The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-06-13

| world, ana the call Is SOuNllCt, Como
! In. Want employment: What can yOu
| do? Oh answers the Young nan, I
am labOrer. | can 90 ju$C Whit | am
| told to do, no more and no less. Then
as common laborcr crawl down into
the lowest bitches of life and | vii!
! give you just a bar. subsistence for a
livelihood, for | have to tell YOU every
thing. You think nothing, therefore You
shall receive practically nothing for
your toll Another young man comes
| to the door and knocks. Come III,
What can you doT We'll, | can do al
l also have one finger that thinks.
am a skilled mccIlanic.' Go to ynnlcr
| BENCH says the world. AS you think Il
| little, l will pay you Il little more than
| the man who does not think at all
| Another young man knocks. Come in,
What can you do" 4 can do anything
| that l am told to do, but ! also have
ten fingers that think | am Il ln,Si-
cian.' Then, as a musician, go still
higher. Sit We at ivory keys and play.
l will pay thee more than the mechanic,
because thou hast ten thinking fingers
Another young man knocks. Come in!
What can you dor I can do anything
that am told to do, but can do more
| than that. l can see what ought to be
done, and am willing to do it without
any command. l have a brain that
thinks. l have ten fingers that think
and two feet that think. l think all
over my body. All that l wish is a
chance to work, and | will work on
until become Indispensable to thee
work in my service and great shall be
your rcward'"
The Love Burden OF Home.
But as Paul begins to strap the diff
ferent loads upon mans back, as
the Arabs Of the east weight down
their camels for the desert journey
and yet the man grows stronger AMI
stronger as he bears these burdens, |
see Paul lift another heavy burden and
place it above the top Of the physical
and the mental burdens. This last
burden Is the love burden of the home.
When Paul says, Every man shall
bear his own burden,' he also seems
to say: Every man, If possible, shall
care for his aged father and helpless
old mother. He shall care for his wife
and Oh 'ldrcn. lie shall look after his
helpless brothers and sisters. And in
caring for these domestic love burdens
he is also developing himself and in
creasing his own strength
Who are the strong men Of this town:
Who are the giants physically, men
tally, morally and spiritually? Are
they the men who grow up with the
idea that they would not take unto
themselves a wife and the care Of chill
dren until great financial success was
theirs and they could live lii Easy
street," Did they refuse to marry I'M
til they could take their brides to as
fine a~home as that in which the girls
fathers and mothers were passing the
evening time of their lives? No. In
evitably they are the men who had
nothing to start with but two stout
arms, a clear brain and u willingness
to work. Hardly had they got foot
hold in business when they married.
They married mostly on faith, hope
and charity" for they had not much
else in sight. Then came the children.
And in these young mems struggles to
provide for their little ones and to lift
the burden of domestic love they de-
veloped their strength to herculean
proportions.
There has been Il great deal Of fun
made Of President Rooscvelt's denun-
citation Of those who would shirk the
burdens Of the home and not marry
when they ought to marry, but be-
lieve Theodore Roosevelt Is right And
would furthermore state that one Of
the great reasons why I believe our
forefathers were men Of such sterlin"
worth was because they not only be
lieved In having home, but they also
believed that the greatest honor which
could come to man was to train up
a large family Of boys and girls for
God. And did they not train we'll their
large families Of children? When Sam
uel the prophet came to the house Of
Jesse to anoint one Of JeSses sons king
Of Israel the proud father presented to
the man Of God his seven strapping
boys. But Jesse was not prouder Of
his sons than some Of the noted New
England divincs were of their children
Only the other day l was reading over
list Of the families of these theolo-
CLANS who so nightly helped to make
this country what It Is today. Let me
read the list to you: Rev. Increase
Mather had ten children. Rev. Peter
Hobart had eleven children. Rev. Sam
uel Danforth had twelve children. REV.
Samuel Treat had thirteen children.
Rev Edwood Taylor had fourteen chill
dren. Rev. Nathan Rirdseye, one Of
my own direct ancestors and one of
the most noted Of Connecticut divincs,
had sixteen children. 'Fhe great Rev.
John Sherman had twcnty-six children.
Jonathan Edwards had twelve chill
,lren. Lyman Beechcr, who was the
father Of more brains than any Amer
lean who ever lived, had thirteen chill
dren. These men as we'll as their lead
ing parishioners, most Of whom were
fathers and mothers Of large families,