St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-02-11
VOL. XXlV.-NO. Z.

and God will adjust. and by Him the
falling OF tear is as certainly noticed
as the burning of world and the Hut
ter of sparrow's wing as the flight OF
the apocaiyptic archangei.
Oh. what God we have, :or small
things as well as big things! Du:id
no more helped at the front than helpeti
Gt home. The four regiments lnobii-
ized for the defense of the throne OF
Israel were right in protesting against
David's exposure of his life at the front.
Had he been pierced of an arrow. or
cloven down with n battleax, or fatally
slung from snoriing war charger, what
a disaster 10 the throne of Israel! Alb
solom, his son. was q low fellow ard un-
lit 10 reign: his two chief characters
tics were his handsome face and his
long 'hair-so long that when he had it
cut that which was scissored Off
weighed .:.eO shekels after the kings
weight" and when a man has nothing
but handsome face and an exubcranee
of hair. there is not much of him. The
capture and sinyingof David would have
been a calamity irreparable. Unneces-
sary exposure would have been 4 crime
for David. as il is a crime for you.
10 nine cases on. of ten the satali.
ties every day reported are ne; the
fault OF engineers or brakemen or con-
Luciors or cab drivers. but of the stu
pidiiy and recklessness Of people at
street or railroad crossings. They
would like TO have the Chicago limited
express train with 300 passengers. all
yertised 10 arrive at a certain hour in
certain city. slow up to let them get
twominutes sooner to their estimation.
rot one farihing Of their own or any
one else's welfare dependent on wheth-
er they arrive one minute before II
O'Clock or one minute after. You ought
- get permission from railroad super
intendenf 10 mount beside the engineer
on a locomotive 10 realize how many
evils of recklessness there are in the
wofId-fuueral professions whipping
up TO get across before the cowcafcher
strikes The hearse: man of family, with
wife and children beside him in a wag-
on. evidently having made close caIcu-
iat:on as to whether stroke from the
locomotive would put them backward
or forward in the Journey to the village
grocery; traveller on railroad bridge
hoping that he could get to the md OF
the bridge before the train reaches it.
You have no right to put your life in
peril unless by such exposure some
thing is to be gained for others. What
imbeciliiy in thousands of Americans
during our recent Americo-Spanish war
disappointed because the surrender
came so soon. and they could not have
the advantage of being shot II San g
Juan hill. or brought down with the
yellow fever and carried on a litter
10 transport steamers. already so many
floating lazarettos. instead of thanking
God that they got no nearer 10 the
slaughter than Tampa aor.Chattarooea
or the encampment at their own state
capital. mad at the government. mad
at God. because they could not get to
the front in time TO jdin :he 4.0O0corpses
that are now being trar-Forted-f#ossr !
the tropics 10 the national cemeteries
of the United States. Exposure and
daring are admirable when duty calls.
but keep out of peril when nothing
practical and useful is TO be gained for
your family or your country or your
God admire the David of my tent
as he suppresses himself and enters the
gate Of his castle as Eitch rs admire
him when with his four fingers and
thumb cluiched into the grizzly locks
of Goliath's head. which be had decapi-
tated. and Saul admiringly asks:
Whose son art thou. young man." and
David. blushing with genuine modesiy.
responds: 81 am the son of thy servant.
Jesse, the Bsthlehemite."
Now. here is another important point.
As there are so many people in the
world who amount to little or nothing.
you ought to augment yourself. and ii
not able. like David. to be worth 10000
times more than others. you can COM
mand Gods reinforcing grace to make
yourself four times or three times or
twice as much as some others. Pray
twice as much. read twice as much.
give twice as much. go to church twice
as much. Instead OF spending your
time finding fault with others, substi-
tute your fidelity for their dereliction
and default. In any church there are
ten members worth all the other coo.
In every great business firm there is
one man worth the other three part.
uers. In every legislative hall. state or
national. there are FIVE men worth all
the other SO or 100. Take the srgges-
ton Of my text and augment yourself.
Make your one talent do the work OF
two. or your five talents do the work OF
ten. or your ten talents Go the work OK
20. Multiply your words Of encour-
agement. Multiply the number OF
boosts You can give 10 those who are
trying 10 climb. Instead OF being one
man in battalion, by your faith in
God and new conservation be whole
regiment. like the question o. gem
eral OF small army when some one
was counting the number of officers
and soldiers of the opposing forces and
the small number of their own army,
and the general cried out in indigna-
tion: .How many do you take ME TO
be?" David was 10000 men. io1i
ought TO be at least two men in this
battle for God and Righteousness.
Inc udiy pupcTS soy tHat IiS ofu
friend Jeremiah c. Lanphier. OF New
York. is dead at 90 years o. age. But
they are mistaken. That man can new
er die. He will live rs long as Heaven
lives. He was the father of vitalized,
vivified and arousing prayer meetings.
He established the roonGay Fulton
street prayer meeting. famous through
ont Chrisfendon. and moro honcred ot
God than any devotional meeting since
the world began. He sintroGucsd the
little bell on the prayer meeting table
which always tapped when prayers
were prolix or exhortantions too long
winded. Finding that many business
men are from IL noon TO one o'clock
at comparative leisure. he widely an
nourced that al II o'clock of the Esd OF
September. 1851. there would D. gin 4
prayer meeting of one hour in the small
upper room of the Reformed church.
on Fulton street. New York. I.anphier
went TO that room at IL o'clock and sat
alone. Al 1880 a man entered and