The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-05-27
oyTT1Na DOWN WEEDS
In the Vegetable Garden ard in the
Human Heart.

The following from the pen Rev.
G. Q. Brown, D. D., pastor the
Baptist Church at Sumter, is true
and beautiful that we WANT avery
reader Of this paper to read It'll ience
we take it from the Baptist urier
and reproduce 1t here. The { octor
says: b
| am just in from my gardkn. If
one should see me now he suld be
apt to conclude that 1 am anEponest
man, making my bread out the
sweat OF my noble brow, whish Just
at this juncture Is beeded with the
drops Of bumld exudation, common
ly looked upon as drops tnht are
honest and to be approved Of 1 have
had nothing to do with gapden for
twenty years until now. IAturned
that jnb over to my wife, "a ) duly
committed 1t to man we hay, tnown
as our maid OF all work" o,e gar
dened In deletante sort OF 10y, do
ing himself but little harm, and not
seeming to cherish much wrath
against the grass and weeds.
But am gardening this year. l
just could not help 1t. Ny study
looks down upon a plot OF ground
which ought to be rich In possibilities,
and so have been going out morn
ing by morning, while the lazy and
luxurious were asleep, to meet the
sun upon the upland lawn and brush
the dews from the hills away, :" except
that we have no hills down here.
Please conceive Of the picture with
the hills removed.
A sister good and faithful, who now
sits upon the throne where her saint
ed mother once sat in consummite
grace, sent me dozen tig bush as this
morning, and I've been out in my
garden to plant them. Having com
pletcd this task, l turned to ny musk
melon bed, which l had hoed over but
two days ago, and out Of that bed
grew this sad story. The weeds l cut
fowh TWO days ago have 'sprouted
agaiE. | must do my work over. But
musk mellon plant, which CHANGED
to cut down, has not come b9ck to its
place. How much easier it Is to kill
a musk melon plant than it Is to kill
aweed! TO get another melon vine /
shall have to SOW another seed, to get
another-weed need do nothing at all.
1t will come back Of itself.
l chopped vigorously at the n,isera-
BILE weeds for a stroke or two, until
the honest drops began to fall, and
then found myself here at my tyne.
writer. l nave been choppng weeds
all my life In the garden Of my heart,
and | can't see where I've succeeded
In eradicating many of them. Will
the task never end? Am | to spend
all my days digging at weeds? Don't
you suppose III grow weary by and
by and give it all up as an unsatisfac
tory undertaking? Is there no wav
Of cutting them down to stay for
good and for ali? think l can call
up some better deeds and ways once
had, which have by mistake CT mis-
fortune chopped down, and they d.
not now come back any more. How
like my garden is my heartl Nay be
time will come when / shall sigh for
sunset and the evening horn that calls
one in from labor. But then NAV be
also l was put here to till this ,iarden
and to chop these weeds out Of nv
life from season to season, and It was
never promised me that they should
not come back. If can be aSs red of
this my sole duty is to keep cs,f ,pinp.
| wish l knew IL others nave this
same trouble. Do you have tn chop
day by day? Do you sometimes be-
come weak and disheartenero Have
you ever turned aside from If task
for time and then found your
little garden was over gro with
weeds, and the better fruit. ere all
covered up aud dying? Il is the
experience of everybody? or | lust
poor laborer upon whom ,culiar
burden has been put that lds me
staggering along the way of life?
wonder if my Master ever sees the
sweat upon my brow?
Does he know ! am chopping2 Does
he care? l sometimes lie would come
to the garden gate and look uton me
and say, We'll done!' hoy much
more carefully / could chop the weeds!
Alas, poor souls that we are, Chop.
chop. This is all, and yet d,rc not
stop! If sometime you do nc find me
when you call, may be III lie out in
my garden choppiug weeds. Chop.
chop! chop! Just choppinr weeds.
weeds that grow in the garden OF my
heart.
Farmers Pay 1t All.