The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-01-25
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blessing and riches and honos aud
glory aud powerl =. 81
Tho bigotIascendo Win just 5enongin
grace to save him. AS no comes UP
to the shining gate he sees standing
inside OF 1t some whom he used 10
meet every Sunday morning on the
street going to some others church Of
como other denominations, and he
cries out: Are you there q" never
expected to see you IN such glorious
place. You were all wrong in your
religious theories on earth aud In
your form Of church government.
How did you get in?" Saved by
grace Is the heavenly reply. Saved
by gracel" The bigot is embarrassed
and feels for his creed and his cate
chism, and, 10, they were left on the
banks of tho River Jordan aa he
passed through, and he cries out:
4 think will have to enter on tho
Same terms. Saved by gracel Saved
by grace! i
Again, the penurlous Christian will
not have an abundant entrance. Per-
haps he was not converted until all his
habits Of tight-fstcdncss were fixed
beyond recovery. The people who are
generous were taught to be generous
In childhood, You can tell from the
way the boy divides the apple what his
characteristics for generosity or mean
ness will be for the next 80 years, II he
lives so long. If he eat 1t NIL himself
while others look wistfully on, he will
be a Shylock; II he give half OF it to
some ono who has no apple, he will be
an ordinarily generous man; if he give
three-fourths Of it to another lie will
be q Baron Uirsch OF George Pea
body .
For 80 years this man has been pracA
ucing an economy which prided itself
on never passing pin without picking
IT up, and If he responded at all in
church would puS on the collection
plate SO insignificant coin that he
held his hand over it so that no one
could discover the smallness of the
denomination. Somewhere in tho A.
tics or sixties Of his life, during re-
vival OF religion, ho became Chris
tian. He is very much changed in
most respects but his all-absorbing ac
quisihyeness still influences him. 10
extract from MIN gift for an orphan
age or church or poor woman who
has just been burned out is an achieve
ment. You and know very good men,
their Christian character beyond dis
Pute, and yet they arc pronounced BY
all as Penurioua, and they know 1t
themselves and pray against It, We
all have our bad habits, and yet expect
to get to Heaven, and this skinfiint has
his mighty temptation. Tho passion
Of avarioe we'll illustrated its strength
whom in one Of the houses Of exhumed
Pompeii was found tho skeleton of a
man who was trying to escape with go
coins and silver saucepan. For those
yaluables he dared tho ashes and
scoria Of Vesuvius which overwh elmed
him, and many good man has been
held nightly by avarice.
But that brings me TO the other
thought Of my text, that there arc
those who will, when they leave this
life, bound into Heaven amid saluta-
tlons infinite For so an entrance
shall be administered un.o you abun-
dainty Such eXultant adm ssion will
await those who eRter Heaven after
on earth living a life for others and
without reference to conspicuity. On
the banks OF the Ohio or the Tuscaloosa
or the Androscoggin Is large family,
all OF whom have been carefully and
rcligiously reared. In the earlier
stages Of that family there were many
privations. The mother of the house
hold never had any amusements. Per-
haps once in year poor theatrical
play was enacted in the neighboring
schoolhouse or a squaw!,iug conccrt in
tho town hall, and that was all the d.
version afforded for the winter season.
asked the manager OF an insane nsy-
lum in Kentucky: From what class Of
persons do you get most Of your pa
tients?" and he said: From farmers
wivos." I asked the same question OF
the manager Of an insane asylum in
Pennsylvania, and the same question
OF tho manager Of an insane asylum In
Massachusetts,, and got the same reply:
"We havo OH our rolls for treatment
moro farmers wives than persons
coming from any other class" That
answer will be surprise to some; 1t
was no surprise to me. The simple rea-
son Is, farmers wives az general
thing have no diversion. It is break
fast, dinner and supper, sewing, scour-
ing, sorubbing, knitting, mending,
year in and year out. That mother 10
tho milliner, the mantua maker, tho
nurse, the Doctor, the accountant Of
tho whole family. She plans the ward
robo Of spring. Of summer, Of autumn,
Of wintor, cutting. fitting, completing
garments. out Of which the children
soon grow and mist have something
else. Tho newspaper does lot come, or,
II coming, there is no time to read IT..
No selection of good books. The neigh
bors calling In are full Of the same
grinding routine. No wonder SO many
OF them 10 into dementiai
Now, the mother Of whom speak as
living on the banks Of that river in
Ohio or Alabama or Maine has gone
through all the drudgcry mentioned,
and her children have turned out we'll,
good and useful men and women, orna-
ments Of society, pillars in the house
OF God, and that whole family, after
the years have passed by and their
work is done, will meet in the Heaven
ly country. From such family some
will certainly have preceded her, and
the time Of her expected arrival will be
announced to all the members Of that
family already glorifled and to the old
earthly neighbors who put down their
tolls a little sooner than she did, and
she will have the warmest kind Of home
coming.
There 10 another kind OF spirit who
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