The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-31

tiful; so wen nave houses. timber or
no timber.
Farming is SO different and so much
easier now than when I was n how
There are no rooty new grounds now
even the old slumps have been taken
III, SO that u plow, in a daS s run, will
not hitch root. And great big turn
ing plows 'iraWn by two or four mules
can spin around a field and 90 the
work of Il half DOZEN of the cid time
ploWs: and one man can do the work
OF half dozen, and don't have to
follow his p;ow but sit up on a sulky
seat. with an umbrella oyer HIM to
Keep oil the sun or the shower, and
read his newspaper.
We used to run seven burrows in o
corn row and five in a cotton row.
Nov, with the improved ploWS and
sweeps, two or three at most are
enough. In 4 few years it may be
found to be cheaper to Use small EN-
sines instead of horses and mules for
ploWing; and then, going at the rate
OF ten miles an hour, a fellow with
his steam pillow can 90 all the blowing
for n neigh borhood. Yes things
have changed greatly in fifty years;
but greater changes will take place
in the next fifty, on the farm.
heard a sermon not long since
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much emphasis on that clause which
tells us that Charity lis not easily
provoked" and he went on to say that
bad tempers were destroying more
peace and producing more unhappi-
ness in the world than anything else.
He said a great many people who
think they are Christians, are not only
easily provoked, but are just as pro-
voking themselves, as the devil would
have them be: and the worst of it is,
ne said, they think they are pious
when they are only pouting, and are
growing in grace when they are hat
ing their neighbOrS, and speaking evil
OF them. In short, he went on to
say, in much of the religion of this
materialistc age there is no such in
gredient as that Charity which
"thinketh no evil and ''is not easily
provoked; but too much of that So
called charity which busys itself with
the task of getting notes out of other
peoples eyes while beams are in their
own eyes, big enough for saw logs.
Perhaps he went n little too far
in that last remark; but. it is true,
nevertheless, that human nature sees
very little that is good or praiseworthy
in the other person; but is partial to
and very liberal in praise of self
And what. in the other person, would
| be outra geous, in self is all right and
proper.
| 1t takes lots OF grace to make a
decent character out of our warped
| and twisted human nature. In oul
| iittleneSs, and peevishness and upiSh-
ness we do so many ungentlemanly
and unwomanly things-say so many
nkind and unchristian things about
others, we can but be Disguised witt
ourselves if we take but q single look
| ut our record. in the light of COM
mon sense. If the average human
being will be honest enough to take
a truthful inventory of his life. and
properly classify the acts thereof, he
will be astonished to see how ugly he
is, and of what little account he is
and has been to the world. The great
Apostle we'll said: 'If a man think
himself to be something when he Is
nothing he deceiveth himself" How
many Of us are doing that very thingl
Some one has facetiously said: III
men could buy themselves at Wha1
they are really worth. and sell them
selves at what they think they are
worth, the world would soon be filled
with mllionaires."
He is a wise man. indeed, who
knows himself. and he is a strong
man, indeed. who can control him
self. and make himself do the clear
thing at all times and under all cir
Icumstances. Peter thought he knew
/ himself when he boastingly said t.
the Master: Though all men should