The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-11-22

what an honor to his household, what
a pillar to the church of God. what a
specimen of truth and integrity and all
roundness of character! Is there any
comparison i'm usefulness between
that man with the one talent of hon
esty and the dashing operators of the
money market?
The chief work Of the people with
many talents is to excite wonderment
and TO startle and electrify the world.
What use is there in all that? No use
at all. ! have not so much interest in
the one man out of the million as /
have in the million. Get the great
masses of the world right and it does
not make much difference about what
the exceptional people are doing.
Have all the people with one talent en-
listed for God and Righteousness. and
let all those with five or ten talents mi
CRATE TO the north star or the moon.
and this world would get on splendid
/ ly. The hardworking, Industrious
classes Of America are all right and
would give no trouble, but il is the
genius who gives up work and on a
big salary goes around to excite dis
satisfaction and embodiment. the
genius who quits work and steps on
the stage or political platform, eats
beafsteak and quail on toast and
causes the common laborers, com
PEELED to idleness, to put their hands
into empty pockets and eat gristle and
gnaw bones. The world would be
nightly improved if it could slough
Off about 5000 geniuses, for there are
more than that on our planet. Then
the man or woman of one talent would
take possession of the world and rule
il in a common sense and Christian
way. There would be less TO amaze
and startle. but more TO give equipoise
TO church and state and world. $50
another one"
Among the 114,00O words of Noah
Webster's vocabulary and the thou
sands Of words since then added to our
English vocabulary there is one out
mastering word the power of which
cannot be estimated, and it reaches So
far up and so far down, and that is the
word come" 1t has drawn more peo-
pie away from the wrong and toward
the right than any word ! now think
Of. 1t has at times crowded all the
10 gates Of Heaven with fresh arriv-
ais. 1t will yet rob the path of death
of the last pedestrians. 1t will yet
chime so loudly and gladly that all the
tolling bells of sorrow will be drowned |
with the music. 1t is piled up in the |
Bibles climax and peroratiOn: "And |
the Spirit and the bride say, Come, and |
let him that heareth say, Come and let |
him that is athirst come" Have it on |
the point of your pen, have it on the
tip Of your tongue. Monosyllables are
mightier than polysyllables, and that
word "come" is the mightiest of mon
osyllables.
After the resurrection day and all |
Heaven is made up, resurrected bod
les joined to ransomed souls, and the
gates which were so long open are
shut there may be some day when
all the redeemed may pass in review
before the great white throne. If so,
| think the hosts passing before the
King will move in different divisions.
With the first division will pass the
mighty ones of earth who were a.
good and useful as they were great.
In this division will pass before the
throne all the Martin Luthers. the
John Knoxes, the Wesleys, the Rich.
ard Cecils, the Millions, the Chrysos
toms, the Herschells, the Lenoxes
the George Peabodys, the Abbot Law
rences and all the consecrated Chris.
tian men and women who were great
in literature, in law. in medicine. in
philosophy, in commerce. Their
genius never spoiled them. They
were as humble as they were gifted
or opulent. They were great on
earth, and now they are great in
Heaven. Their surprising and mag.
nficent talents were all used for the
worlds betterment. As they pass in
review before the King on the great
white throne to higher and higher
rewards it makes me think of the
parable of the talents ITO another
ten" / stand and watch the other
divisions as they go by, division after
division, until the largest of all the
divisions comes in sight. 1t is a hun
dred to one, a thousand to one, ten
thousand to one, larger than the
other divisions. 1t is made up OF
men who never did anything but sup
port their families and give whatever
OF their limited means they could
spare for the relief of poverty and
sickness and the salvation Of the
world. mothers who took good care
of children by example and precept
starting them on the road to Heaven
millions of Sabbath school teachers
who sacrificed an afternoons siesta
'or the listening class OF yo ~ i'm
women who declined the
making OF homes for themselves that
they might take care of father and
mother i'm the weaknesses Of old age,
ministers Of the Gospel who on Mig
gardly stipend preached in the back
woods, meeting houses, souls who for
long years did nothing but suffer.
vet suffered with so much cheerfuI
patience that it became a helpful les
son 10 all who heard Of IL; those who
served God faithfully all their lives
and whose rame never but once APP
peared in print and that time in the