The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-01-03

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people are going to smash. l guess |
will get off the train and let the Limit
ed Express Of Destruction go over the
open dra bridge as 1t may"
Surprising your daughter Is sick and
you call in q physician and beg him to
cure her. That physician, having ex-
amined her, declares there is no hope
He leaves some medicine for her, but
doubts II 1t can do her any good; he
advises this course and that, but says
there Is really no hope for saving her
What would you do with such doc
tor? You would turn him out of doors
sin the twinkling Of an eye. You would
say, "1f physician has no faith In his
own medicine. l will have no faith In
him." And yet the strange fact of life
~is this: There are scores and hundreds
Of men who always keep talking about
their misfortunes. They keep ON tell
ing their employees only the dark side
of their business. After awhile their
employees and business associates lose
faith in their business prospects and
they do not work as they ought.
Take an Inventory.
What you need, 0 man. at the begin
ming of this new year Is to take big
Inventory, not Of your misfortunes. but
Of your blessings. Find out all the
bright things you know about your life
Repeat them over and over and over to
yourself. Get faith in God and IN
yourself. Then your associates will get
faith In you. By their increased labor
you will get faith In them. Then, to-
gether with faith in each other and
faith in God, you will go forth with re-
newed zeal for the seed planting and
the multitudinous harvest will surely
come. Never let your associates know
that you have lost faith in yourself.
The poorest song q farmer ever sung in
the time Of sowing and seed planting
Is the pessimistie song Of old, which
will destroy the enthusiasm of every
farm hand
Thirty days hath September. April, June
and November;
From January up to May it raincth
every day,
All the rest have thirty-one, without Il
blessed ray of sun.
And IL any of them had two ard thirty
They'd be just as wet and twice as
dirty.
"Weli,' says some one else afflicted
with New Years timidities, II not only
have lost faith In myself and in my
associates, but I have also lost faith
In the good deeds which I try to do
for the lost and the needy. / am not
an angel. make no pretense OF being
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
more you do for some people the less
those people seem to be willing to do
for themselves. do not want to lead
q purely selfish life, but do not In.
tend 10 be b1ed for nothing" The de-
sire not to throw away our good works
Is rationaI. When we plant seed we
certainly want to reap the harvest
There are many disconragements III
philanthropic labors. The wife of a
prominent New York millionaire once
said to my mother: Mrs. TaImage,
do not like to do deed Of Christian
philanthropy with any one When T.
do It never want any one to know
who Is doing It. RI $500 Is necessary
to be raised and give $49o, leaving II
to some one else to give at least tile
other dollar, there Is no surprise. The
only surprise expressed Is that | did
not give the $500 instead OF the $500
The more you do for some people the
less they. try to do for themselves .
This 10 unquestionably true, but, though
some seed sown In Christian philan.
thropy seems to be thrown away, that
does not prove that the seed pIanting
Is not worth all the labor 1t costs lis.
What would you think of d farmer
who should say to you, II will not
plant kernel Of corn unless / am pos
itiveiy sure that from this kernel will
grow q stubble OF corn, or a grain OF
wheat. barley or buckWI1eat unless
from this very seed shall get my
thirty or sixty or a hundredfoId Ne
turn I. Why, You would laugh such
farmer to scorn. You would say to-
him: You do not knew the FIRST A B G.
ct agriculture. A planter can afford
to lose Thousand seeds IL he cum get
q harvest from the remaining seeds lie
plants. z 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 pIanted In good ground, but
by the failure OF the good seed which
has inadvertently fallen III bad soil.
Why NOT Help Hins
Why don't you help that young man
who has just landed III town and Ia
4 | grant that he has been
boy, that bis life Ii not what
II ought to be, but In spite Of that, why
don't You help hina7 You know you
can give him d position, II ron will.
oh, you answer, ..what Is the use2
! have tried to be a friend to young
men IN the past, but am done now
with turning my business house into
Christian mission. draw the line
sharply between business and phiIan-
thropy. do my Christian work In
church f1f1f not In Yr1v Store rim the /