The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-01

Yes, sir, if ] work long enough by
the help OF God choose your calling
and stick TO it. The gadabouts are
failures for this life. to say nothing OF
the next.
Fixed Spiritual Condition
So also many are unfxed In regard I
to their spiritual condition and day t
after day and year after year 90 gad-
ding about among hopes and fears and |
anxietles. They sing with great en-
phasis that old hymn which we have
all sung:
'Tis a point | long to know;
OFT It causes anxious thought;
Do love the Lord OF no?
Am | his, or am l not?
Why do you not find out whether
you are his or not? There are all the
broad invitations of the gospel. Ac-
cept them. There are all the assur-
ances. Apply them. There are all
the hopes Of pardon and heaven.
Adopt them. There is the Kings high
way. Start on it, Travelling any road.
you are not satisfied until you have
found out whether it is the right or
the wrong road, and you climb up in
the darkness to read the words on the
finger board at the roadside to see If 1t
be the right road, and If it be the
wrong road you cross over to the
right road. If you are on the sea, you
want to know into what port you will
run or upon what rocks you are in
danger Of crashing. This moment you
have all the information pointing to
the road that terminates at the gate
Of the Golden City and the voyage that
I anchors in the haven Of eternal rest.
Why 20 on guessing when you have
all the facts before you? You ought to
/ know by examination of chart and
compass and thermometer in what
latitude and longitude you are sailing
whether in the arctic or the tropics. A
man who does not know whether or
not he is a Christian is like man who
does not know whether he is mil
lionaire or a pauper. Better go to the
records and find out. The Scriptures
are the records. If you cannot there
read your title, it is because you have
no title, and you ought to begin anew.
Start new prayer, sing new song,
open a new experience.
So alas, there are those who gad
about among particular churches. No
pastor can depend on them for sim
gle service. At some time when he
has prepared a sermon. after all pray
er and all research. putting nerve and
muscle and brain and soul into its
every paragraph, these intermittent
attendants are not there to hear it.
While an occasional absence is ex-
cusable for the qualification of some
wish to hear that which is eonsecrated
or religiously oratoric in some other
pulpit. when the pastor of church
with his eye calls the roll OF attend
ance. by your presence in the old place
practically answer. saying: Il am
here to get the benefit Of all the use
ful thoughts you may ntter and OF all
the hymns that you may give out and
Of all the prayers you may offer
a soldier Of Jesus Christ, am in my
own place in the company in the
battalion, in the regiment, and wher
you command March! will march
and when you command Halt l vii
halt, and when you order 'GrounI
arms. win ground arms"
Negleciing Ones Home.
Among the race OF gadabouts an
those who neglect their homes ia OF
r der that they may attend to institu
: tions that are really excellent and d.
r not SO much ask for help as demand
I it. am acquainted. as you are. witt
E women who are members Of so man.
) boards of direction of benevolent in
= stitutions and have to stand at booLi
{ In so many fairs, and must collec
funds for so many orphanages an
preside at so many philanthropi
: meetings. and are expected to be il
Y SO many different places at the sam
4 time that their children are left to tn
e care Of irresponsible servants, and
I the little ones waited to say thei
: prayers at their mothers knee the
g would never say their evening prayer
4 at all. Such a woman makes her ow
n home so unattraetive that the husban
: spends his evenings at the clubhous
k or the tavern. The children of tina
. house are as thoroughly orphan as an
a of the fatherless and motherless litt
s ones gathered in the orphanage fc
: which that gadabout woman is toilin
Il so industriously BY all means Il
/, Christian women foster charitable il
# stitutions and give them as much
/ their time as they can spare, but th
If first duty of that mother is the dui
d she owes to her home.
h Hired help is a great advantage
n the homestead that can afford it, an
1t We have all had in our homes a fidelit
ID on the part of such employees as wi
N stir our gratitude as long as life sha
last. How they watched in time
n sickness and always gave the mediciT
z at the right time. and but for the
r. vigilance there are members Of OF
II families now living who would lor
to ago have disappeared from the hon
-, ,f~.la plcreod Tho cbir,s that hrOuul