The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-09
Paper of F. M. Gill at Friendsville
Aug. 10, 1899.

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lated to sowing by the certainty Of
reaping. Tomorrow's sheaves and
shoutings support to days fearful
sowing Every great movement
had its beginning long before it be-
gan and its final start was the re-
suit of var' us early startings.
'LoWell says in one of his essays
that the great reform movements
are the humble deeds of humble
persons taken up and repeated by
an entire people" The final victor
les for liberty and religion are EN-
blaz0ned upon monuments and
celebrated in song and story, but
the beginnings of the achievements
for mankind are often given over
TO obscurity and tOrgetfulness. So
it is difficult TO know the first be.
ginning of S. S. The divine injunc-
ton ("Send forth thy gift and tai
ent and nature and providence
shall invest it securely and give the
talent back with interest and in
clease,' is very noticeable in trac-
ing the early history. What prom
Use for civilization was that Of
christ "Give and it shall be given
unto you" Let the husbandmap,
give seed to the burrows, soon the
burrows will give back large bund.
les into the.sower's arms. Let the
inventor give himself to the raw
ores and nature will give him the
forcelul tools, Let the reformer give
to the dese world, soon world.
garden will be given back in re-
turn. In every age man has re-
ceived from society what he has
given to society. This continent
lay waiting for ages for the seed Of
civilization, at length Il e sOWe
went forth TO SOW. Landing in
mid-Winter upon bleak coast, the
fathers gave themselves to cutting
roads draining swamps, starting
villages until the land was soWn
with the good seed of liberty and
christian civilization. So the early
christian teachers soWed the seed
of christian principals and to-day
we have the harvest Of ten million
sunday school pupils in the U. S.
Sunday. Schools were founded in
England about the year ISL by
Robt Raikes, printer in Gouster,
Business leading him into the sub
urbs of the town he was struck with
concern at seeing group of child
rem miserably ragged at play, He
was informed that on Sundays the
street was filed with a multitude
of wretches, who having no en-
f ployment on that day spent their
time in noise and riot. 10 check
this deplorable PROCLAMATION of the
Lords Day, he engaged a number
! of persons to instruct them in read
ing and in the church catechism.
In 1871 Bishop Asbury established
the first S. s. in the U. S. Recently
the officials of Mass. and the city of
London assembled for celebrating
the hundredth anniversary of the
birth of Geo, Peabody. He left no
children to keep his name before
the public. Then how shall we ac-
count for two continents giving
him such praise and fame. He re-
ceived because he first gave, he
gave large gifts to Yale and Har-
ward. He gave three and one half
million dollals.for founding schools
in the SOUTH, He developed the
Peabody Tenaments in London to
which he gave two and one half
millions and helped 10000 people to
remove from dens into good homes
Great deeds the majority can not
do, two talent men march in mil
lions but ten talent men are few
There are many scientists but one
Newton, there are thousands poets
but the Elizabethin Eras are separ-
ated by centuries. Thus we see
that society advances in happiness
and culture not through myriads Of
unnumbered and unnoticed deeds.
When nature has. fully ripencd an
opportunity man must stretch out
his hand pluck it. SO Calico
found lens in an oX's eye, Watt
witnessed steam lifting an iron lid,
Columbus observed an unknown
wood drifting upon the shore
Through events God makes all So
ciety plastic and then raises up
some man to stamp his image upon
the nations heart. For example,
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