The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1903-08-21

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"Al that l ann owe To my mother"
What says James a. Garlieldi He says
nothing but his actions speak louder
than words. We see that his first act
after having taken the oath of office rs
president of the United States was 10
lean over ami with smiling lips. under
loving eyes. Kiss the withcrcd lips of
his old mother When Garret A. Ho-
bart was about to take the oath Of Of
Gcc as president elect IN the senate
chamber | saw President McKinley's
eyes wander mp To the gallery wherein
sat the one who gave him birth. and
De bowed his reverence aud love TO his
old mother.
Henry Ward Beecher once said that
"the mothers heart is the child's school
room." 1t is more than that: it is the
very heart of the child's mental. moral
and spiritual existence. All, woman,
called mother; alb, man, called father,
do not say that your humble life in a
humble home amounts 10 naught.
When you rock the cradle. You are
rocking the centuries. Your boys, your
girls. may yet become mighty men and
women for God and for the betterment
of the world. because you are now
starting them right They may be
preaching and living the love of Christ
among the carth's sinful men long aft
or your earthly work is done and you
have gone 10 your heavenly reward.
Again. Naassou's life imprcsses me
with tie fact that the greatest of earth
ly works are accomplished hy ordinary
people. Here and there in the long list
of genealogical names which are re-
corded iu the first chapter of Matthew
There is "a prominent man. hut four
hnhs of thcm-aye. nine-tenihs of them
are names as humble as that of Naas-
sons. Thus we lind that everywhere
thc vast bulk Of the worlds work is
done by the ordinarics and not by the
cxtraorlinarics Nhyf Because there
are but few cxtraorduarie> and thou
sands upon thousands and millions up
ol millions ordinaries. Aye, see
Naassous. humble Mansions. every
where in life, They have buildcd the
pyrm'ds. they have lifted the dome Of
81. Peters aud thc Tai Mamal; they
have worked on the farms and swept
ont the stores and died in the soldiers
trench.
Rut coming near 10 the earthly end
Of Naas~ou's life ! find hy this genoa
logical account that God was keeping
Just as much account of his life as he
did that of Abraham or Jacob or B0az
or David NaaS-on foo hi~ humble ca
uaclty and doing bis Lies work well
was just as dear To- his Divine Master
as if hc bad occupied Solomon's
throne or bad built Noah's ark. In
deed. ] sometimes think if God has
any nvorltcs they are To- bc found
among the humbL workers. Abraham
Lincoln thought s0 lie once said,
God must love the common people
better than the arisiocrats because he
made so many of them" And Christs
actions when upon earth seemed TO
prove this theory. We find that he as
soc.ated for tine most part with the
poor and the humble. The greatest
earthly Joy Jesus seemed 20 have had
in human sense after days preach
ing I'm Jerusalem was 10 De able TO
leave the capital and climb mp the bill
upon which is situated the little village
of Bethany and there lodge with his
few friends I'm the home of Mary and
Martha and Lazarus. Thus. my broth
or. I'm your humble capacity, I'm your
obscure home, remember that Christ
is with you. Remember that he Is
watching You. Also remember that if
Won do Your work with his help 10 the
best Of your ability he will speak to
YOU the same words which Sir Walter
Scott chiseled upon the tombstone Of
n domestic who had served him long
and was buried I'm his family plot.
"Well done, good and faithful Serv-
ant"
II God rewarded Na0sson, he reward
cd him not for being willing TO serve
him I'm a place for which he was not
fitted. but for faithfully doing the work
which was given him to do i'm an incon-
spicuous position \ short time ago
/ President Roosevelt nominated an Of
dcor 10 the position Of brigadier gen
oral not because he had gallantly led a
charge I'm cuba during the Spanish
/ American war. but because he was
willing when asked TO do so TO stay at
home and faithfully do the organizing
work Of the day. II is not always the
man who receives the applause of men
who will ultimately receive the ap-
plausc of heaven; therefore Jet us do
the humble work of life faithfully and
earnestly which God has given to us
to do. DO it even though we may be a
Manson: do IL even though men may
iudee that work 20 be useless. The
man of one talent may receive just as
large a heavenly reward as the man Of