The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-08-18

of cattle ont .n western Kansas.
want sou 20 help me weather the VIA
Ter through iou. him 500 lie has
not only lost every cent OF a. Dut az
far as can make out he lied 20 me
about tle cattle lie never owned Il
horn OF hoof lie squandercd my
money u Wall street us that sot
What are you going TO do" Moth
ma" you answer What can 10 eK
cept contemptuousiy leave him alonef
Yes. you can 40 that If you VIII. But
tell me. friend. has John Newman ever
failed you beforef | grant that he was
not truthful I grant that be aid no'
DO rieht But are you going 70 let that
one ACT. that one ain blot out the Eve
hundred good deeds be bas done you
10 the past and the five hundred good
deeds be- would do for you In the
future IL you would only forgive
bin this once ami give him another
chauce1
Because a gun misses Gre once or
twice or thrice shall tho hunter throw
70 aside os useless? Yet that is the
way some Of as deal with those who
have Done us wrong Suppose you
were 90 the position Of q very dear
friend OF mine some years ago He
took q young man into bis employ aud
made him hts right hand man in the
business He confded 10 him his most
treasured secrets and purposes One
day that young man. under great
temptation betrayed my friend. lie
tried 20 start a rival business and 20
entice away an BIS clerks and steal hi'
employers agencies lie failed What
would you 60 under such condiiloust
For the one error. the one mistake
would you blind your eyes 20 many
years Of faithful scryicei Let not the
sun 20 down upon your wrath You
had q right 20 be angry tor a little
while In one sense. you had right
10 strike back But DO not bear that
grudee amy longer Forget aud for
give" Is the meaning Of the Pauline
commandment
But the danger Of hsrboring resent
ment Il not limited 10 the breaking Of
friendships, we may sufer Il to prelu
dice us against good causes Try rs
hard ar we Will, We must and DO asso
clate the success or the failure OF the
onward movements Of great principles
ana causes With the personalities Of
our friends aud neIghbors. When
Charles Stewart Psrnell was dethroned
from ne respect and affections Of bis
COLES gues the IRISH cause Of home rule
met is Waterloo Home rule was de
feated st the time when the palm Of
victory was about 10 be grssped by the
outreaching hands Of IFS advocates
When Mark Antony loved his sinful
Egyptian enchsntress more than be
loved Rome. then the mightiest war
chieftain who ever trod in the foot
steps OF Julius Caesar saw his follow
srs fee bis standards even as the birds |
Ok the forests seek the shelter OF their |
nests before the tempest blasts Of the |
OPS weeping tornado. When Mirabeau /
breathed bis last and was thought 10 /
be untrue by bis henchmen, then the /
royalsts' cause was defeated IN |
France. and the guillotlne had 10 be |
trcnched with the blood OF a Marie /
Antoinette and a Louis XVI Say |
what you may. every mau naturally /
represents o cause or q principle apart /
from his personality. When you bear /
Tudges against men you bear gIudges /
against causes When you divorce your /
affections from individuals you lose
your fidelity 10 the causes and move.
nents which those men. ia more than /
one sense. may typify
Let ME illustrate Why are you pref
udiced against the church Of the Lord
Jesus Chr!stl You are not bad You
believe IN Jesus as your Saviour You
were reared In a Christian home Some
OF the best and happiest recollections
OF your life are OF the sunday school
and Of the church OF which your moth
er was q member. Il know Il" you
answer Il never think OF the church
OF my youth but with mostened eyes
and tIcmul0us lips I would not De- the
woman am today had l not had that
past church training But about ten
years ago We had an awful church
row They say the worst rows on
earth are church rows. and believe II
The people in our church divided them
selves Int factions My husband was
a trustee They charged him with dis
honesty. and no moro honest man ever
lived than he The minister might
have stopped the difficulty. but be did
not. We left the church. We took our
letters. The resultf My husband and
I have never been inside OF 4 church
since. We are not lnhdels, however
We pray, we read the Bible. but we
simply have no use for church people"
Oh. nay sister your words are tragicei
What You have no use for the church |
n Jesus Christ merely because you are
larboring a bitterness against some
church members who did not 90 as
hey ought 10 dol 10 you mean to tell
ne that you today have divorced oil
four interests from the church Of the
Lord Jesus Christ. which has done 40
much for your spiritual life and Is DO
ns 30 much for the salvation Of the
world. merely because you do not Ike
/ few members IN IT,
When l speak 10 you thus I am not l
aiklng az random There are hundreds
md thousands Of Just such people as
ron who have turned their backs upon
he church. Gods mlghtiest agency for s
Ioins good. merely because they have
.ad an unfortunate experience with
ONE Of its members. The other day 7
vas talking 70 q noble man. He gives
way hundreds aud thousands OF dol
airs each year Within bis large mer- 1
antlle establishment he runs a school
hat his girl clerks and bis boy clerks
Tho have 10 earn a living al the time
hey should be IN the schoolroom
houid not be entirely deprived of an ,
ducatlon He gives hundreds Of dol 4