The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1901-02-16

oaty or meanness Will be for the next
eighty years if he lives 50 long If he eat
i. all himself while others look wstiullv
on, he VIII be a Shy!ock ii be give half
OF it to some one who has no apple he
will be an ordinarily generous man. Ii
| ne give threctOurthF OF It to another he
will be a Baron Hir.ch or a George Pea
| body.
| For thirty years TINS man has been praq
/, tlcing an economy which prlded itself on
| never passing a pin without picking It up,
and ii he responded at all in church
would put on the collection plate SO ins.g
ltica-t coin that he held his hand over
! 1t 50 that no one cou.d discover the small
ness OF the denomination. Somewhere IN
the ffties or sixties of his life, during q
revival Of religion. he became a Christian.
He is very much changed in most respects.
bit his all absorbing acquisitveness still
influences him TO extract from him a gift
for an orphanagc or church or a poor
woman who has just been burnt out is an
achievement.
But the day is coming for that pcnurious
Christians departure from the world. He
| has an awful struggle in giving up his
Government securities The attorney who
drew his last viii and testament saw how
hard it was for him to lAave his farm or
those that in the markets nrr called gilt
edged Those that WELD only three per
cent he ea:ily resigns to the care of his
executors. but those that Weld eight or
n ne or ten per cent, how crn We give
them up while the market is still rising
Bolstered up in bed knowing he has got
to sign it, he reads the document over and
over again, and then. with manner that
seems to say, "Well, If must | must" he
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last farthing of earthly possessions. He
enters heaven. but ae has not an abundant
entrance.
of my text, that there are those who will
when they leave this life bound into
heaven amid salutatons infinite. For an
entrance shall be administered unto yon
ahundantly" Such exaltant admission
Will await those who enter heaven after
on earth living a lie for others and with
out reference to conspcuty.
l asked the manager of an insane asy
lum in Kentucky, "From what class Of
persons do YOU get most OF your patientst'
and he said. From farmers wives" !
asked the same question Of the manager
OF an insane asvlum in Pennsylvania and
the same question OF the manager Of an
insane asylum in Massachusetts aud got
the same reply I'VE have on our rolls
for treatment more farmers wives than
persons coming from any other class"
That answer will be surprise to some
1t was no surprise to me.
Well, this man of consecrated a1lu-nce
il about to go out OF this world He feels
in brain and nerve the strain of the early
struggles by which he won his fortune,
and at sixty or seventy year. colapses un
der the eXhaustions of the twenties and
thirties of his lifetime When the morn
ing papers announce that he is gone there
IS excitement not only on the avenues
where the mansions stand. but all through
the hospitals and asy,ums and the homes
Of those who will henceforth have no
helper. But the excitement of sadness on
earth is a very tame affair compared with
the excitement of giadness in heaven. The
guardian angel of that good mans life
swept hy his diving pillow the night be
fore and on swift wing upward announced
that in few hours he would arrive, and
there is a mighty stir III heaven. lie
cameS'' c-ics seraph to seraph The
King. heralds are at tho gates to say,
Come We blessed and souls who We're
saved through the churches that good
man supported and hundreds who went
up after being by him helped in their
earthly struggle Will come down off their |
thrones and ont of their palaces and |
through the streets to hail him into the |
land which they reached some time before |
through his Christian philanthropy. Now, |
that is what | call an abundant entrance. |
on see, It Is not necessary 10 he failure |
en- earth in order to be success in heaven.
But | promise that all those who have !
lived for others and been tru;y Christian.
wh.ther on large scale or small scale, |
will have illuss'ious Introduction into the
impearled gateway. Here and there IN
lar, fan attractive
daughter who declines marriage that she
may take care OF father and mother in old |
days. This is not an abstraction. | have
known such. iou have probably known
such There are in this world womanly |
souls as big as that. They cheerfully en-
dure the whimsicalities and qucrulousness
which sometimes characterize the aged
and watch nights when pneumonia is
threatened and tire eyes to the blind and
sit in close rooms lest the septuagenarian
be chilled and count ont the right number
of drops at the right time.
After years of ilial fidelity on the part
of this self sacrificing daughter the old
folks so home Now the daughter is free
from marital alliance but the damask rose
III her cheek is faded, and the crows feet
have left their mask on the forehead, and
the gracefulness is gone out of the figure,
and the world calls her by a mean and |
God. surely Thou wilt make it mp for that
girl in heavenly reward. On all tha banks |
OF the river of life there is no castle of
emerald and carbuncle richer THAI that |
which awaits her. Its windows look right |
out upon the Kings park. and the white
horses of the chariot are beng harncssed /
to meet her at the gate, and If there are
no others to meet her father and mo.her
will be there to thank her for all she did |
for them when Their strength failed and |
the graeShoppcr became burden, and |
they will say: my daughter. how kind
you were to us even until the last How |
good it is to be together in heaven, That |
is the Kings chariot come for you. Mount |
and ride to Your everlasting home Now. |
tnat is what call an abundant entrance.
Know riqht well that in whatever sta !
ton Of life you now move. and whether I
Your intellectual faculty Ee bri!ilnt OF |
dull and your worldly resources oirieat |
or poor. you may have At the gate Of |
heaven iuhiant and Triumphant reception.
MI soldiers cannot be llaGrihaIs and |
Marlboroughs, all admirals cannot be Du- |
points and Farraguts. all authors cannot
be Bqcons and SGutheys, nelthe. can all
Christians be pau,s and Richard Cecila.
Do vour best right where you are, asking
Gods help. and you viii not only win glo
Iious admission, but you VIII make all
Your lie in heaven grandcr and higher
life
Oh. child Of God. If YOU had never