Milford chronicle., 1905-06-09


is always working.
No Place For IdIeness.
Idleness has no place in Gods econ
Omy. Life is work; life means a con
tinual struggle for physical as well al
moral and spiritual existence. Goo
would not send the SHOWS Of winter
the drafts Of summer, the winds, the
frOsts and the hunger unless he meant
man TO work; God would not have
made helplessness during infancy and
childhood unless he meant a parent to
work God would not send sickness
and helpless old age unless he desired
all people " work during the strength
and vigOr of manhood and wOmanhOOd.
If any would not work, neither should
he eat" is the Pauline invective against
slOth. go to the ant, thou sluggard,
consider her ways and be wise" All
happiness and health, all mental, so
cial, spiritual and financial progress
depend upon persevering toll. The soon
er our growing boys and girls realize
that they must work for livelihood
/ the better it will be for them and the
! better it will be for us who are caring
J for them during the years of their de-
velopment
Unremitting toll an essential for hu-
man life. is the first lesson the ant hill
teaches us today But the ability to
make the right use of toll, TO conserve
energy so that the maximum of results
are produced from the minimum of la
Dor. to perform work so thoroughly and
intelligently that it is not useless and
has to be done over, is the second
teaching Of my text. go to the ant
thou sluggard, consider her ways and
be WISE does not allude any more to
the ceaseless activity of the ant than it !
does to her marvellous foresight, with |
which she plans out her work and ae-
cOmplishes her results.
The ant uses her brain as well as her |
mandibles or legs. She uses her eyes
TO see where she is going as well as
her feet to walk. Study the ant as an
architect or a builder. Some of us
have stood in awe before the architec-
tural wonders of the cathedrals and
the palaces of the east. We have seen
walls and columns and dOmes and
mlnarets and spires that are frozen
music In stone" We have climbed the
heights Of Milan cathedral, whose tow
ers and walls are peOpled with almost
as great numbers Of apostles and
saints and martyrs and priests carved
in solid stone as there are wOrshipers
who ever gather at one time before its
sacred shrines We have seen St Pc
ter's Of Rome connected with the won
dcrful Vatican and St Marks, more
poetic than the Venetian canals. We
have seen the marvellous conceptions Of
a Christopher Wren and the wonderful
structure at Cologne, only few years
ago dedicated after having consumed
centuries in building. These transcend
ant buildings have lifted themselves up
even as did the temple of King Solo
non. Why? Every beam, every stone,
lad its appointed place. Each part, as
1 small mite, fitted into a great united
whole. But as l stand today before a
abbey or St. Paul of !
london l emphatically assert that ,
hese structures compared to the
strength and intelligence of the build {
RS are not as wonderful as an ordina- ,
Y, everyday, commonplace ant hive we |
nay see in the country road. I
Building a Cathedral. J
To build the Cathedral of st. John {
be Divine in New York city blasting
,owder had to be used The founda- J
ions had to be excavated out of solid t
ock. True. But the ants often build '
heir hives by excavating the solid L
ock. The walls Of Canterbury cathe- '
raj must be absolutely straight. True. t
,ut no masOn's plumb line ever erected a
walls than the walls of an a
Mt hills chambers. The rooms of the G
'atican must be arranged In orderly
ashton All the chambers Of an ant S
Ill open into long corridors. Each o
pom has its connecting Railways. A a
-ell regulated cathedral must have its a
roper system of drainage. The ant s
i've is so built that it will shed all wa u
n. No rainstorm can deluge its eel t
lrs. No water overhOwing the river c
ank can destroy its foundations. The s.
ncient Romans always built their Ii
ties upon the hilltops for protection. il
he ants build their hives on high y
Iaces, where storm and water cannot e,
lbmerge them. n
The ants wisdom should be emulat- Il
! as much as her activity. The Ara Il
ans held the ants wisdom in such re- a
,ect that after the birth Of a male II
lid they would place one Of these in pl
cts in the babys hand while they ei
ade the earnest prayer, 20 God, may al
e boy turn out as clever and as wise v
the antv' The human being who bl
,es not work with intelligent fore Ii
ought is a useless and a dangerous fc
orker. Fire and steam are alike po- n,
mt, but the harm caused by impris-
led fire may be greater than the good
at is done by harnessed steam. Will a,
gness to labor will not weave togeth- y,
carpet unless intelligence has :,
a loom and a shuttle. On
he Intelligence Of the ant is startling