The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1902-01-10

the next time you might make worse
mistakes. Instead of being depressed
over the fact that you are being COUNT
ed out or omitted in the great UNDER
takings Of the church and the world,
rejoice that you have q right TO hang
up your helmet and sheathe your
sword and free your hands from the
gantlets and your feet from the BOOTS
of mail.
AT the soldiers home in the suburbs
Of this city ! often admire the peace
full and contented looks OF the vener-
able heroes as they sit under the trees
Or 90 in and out the fine abode that
our rovernmen. has appropriately pro-
yided for them. They are not longing
for other Chapultepecs. They do not
want to undertake another South
Mountain. Their foot does not acne.
to get into the stirrup of the cavalry
man. They are not longing 1or the
bareback of the soldiers breakfast
along the Chickahominy. They have
M desire for another ride in the am
bulance TO the field hospital. When the
Spanish war broke out they sometimes
wondered if their rheumatic knee
would allow them to keep step IN
march, and if their sight was gooo
enough to see an advancing foeman,
and # their ear was alert enough to
hear the command "Charge!" But for
the most part they are glad that there
is no more war for them. So let all OF
the aged in peace with God, through the
blessed Christ, cultivate contentment
and thank the Lord their SEDAN mas
been fought and the war is over Let
not him that girdeth on his harness
boast himself as he that putteth 1t OH.
There are old farmers who cannot
do one more days work. what mar
vests they raised in 1870! They knew
the rotation of crops as well as they
knew the rotations of the seasons. Un-
der what blistering suns they swung
the scythe and the cradle! Through
what deep SHOWS they drew the logs
or cut out their way to the foddIerlng
of the cattle! What droughts, what
freshets, what insectile invasion, they
remember To clothe and feed and
educate the household they went
| through tolls and self-sacrifices that
the world knew but little about. Rest,
aged man! Let the boys do the shovel
ing and thrashing and cutting and
sweating. You have put the harness
off, and do not try to put it on again.
Then there are aged physicians.
What tragedies of pain and accident
they have witnessed! How much suf-
fering they have assuaged! How many
brave battles they have fought with
lancet and cataclysm! How many fe-
vers they cooled! How many broken
bones they set! How many paroxysms
they quieted! How many anxious days
! they passed when they knew that hui
man lives depended upon their skill and
fidelity! They drove back death from
many a cradle. Instead OF becoming
hardened at the sight of suffering their
sympathies deepened, as with aged Dr.
Valentine Mott when, standing before
his students in clinical department and
child was about to be OPP
Grated upon in surgery, ne sad:
Gentlemen, here are surgeons
/ who will do this work as well
as / can, and you will excuse me II !
leave the room, for as get older
cannot composedly witness pain as
once l could, especially the suffering
of little children" God comfort and
bless the old doctors, al,opathic, home
opathic, hydropathic and eclectic, and
make them willing to be out OF prac-
tice! Before long they will hear the
benediction of Him who said: i was
sick, and We visited Me-"
Again, learn from Benhadad's oe.
havior the unwisdom of boasting OF
what one is going to do. Two mes
sages had he sent to the king of Is
rael, both messages full of insolence
and braggadocio. With brimming
beaker in hand he is talking with the
royal group about what he will dc
with the spoils of the victory he j:
going to achieve that afternoon. He
takes it for granted that Samaris
will surrender. He gives command
for the capture of some of the inhab
itants of Samaria who are approach
ing. saving: whether they be come
out for peace take them alive, OF
whether they be come out for war
take them alive.r But behold the flu
gitive king in frightened retreat be
fore sundown! Better not tell boast
ingly what you are going to do. Wal
until it is done. You do well to la,
our your plans, but there are SO man.
mistakes and disappointments in lif'
that you may not be able to carr.
out your plans, and there is no nee'
of invoking the worlds derision AM
caricature. Napoleon wasSso sure o