Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-06-17

| young man seeking nnanclal employ
nent. He knocks ut the door of the
world. and the call is sounded. Come
III. Want employment: What can you
| doT Oh answers the young man, Il
am Il laborer can do just wat am
told to do. no more and no less Then
as a common laborcr crawl down into
the lowest bitches of life. and l will
/ give you just Il bare 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 ini
What can you do?' Well. can do al
most anything that am told to do. but
also have one finger that thinks. I
am u skilled mechanic Go to yonder
BENCH says the world. AS you think a
little. l will pay you little more than
the man who does not think at ALL
Another young man knocks. Come in.
| What can you dog 4 can do anything
that | am told TO do, but also have
ten fingers that think. / am Il muSi-
cian.' Then. as musician. go still
higher. Sit We at ivory keys and play.
will pay thee more than the mechanic,
because thou hast ten thinking fingers
| Another young man knocks. Come in!
| What can you dog 1 can do anything
that am told To do. but can do more
than that. | can see what ought to be
done. and l am willing to do il without
any command. I have brain that
| thinks. ] have ten fingers that think
and two feet that think. I think all
over my body. All that l wish is
| chance to work. and | will work on
until l become Indispensable TO thee
An says the world i need you. Go to
work in my service and great shall be
your reward"
The Love Burden of Home.
But as Paul begins to strap the diff
ferent loads upon Il mans back, as
the Arabs of the east weight down
| their camels for the desert journey,
and yet the man grows stronger and
stronger as he bears these burdens.
see Paul lift another heavy burden and
place ii 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 children. He 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 wife and the care of chill
dren until great financial success was
theirs and they could live in Easy
street," Did they refuse to marry I'M
til they could take their brides to as
fine home as that in which the girls
fathers and mothers We're passing the
evening time of their lives: No. In
evitably they are the men who had
nothing to start with hut two stout
arms. clear brain and 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 great deal OF fun
made of President Roosevelt's denun-
| citation of those who would Shirk the
burdens of the home and not marry
when they ought to marry. hut l be-
| lieve Theodore Roosevelt is right. And
would furthermore state that one of
the great reasons why l believe our
forefathers We're men of such sterling
worth was because they not only be-
lieved in having home. but they also
believed that the greatest honor which
could come to Il man was To train up
large family Of boys and girls for
God. And did they not train well their
large families of children? When Sam
uel the prophet came to the house of
Jesse to anoint one of Jesse's 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 divines were of their children.
Only the other day was reading over
list of the families of these theolo-
gians 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 Birdscye. one OF
my own direct ancestors and one of
the most noted of Connecticut divines.
had sixteen children The great Rev.
John Sherman had twenty-six children.
Jonathan Edwards had twelve chill
dren. Lyman Beecher. who was the
father of more brains than any Amer
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