The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-12-23
COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS.

WAN 70 nCNCE d1ptWhtFAN h"PfyH
ali have our crosses to bear; aud W
all have some cross to bear all the time
AS we once heard a coed woman re
mark, 1--WE can never get to HEAVIER
until We die.
But in this ''dimple of the universe
we IRE living, right now, 10 the ante
chamber to Heaven. Barring the sins
of man and the ills that flesh is beir
tn, we are seeing and enjoying Heaven
on earth. And while yet we may, lets
count our blessings.
What beautiful, balmv days these
are! What delightful climate this is
The mean between the frigid North aDe'
the eneryating South. Where the weather
seldom gets too cold or too hot. Where
at least eighs months out of the twelve,
It il just right.
What a community this isl Where
we have elbow room and yet no isolation.
Where we have neither the congested
condition of the North and East and yet
have overcome those magnificent dis
tances which separate one farm house
from another in the far South and West.
Where we hear not the iargon of Tongues
common 10 the great cities of the country,
but where all TIE people talk with one
toronn, whore they talk and think and
look alike; where thew are enc people.
with common ancestry How good IT
is to dwell together among your own
kith and kin. in land NJ plenty.
And is this not a land of plenty?
There is no land on the face of Gods
habitahle globe which raises a more
diversified CROP than does Maurv
county. We challenge any authority
ON earth to contradict that statement.
And this crop--or these crops this
year, have yielded as never before per-
haps. For in other days there was so
much wasted that now is saved. The
turkeys and chickens and eggs: they |
grow all the wear: they are brought to
market and sold every day; their cash
ma rket value is enormous; and yet
they are but side line. RS it were. |
But these and other side lines, added
to the larger crons. pouring their profit
into the laps of the Maury county far
mer. have made hlm-not rich. ac-
cording to the. standard of today. but
comfortable and independent.
He is able to buy and to pay as he
goes. And he is buying and paying as
he goes, and thereby sharing bis pros
perity with his town brother. Ibid you
ever think bow close kin Columbia and
Maury County people are? Ply mar
rage and inter marriage, they are
great big family.)
Think of the Christmas business we
Are doing in Columbia. 1t is enormous. |
It is unprecedented. The streets are 1
the stores are crowded, every !
body is rushing, buying and selling. IT, ,
merchants expected and prepared for a +
flne trade; they brought on extra large /
stocks and employed extra clerks, but i
Vithal they are we'll nigh overrun; they !
,ever had such trade, they will tell you.
They have had larger single days, per-
laps. but the December trade as 9
Whole will far eclipse any December s
rade Columbia has ever had. Q
And, last but not least, in this ante +
hamber to Heaven in this good year Il
4 our Lord 1904, there are no grum. Z
lers. Hard Times" have been routed.
nd the chronic complainer has been n
quelched. The man who has plenty,is t.
ich; and this people have plenty. They a
OF only have money, but they haye the f
cart to part with it. They know how u
, ENJOY it. They see what they want, G
,r themselves or for one they love bet
,r than themselves, and they part with
heir money not grudgingfy, but gladly. 81
nd II the call of charity or the sight OF it
istress reaches them, they respond no. Sc
~. ST
It is good season to count our bless in
gs, and to remember from whence N
ley come.