Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

laid up for a rainy day. 1t is CHASTITY
dishonesty practiced on the next gener-
alton. Such men deserve bankruptcy and
impoverishment. In almost every mans
life there comes a winter of cold misfOr-
tune. Prepare for it while you may.
Whose thermometer has not sometimes
stood below zero? What ship has never
been caught in a storm? What regiment
at the front never got into a battleG
Have at least as much foresight as the
insectile world. Examine the pantries Of
the ant hills in this April weather, and
you will find that last summers supply /
is not yet exhausted. Examine them next |
July, and you will find them being re- |
plenishPd go to the ant, thou sluggard. |
consider her ways and be wise, which, |
having no guide, Overseer or ruler, pro- |
videth her meat in the summer and gath |
ereth her food in the harvest"
This is no argument for miserliness.
Avarice and penuriousness destroy a man |
about as soon as any OF the other vices. |
We have heard of those who entered
their iron money vault for business pur-
poses and the door accidentally shut and
they were suffocated, their corpse not
discovered until the next day. But every
day and all up and down the streets Of
our cities there are men, body, mind and
soul, forever fast in. their own money
vaults. Accumulation of bonds, mort
cages and government securities and
/ town lots and big farms just for the
/ pleasure of accumulation is despicable,
| but the putting aside Of a surplus for
your self defense when your brain has
halted or your right hand has forgotten
its cunning or your old age needs man
servant or for the support of others
when you can no more be breadwinner
for your housphold-that is right, that is
beautiful, that is Christian, that is d.
vinely approved. That shows that you
have taken Solomon's ant hill for an OBJ
ject lesson.
Going out Of this world without leav-
ing a dollar for those who remain be-
hind. If you have done your best you
have a right to put your head in calm
confidence on the pillow which jeremiah
shook up in the forty-ninth chapter Of
his prophecy. leave thy fatherless chill
dTen, | will preserve them alive, and let
thy widows trust in me-" But il having
the means through mortgages or houses
or life insurance for providing for help
less widowhood and orphanage you make
no provision for post norton need, how
y
en- and let your wife and children go to
the poOrhouse or into a struggle for bread
that makes life a horror and sometimes
ends in suicidel
But my subject reaches higher than
mporalities-foresight for the soul, pro
vision for eternal experiences, prepare
ton for the far beyond. Ant hills, speak
out and teach us a larger and mightiei
, ] - Foas hn ntsf
important part Of us Do you realize
that man may be a millionaire or
multimillionaire for time and a bank
q rupt for eternity, a prince for a few
? years and a pauper forever? The an
: would not be satisfied with gathering
! enough food for half a winter or quar-
: ter of a winter. But how many of III
seem content. though not having pre-
pared for the ten-milliOnth part Of VIVA
!, will be our existence! Put yourself il
! right relations to the Christ of the ages
Il through him seek pardon for all you hav
. ever done wrong and strength for all yO
will be called to endure, and there wi
J. be no force in life or death or eternity t
= discomft you. ] declare It! There
!. enough of transforming and strengthen
= ing power in Christ for both hemisphere:
n Does Not Decline Work.
* Furthermore, go to the ant and cOnsit
Ut er that it does not decline work becau'
to it is insignificant. The fragment of see
O. il haus into its habitatiOn may be
n small that the unaided eye cannot see
~ but the insectile work goes on, the ca
ed penter ant at work above ground, Il
Sc mason ant at work under ground. Son
BIT Of these creatures mix the leaves of Il
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in roof or wall of their tiny abode, and OF
We ers so out as hunters looking for foo
while others in domestic duties stay
To- home. Twenty specks Of the food th
m are moving toward their granary put u
OF on q balance would hardly make t
on scales culver. All Of it work on sm
ay scale There is no use in our refusing
Oh mission because it is insignificant. Al
Ire thing that God in his providence pU
u.s. before us to do is important. The nee'
leT has its office as certainly as the telesco
nu and the spade as a parliamentarian scr'
You know what became of the man
OF the parable of the talents who buried
oL one talent instead of putting it to pra'
IN cal and accumulative use. His apollo
- was of no avail.
~ There is no need of our wasting ii
Sc !
nov sphere There are plenty of people to
how the big and resOunding work Of
ont church and the world. No lack Of bri
rim der generals or master builders or eI
arc neers for bridging Niagaras or tunnel
onp Rocky mountains. For every big en-
I'm. prise of the world a dozen candida
fits! What we want is private soldiers IN
ills common ranks, masOns not ashamed
III dot in
has work to be done in ordinary ways in
binary places. Right where we are IL
be- is something that God would have us
lrge Let us do it, though it may seem to b
men unimportant as the rolling of a grail
they corn into an ant hill.
ious Furthermore, go to the ant and
kind slider its indefatigableness. If by the
,loy cidental stroke of your foot or the
tiers moval of a timber the cities of the
ents sectile world are destroyed, instantly
eigh- 60 to rebuilding. They do not sit arc
rovi- mOping. At it again in a second.
trike fright Immediately gives way to
win industry. And if our schemes of us
ar in ness and our plans of work fail, VIII
lie to down in discouragement2 As large
nary. hills as have ever been constructed
Grip be constructed again. Put your tru
sight God and do your duty, and your
n or days are yet to come. You have I
ment heard such songs as you will yet
- =, nor have you ever lived in such G
-. abode as you will yet occupy, and al
anS worldly treasures you have lost are
> fT- ing compared with the opulence
you will yet own. If you love and
~, the Lord, Paul looks you in the face
In then waves his hand toward a he
-. - full of palaces and thrones, saying,
= eln are yoursr So that what you fl
I loL, get in this present life you will get
es .I coming life Go to work right ava.
al AZ, rebuild as well as you can, knowing
Ilsn what the trowels of earthly industr
H gu to rear the scepters of heavenly re
is , - will more than make up. Persistel
pool: the lesson Of every ant hill. Waste
ne moment in useless regrets or unhl
'1y u repining. Men fret themselves
n co but no man ever yet fretted himse
u g. Make the obstacles in your way 20
We ~ adjutors, as all those have who ha
mean sn complished anything worth accon
s',4,,so ment.
lIIute John Philpot Curran, master
oLiu ~ rolls in Ireland, at his first after
VI Oe court stammered and sat down i
fusion and for that stammerin
e. derisively called Suffering Jacl
= 'n- ran" and because of his failure in
-uaered at as "0rator Mum.
conquered