The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-05-02

| ened ana encouraged to take care o
himself
This is an age of the specialization
of talents. Instead of one man maxim.
a shoe, as in olden TINS a single cob
bier did, it now takes so ,ren tC
make the same shoe. Instead of on,
woman spinning her own thread ant
weaving her own cotton and sewing
her own gain .nts each woman con
centrateS her power of mind upon ont
distinct part of an industry. Civiliza
tion has developed its cotton mills, its
cutters, its sewers, its filters and it:
| importers and exporters, and the com
bination tends to the general advan
tage. We buy where we can buy the
cheapest, and we sell where we car
sell the dearest. All these results come
from the specialization of talent. The
realization must come that some men
can do things better than we. We in
| turn in another line of business ought
to do some things better than those
who are not proficient in our trades
A good gunsmith does not always
make a crack marksman. An expert
yacht builder cannot always be turned
into a trustworthy sea captain.
The eintelligent traveller gathers infor-
nation wherever he goes. When talk
ing with motorman upon the street
car, with the farmer in the field, with
the mechanic at his bench, with the
sailor upon the ships deck, with the
engineer in his cab, he can obtain an
swers to questions which he himself
could never solve. He can always find
a man who knows more, in at least
some special field, than he himself
knows, no matter how intelligent the
questioner might be. The servant in
the kitchen in all probability knows
how to bake bread better than her
master, even though the head of the
house may be the chief owner of the
great Pillsbury flour mills, where
thousands and tens of thousands of
bushels of grain are daily turned into
the white substance which forms the
staple of every meal. The skill of the
eminent surgeon is never lessened by
seeing carpenter handling saw, and
there never comes a time when the
man of ten talents can afford to de-
splse the lessons he may learn from
the man of one talent.
Proficiency being granted to us in
mental or manual abilities, there is
also proficiency given to us in spiritual
abilities. Certain temptations which
assan one sinner do not appeal to an
other sinner. One man may have d
lurking propensity for gambling, an
other for drink, another for licentious-
ness, another for sloth, another for
profanity, another for theft, still an
1,
liars. Parents testify that certain chill
dren in one family have a tendency
TO falsehood from their cradles; other
children born in the same family never
show disposition to prevaricate. Par
ents can often trace the lies weak
nesses of their children almost from
the time those children began to walk
and talk. They can distinguish certain
satanic characteristics as distinctly as
a stranger can tell whether a child by
the color of the skin is born from
white of black parents. Of course it is
often great deal harder to tell wheth-
er the white child has a black heart or
a black skinned child has white heart
than to tell the color of the outside
epidermal covering.
AS nearly every man is stronger in a
spiritual sense in some one way than |
his neighbor, it ought to be that strong
mans duty to use his strength to COM
for the weakness of his neigh |
bor. Bear and forbear is the teaching |
of the Bible. This is the reason Christ |
sent forth His messengers two by two. |
This is the reason we find impulsive |
Peter often walking by the side of the |
well-poised John; the gentle Mary liv-
ng in the same house with her sister,
who lost her temper in the kitchen,
spiritualized by her own sweetness of
soul that entire household. This is the
way in which we can double our loved
ones spiritual usefulness and diminish
their temptations to sin. Bear We one
lnother's burdens" has a wider and
deeper significance than most of us
have ever realized.
Members of a Christian church are
n the sight of God one spiritual fam
ly and therefore have a right to ex-
Dect help one from another. Every
mariner has claim upon
Every stout keel floating the wide seas.
The religion of the Lord Jesus Christ
,annot be hemmed in by the four walls
|
he good Samaritan teaches that we
hould love our neighbor as ourselves.
)ur neighbor is not alone the friend
Who lives next door. He is also the
tranger of foreign birth who has fall
N among the thieves on the road to
erlcho. Any traveller who is naked,
hungered, athirst, any wayfarer who
S lost upon the mountains far away
rom home, whose guide we can be, is
ur neighbor. We as Christians have
uty to foreign missions as well as to
ONE missions, to the savage living in
he jungles of Africa as well as to the
eathen in the back alley half block
way from our kitchen door, to the
7alf of the street who has fallen
sleep upon our doorstep.
But the words of the text have stiIl
mother application. Paul was adj
ressing the members of the Chris
an churches. Those churches were
tuated in Galatia. The members ;
turdy, warm hearted, but hot head
i mountaineers-had internal dis
snsions. In the course of his letter ,
e lays down the broad statement
lat each member must bear with !
lie faults and frailties of other mem
ers. They should especially do this !
ecause they were brethren and T
embers of church family of which !
cd was the Father and Jesus Christ !,
le elder brother. The bond of /;
slief in a common Saviour certainly +.
1ght to help the members of I