Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-05-18

living thing. has blessed the ant hill.
In contrast with that insectile be-
havior. what Go YOU think of that
large number OF prosperous men
and women who live up 20 every dol
lar that they make, raising their
familie in luxurious habits and at
death expecting some kind friend TO
give their daughtS.s employment as
music teachers or tyTewriters or gov
eminent employees Such parents
have no right TO children. Every
reighborhood has specimens of such
improvidence. The two words that
most striG, me in the text are sum
mer" and winter" some people
have no summer an their lives. Frcm
the rocking cradle TO the still grave
il is relentless January. Invalid in
fancy followed by some Gripping &C
cident or dimness Of eyesight or dull
ness OF hearing or privation or disas-
ter or unfortunate environment make
life perpetual winter. But in most
lives there is n period OF summer. al
though it may be a short summer.
and that is the time 20 provide for
the future.
One OF the best WAYS OF insuring
the future is 20 put aside all you can
for charitable pr DIVISION. You put a
crumhbling stone in the foundation
Of your fortune II YOU do not in your
plans. regard the sufferings that you
may alleviate. You will have the
pledge OF the high heavens for your
temporal welfare when you help the
helpless, for the promise is: Blessed
is ne that considereth the poor. The
Lord will deliver him in time Of
trouble" Then there Is another way
Of providing for The future. If YOU
have $1,000 n year income. save 500;
or $4,000 a year. save $500: or $1,000.
save $1,000. Do YOU say such econ
omy is meanness2 I say 10 Is vast
or mcauncss for Won % make no pro-
vision for the future and compel
your friends or the world 70 take
care Of YOU cr yours i'm case OF be-
rcavement or calamity.
Going ont OF this world without
leaving q dollar for those who re-
main behind. II YOU have done your
best you have right 30 pat your
head in calm confidence on the pill
low which Jeremiah shook up in the
forty-niuth chapter of his prophecy.
Leave thy fatheriess children. / viii
preserve them elivc. and let thy wild
ows trust i'm me-" But IL having the
means through mortgages or houses
OF life insurance for providing for
helpless widowhood and orphanare
you make no provision for post NOR
tenn need. how dare YOU 20 and take
palace iu Heaven and le. Your wife
and children 20 90 the poorhouSe or
into a struggle for bread that makes
life horror and sometimes ends in
suicide?
But my subject reaches higher than
temporalities - foresight for the
soul. provision for eternal expert
enceS. preparation for the far be-
yond. Ant hills. speak out and teach
ms "a larger and mightier lesson Of
preparing food for the more impor-
tant part of as. DO YOU realize shat
man may be millionaire or a
Northumberland foc time and a
bankrupt for eternity. "a prince for
"A few years and a paupcr forevcr2
The ant would not be satisfied with
gathering enough food for half "a
winter or quarter OF a winter But
/ how many Of as seem content.
though not having prepared for the
| tcn-miliionth part of what will be
our existence. Put yourself in right
relations 20 tho Christ of the ages.
| through Him seek pardon for all YOU
| have ever done wrong and strength
for all YOU will be called 10 endure.
and there VIII be no force ina life
/ or death or eternity 10 discomfit
YOU 7 declare 3D.. There is enough
OF transforming and strengthening
/ power in Christ for both hemi-
/ spheres.
Furthermore. go TO the ant and
consider that IL does not decline
work because IL is insignificant. The
fragment Of seed ia hauls into its
! habitation may be so small that the
unasded eye cannot see 81. but the in
I sectiie work goes on, the carpenter
/ ant at work above ground, the ma
son ant az work underground. Some
| OF these creatures mix the leaves OF
| the fir and the catkins of the pine
for the roof or wall OF their tinv
/ abode. and others go out as hunters
I looking for food. while others in do
nestle duties stay az home. Twenty
/ speclSs OF the food they are moving
toward their granary put on a bal
/ ance would hardly make the scales
/ CULVER. All OF il work on small
scale. There is no use in our refus-
| ing 4 mission because IL Is insignif-
cant. Anything that God in His prov
7 idence puts before MS 10 do is impor-
tant. The needle has It's Office as
/ certainly a. the telescope and the