The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-01-28
|TALMAGE
SERMON.

,npIect, victories or reace-Tne many
Blessings For Which We Should Be
Misunderstanding Has Lightened
Burdens-God Sent the Wheel.
copyright, Louis Klopsch. 1921
WASHINGTON, D. C.-This discourse ofDr
ralmage is sermon OF preparation for the
rational observance and in an unusual way
BALLS for the gratitude OF the people; the
ext, Ezekiel T.. IS, LAS for the wheels, 1t
vas cried unto them In My hearing,
Rheell''
The last Thursday OF the eleventh month,
by proclamation OF President and Cover
| aors, is observed in Thanksgiving for
| temporal mercies. With what spirit shall
We enter upon itS For nearly year ana a
half this nation has been celebrating the
triumph Of the sword and gun and bat.
terry. We have sung martial airs and
sheered returning heroes and sounded the
requiem for the slain In battle. Methinks
| It will be heaithful change II this Thanks
giving week, in church and homestead, We
celebrate the victories OF peace, for moth
Ing was done at Santiago or Manila that
was of more Importance than that which
In the last year has been done In farmers
field and mechanics shop and authors
study by those who never wore an epaulet
or shot Spaniard OF went . hundred
| ullc5 lIOLu tuclK OWu 0OOISuls anu INV
I call your attention to the wheel OF the
text. S-rszes- 'ss=s
| MAN, q small speck In the universe, was
Get down in big world, high mountains
rising before him, deep seas arresting his
pathway and wild beasts capable OF his
destruction, yet he was to conquer. 1t
could not be by physical force. for com
elephants tusk, and how weak he Is! 1t
could not be by physical speed, for COM
pare him to the antelope's foot and ptar-
migan's wing, and how slow he Isl It
could not be by physical capacity to soar
or plunge, for the condor beats him In one
direction and the porpoise In the other.
Yet he was to conquer the world: Two
Client. He must be REINFORCED, 80 God
sent the wheel.
Twenty-Five times Is the wheel men
tiohed In the Bible, sometimes, as In
Ezekiel, illustrating provldential move
ment; sometimes, as In the Psalms, crush
Ing the bad; sometimes. as In Judges. rep
resenting Gods charioted progress. The
wheel that started in Exodus rolls on
through Proverbs, through Isaiah, through
jeremiah, through D aniel through Nahum,
through the centuries, all the time gather
ing momentum and splsndor, until, seeing
what 1t has done for the worlds progress
and happiness, we clap our hands In thanks
| giving ana employ tue HpOSlIOpu6 VI tuo
text, crying, 90 wheeil'
/ call on you in this Thanksgiving week
to praise God for the triumphs Of machin.
cry, which have revolutionized the world
and multiplied Its attractions. Even para
disc, though very picturesque, must have
been comparatively dull, hardly anything
going on, no agriculture needed, fer the
harvest was spontaneous; no architecture
required, for they slept under the trees; no
| rlannf Pfurar'a loom nePpeSary for the
weaving of apparel, for the fashions were
exceedingly simple. To dress the garden
could not have required ten minutes day.
Having nothing to do, they got into mis-
chief aud ruined themselves and the race.
1t was a sad thing to be turned olt OF par
adise, but, once turned out, beneheent
thing to be compelled to work. To help
man up and on God sent the wheel. II
turned ahead, the race advances; II turned
back, the race retreats. To arouse your
gratitude and exalt your praise / would
show you what the wheel has done foF the
domestic world, for the agricultural world,
for the travelling world, for the literary
world. "As for the wheels, 1t was cried
unto them In my hearing, o WHEEL"
In domestic life the wheel has wrought
revolution. Behold the sewing machinel II
has shattered the housewives bondage and
prolonged woman's life and added immeas-
urable advantages. The needle for agei
had punctured the eyes and pierced The
side aud made terrible massacre. Te pre-.
pare the garments OF the whole household
In the spring for summer and In the au'
tumn for winter was an exhausting pro-
cess. stitch, stitch, stitchl" Thohai
Hood set 1t to poetry, but millions OF per.
sons have found 1t agonizirg prose.
Slain by the sword, we buried the hero
with the sd cad March" in saul" and Aag,
at half mast. Slain by the needle, ne ono
knew 1t but the household that MstshsS
that the children were ragged and colo
| and hungry or In the almshouse. The hand
that welded the needle had forgotten ito
cunning. Soul and body had parted at the
seam. The thimble had dropped from the
palsied finger. The thread OF life had
snapped and let n suffering human life
drop into the grave, The spool was oil I'M.
wound. Her sepulcher was dgged not
| with sections spade, but with sharper and
| shorter implement-a needle. Federal and
Confederate dead have ornamented graves
ut Arlington Heights and Richmond and
Gettysburg, thousands by thousands, but
1t will take the archangels trumpet to find
the million graves OF the yaster army OF
women needle slain.
| Besides all the sewing done for tho house.
hold at home, there are hundreds OF thou.
| sands OF sewing women. The tragedy OF
the needle is the tragedy OF hunger and
cold and insult and home sickness and sui
| cide-nve acts.
But hear the rush Of a wheel. woman
| puts on the band and adjusts the instru
| ment, puts her foot on the treadle and be-
| gins. Before the whir and rattle pleurisies
consumptioDs, headaches, backaches,
heartaches, are routed. The needle, once
IN oppressive tyrant, becomes a cheerful
slave-roll and rumble aud roar until th,
family wardrobe Is gathered, and winter /,
defled, and summer is welcomed, and the
ardors and seventies Of the seasons are
overcome; winding the bobbing, threading
the shuttle, tucking, quilting, rufding.
cording, embroidering, undertaking set
to music; lock stitch, twisted loop stitch
| crocket stitch, o fascinating ingenuity.
No wonder that at some of the learned
Institutions, like the New Jersey State
Normal school, and Rutgers Female insti.
tute, and EImira Female college. acquaint-
ance with the sewing machine Is a requisi-
ton, a young lady not being considered
| educated until she understands 1t. Winter
is coming on, and the household must be
warmly clad. 1.-THE Last Rose OF Summer
will sound better played on a sewing ma
chine than on a piano. Roll on, 0 wheel
Of the sewing machine, until the last
shackled woman OF toll shall be emanci-
patedl Roll onl
Secondly, look into the agricultural
world to see what the wheel has accom-.
plished. Look mt the stalks OF wheat and
oats, the one bread for man, the other
bread for horses. Coat of and with q