The Delta independent., 1901-06-07


that you have = mission to execute
with that bright faculty? Do you en-
ploy 1t only in idle conundrum or low
farce or harlequinade or humiliating
banter? Quit that and swing that
| flashing scimiter which God has put in
your hand for the Staying Of sin and
the triumph OF, righteousness. Or is
your talent an opportunity to set a
good example? One person doing
right under adverse circumstances will
accomplish more than many treatises
about what Is right. The census has
never been taken of lovely old folks.
Most Of ua. II we have not such one
in our own house now. have in our
memory such q saint. We went to
those old people with all our troubles.
They were perpetual evangelists. by
their soothing words. by their hopeful
ness of spirit. and inexpressible help.
I cannot see how heaven could make
them any lovelier than they are or
were. But there are exceptions. There
LIS a daughter In that family whose
father is impatient and the mother
| querulous. The passage of many years
tion. and there are . great many dis
agreeable old folks. Some of them
forget that they were ever young
| themselves. and they become untidy in
their habits and wonder how. when
their asthma or rheumatism Is 80 bad.
other people can laugh or sing and go
on as they do. The daughter In that
family bears all Of the peevishness and
unreasonable behavior Of senility
without answering back or making
any kind Of complaint II you should
her one talent IL. she would answer
that she has NO talent at ALL Greatly
mistaken u she. Her one talent is to
forbear and treat the childishness OF the
| old ~ we'll Is she treats the childish
ness of the young. She Ii no musician.
and besides there may not be q piano
| in the house. She cannot skillfuliy
swing . croquet mAllet or golf stick.
Indeed. she seems shut up to see what
she can do with . ladle and q broom
and = brush and other household inn
plements. She is the personincation
| Of atience and her reward will be ~
long ~ heaven. Indeed. much OF her
reward may be given on earth. She Is
In . rough college. from which she
may after . while graduate into
brightest domesticity. She IL n hero
Inc. though at present she may receive
nothing but scolding and depreciation.
Her one talent of patience under trial
will do mort good than many morocco
covered sermons ON patience preached
| today from the taaseled cushion of the
pulpit ITO another one"
ne Tassss 81 nssesty.
There 10 q man in business life
whose one talent Is honesty. He has
not the genius or the force to organize
q company or plan what il called q
corner In wheat or - corner in
stocks" or - corner" In anything He
| goes to business at reasonable hour
and returns when II II time to lock mp.
Ho never gave . check for $4,000 in
ali bis life. but he is known on the
street and In the church and in many
honorable circles ~ an honest man.
His word u - good as his bond. He
has for thirty years been referred to
rs . clean. upright. Industrious. con-
sistent Christian man. Ask him how
many talents he has and he will not
claim even one He cannot make a
speech. he cannot buy q market. he
cannot afford an outshinins equipage.
but what an example he is to the
young. what an honor to his house
hold. what . pillar to the church OF
God. what q specimen OF truth and in
81. ~ Ill Av~ xSf, ~
Ix there any comparison In usefulness
between that man with the one talent
of honesty and the dashing operators
of the money market. who startle the
world FIRST with = boom" and then
with "slump." I tell you that the
one man with the one talent will live a
happier life and die = more peaceful
death and go to q better place than
his brilliant but reckless contempor-
ary. ITO another one"
The chief work Of the people with
many talents is to excite wondermsnt
and to startie and electrify the world.
What use IL there In all that! No use
at all. have not so much interest In
the one man out of million ~ I have
in the million. Get the great masses
Of the world right and II does not
make much difference about what the
exceptional people are doing. Have
all the people with the one talent en-
listed for God and Righteousness. and
let all those with ave or ten talents
migrate to the north star or the moon.
and this world would get on splemiidly.
The hard working. industrious classes
of America are all right and would
give no trouble, but II In the Eenius
VINO gives up work and on big salary
goes around to excite dissatisfaction
! and embodiment, the genius who quits
work and steps on the stage OF politi-
cal platform. eats beefsteAk and quail
on toast and causes the common labor
ers. compelled to idleness. to put their
bands into empty, pockets and eat