotels OF the United States and
urea1 Britain to appreciate the fact that n
o,. ,"ss muititude OF the human race are
slaughtered Ma by incompetent cookery
;thougn young woman may have taken
lessons IN music and may have taken les.
M sons IN painting, and lessons in astronomy
sne Is not we'll educated unless she has
Ia taken Lessons In dough. They who decide
the apparel OF the world, and the food Of
tho world, decide the endurance Of ths
world. "a tno
Ihen there are all tho ordinary businesa
men. mon They need divine and Christian haIn
W Nheh We begin to talk about business life
VIZ shoor right off aud talk about men who
ulu business on large scale and who snlJ
millions of dollars Of goods u year: and , ths
vast majority Of business men do nor sell a
million dollars OF goods, nor halt million
nor quarter OF million, nor the eiohth
part OF million. Put all the business mem
vi our cities, towns, villages and neiehbor.
noous side by side, and you will find that
they sell less than hundred thousand dol.
"a! lars worth Of goods. All These men in ~.
aihary business life want divine help. Yon
zee now the wrinkles are printing on tn,
countenauce the story OF worrjment an5
care. You can not tell how old businnS.
thirty. "' n"'fs III
NOW. what is wanted is srace-divine
grace Tor ordinary business mep. men who
IRE harnessed from morn till night and nil
he days Of their life -harnessed in buSi.
less. Not grace to lose q hundred thon.
ana, out grace to lose ten dollars. Not
race TO supervise two hundred and 6ftv
mploYes IN factory, but grace to suner.
Use the be okkeeper and two salesman md
ne small boy that sweeps out the stora
race TO invest not the eighty Thousand
oilars Oh net profit, but the TWENTY-FIVE
! Iunared OF clear gain. Such grace no
lousands OF business men have TO-DAY
eeplhg them tranquil, whether goods coll
90 not sell, whether customers INV ~,
not pay, whether tariff is up or tariff is
own, whether the crops are luxuriant q,
ueau iailure-calm In all circumstances
iu AMID all viclssitudes. That is the
Ind OF grace we want, - Wv
lhen there are all the ordinary farmers
tax about agricultural life, and we i'm.
sui"'eiy snoot on to talk about Cincin.
'tus, the patrician, who went from the
y" 10 nigh position, and after he cot
rough the dictatorship, In twenty-ona
'ys, Wenf back again to the plow, what +
is that to ordinary firm.
81 me vast majority OF them--none q,
en VIII! De patricians. Perhaps none ~
em Will De Senators. If any of them have c
'tasorshlps 1t will be over forty or fIftr 6
u hundred acres Of the old homestead
l nas tnese men want is grace, to keen s
eir patience while blowing with ball. &
On, ana to keep cheerful amid the n
ousn that destroys the corn crop. and y
ae enables them to restore the ,pardan
day after the neighbor's cattle hava O
oxen IN and trampled out the strawberrp O.
!, ana gone through the Lima.bran {,
Ich, and eaten up the sweet corn in snnh -
sc quantities that they must be- kant u
m the water lest they swell nm and dia O
race IN catching weather that enahjes n
IN, without imprecation, to spread omt :,
nay the third time, althoueb anaiu u
again, and again, It has been aImnst II
ay ior the NOV. A grace to doctor ths al
with hollow horn, and the sheen wi+t :,
loot rot, and the horse with the "" dis' VI
per, and to compel tho unwilling .cna, el
'leid livelihood for the family and SO
ooilng for the children and little e,tras sr
lelp the older boy in business and somo -
's ior the daughters wedding ontat VI
a little surplus for the time when tho &C
les will get stiff with AGE and the d,
ath will be little short, and tbe ~
nglng vi the cradle through the h1t bar. y.
held will bring on the old mans ysr. 81
. Better close up about Cincinnatns th
oW fVe hundred farmers lust as nohIo fir
was. What they want is to know l..
tney have the friendship of that Christ .e
often drew His SMILES from tha for' br
8 LIE, rs when He said: "a sowar til
forth to SOW" as when He built Tic m
parable out of the scene of a farmar "n
coming back from his wanderinos md &c
Iiu ;,,t;s tlarmhouse shook that night with nj
i io Juo.'ee' ana who compared himself tn
iamD In the pasture field. and Who -
that the eternal God is q farmer do do ch
ng: MY Father is the husbandmun wo
me, now, let US have q religion for an
lary people in professions, in occunoA 40,
!, III agriculture, In the household, in 80
's the centuries Asyncritus phjavon Ian
las, Patribas, Hermes, Philoloons ma ma
st Of ali, II you feel that Won ara or Ter
y, thank God that Won ara not no ".e avtua ue the
=. afy. ! am tired aud sick, and bored hal
w y TO death with extraordinary peo. the
aou Know rs we'll rs do, my brother ~,
sissel that the most OF the useful Pn'
. oi the world is done by unpreten- or
people VINO toll right on-by people cas-
~ NOT get much approval, and no one aro
to say, "That is we'll done" arc
weather OF lie Is not 80 severe on the tne
as IL Is on the high peaks. The world cot
~ iorglves o man who knows or gains I
- y more than 1t can know or gain or ton
l. therefore, you feel that you are 'ol
lry, thank God for the defenses and pot
Utility OF your position. Sou
remember, if you have only what elel