The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-03-22

expected TO see you in such a glorious
place. You were all wrong in your
religious theories on earth and in
your form of church government.
How did you get in?" Saved by
grace" is the Heavenly reply. saved
by grAcel" The bigot is embarrasss
and feels for his creed and his cate
chism. and 10, they were left on the
banks Of the River Jordan as he
passed through, and he cries out:
4 think l will have to enter on the
same terms. Saved by gracel Saved
by grace!'
Again, the penurious Christian will
not have an abundant entrance. Per.
haps he was not converted until all his
habits Of tight-fstedness 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 so years. if he
lives so long. If he eat it ak himself
while others look wistfuliy on. he will
be Shylock; if he give half Of it to
some one who has no apple. be will be
an ordinarily generous man; if he give
threefourths Of il 10 another he will
be a Baron Hirsch or a George Pea
body.
For 30 years this man has been prac-
ticing an economy which prided itself
on never passing pin without picking
it up, and if he responded at all in
church would put on the collection
plate so Insignificant a coin that he
held his hand over il so that no one
could discover the smallness of the
denomination. Somewhere in the ff-
ties or sixties of his life. during a re-
vival Of religion. he became a Chris
tian. He is very much changed in
most respects. but his al.-absorbing ac-
quisitiyeness still influences him. To
extract from him gift for an orphan
age or a 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 are pronounced by
all as penurious, and they know il
themselves and pray against it. We
all have our bad habits. and yet expect
to get 10 Heaven, and this skinfiint has
his mighty temptation. The passion
Of avarice well illustrated its strength
when in one Of the houses Of eXhumed
Pompeii was found the skeleton Of
man who was trying to escape with 90
coins and silver saucepan. For those
valuables he dared the ashes and
scoria Of Vesuvius which overwhelmed
him, and many a good man has been
held nightly by ayarice.
But that brings me to the other
thought Of my text, that there are
those who will, when they leave this
life, bound into Heaven amid saluta-
tions infinite. For so an entrance
shall be administered unto you abun-
iantly." Such exultant admission will
await those who enter 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.
MI of whom have been carefully and
reared. In the earlier
stages Of that family there were many
orivations. The mother Of the house
hold never had any amusements. Per
haps once in a year a poor theatrical
play was enacted in the neighboring
OF a squawking concert in
he town hall. and that was all the d.
lersion afforded for the winter season.
asked the manager Of an insane asy-
um in Kentucky: From what class OF
persons do you get most Of your pa
ients?" and he said; From farmers
wives" / asked the same question Of
he manager of an insane asylum in
and the same question
If the manager Of an insane asylum In
Massachusetts,, and got the same reply:
we have on our rolls for treatment
more farmers wives than persons
coming from any other class" That
lnswer will be a surprise to some; it
vas no surprise 10 me. The simple rea-
on Is, farmers wives as a general
hing have no diversion. II is break
asst, dinner and supper, sewing, scour-
ng. scrubbing. knitting. mending.
-ear in and year out. That mother is
he milliner, the mantua maker. the /
iurse the doctor. the accountant Of |
he whole family. She plans the ward /
ODE Of spring. Of summer, Of autumn,
# winter, cutting, fitting. completing /
out Of which the children /
Don grow and mast have something /
Use. The newspaper does not come. or, /
( coming. there is no time TO read it.
70 selection of good books. The neigh i
,ors calling in are full Of the same /
-rinding routine. No wonder so many /
Il them 60 into demential
Now. the mother Of whom speak as
wing on the banks Of that river in /
)hio or Alabama or Maine has gone /
hrough all the drudgery mentioned. /
nd her children have turned out well. /
rood and useful men and women, orna-
nents Of society. pillars in the house /
4 God. and that whole family. after
he years have passed by and their
.ork is done. will meet in the Heaven
y country. From such a family some .
win certainly have preceded her. and
he time Of her expected arrival will be
nnounced TO all the members of that
amily already glorifed and to the cid
arthly neighbors who put down their
oils a little SOONER than she did. and
he will have the warmest kind Of home