St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-02-16

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ments Of society. pfrlars N the house
Of God, and that whole family. after
the years have passed BY and their
work is done, will meet in the Heaven
" 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 glorified and to the old
earthly neighbors who put down their
tolls a little sooner than she did, and
sheswill have the warnest kind OF home
coming. tsfst ~"
There is another kind Of spirit who
will have radiant admission to the
upper dominion. There is fact
which ought to have most emphatic
pronouncement. All over the world
to-day there are men and women Of
consecrated wealth. They are multi
plying by the day and hour-peopls
who feel themselves the Lords stew.
ards, and from their opulence they
are making distribution which
pleases the Heavens. The check
book in the Office drawer OF that
man has on it's stubs . story Of be-
neficence clear up into the sublime.
In all the round OF the worlds suf-
fering and ignorance and woe you
cannot mention one worthy object
to which that prosperous and good
man has not made contribution. He
is not irritated. as many are. by So
licitations for aims. In some poor
woman in thin shawl, holding In her
arms a child with, rheum in its eyes,
this good man sees the Christ who
said: ''Inasmuch as ye have done it
unto one Of the least of these, ye have
done it unto me-" t@
Well, this man of consecrated afflu-
ence is 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 50 or 20 years
collapses under the exhaustions OF
the twenties and thirties of his life
time. When the morning papers an
nounce that he is gone, there is ex-
citement not only on the avenues
where the mansions stand, but all
through the hospitals and asylums
end the homes of those who will
henceforth have no helper. But the
excitement of sadness on earth II .
very tame affair compared with the
excitement of gladness in Heaven.
The guardian angel Of that good
mans life swept by his dying pillow
the night before, and on swift wing
upward announced that in . few
hours he would arrive, and there il
mighty stir in Heaven He comes!"
cries seraph to seraph. The Kings
heralds are at the gate to say:
"Come, ye blessed" and souls who
were 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 OF their thrones and out
of their palaces and through the
streets to hail him :nto the land which
they reached some time before
through his Christian philanthropy.
"Why. that is the man who, when
was a-hungered, gave me bread!'
'sWhy, that is the man." says another,
"who encouraged me when was in
the hard struggle of business life!"
"Why, that is the man." says another
''who paid my rent when l had moth
ing with which to pay" why. that
is the man through whose mission
airy spirit heard the Gospel call in
Bombay" "Why, that is the man"
says another, "who helped send the
Gospel of Christ to the aborigines OF
America and caused me to exchange
the war whoop of the savage for the
song of Christian deliverance!'
s'Stand back" commands the gate
keeper of Heaven, "all We throngs re
deemed through this mans instru
mentalities! Make way for him to the
feet of the King where he will cast
his crown, and then make way FOL
him to the throne; where he shall
reign forever and ever!"1 Now, that
Is what call an abundant entrance
You see, it is not necessary to be
failure on earth in order to be sue
cess in Heaven. .9
But I promise that all those who
have lived for others and been truly
Christian, whether on q large or q
small scale, will have illustrious in
PRODUCTION into the imported gateway
Here and there in some large family
you see an attractive daughter who
| declines marriage that she may TAXI
care of father and mother In old days
This is not an abstraction. I have
| known such. You have probably
known such. There are in this worle
womanly souls as big as that. They
cheerfully endure the whimsicalitie'
and querulousness which sometime!
characterize the aged, and watcl
nights when pneumonia is threatened
and are eyes to the blind, and sit il
close rooms lest the septugenarian b.
chilled and count out the right numbe
of drops at the right time. The mothel
of a little child has her hands full, bu
the daughter who stays home to TAX
care of an aged father or mother ha
her hands just'a full.
While / thus discourse I am awar
that some have not taken the first stel
toward Heaven, and they feel like Jacol
Strawn, who took some ministers o
the gospel on the top Of his house t
show his farms, reaching in every di
rection as far as eye could see. h
was asked how many acres he owne'
and he replied 10000. "How much is
worth per. acre?" was asked, and he re
Piled: Fifty dollars at least" Then,
said the minister, "you are worth 81
600 .oo0." ."Yes,p said Strawn, land
made it all myself" Then the ministe
said:., "You have shown me these vas
earthly possessions, and now will yo'
look up yonder, (pointing to the hea,
ens)-how much do you own up there?
And Strawn answered with tears III hi
eyes: "Oh, l am afraid I am poor u
there" Alas, how many there are VIII
have acquired all earthly prosperitie
and advantages. but have no treasure
in Heaven!. They are poor up there.
But 1 am to-day chiefly addressing
those who are started for Heaven an
would have them knew that while "