St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-01

ries of this land, confirming the faitl
of the coming expounders of an en-
| tire Bible!
| Furthermore, in that scene of tn,
text God sanctions borrowing and set
forth the Importance of returning.
do not think there would have beer
any miracle performed if the young
man had owned the ak that slipped
the helve. The young man cried out
in the hearing of the prophet: 'Alas
master, for it il borrowed" He ha6
right to borrow. There are times
when we have not only right to Dor
row, but it is duty to borrow. There
are times when we ought to lend, fol
Christ in His sermon on the Mount de.
clared: "From him that would borrow
of thee turn thou not away" 1t il
right that one borrow the means OF
getting an educa ton, as the young stu.
dent of my text borrowed the ak. Ii
is right to borrow means for the for
warding of commercial ends.
If in any assembly it were requested
that those who had never borrowed
hold up their hands, none would be
lifted, or if here and there hand were
lifted we would know that it was .
case of inveracity. Borrow! Why.
we are borrowing all the time. We
borrow from the Lord the sunlight
fhof ehnNrc "a Il q
slakes our thirst, the food that re.
freshes us three times a day, the pill
low on which we slumber. We borrow
gladness from our friends; we borrow
all elevated surroundings. The church
borrows all its beauty from the Christ
who founded it. In our songs and SER
mons We borrow from the raptures Of
Heaven.
We borrow time; we will borrow
eternity, and that constant borrowing
implies return. For what we borrow
from God we must pay back in hearty
thanks and Christian service, in inn
provement of ourselves and helpful
ness for others. For what we borrow
in the shape of protection from good
government we must pay back in pa
triotic devotion. For what we borrow
from our parents in their good exam
pie and their hard work wrought for
us in our journey from cradle to man
hood and womanhood for all the ages
to come we ought to be paying back.
Hayden, the painter, said his ruin be-
gan the day he began to borrow money,
and he wrote in his diary: "Here be-
gan debt and obligation, out of which
[ have never been and never shall be
as long as I i've" DR..
Johnson said: "Do not accustom your
self to consider debt only as an in
You will find it calam-
ity." We have a right to borrow for
the absolute necessities, expecting to
pay back again, but We ought never to
borrow for the luxuries.
In the summer watering places
north, south, east and west, in the
great hotels, serving at table and in
baggage room, are theological stu
dents who are in preparation for the
ministry, earning in July and August
The means by which they may study
he other months of the year. 1 hail
hem; I cheer them; bless them.
They will be the Herschels in the OBJ
the DR.. Motifs in your med
ella colleges, the Rufus Choa ties in your
the Bishop McIlvaines in
vour pulpits. Let them not now be
lshamed of the ak with which they
lew the beam for Elisha's seminary.
Let all those who toll for their edu-
alton remember that they are es-
'ecnlly favored, and if things so
gainst them and the ak head should
" the helve that every hinderment
nay some time turn out advantage
'usly, as the accident by the river
ordan, which seemed to finish the |
Dung students capacity to helpbuild
he new seminary, resulted in a
p1endid demonstration of the power
t Elisha's God to help anyone who
elped himself. No ak that was ever
Welded has wrought SO well as that |,
K, the handle and head of which
arted.
Notice, also, how God is superior
o every law that He has made, even
he strongest law Of nature, the law
t grayitation. The stick that Elisha
brew into the Jordan floated, but
he ak head sank. By memorable law
must go down into the depths of
he Jordan, yet without so much as
touch the hard, heavy metal sought
he surface. There it is, the floating
x head. What q rebuke to those
'ho reject miracles on the ground
hat they are contrary to nature, as
1ough the law were stronger than
ne God who made the law! Again
nd again in Bible times was that law
Witness the scene on the
anks of the same Jordan, where, in
fter time, the ak head sank and
'se. Elijah stood there, wearing
lpe of sheepskin, when there was a
lightly stir in the air and flashing
luipage descended. Elijah stepped
ito it, and on wheels of fire, drawn
? horses of fire, he rose. Fifty men
n three days searched the noun
inns to see if the body of Elijah had
1t been dropped among the rocks
I'd picked at by birds of prey, but
le search was in vain. The law of
.avitation had been defeated.
Do not feel lonely because your
,arest neighbor may be miles away,
.cause the width of the continent
ay separate you from the place
here your cradle was rocked and
'ur fathers grave was dug. Weakened
ough you may be by lions roar or
scream, God will help you,
neither at the time the forest around
u raves in the midnight hurricane !,
you suffer from something quite
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