The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-10-24

estimation of others is to get on bet
ter tan they do. They think your
addition is their subtraction. Five
hundred persons start for a goll of
success; one reaches it, and the other
four hundred and ninety-nine are mad.
1t would take volumes to hold the
story of the wrongs, out.ages and de-
famations that have come upon you
as result of your success. The warm
sun of prosperity brings into life
swamp full of annoying insects. On
the other hand, the unfortunate classes
have their struggles for maintenance.
10 achieve a livelihood by one who
had nothing to start with, and after
awhile for family as WELL and carry
this on until children are reared and
educated and fairly started in the
world, and to do this amid all the
rlvalries of business and the uncer-
tainty of crops and the fckeness OF
tariff legislation. with AN occasional
labor strike and here and there a
financial panic thrown in, is a mighty
thing to do, and there are hundreds
and thousands of such heroes and
heroines who live unsung and die un-
honored.
Solace of Christian Faith.
What we all need whether up or
down in life or half way between, is
the indefinite solace of the Christian
religion. And so we employ the word
Come" 1t will take all eternity to
find out the number of business men
who have been strengthened by the
promises of Cod and the people who
have been fed by the ravens when 9TH
er resources gave out, and the men
and women who, going into this battle
armed only with needle or saw or AK
or yardstick or pen or type or shovel
or shoe last, have gained victory that
made the heavens resound. With all
the resources of God promises for CIV.
cry eX1gency, no one need be left in the
lurch..
like the faith displayed years ago
in Drury Lane, London, in humble
homo when every particle of food had
given cut, and kindly soul entered
with tea and other table supplies and
found kettle on the fire ready for tea.
The benevolent lady said, "How is it
that you have the kettle ready for the
tea When you had no tea in the house?"
And the daughter of the home said:
Mother would have me put the kettle
on the fire, and when l said What is
the use of doing so when we have moth
ing in the house?' she said, My child,
God will provide; thirty years he has
already provided for me through all
my pain and helplessness, and he will
not leave me to starve at last He will
send us help though we do not yet see
how We have been waiting all day
for something to come, but until we
saw you we knew not how it was to
come" Such things the world may
call condolences, but | call them AL
mighty deliverances, and though you
do not hear Of them they are occur
ring every hour of every day and in
all parts of Christendom.
The Worlds Dismal Consolation.
What dismal work of coincidence the
world makes when it attempts to con-
dole! The plaster they spread does not
stick The broken bones under THEN
bandage do not knit. A farmer was
lost in snowstorm on prairie of the
far west. Night coming on, and after
he was almost frantic from not know
ing which way to go his sleigh struck
the run of another sleigh, and he
said, 81 will follow this rut, and it will
take me out to safety" He fastened
on until he heard the bells of the pre-
ceding horses; but, coming up, he
found that that man was also lost, and,
as the tendency of those who are con
fused in the forest or on the moors.
they were both moving in circle, and
| the runner of the one lost sleigh was
following the runner of the other lost
sleigh round and round. At last it
occurred to them to look at the north
star, which was peering through the
night, and by the direction of that star
they got home again. Those who fol-
low the advice of this world in time of
perpleXity are in a fearful round, for
1t is one bewildered soul following an
other bewildered soul, and only those
who have in such time got their eye on
the morning star of our Christian faith
can find their way out or be strong
enough to lead others with an all per-
suasive invitation.
But" says some one, you Chris
tian people keep telling us to come
yet you do not tell us how to come"
That charge shall not be true on this
occasion. Come believing! Come re-
penting! Come praying! After all that
God has been doing for six thousand
years, sometimes through patriarchs
and sometimes through prophets and
| at last through the elimination of all
the tragedies on Golgotha, can any one
think that God will not welcome your
coming? Will father at vast outlay
| construct mansion for his son and
! lay out parks white with statues and
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