The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-07-04

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God help them. If He take full pos
session of your nature, then you will
go down the street benediction to
all who see you, and those who are
in the tough places of life and ere
run upon and belied and had their
homes destroyed will say: IF that
man can be happy, can be happy.
He has been through troubles as big
as mine, and he goes down the street
with face in every ineament of
which there are joy and peace and
heaven. What am groaning about?
From the same place that man got
his cheerfulness 1 can get mine. why
art thou cast down, o my soul, and
why art thou disquieted within me?
Hope thou in God, for I shall yet
praise him who is the health of my
countenance and my God"
Or is your talent an opportunity to
set good example? One person do
ing right under adverse circumstances
will accomplish more than many trea-
tises about what is right. The census
has never been taken of lovely old
folks. Most of us, if we have not such
a one in our own house now, have in
our memory such saint. We went
to those old people with all our trou-
bles. They were perpetual evangel-
lists, by their soothing words, by their
hopefulness of spirit, an inexpressible
help. ] cannot see how Heaven could
make them any lovelier than they are
or were. But there are exceptions.
There is daughter in that family
whose father is impatient and the
mother querulous. The passage of
many years does not always improve
the disposition, and there are great
many disagreeable old folks. Some of
them forget that they were young
themselves, and they become untidy
in their habits and wonder how. when
their asthma or rheumatism is so bad,
other people can laugh or sing and 60
on as they do. The daughter in that
family bears all the peevishness and
unreasonable behavior of senility
without answering back or making
any kind of complaint. If you should
ask her what her five talents are or
her one talent is, she would answer
that she has no talent at all. Greatly
mistaken is she. Her one talent is to
forbear and treat the childishness Of
the old as well as she treats the child
ishness of the young. She is no mu-
sician, and besides there may not be a
piano in the house. She cannot skill
fully swing croquet mallet or golf
stick. Indeed, she seems shut up to
see what she can do with a ladle and
a broom and a brush and other house
hold implements. She is the persona
fication of patience. and her reward
will be as long as Heaven. Indeed,
much of her reward may be given on
earth. She is in a rough college, from
which she may after awhile graduate
into brightest domesticity. She is a
heroine, though at present she may
receive nothing but scolding and de-
probation. Her one talent of pa
tience under trial will do more good
than many morocco covered sermons
on patience preached to-day from the
tasseled cushion of the pulpit.
There is man in business life whose
one talent is honesty. He has not the
genius or the force to organize a com.
pany or plan what is called CORNER
in wheat" or "a corner in stocks" or
"a corner" in anything. He goes to
business at a reasonable hour and re-
turns when it is time to lock up. He
never gave check for $4,000 in all
and in the church and in many honor
able circles as an honest man. His
word is as good as his bond. He has
for 80 years been referred to as a
clean, upright, Industrious, consistent
Christian man. Ask him how many
talents he has, and he will not claim
even one. He cannot make a speech
he cannot buy up market, he cannot
afford an outshining equipage, but
what an example he is to the young
what an honor to his household, wha,
a pillar to the church of God, what 9
specimen of truth and integrity and al
roundness of character! Is there any
comparison in usefulness between
that man with the one talent of hon
esty and the dashing operators of the
money market?
The chief work of the people with
many talents is to excite wondermeni
and to startle and electrify the world
What use is there in all that? No use
at all. l have not SO much interest il
the one man out of the million as
have in the million. Get the great
masses of the world right and it doe!
not make much difference about wha
the exceptional people are doing
Have all the people with one talent en-
listed for God and righteousness, ant
let all those with five or ten talents mi
crate to the north star or the moon
and this world would get on splendid
ly. The hardworking, industriou!
classes of America are all right ant
would give no trouble, but it is th'
genius who gives up work and on ;
big salary goes around to excite dis
| satisfaction and embr oilment, tn
genius who quits work and steps ol
the stage or political platform, eat
5eafsteak and quail on toast ant
| causes the common laborers, com