The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-11-29

disease and now another? That moth
er watching at home as much pleases
the Lord as the mother who at church
takes the sacrament or in the mission
school tells the waits Of the street how
they may become sons and daughters
Of the Lord Almighty. That mother
at home is deciding the destiny of the
state by the way she leads that boy
into right thinking and acting and is
deciding the welfare of some future
home by the example she is setting
that girl, and though the world does
not appreciate the unobserved work
heaven watches and rewards. On the
other hand, you have known women
who are off at meetings humanitarian
and philanthropic, planning for the
destitute and the outcast, while their
own children went unwashed and un-
kempt, their garments needing repairs.
their manners impudent and them
selves general nuisance to the COM
munity in which they live.
The Dlstrlbution of Scandal.
One bad habit these gadabouts, mas
culine or feminine, ore sure to get,
and that is of scandal distribution.
They hear so many deleterious things
about others and see SO much Of
wrong behavior that they are
loaded up and loaded down
with the faults Of others, and
they have their eyes full, and their
ears full, and their hands full, and
their mouths full of defamation. The
woman who is endowed of gossip can
so easily unite her bonnet strings and
sit down to spend the afternoon. A
man can afford you cigar as re-
tainer If you will patiently hear all he
has to say about those who cannot pay
their debts, or are about to fail, or are
guilty of moral mishap, or have
aroused suspicion of embezzlement.
AL! gadabouts are peddlers, who I'M
pack in your presence their large store
of nux vomica and nightshade. Such
gadabouts have little prospect of hea-
ven. If they got there, they would try
to create jealousy among the different
ranks Of celestials, and make trouble
among the heavenly neighbors, and
start quarrels seraphic, and would be
on perpetual run, now down this
street and now up that, now in the
the choir of the temple, and now on
the walls and now in the gates, until
they would be chased down and push
ed out into the pandemonium of back
biters and slanderers after jeremiah
had addressed 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 discourse? This: Where
as, so many have ruined themselves
and ruined others by becoming CAD
abouts among occupations, among re-
ligious theories, among churches,
among neighborhoods; therefore, re-
solved that we will concentrate upon
what is right thought and right be-
havior and waste no time in vacilla-
lions and indecisions and uncertain
ties, running about in places where we
have no business to be. Life is SO
short we have no time to play with it
the spendthrift. Find out whether the
Bible is true and whether your nature
is immortal, and whether Christ is
the divine and only Savior, and
whether you must have him or be dis
comfited. and whether there will
probably eyer be a more suspicious
moment for your becoming his adher-
ent, and then make this IL o'clock at
noon of November 25, 1900, the mos,
illustrious minute that you will ever
have passed since the day OF your
birth until the ten mtllionth cycle OF
the coming eternity, because by com
plete surrender Of thought and will
and affection and life to God through
Jesus Christ you became new man, 8
new woman, a new soul. and God the
Father, and God the Son, and God the
Holy Ghost, and all angeldom. cheru.
BIN and seraphim, and archangel be-
came your allies.