The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18
Christian Life Column.

Every one of US has his Owl work to
do. No man has the work of his prede
ceesors to perform; no more has he to
do the work of his successor. Elisha
may take up Elijah's mantle; but the
mantle's new weaver is Elisha, and
not Elijah. Elijah would have failed
in Elisha's place; and Elisha would be
sure to fail if he were to try to be and
do just like E JAN. The same is true
of every new prophet, or preacher, or
worker, or waiter in Gods vineyard.
God has a place and a mission for
every one. 1t is for each one to find
what God would have him do in his
day and place, and then do that with
all his might, and at once. God wants
no man to do less than this, Or to do
more. Sunday School Times.
What will it matter in a little while
That for a day
We met and gave a word, a touch, a
smile
Upon the ways
These trifes! Can they make or maj
Human llte2
Are souls as lightly swayed as rus1es
are
By love or stife3
Yea, yea, a look the flaming heart may
break,
Or make it whole,
And lust word, if said for loves
sweet sake,
May save a soul. Anon.
Cheerfulness and sweetness of dis
position are often es great a force IN
trying situations as sheer intellectual
ability. The power of restraing ones
temper under p~rovocation. of looking
on the bright side of things In dis.
~couraging circumstances, and OF not
constituting a difference Of opinion
into a personal matter, is n of these
choice attachments whose winsomeness
men almost universally recognize.
There ia a land where everlasting suns
Shed everlasting brightness; where
the soul
Drinks from the living streams of
By Gods high throne! Myriads of
RAOIAOuS JIG
Bring their accepted Offering. All! how
blest
To look from this dark prison to that
shrine,
To inhale one breath of Paradise di-
vine,
And enter into that eternal rest
Which waits the son OF God.
Do not be too much disc outraged be
cause you cannot stumble upon that
sweet grace, content. 1t is not reached
by luck nor inherited as a legacy. Paul
intimates the way to possession Of it
when he says Il have learned in what,
soever state I am, Herewith to be CON
tent" 1t is something to be acquired
by learning, but though the learning is
a long process the result justifes the
labor and the cost.
Bread of the world in mercy broken,
Wine of the soul, in mercy shed,
By whom the words Of life were spoke,
And in whose death u sins are
dead;
Look on the heart by sorrow broken,
Look on the tears by sinners shed;
And be Thy feast 10 us the token
That by Thy grace our souls are fed.
-HeOer.
Let US be ourselves aud nothing else, |
only let US be our better selves. Let
not a to breathe from the four
winds of heaven; let US not give up
our enthusiasts; let us not grow cal
lous and taruished with the passing of
years. AS n has sli1: That only
is great in art which comes from the
of a pure and true soul -
Nicoll.
Ours is the bond of love divine,
knits US each to all and all to
each;
That love whose ever frightening cords
can reach
From the white choir around Thy
heavenly shrine
To those who come In faith to day
Here to remember Thee.
R. Brown BorthWick.
Oae cannot do IDS work by doing
a part of it to day, and letting the rest
Of it go over until to morrow. When
men mix piety and opportunism, it
contributes more to the worlds
veal to have them defeated than to
nave them victorious. R ". DR.. @. II.
Parkhurst.
SINGULAR LIVES.