Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-05-02

ture. lf you have Sl,OOO q year III
come, save 500; or $1,000 year, save
$500; or $4,000, save $1,000. Do you
say such economy is meanness? | say
1t is a vaster meannesS for you to
make no provision for the future and
compel your friends or the world to
take care of you or yours in case Of
bereavement or calamity.
There are women who at the first in
crease of their husbands resources
wreck all on an extravaganza wardrobe.
There are men who at the prospect of
larger prosperity build houses they
will never be able to pay for. There
are people with $4,000 year income
who have not one dollar laid up for a
rainy day. 1t is a CHASTITY dishonesty
practiced on the next generation. Such
men deserve bankruptcy and impover-
ishment. In almost every mans life
there comes winter of cold misfortune.
Prepare for 1t while you may. Whose
thermometer has not sometimes stood
below zero? What ship has never been
caught in a storm? What regiment at
the front never got into battle? Have
at least as much foresight as the insec-
tile world. Examine the pantries Of
the ant hills in this April weather, and
you will find that last summers sup
ply is not yet exhausted. Examine
them next July, and you will find
them being replenished. go to the
ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways
and be wise, which, having no guide,
overseer or ruler, provideth her meat
in the summer and gathereth her food
In the harvest"
Avoid Avarfce.
This is no argument for miserliness.
Avarice and pcnuriousness destroy a
man about as soon as any Of the other
vices. We have heard of those who
entered their iron money vault for
business purposes, and the door acct
dentally shut, and they were suffocat-
cd, their corpse not discovered until the
next day. But every day and all up
and down the streets of our cities there
are men, body, mind and soul, forever
fast in their own money vaults. Ac-
emulation of bonds, mortgages and
government securities and town lots
and big farms just for the pleasure of
accumulation is despicable, but the put
ting aside of a surplus for your self de-
Tense when your brain has halted, or
your right hand has forgotten its cum
ming, or your old age needs manserv-
ant, or for the support of others when
you can no more be q breadwinner for
your household-that is right, that is
beautiful, that is Christian, that Is d.
vinely approved. That shows that you
have taken Solomon's ant hill for an OBJ
ject lesson. Going out of this world
without leaving a dollar for those who
remain behind, If you have done your
best, you have right to put your head
In calm confidence on the pillow which
jeremiah shook up in the forty-ninth
chapter of his prophecy, Leave thy
fatherless children. / will preserve
them alive, and let thy widows trust in
me-" But II, having the means, through
mortgages or houses or life insurance
for providing for helpless widowhood
and orphanage you make no provision
for post norton need, how dare you 60
up and take palace in heaven and let
your wife and children go to the poor
house or into struggle for bread that
makes life horror and sometimes ends
in suicide?
But my subject reaches higher than
poralities-foresight for the soul,
provision for eternal experiences, prep
aration for the far beyond. Ant hills,
speak out and teach us a larger and
mightier lesson of preparing food for
the more important part of us! Do
you realize that a man may be a mil
lionaire or a multimillionaire for time
and a bankrupt for eternity, prince
for a few years and pauper forever
The ant would not be satisfied with
ter or quarter of a winter. But how
many of us seem content, though not
having prepared for the ten-millionth
part of what will be our existence!
Put yourself In right relations to the
Christ of the ages, through him seek
pardon for all you have ever done
wrong and strength for all you will be
called to endure, and there will be no
force in life or death or eternity to dis
comfit you. I declare It! There is
enough of transforming and strength
ening power in Christ for both hemi.
spheres! .=."..
Importance of Little Things.
Furthermore, go to the ant and con
slider that 1t does not decline work be
cause it Is insignificant. The fragment
of seed it hauls into it's habitation may
be so small that the unaided eye cannot
see 1T, but the insectile work goes on
the carpenter ant at work aboveground
the mason ant at work underground
Some of these creatures mix the leaves
of the fir and the catkins of the pine
for the roof or wall of their tiny abode
and others go out as hunters looking
for food, while others in domestic drs
ties stay at home. Twenty specks Of
the food they are moving toward theil
granary, put upon a balance, would
hardly make the scales CULVER. All OF
1t work on q small scale There Is ne
use in our refusing a mission because
1T is Insignificant. Anything that Goo
in his providence puts before us to de-
is important. The needle has its Office
as certainly as the telescope and the
spade as parliamentarian scroll. You
know what became of the man in the
parable of the talents, who buried the
one talent instead of putting 1t to prac
teal and accumulative use. His apol
ogy was of no avail.
There is no need of our wasting tim,
and energy in longing for some Other
sphere. There are plenty of people t.
do the big and resounding work of tn,
church and the world. No lack Of
brigadier generals or master builder.
or engineers for bridging Niagaras o.
tunneling Rocky mountains. For ever.
big enterprise of the world a dozeI
candidates. What we want is privat,
soldiers in the common ranks, mason
not ashamed to WELD a trowel, candi
dates for ordinary work to be done IL
ordinary ways in ordinary places. RICH
where we are there Is something tina
God would have us do. Let us do 1t
though it NAV seem to be as unimpor