The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-01-05

in this discourse DR. Talmagc shows
an open door fer any one who desires
70 be useful and illustrates how a lit
iie thing may decide ones destiny. The
text is Proverbs XIV. II (revised YER
sion), "A word ftly spoken is ike ap-
pies Of gold IN baskets Of silver"
A hligree basket loaded with fruit IS
put before us ii the text What Is or
dinarily translated pictures" ought to
be baskets Here is a silver network
basket containing ripe and golden ap-
pies, pippins or rennets. You know
how such apples glow through the
! openings Of basket Of silver network
You have seen such a basket Of fruit
on D.Sny table. Il whets the appe-
lite as well as regales the vision. Solo
mon was evidently fond OF apples. be-
cause he SO often speaks OF them.
While he writes in glowing terms Of
pomegranates and figs and grapes and
mandrakes he seems to hnd solace as
well as lusciousness in apples, calling
out for q supply Of them when he says
IN another place. Comfort me with ap-
pies" Now you see the meaning OF
my text, "A word ftly spoken is like
apples Of gold IN baskets OF silver"
You see the wise man eulogizes just
one word Plenty OF recognition has
there been for great orations. Cicero's
arraignment Of cataline, the philippics
Of Demosthenes, the five days argi-
ment Of Edmund Burke against War
rem Hastings, Edward lrving's dis
courses on the Bible, and Libraries full /
Of prolonged utterance. but my text
extols the power OF one word when 1t |
refers to "a word htly spoken"
This may mean a single word or a /
small collection Of words--something /
you can utter IN one breath, something /
that you can compact into one SEN
tenee. "A word fitly spoken"-an en-
eourasing word, kind word. a timely
word, sympathetic word, an appro-
pirate word can pass right down
the aisle Of any church and find be-
tween pulpit and front door men whose
temporal and eternal destinies have
been decided by a word.
Choosing an Occupation.
] tell you what is a great crisis in
every mans history It is the time
when he is entering an occupation or
profession. He is opposed by men in
middle life, because they do not want
any more rivals, and by some Of the
aged. because they fear being crowded
OF and their places being taken by
younger men. Hear the often severe
and unfair examinations of young law
yers by old lawyers, Of young doctors
by old doctors, Of young ministers by
old ministers. Hear some Of the old
merchants talk about the young mer-
chants. Trowels and hammers and
scales often are jealous of new trowels
and new hammers and new scales
Then It is so difhcult to get introduced
How long a time has many a physician
had his sign out before he got call
for his services. and the attorney be-
fore he got a easel Who wants to risk
the life Of his family to a young physi-
clan who got his diploma only last
spring and who may not know measles
from scarlatina, or to risk the obtain
ing OF a verdict for $4,000 to an at I
torney who only three years ago read
the first page Of Blackstone? I
The Need Of Courage.
There are so many men who have all I
the elements OF usefulness and power I
except one-courage II you can only
under God give them that you give d
them everything In Illustrating that 4
one word show them that every man y
that ever amounted to anything had r
terrific struggle. Show him what ships
Decatur had to fight, and what a noun
tain Hannibal had to climb. and what v
a lame foot Walter Scott had to walk r
on. and that the greatest poet who G
ever llved--Milton-wa blind, that s.
one Of the grandest musicians Of all the n
ages -Beethoven-was deaf. and that II
Stewart. In some respects the greatest a
merchant that America ever saw, be- q
gan In his small store. dining on bread Il
and cheese behind the counter in a 4"
snatched interregnum between custom u
ars. he opening the store and closing k
It. sweeping IL out with his own broom Al
Ind being bis own errand boy. Show o
lAAnA AnaN NANAAM ANAA AAAnuNNH WALK
here are stores. shops, and factories. 3
md homes where as brave deeds have 81
been done as those Of Leonidas al
as those Of Horatius al h
he bridge, as that Of Colin Campbell y
It Balakiava. Tell them what Napo- v
con said to his star officer when that s.
lficer declared a certain military at al
empt to be impossible. 'Impossibleln b
aid the great commander. "Impossl- 81
BE is the adjective Of fools" n
show them also that what IS true in b
worldly directions Is more true In spir- q
tual directions. Call the roll Of proph- e.
rs. apostles and martyrs and private is
christian from the time the world be- hl
san and ask them TO mention one man u
lr woman greatly good or useful who a.
vas not deprecated and failed and M
made a laughing stock Racks and d
PRISONS and whips and shipwrecks and az