St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-02-02

TAMMANY PARISH
- those Of Leonidas at Thermopyla(
as that of Horatius ut the bridge, a
that of Colin Campbell at Balaklavs
Tell them what Napoleon said to hi
staff officer when that officer dc
clared a certain military attempt t
be impossible. "Impossible!" said tn
great commander. Impossible is tn
adjective of FOOLS"
Show them also that what il tru
in worldly directions il more true Il
spiritual directions. Call the roll o
prophets, apostles and martyrs an,
private Christians from the time tn
world began and ask them to mention
one man or woman greatly good O
useful who was not deprecated an,
failed and made = laughing stock
Racks and prisons and whips an,
shipwrecks and axes Of beheadmen
did their worst. yet the heroes wer'
more than conquerors. With sucl
things you will illustrate that wore
courage" and they will 60 out from
your presence to start anew and right
challenging all earth and hell to tn,
combat.
There are four or five words whicl
fitly spoken, might soothe and emanci
pate and rescue. Go to those from
whose homes Christ has taken to Him
self loved one, and try the word ere
union"-not under wintry sky, but il
everlasting springtide; not q lane
where they can be struck with disease
but where the inhabitant never says:
II am sick;" not . reunion that can b.
followed by separation, but in a place
"from which they shall 90 no more out
forever" For emaciation and sigh.
ing, immortal health. Reunion, or, IL
you like the word better, anticipation
There is nothing left for them in thi,
world. Try them with Heaven. With
. chapter from the great book open
one Of the IL gates. Give them one note
Of seraphic harp, one fash from the sea
of glass, one clatter Of the hoofs Of the
horses on which victors ride. That
word reunion, or anticipation, fitly
spoken-well, no fruit heaped up in sill
yer baskets could equal 1t. OF the 1000
kinds OF apples that have blessed the
world, not one is so mellow or so rich
or so aromatic. but we take the sugges-
tion Of the text. and compare that
word Of comfort, fifty spoken, to apples
Of gold in baskets Of silver.
There must be no impatience in the
warning we give others. We must
realize that but for the kindness of
God to NJ we would have been in the
same rapids. That man going wrong
may be struggling with tide of evil
Inherited from father and grandfather
md great-grandfather. The present
may be the accumulated
force OF generations and centuries.
No." you say, "his father was q
good man. knew him." But did you
know his grandfather7 Evil habit
IS apt to skip one generation. q fact
in the Ten Commandments,
which speak Of the third and fourth
but say nothing of the
second generation.
Or the man astray may have an un-
happy home, and that is enough to
wreck anyone. We often speak of,
men who destroy their homes, but do
lot say anything about the fact that
here are thousands Of wives in Amer
ca who by petulance and fretting and
and lack Of economy
nd all manner Of disagreeableness
rive their husbands into dissipation.
The reason that thousands OF men
pend their evenings in clubhouses
nd taverns is because they cannot
tand il at home. / know men who
re 3o-year martyrs in the fact that
hey are awfully married. That mar
iage was not made in Heaven. With
ut asking Divine guidance they en-
cred into an alliance which ought
ever to have been made. That is
that is the matter with many men
ou and I know. They may be very
rave and heroic and say nothing
bout It but all the neighbors know.
'ow. II the man going wrong has such
misfortune, be very lenient |
nd excusatory in your word Of warn
,g. The difference between you and |
I'M may be that you would have gone
own faster than he is going down II |
on had the same kind Of conjugal
Besides that, you had better be mer-
full in your word Of warning, for the
ay may come when you may need
,me one to be lenient and excusatory
, you. There may be somewhere
head OF you q temptation 50 mighty
lat unless you have sympathetic
'eatment you may go under. "Oh.
D." says some one, II am too old for
lat." How old are you? "Oh," you
y, 81 have been SO long in active
lsiness life that / am clear past the
titude Of danger" There is a man
Sing Sing penitentiary who was
,nsidered the soul of honor until he
az so years OF age, and then COM
tilted Q dishonesty that startled the
tire commercial world. / was on a
lip crossing the Atlantic. and all
ent well from the time we left Liv-
pool until within a few hours of
ew York. when, because of some de-
ct Of compass or some lack of fidel-
y on the part Of those responsible,
e Nantucket lighthouse suddenly
armed us that we were driving
raight for the rocks, and the vessel
rned in time to save the ship and
e hundreds of passengers and crew.
i'd many man has got nearly '
rough the voyage of life in safety !
d then gone into the breakers. So ,
u had better not hold your chin
o high, as though you were forever '
dependent of all moral disaster. Bet
:. in the way you pronounce your
,rd Of warning to those astray, in
cate that you yourself have weak
sses that may yet fling you down
less God help you and that you +:
alize there may be temptations 9
cad with which you will find it as
I'd to grapple rs the temptations
tn which that man is graphing. /,
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