Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-06-06

he could not hear them. l like the sar-
easm of Christ when he told the self
righteous Pharisees that they We're so
good they needed no help. THE whole
need not physician, but they that are
sick" or when in mirthful hyperbole
Re arraigns the hypocritical teachers of
ais day who were so particular about
little things and careless about big
things, saying, "Ye blind guides that
strain at a gnat and swallow camel"
and the Bible is all ablaze with cpl
gram, words surprisingly put and
that must have made the
audiences of Paul and Christ nudge
each other and exchange glances and
smile and then appropriate the tremen-
dous truths of the gospel. There are
some evils you can laugh down easier
han you can preach down. The ques-
ton is always being asked, Why do not
more people go to church, prayer meet
ing and other religious meetings? l
viii tell you. We of the pulpit and the
pew are so dull they cannot stand it.
But when we ask why people do not go
to church we ask misleading ques-
ton. More people so now to church
than ever in the worlds history, and
the reason is. In all our denominations
there is a new race CT ministers step
ping into the pulpits which are not the
apostles of humdrum. Sure enough.
we want in the Lords army the heavy
artillery. but we want also more men
who, like Burns, a farmer at Gettys-
burg, took n musket and went out on
his own account to do little shooting
different from the other soldiers. The
church of God is dying of the proprie
ties.
Set n Good Example.
Or is your talent an opportunity to
set q good example? One person doing
right under adverse circumstances will
accomplish more than many treatises
about what is right. The census has
never been taken of lovely old folks.
Most of US, If we have not such one
in our own house now, have in our
memory such Il saint. We went to
those old people with all our troubles.
They were perpetual evangelists, by
their soothing words, by their hopeful
ness of spirit, an ineXpressible help.
1 cannot see low heaven could make
them any lovelier than they are or
were. But there are exceptions. There
is daughter in that family whose IA
Their is impatient and the mother
querulous. The passage of many years
does not always improve the DISPOSE
ton, and there are great many dis
agreeable old folks. Some Of them for
get that they were ever young them
selves, and they become untidy in their
habits and wonder how, when their
asthma or rheumatism is so bad, other
they do. The daughter In that family
bears all the peevishness and unrea-
sonable 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 childishness
Of the young. She is no musician, and
besides there may not be a piano in
the house. She cannot skillfully swing
n croquet mallet or golf stick. Indeed,
she seems shut up to see what sEecan
do with a ladle and a broom and Il
brush and other household implements.
She is the personification of patience,
and her reward will be as long as
heaven. Indeed, much of her reward
may be given on earth. She is in q
rough college, from which she may
after awhile graduate into brightest
domesticity. She is a heroine, though
Mt present she may receive nothing but
scolding and depreciation. Her one
talent of patience under trial will dc
more good than many morocco covered
sermons on patience preached today
from the tasseled cushion of the pulpit
There is Il man In business life whose
one talent is honesty. He has not the
genius or the force to organize con
pany or plan what is called a 'cornel
iii wheat" or "a corner in stocks" Oh
"a corner" in anything. He goes tC
business at u reasonable hour and re
turns when 1t is time to lock up. He
never gave u check for $4,000 In al
his life, but he Is known on the street
and in the church and in many honora
BILE circles as an honest man. His
word Is as good as his bond. He has
for 80 years been referred to as {
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 canno
afford an outshining equipage, bu
what an example he is to the young
what an honor to his household, wha
a pillar to the church of God, what q
specimen of truth and integrity and all
roundness of character! Is there any
comparison in usefulness between that
man with the one talent of honesty and
the dashing operators of the money
market?
Genius Unnecessary.
The chief work of the people with
many talents is to excite wonderment
and to startle and electrify the world
What use is there in all that? No use
ut all. / have not so much interest In
the one man out of a million as
have in the million. Get the great
masses of the world right and it does
not make much difference about what
the exceptional people are doing. Have
all the people with the one talent en-
listed for God and Righteousness, an6
let all those with five or ten talents
migrate to the north star or the moon
and this world would get on splen
didly. The Woodworking, industrious
, classes of America are all right anG
| would give no trouble, but it is the
| genius who gives up work and on a big
salary goes around to excite dissatis
faction and embodiment, the genius
who quits work and steps ON the stage
or political platform, eats beefsteal
| and quail on toast and causes the com
mon laborers, compelled to idleness, t.
| put their hands into empty pockets an(
eat gristls and gnaw bones. The worlt
| would be nightly improved if it coult
| slough off about 5000 geniuses, fol
| hoy fIp+ nj not