St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-01-29

old minister, and he came and
preached. and it was the last sermon
he ever preached. ALL the tears cried
1t his funeral could not express my If.
4 lection for that man. who was willing
to help me out Of tight corner. Ali
my friends. that is what we all
want-somebody to help us out
OF tight corner. You ara ia
one now. How do l know u?
am used to judging Of human counte-
nances, and see beyond the smile and
beyond the courageous look with
which you hide your feelings from 9TH
ers. know you are in tight corner.
What to do? Do as l did when l sent
for old DIR. Scott. Do better than / did
send for the Lord God of Daniel, and
OF Joshua, and of every other man who
got into a tight corner. o." says
some one, ''why can not God develop
me through prosperity instead of
through adversity?" l will answer
your question by asking another. Why
does not God dye our northern and
temperate seas with the coral? You
say: 1.-The water is not hot enough"
There! In answering my question you
have answered your own. hot climate
for richest specimens of coral; hot
trouble for the jewels of the soul. The
coral-fishers going out from Tore del
Greece never brought ashore such fine
specimens as are brought out of the
scalding surges of misfortune. l look
down into the tropical sea, and there
is something that looks like blood, and
Isay: Illus there been a great battle
down there?" Seeming blood scattered
all up and down the reefs. 1t is the
| blood Of the coral, and it makes me
think of those who come out of great
tribulation and have their robes
| washed white in the Blood of the
Lamb. But these gems OF earth are
cothing to the gems of Heaven. mo
| mention shall be made of coral
take your hand again and walk q
little further on in this garden of the
sea, and notice the durability Of the
work of the coral. Montgomery
speaks of it. lie says: "Frail were
their forms, ephemeral their lives,
their masonry imperishable." Rhlzo-
pods are insects SO small they are in
visible. and yet they built the
Apprentices and they planted for
their own monument the Cor
diilcras! 1t takes 1s7. 600. 900 of them
to make one grain. Corals are chang
ing the navigation of the sea, saying
to the commerce of the world: "Take
this channel;' take that channels"
''avoid the other channel" Animal
cules beating back the Atlantic and
Pacific seas! II the insects Of
the ocean have built a reef q
Thousand miles long, who knows
but that they may yet build reef
5000 miles long, and thus that by one
stone bridge Europe shall be united
with this continent on one side, and by
another stone bridge Asia will be
united with this continent on the other;
and the tourist of the world, without
the turn of q steamers wheel or the
spread of ships sail, may go all
around the world. and thus be fulfilled
the prophecy: "There shall be no more
sea-"
But the durability of the corals
work is not at all to be compared with
the durability of our work for God.
The coral is going to crumble in the
fires of the last day, but our work for
God will endure forever. No more
discouraged man ever lived than Bee
thoven, the great musical composer.
Numerically criticised by brother ar
fists and his music sometimes rejected.
Deaf for 25 years, and forced, on his
way to Vienna, to beg food and lodg-
ing at very plain house by the road |
side. In the evening the family opened
a musical instrument and played and
sang with great enthusiasm; and one of
the numbers they rendered was so
emotional that tears ran down their |
their cheeks while they sang and
played. Beethoven. sitting in the
room, too deaf to hear the singing.
was curious to know what was the mu- |
sic that SO overpowered them, and
when they got through he reached up |
and took the folio in his had and found |
it was his own observation-disclosures |
Symphony in A-and he cried out: Il |
wrote THAR The house hold sat and |
stood abashed to find that their poor
looking guest was the great composer.
But he never left that house alive. A |
fever seized h i'm that night and no
relief could be afforded, aud in few
days he died. But just before expiring
he took the hand of his nephew, who /
had been sent for and had arrived, say
ing: AFTER all, Hummel, l must have
had some talent" Poor Beethoven!
His work still lives, and gin the TWEEN
tieth century will be better appre-
ciated than it was in the nineteenth;
and as long Us there is on earth an
to play or an oratorio to sing,
nine symphonies will be
the echantment of nations. But you
are not q composer, and you say that
there is nothing remarkable about you
only q mother trying to rear your
family for usefulness and Heaven.
Yet the song with which you
sing your child to sleep will
never cease its mission. You will
grow old and die. That SON will
pass out into the world. The song
with which you sang him to sleep last
night will go with him while he
lives. conscious or uncon-
scious restraint and inspirati
here, and may help open to him
the gate Of q glorious and triumphant
hereafter. The lullabies of this CEN
fury will sing through all the CEN
suries. The humblest good accom-
plished in time will last through eter-
,ity. sometimes get discouraged. as
suppose you do. at the vastness of the
work and ut how little we are doing.
And yet, do you suppose the rhizopod
aid: There is no need of my
| can not build the
Do you suppose
he madrepore said: There is no
iced of my working; can not build
he Sandwich Islands, Each one at
ended to his own business; and there
ire the Sandwich Islands, and there
ire the Cordilleras. All, my friends,
he rodou pfion IF this world Ia n Uroak 1