The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-05-21

pieces of glass which had been rejected and
thrown away by his master. it Is so lar
superior to every other IN the church that,
according to tradition. the vanqulShcd art.
ist killed himself iron. mOr,ltIcdti'n.
Which means thai the finest window in the
entire edi!cc WAS made oat OF G.aSs shat to
IN inlDpreciative and unsvmpathetic eye
was good for nO.hing ard east out As sheer
refuse. The miracle Of tn" feeding ot tic
1000 lets us see among o;heC things tnat
Christ had 4 very distinct regard tor what
the disicples probably thought we're mere
odds aud ends, and at the end OF the re-
past gathered liz more than enough cr'Iists
and scraps to feed the who.c company over
AGAIN.
This accounts for .hc surprises 50 o;:en
recurring when men who have never hccn
credited with ability. either intellectual or
moral. ale accidentally pushed into places
OF responsibility and i'll that way nave a
pressure put u,on them that crowds their
latent possibilities into active powers ot ct-
feet. it has often been to me matter OF
amazcment the heavy lon! that person
with seemingly 10 draft power. viii pull
mhau once he has been c&nJht and har-
messed and properly driven. and probably
no one so much surprised as the man him.
sell. The difficulty is not IN iInding ren
that are competent to do what Is needed
bat in getting men 10 DO enough to become
themselves persuaded that they are compe'
tent.
Just as thcre are people that are so in
the habit OF thinking they are SICK that
,hey nevcl get well. and nothing less than
a fright or an earthquake viii conyuse
them into convaleScence, so society ana the
church and the State are full OF competent
incapable who are good for nothing slmp.y
because they have ne"cr coM"enced 10
imagine that they are good for almost any
thing. ard have never been so c!rcum-
stanced or have never so had responsibility
rolled upon them as to shake them ont oi
their incapacity Moses is case III point,
who. mp TO the time he was eighty, never
did anything noteworthy, so tar rs We can
.carn, eXccnt to xiii an Egyptlan-funda-
mentally the same man. OF course ihat he
WIS during the crownin@. Distinguishing
rcriod of his lifc but not having happened
during his first four score Years TO I've so
crcumstanced or to be so p!ucked t by
the pull of events as to discover that he
was not roneutity and when summoned
to action by Jehovah, pleading, of. as so
many like him have done since, by alleging
himself to be constitutionaiiy unequal to
TIE task that was set him. II YOU ask a
man TO do something who thinks himself
incompeter, and he says NO YOU nave
10 take his No The advantage the Lord
has is that He does not have to take !.
mans No., did not take Moses No:
but clung to him. stood him up and put the
load on him and tod him to 90 along with
il. and lust the weight OF the load made
him able to 90 along with it. pressure found
the limp muscles that had been waiting Tor
almost a century to be crushed into ercr-
tion. aul circumstances not made INN
great. but gave him 4 chance to be what
he and millions OF other peOD'@ are IN con-
diiion to ha when the chance CInlcs, wnen
the assassin'S bullet strikes. wien ut the
opporruue p'omcnt shove Is gwen INTO
the Pool of Bethesda.
No matter what a person Is IN native
acutencsS or i'll inward mora and CHRISTIAN
beauty, VIC give him credit Tor Only so
much as has eyternalized itself and rs mas
wrought itself into kind OF encompas-Ing
halo. and we base estimate on the square
coatcnts of the halo. You have many 4
tine secn locomotive looming out OF the
darkness with its flashing headlight. and
that lght has appeared to YOU so brilliant
in the dense night it las seemed to yuu a..
most As though the front OF the engine
were frcscocd with Il section OF the sun
and the ground ior hiadred rolls in ad-
vance OF the train whitened with almost
the briiliancy of daytime. But ii you have
had an opportunity to INSPECT that mead
light and to narrow all this illumination
down 70 its fountain source YOU have very
likely discovered there small glass lamp
furnished with wick and !lttie Kerosene
oil This is not to find fault with the light,
but only to call attention to the TACT,
which Won are likely to forget, that III es-
timating it you reckoned in the reflector
that was framed to encompass the light
and which made YOU suppose there was
creat deal more luminousness than Was act
f,ally the case. That is the way in which
our estimates generally are arrived at
original light with the circumi iacent reiiec'
tor added in--central flame p.us tho au-
reole.
Now the Lord in His estimates dis
penses with aureo.e-which IS what Scrip
lure means when it says that He iooketh
not, on the outward appearance. tie Is
never misled by rchcctcrs or by the alb
sencc OF Ietlectors. A man may have very
little virtue and yet put that virtue INTO
some snowy achievement with large sd
pcrIicial area, where"poa men get opt
their measuring rods. figure up the area.
consult The multiplication table and decide
that lie has great deal oi virtue; that IS
what | mean by computing on bass OF
aureolc, adding reflector to the little / %
scne lamp. On the other hand, person
NAV have an immense amount OF NlttEe,
hut circumstances be such that 1t never
becomes mamie ted in i way 90 arrest at
tention-a very beautiful light it may be,
hut not shining under conditions that ring
il with ha.o.
Now that was the case with the woman
in the tempe. The ha,o hunters saw
nothing hut 4 commonplace widow travel
ing past the contribution box. The Lord,
with whom nimbus does not count. saw
and ie.t what the womaa herself meant
aud WAS To Him she was the same as
though she had dropped in thousand
shekes, but not to others who were pres
ent. To-: others would have reasoned JUS. az
PEOPLE do now, and would have looked to
the size of her gift to determine III" size
OF her heart and would have conciuded
therefore that she had u two-penny heart.
Already nineteen hundred years ago shat
poor widow had been become convinced
that nobody has right to die rich
She acted on the principle when she threw
in her two mites No ore made anything
OF it but Jesus. because there was not gid.
ing enough upon her advertisement OF the
principle to make the air bright about it.
Nineteen hundred years later the same
principle that nobody has & right to DO
die rich" was announced by one quite dii-