The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-01-17
Christian Bsnevolenos.

~ acliclng an economy which prided it.
seiI on never passing pin without
picking it up, and If he responded at
an IN church would put on the collec-
tion plate so insignificant a coin that
ne held his hand over it SO that no one
could discover the smallness of the de-
nomination. Somewhere in the fifties
or sixties of his life, during a revival
Oh religion, he became Christian. He
is very much changed in most respects,
out his all absorbing acquisitiveness
still influences him. rs extract from
MN gift for an orphanage or a
church or poor woman who has just
| peen burned out is an achievement.
You and l know very good men, their
| christian character beyond dispute, and
yet they are pronounced by all as
renurious, and they know it them
selves and pray against it. We all have
our bad habits, and yet expect to get
TO heaven. and this skinfiint has his
mighty temptation. The passion Of
avarlce we'll illustrated it's strength,
when in one of the houses OF e1huned
Pompeii was found the skeleton of
man who was trying to escape with co
coins and silver saucepan. For those
Valuables he dared the ashes and scoria
OF Vosuyius, which overwhelmed him,
and many good man has been held
nightly by ayarice. But the day is
coming for that penurious Christians
departure from the world. He has an
awful struggle in giving up his govern
ment securities. The attorney who
drew his last will and testament saw
now hard it was for him to leave his
farm or his storehouse or Investments,
especially those that in the markets
are called gilt-edged. Those that yield
only 3 per cent he easily resigns to
the care of his executors. but those
that yield or or 10 per cent, how
can he give them up while the market
is still rising?
Reward of Self Sacrifice.
But that brings me to the other
those who will, when they leave this
life, bound into heaven amid saluta-
lions infinite. "For so an entrance
shall be administered unto you abund-
antly." Such exultant admission will
await those who enter heaven after on
earth living life for others and with
out 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 reli-
giously reared. In the earlier stages Of
that family there were many priva-
tions. The mother of the household
never had any amusements. Perhaps
once in year poor theatrical play
was enacted in the neighboring school,
house or squawking concert in the
town hall, and that was all the diver
sion afforded for the winter season. 1
asked the manager of an insane asylum
in Kentucky, From what class Of per-
sons do you get most of your patients?"
and he said, From farmers wives" l
asked the same question Of the mana
ger of an insane asylum in Pennsylva-
mia, and the same question of the man
ager Of an insane asylum in Massachu-
setts, and got the same reply, 1--WE
have on our rolls for treatment more
farmers wives than persons coming
from any other class" That answer
will be surprise to some; it was no
surprise to me. The simple reason is,
farmers wives as a general thing have
no diversion. It is breakfast, dinner,
and supper, sewing, securing, scrub
bling, knitting, mending, year in and
year out. That mother is the milliner,
the mantua maker. the nurse, the doc
tor, the accountant Of the whole fam
lily. She plans the wardrobe of spring,
of summer, of autumn, of winter, cut
ting, fitting, completing garments, out
of which the children soon grow and
must have something else. The news
paper does not come, or, if coming.
there is no time to read 1t. No selec-
ton of good books. The neighbors call
ing in are full of the same grinding
routine. No wonder SO many Of them
go into dementia! Oh, the country is
beautiful to look at and a recuperative
place in which to spend summer, and if
you have the means to bring yourself
amusements or go where they are or
you can surround yourself by inspiring
social life it is good place to stay
all the year round. But, alas for the
thousands of good and noble women
who are dying by inches in it's soil
tudes!
Gladly Welcomed to Heaven.
Now, the mother of whom I speak 40