The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-01-19

blessing and riches and honor and
glory and power!"
The bigot ascends with just enough
grace to save him. AS he comes up
TO the shining gate he sees standing
inside OF IL some whom he used to
meet every Sunday morning on the
street going to some otheF church OF
some other denomination, and he
cries out: "Are you there?" l never
expected to see you in such 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 grace!" The bigot is embarrassed
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:
Il think l will have to enter on the
same terms. Saved by grace! 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 IL all himself
while others look wistfully on, he will
be a Shylock; If he give half of it to
some one who has no apple, he will be
an ordinarily generous man; IL he give
three-fourths of it TO another he will
be a Baron Hirsch or a George Pea
body. n
For 30 years this man has been prac-
ticing an economy which prided itself
on never passing pin without picking
it up, and II he responded at all in
church would put 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 the if
ties or sixties of his life, during re-
vival Of religion, he became a Chris
tian. He is very much changed in
most respects, but his all-absorbing ac-
quisitiveness still influences him. To
extract from him gift for an orphan
age or n 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 it
themselves and pray against it. We
all have our bad habits, and yet expect
to get to Heaven, and this skinflint has
his mighty temptation. The passion
of avarice we'll illustrated its strength
when in one of the houses of exhumed
Pompeii was found the skeleton of
man who was trying to escape with go
coins and a silver saucepan. For those
valuables he dared the ashes and
scoria of Vesuvius which overwhelmed
him, and many good man has been
held nightly by avarice.
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 album
dainty" Such exultant admission will
await those who enter Heaven after
on earth living 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
religiously 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 a year a poor theatrical
play was enacted in the neighboring
schoolhouse or a squawking concert in
i he town hall, and that was all the d.
Ssion afforded for the winter season.
luIhed the manager of an insane asy-
, persomentucky: From what class of
tients?" hyou get most of your pa
wives" ! ase said: From farmers
the manager of&be same question of
Pennsylvania, and~insane asylum in
of the manager of anfsame question
Massachusetts, and got the asylum in
we have on our rolls for'&e reply:
more farmers wives than bpent
coming from any other class" rps
answer will be surprise to some; /
was no surprise to me. The simple rea
son is, farmers wives as genera
thing have no diversion. II is break
fast, dinner and supper, sewing, scour
ing, scrubbing. knitting, mending
year in and year out. That mother /.
the milliner, the mantua maker. the
nurse. the doctor, the accountant O,
the whole family. She plans the ward
robe of spring, of summer, Of autumn
of winter, cutting, fitting. completing
garments. out of which the children
soon grow and must have something
else. The newspaper does not come. or,
if coming. there is no time TO read II.
No selection of good books. The neigh.
bors calling in are full of the same
grinding routine. No wonder so many
of them go into dementia!
Now, the mother Of whom speak g
living on the banks of that river in
Ohio or Alabama or Maine has gone
through all the drudgery mentioned.
and her children have turned out well.
good and useful men and women, orna-
meufs NJ snriefy r,iIfors L. a. 49,.