St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-11-03

wants none of the rellSioh that tue
president and trustees and directors
of that oil company professed.
or course, their rejection of religion
ON such grounds was unphilosophical
and nnwise. / am told that many OF
the United States army desert every
year, and there are many eonft-m,r-
tials every year. Is that any thing
against the United States government
that swore them in? And If soldier
of Christ deserts, is that anything
against the Christianity which he
swore to support and defend? How do
YOU Judge of the currency OF conn-
try? BY counterfeit bill? Now, you
must have patience with those who
have been swindled by religious pre-
tenders. Live in the presence OF Others
a frank, honest, earnest Christian life,
that they may be attracted to the same
Saviour upon whom your hopes de-
pend.
Remember, skepticism always has
some reason, good or bad, for existing.
Goethe's irreligion started when the
news came to Germany of the earth
quake at Lisbon, November ], IT'S.
That &c .OcO people should have perished
in that earthquake and in the after
rising of the Tagus river so stirred his
sympathies that he threw up his belief
in the goodness Of God.
III addres such mes and women to-
day, 1 throw out no scoff. ! implead
them by the memory Of the good old
days when at their mothers knee they
said: "Now lay me down to Sleep.
and by those days and nights of scarlet
fever in which she watched you, Civ
ing YOU the medicine in just the right
time and turning your pillow when it
was hot, and with hands that many
wears ago turned to dust soothed away
YOUR pain and with voice that you will
never hear again, unless you join her
in the better country. told you to never
mind, for you would feel better by and
by, and by that dying couch where she
looked so pale and talked SO slowly,
catching her breath between the words,
and YOU felt an awful loneliness COM
ing over your soul. By all that ! beg
YOU to come back and take the same
religion. It was good enough for her.
1t is good enough for you. Nay, l
have a better plan than that. plead
by all the wounds and tears and blood
and groans and agonies and death
throes of the Son of God, who ap-
proaches you at this moment with torn
brow and lacerated hands and whipped
back, and saying: "Come unto me. all
We who are weary and heavy laden,
and 1 will give you rest"
Again, there is a field of usefulness
but little touched, occupied by those
who are astray in their habits. All
northern nations, like those of North
America and England and Scotland
that is. in the colder climates-are dev-
astated by alcoholism. They take the
fire to keep up the warmth. In south
ern countries, like Arabia and Spain,
the blood is so warm they are not
tempted to fiery liquids. The great
Roman armies never drank anything
stronger than water tinged with vine
gar. but under our northern climate
the temptation to heating stimulants
is most mighty, and millions succumb.
When a mans habits go wrong the
church drops him, the social circle
drops him, good influences drop him,
we all drop him. OF all the men who
get off the track but few ever get on
| again. Near my summer residence
there is a life-saving station on the
beach. There are all the ropes and
rockets, the boats, the machinery for
getting people off shipwrecks. One
summer I saw there Is or 20 men who
were breakfasting after having just es-
capped with their lives and nothing
more. Up and down our coasts are
built these useful structures, and the
mariners know it, and they feel that
if they are driven to the breakers there
will be apt from shore to come a rescue.
The churches of God ought to be 50
many life-saving stations, not SC
much to help those who are in smooth
waters, but those who have been ship
wrecked. Come, ht us run out the
lifeboats! And who will man them
We DO not preach enough to such
men; we have not enough faith in
their release. Alas, il when they
come to hear us we are laboriously
trying to show the difference between
sublapsarianism and supralapsarian
ism, while they have o hundred viper'
of remorse and despair coilins
around and biting their immortal spir
its. The church is not chiefly fol
goodish sort of men, whose proclivi
ties are all right and who could get Il
Heaven praying and singing in theil
own homes. 1t is on the beach t.
help the drowning. Those bad cases
are the cases that God likes to taxi
hold of. He can save a Dig sinner Al
well as a small sinner, and when ,
man calls earnestly to God for hell
he will go out to deliver such a one
If it were necessary, God would come
down from the sky, followed by al
the artillery of Heaven and milliol
angels with drawn swords. Get 10'
such redeemed men in your churches
and nothing could stand before them
for such men are generally warn
hearted and enthusiastic. No forma
prayers then. No heartless singing
then. No cold conventionalisms then
Destitute children of the street OF
fer field of work comparatively un
occupied. The uncared for childrel
are in the majority in most of ou
cities. When they grow up, if un
reformed. they will outvote your chill
dren, and they will govern your chi
dren. The whisky ring will hatch on
other whisky rings, and grog shop
will kill with their horrid stencil pull
lie sobriety unless the church of Go
rises up with outstretched arms an
infolds this dying population in he
bosom. Pubic schools cannot do i
Art cannot do it. Blackwelrs islam
cannot do it. Almshouses cannot d
it. Jails canont do it. Church of Cox
wake up to your magnificent mission
You can do it. Get somewhere, some
how to work!
Fathers Essay Writing.
Teacher am sorry to say II
Henry, but your composition is no
worthy of you. The rhetoric is faulty
the logic weak, the statements ar
based upon misinformation, and tn