The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-12-04

ulu drop them so Ghat morally they
were lame in both feet
THE DISTRIBUTION OF SCANDAL.
One bad habit these gadabouts, mas
culine or feminine. are sure to get. and
that is of scandal distribution. They
hear so many deleterious things about
others and see so much OF wrong be-
havior hat they are loaded UP and
loaded down with Tie faults OF others.
and they have their eyes FULL, and their
ears full. and their hands fuli, and their
mouths full of defamation. The wo-
man who is endowed Of gossip can so
easily unite her bonnet strings and sit
down TO spend the afternoon. A man
can afford o a cigar as a retainer IL
You VIII patiently hear all he has to
say abou those who cannot pay their
debts, or are about 10 fail, or are gull
~ of moral mishap. OF have aroused
suspicion Of embezzlement- All CAD
abouts are peddlers. who unpack in
your presence their large store of nux
vomica and nightshade. Such CAD
abouts have little prospect of heaevn.
IL they got there. they wou try to
create jealousy among the different
ranks Of celestials. and make trouble
among h heavenly neighbors. and
start quarrels seraphic, and would be on
perpetual rum, now down this street
and now up that. NOW in the house of
many mansions. and now in the choir
on the temple, n now in the walls.
and now in the gates, until they would
De chased down and pushed out into
the pandemonium of backbiJers and
slanderers after jeremiah had address
ed them in the words, why gaddest
thou about so much TO change thy
way?"
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.
Now, what is the practical use of the
present 6iSnn1rSa1 TttiS. yUpAvaac co
many have ruined themselves an I ruin
ed others by becoming gddabouts
among occupations, among religious
theories, among churches. among
neighborhoods; therefore. resolved,
that we will concentrate upon what is
right thought and right behavior and
waste no time in cav illations and indie
cisions and uncertainties, running
about in places where we have no bust
ress to be. Life is so short we nave no
time to play with It the sperJthrift.
F1hd gu whether the Bible is true
and whether your nature is immortal.
ard whether Christ is the divine and
only Savious, and whether you must
have him or be discounted. and wheth-
Ell there will probably ever be a more
suspicious mOment for your becoming
lis adherent. and hen make this Il
O'Clock at noon of November 25, 1900,
the most illustrious minute that ven
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your birth until The ten millioiitE cycle
CT the coming eternity, because by
complete surrender of thought and will
n affection and life to God through
Jesus Christ you b@c&me a ney Il i
new woman, a new soul. AID God the
Father, and God he Son. and C2d The
Holy Ghost, and AL angeldom, cherU-
BIN, and seraph1m, aid archangeI be-
came you allies.
Found among he papers If tle
learned Samuel Joh:son was a prayer
inscribed with tn. words, "Wher my
eye was restored to as use::" AMI It is
q great moment WHEN we get over our
reoral blindness ami eoin spiritual aye
sight. That is a nsnient from when
we may well date everything. All tie
glory of Henry Il Of France vari~hed
when in a ournamen a lance eXtin-
suiShed his eye, AID the worst disaste:
that can happen to Us is to lave the
vision of our soul put out. If you have
gone wrong so fa-, now go right. If
| the morning and noon OF your life have
been a moral defeat, nIake the evening
of your life a vlc.ory. The tat.le Of
Morengo, lost ait 3 o'clock in the after
| noon, was glorio1s,y won at 6. and n
your life and mine Il is not too late to
achieve something worthy OF al im-
mortal. Start RICH; and keep OH. DO
not spend too much time IN lacking
ship. David felt the Importance of fix
edness of purpose WLen he cried OFT,
my heart is fixed. e God, nv heart is
fixed!" In hat state you will feel the
placidity which an old friend Of mine
put into rhythm:
God holds the key of all unknown.
And 1 am glad.
If other and shoul hold the key,
Or if he trusted it to me,
I might be SAD.
I cannot read his future plan,
But this / know;
I have the smiling of his face
And all the refuge of his grace.
Enough; this covers all my want.
And so / rest:
For what I cannot ne can see.
And in his care I sure shall be
Forever blest.
Copyright. 1900, Louis Klopsch. y. 70