St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-05-18

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OF. You will core with principle set
tied, countenance frank, habits good.
soul saved, and all the inhabitants
of Heaven. from the hwest angel up
to the archangel and clear past him
to the Lord God Almighty, your Co
adjutors.
This is not the advice of misan-
thrope. There is no man in the house
to whom the world Is brighter than
it is to me. 1t is not the advice OF a
dyspeptic-my digestion is perfect;
it is not the advice of man who
cannot understand q joke or who pre-
fers a funeral; it is not the advice
of WORKOUT man, but the advice OF
a man who can see this world in all
its brightness, and, considering my
self competent in judging what is
good cheer, I tell the multitude OF
Young men that there is nothing in
worldly association SO grand and so
beautiful and so exhilarant a. in
Christian society. ~
know there is a great deal Of talk
about the self-denials Of the Chris
tan. have to tell you that where
the Christian has one self-denial the
man of the world has thousand
self-denials. The Christian is not
commanded to surrender anything
that is worth keeping. But what
does a man deny himself who de-
MES himself the religion OF Christ?
He denies himself pardon for sin,
he denies himself peace of conscience,
he denies himself the joy of the Holy
Ghost, he denies himself a comfort
able death pillow, he denies himself
the glory of Heaven. Do not talk
to me about the self-denial OF the
Christian life. Where there is one
in the Christian life there is thou
sand in the life of the world. "Her
ways are ways of pleasantness."
Again, find a great deal of re-
ligious sunshine in Christian and di-
vine explanation. To great many
people life is an inexplicable tangle.
Things turn out differently from
what was supposed. There is a use
less woman in perfect health. There
is an Industrious and consecrafed
woman a complete invalid. Explain
that. There is a bad man with $780,
600 of income. There is a good man
with $500 of income. Why is that?
There is foe of society who lives on
doing all the damage he can, to Is
wears Of age, and here is a Christian
father, faithful in every department
of life, at IS years of age taken away
by death. his family left helpless
Explain that. Oh, there is no SEN
tence that oftener drops from your
lips than this: 81 cannot understand
it, I cannot understand it."
Well, now religion comes in just al
that point with its illumination ant
its explanation. There is a business
man who has lost his entire fortune
The week before he lost his fortune
there were 90 carriages that stopped
at the door of his mansion. The
week after he lost his fortune al
the carriages YOU could count on ont
| finger. The week before financia
trouble began people all took of
their hats to him as he passed dow
the street. The week his financia
prospects were under discussion PEG
pie just touched their hats withou
anywise bending the rim. The weel
that he was pronounced insolven
people just jolted their heads a
they passed, not tipping their hat
at all, and the week the sheriff solt
hirn out all his friends were lookin.
in the store windows as they wen
down past him.
Now, while the world goes ava.
from a man while he is in financia
distress, the religion of Christ come
to him and says: "You are sick, an
your sickness is to be moral purif
cation; you are bereaved. Co
wanted in some way to take you
family to Heaven, and He must begil
somewhere, and SO He took the on
that was most beautiful and wa
most ready to CO. do not "a
that religion explains everything i
this life, but I do say it lays dow.
certain principles which are grand
consolatory. You know business me
often telegraph in cipher. The mel
chant in San Francisco telegraphs {
THE merchant in New York certai
information in cipher which no othe
man in that line of business can ur
derstand, but the merchant in Sa
Francisco has the key to the ciphel
and the merchant in New York ha
the key to the cipher, and on tina
information transmitted there ar
enterprises involving hundreds {
thousands of dollars. Now, the prov
dences of life sometimes seem to b
a senseless rigmarole, a mysteriou
cipher; but God has a key to this
cipher and the Christian q key
that cipher, and, though he ma
hardly be able to spell out the mea,
ing, he gets enough of the meanin
to understand that it is for the bes
Now, is there not sunshine in that
Is there not pleasure in that? Fa
beyond laughter, it is nearer til
fountain of tears than boistero,
demonstration. Have you never erie
for Joy? There are tears which al
eternal rapture in distillation.
There are hundreds of people WI
are walking day by day in the SUI
lime satisfaction that all is for Il
best, all things working together f
good for their soul. How a man ca
get along through this life witho'
the explanation is to me q myster
What! Is that child gone forever
Are you never to get it back?
your property gone forever? Ha'
YOU no explanation, no Christian e
PLANTATION, and yet not q maniac
But when you have the religion
Jesus Christ in your soul it explain
everything so far as it is best Il