Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-01-05

yourself Get faith in God ana In
yourself Then your associates will get
faith in you. BY their increased labor
you will get faith In them. Then, to.
gcther with faith in each other and
faith in God, you will go forth with re-
ncwcd zeal for the seed planting and
the multtudinous harvest will surely
come. Never let your associates know
that you have lost faith in yourself
The poorest song farmer ever sung in
the time Of sowing and seed planting
is the pcssimistlc song of old, which
will destroy the enthusiasm of every
farm hand:
Thirty days hath September. April, Juno
and November:
From January UP to May It raincth
every day:
AL the rest have thirty-onc, without a
blessed ray Of sun.
And If any of them had two and thirty
They'd be Just as wet and twice as
dirty
"Wcll.' says some one else afflicted
with New Years timiditics, II not only
nave lost faith in myself and in my
associates. hut | have also lost faith
in the good deeds which try to do
for the lost and the needy. | am not
an angel / make no prctensc of being
IL perfect man, but | do try To do some
good in the world. Almost all my
good intentions have gone for naught.
| can understand the disappointment
of men who have made honest but
futile attempts TO help people, for the
moro YOU do for some people the less
those people seem TO he willing p do
Tor themselves. ] do not want to lead
Il purely selfish life. hut do not in
tend t. be blcd for nothing" The de
sire not 10 throw away our good works
is rational. When We plant seed we
certainly want to reap the harvest
There are many disCouragemcnts in
philanthroric labors The wife of IL
prominent New York millionaire once
said TO NY mother: Mrs. TalmaGc,
philanthropy with any one. When
do ii | never want any one to know
who is doing il. II $500 is necessary
to be raised and give 500, leaving it
to some one else TO give at least the
other dollar, there il no surprise. The
only surprise expressed is that did
not give the $500 instead of the 500
The moro You do for some people the
less they Try TO do for themselves"
This IS unqucstonably true, but, though
some seed sOWn in Christian pillar
thrOpy seems to be thrown away. that
does not prove that the seed planting
is not worth all the labor it costs us.
What would You think of n farmer
who should say to you, Il will not
plant Il kernel of corn unless | am pos
itivcly sure that from this kernel will
grow a stubblc of corn, or Il grain of
wheat. barley or buckwheat unless
from this very seed | shall get my
turn?' Why, you would laugh such Il
farmer to scorn. You would say to
him: You do not know the first \ !, c
of agriculture. a planter can afford
to lose thousand seeds if he can get
Il harvest from the remaining seeds he
plants Yet all through life you can
find men who estimate their successes
and failures not by the glorious re
turns they receive from a few good
seeds well planted in good ground, but
by the failure of the good seed which
has inadvertently fallen in bad soil
why Not Help Him.
Why don't you help that young man
who has Just landed in town and is
stranded? ! grant that he has been Il
Wayward boy, that his life Is not what
it ought to be, but in spite of that. WHY
don't YOU help him? You know YOU
can give him position if YOU will
"Oh,' you answer "what is tie use?
have tried TO be friend to young
mon in the past. but | am done now
with turning my business house into II
Christian mission. draw the line
sharply between business and philan-
thropy. | do my Christian work in
church, but not in my store. | run the
latter on business principles. When n
young man comes - me for work ne
has to have good Recommendations or
| will not employ him. Why, sir
have bcfriendcd four young men in
the past! | even went so far as to try
to send one of those young men through
college because he was the son of an
old chum of mine who is now dead All
four turned out badly They were I'M
gratcf dogs at that You cannot
make netting out of nothing"
life of nothinss, nothing worth
From that first nothing ere its birth
To that last nothing under earth
Yes, | grant that your good seed in
the case Of these four Young men may
have been thrown away. But would il
not be worth while to have four, five
or even ten such good seed paintings
amount to naught if only the eleventh
seed took root in some young mans
heart and saved Just one young mnn?
Would not the satisfaction you get
from having led one Young man to be
saved for Christ compensate You for
all your wasted labor upon nineteen
young men who were not saVpdr God
will not reward You according to the
success of your lahorS. but according
To the efforts You have honestly made.
whether they have succeeded or failed.
DO Your duty and leave the result to
God.
Oh missionary worker In the New
York slnlns, what is the good of your
rescue missions and your testimony
meetings night after night? You know
just rs well as know that ninc-tenths
OF all your profeSso1 converts will be
come backslidcrs That young woman