St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-05-23

Heaven which entities him to man
sion there when the earthly house of
flesh will no longer hold the undying
cannot know what real satisfaction
and JOY are, because only God and the
hope of Heaven can satisfy the long
ings and yearnings of the soul. Even
the infidel Ingersoll, who professed
to believe that this life ended all, as
he stood by the coffin of his dead
brother, is said to have expressed a
doubt as to his own theories, and to
have admitted that the soul probably
lived after the death of the body.
There is consciousness in every
soul that beyond this life there is an
existence which is amending. No race
or tribe of men, be they ever so saw
age and benighted, has ever been
found which has not had some sense
of an existence beyond the grave.
And no real rest or satisfaction can
come to the soul until it feels that it's
home beyond the grave has been Sc
cured. l might live in the most
beautiful palace which ever reared
its stately spires above the verdure
of the trees which stood as sturdy
sentinels all about the grassy slopes
whose velvet carpeting of green I'M
rolled until the blue of the sparkling
water fringed its edge with diamond
spray, but what satisfaction would
there be to me, what peace of mind,
what rest, if 1 knew that tomorrow
l must leave its luxurious shelter and
that I had no other place ready in
which to find refuge? The elegance
and ease of to-day would only inten-
sify the anxiety for the uncertainty
of the morrow. But if 1 knew that
the home of to-day was to be ex-
changed for the mansion on the NOR
row, peace and contentment ahd glad
anticipation would fill my soul. Man
is not ready to live in this life until
he has provided for his soul beyond
the grave. But if with Abraham he
looks ''for city which hath founda-
tions, whose Builder and Maker is
God" he is in an attitude of neart
and mind which gives life new
aspect and paints the sky of the fu-
ture with an enduring hope.
MO Flats in Heaven.-Man rears
\ his piles of brick and stone into
the clouds and families are piled in
layers one over the other in longest
ed pandemonium, but in Heaven God
builds mansions for the soul. am not
sure but that in these latter days God
is permitting man to herd himself in
great buildings with airshaft bedrooms
and lightshaft parlors and two-by-four
back yards where the children of the
great stone prison called home must
play together in mingled discomfort.
so as to make the picture of Heaven
with its mansions the brighter with
hope. The little girl who went to the
county for the first time after living
in the city's barrenness and noise
walked with reverent steps through the
fower-decked fields, she heard the
songs of the glad free birds, the breezes
from the waving trees kissed her
cheeks and cooled her brow, and with
Joy thrilling in her voice she exclaimed:
'This must be Heaven" Thank God.
mans disfguring hand will never have
anything to do with the building oper-
atoms of Heaven. No fats there!
Flats, with all their conveniences and
their elegances are doing more to de-
stroy the true sense of home and fam
lily life, and are robbing childhood
more surely of its right to proper en-
vironment and healthy conditions than
any other one thing. Flat buildings
rear their roofs until they seem some
times to almost brush the blue of the
sky, but they are not an easy stepping
stone to the mansions in Heaven.
Everyone Of these beehives of con-
gested population has well-polished
shute which is toboganning humanity
away from God and Heaven as fast as
Satan can lure them on.
HILDREN are not wanted in fiat
~ buildings, but thanks be to God.
they are wanted in Heaven! Our presi-
dent, whose sentiments in regard to
the obligation and blessing of parent
hood are so we'll known, has said that
"the willfully barren woman, like the
willfully idle man, has no place in
sane, healthy and vigorous commu-
nity!" But sane healthy and vigorous
living is stiaed in the atmosphere Of
the fiat building, and vitiated, super
fetal and emasculated social condition
comes to exist. Not child, but chill
dren, are as essential in the constitu-
tion of family and home'as are the pris-
matte colors necessary in combination
to produce the light which cheers and
warns and gladdens the earth. The
ehildless home is no home at all. God
never intended there should be such.
His command was and is increase and
multiply. It's a goddess age that dis
courages collaborating 1t is one of the
cultured lies of the Devil that the child
ought to be born with scholarship in
college and bank account, or not born
at all: 1t is hellish heresy, Matched out
of the infernal-laid egg of devouring
se1fishness. which DEGREES that one
child shall be reared alone because the
parents willfully determine that the
are not able to properly provide for
others. Children may bar one from