Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-06-08


STUDY hard, Sunlightr' answers the
miner. These boys OF mine do not 60
to school. They are earning their liv-
ing the same as 1 am. We have
large family In this hut and all who
can must go out and help to earn
the food they eat, the clothing they
wear and help pay the house rent"
what! DO these boys work for live
lihood? Why, one of them Is SO small
his dinner pail almost touches tho
ground as he carries 1t alongr' Eyes,
they work. All boys I'm miners huts
are compelled to work for their living"
l go into the breaker, and there / find
hundreds OF little boys all crouched up.
picking out the good coal as it passes
along by their side. The air is I'M
healthy. 1t IS laying the foundations
OF the miners asthma" The hours
are long and tiresome The "breaker
boys" who should now be at school
ard who would make fine men IL it
We're not for the money question, are
being stunted in their growth. All, the
pity Of 1t! Do you not see how the
food question, the clothing question,
the house rent question, can be an ac-
cursed bulwark against physical, men,
tai, moral and spiritual development?
The Real Money Question.
How often have we heard this state
ment made by men and women: "Oh.
how 1 wish this daily bread question
were not holding me in its wise. know
!, am growing to lovk like my type
writer, or my yardstick, or my kitchen
stove or my sewing table. How I
would love to travel and see the won
Gers of the world. How 1 would love
to make the great thoughts OF the great
books speak to me. How 1 would love
to develop my painting talent or my
musical talent or my natural history
talent. But just as i was about to en-
ter college father died. Mother was
left penniless. Then 1 had to 60 10
work to become a mere bread earning,
clothing earning and house rent earn
ing machine" Grasp you not the SYM
boil? With the cupboard and wardrobe
and house renting question anxieties
eliminated from your life, do you not
see how in Christ you can grow and
grow and expand and come to the full
physical and mental and spiritual and
tended you?
Let us bring this lesson q little near
er home. For thirty years you have
consecrated your life to money making.
At first you said you had to do it to
make living. Now you do it because
your mercenary habits have the mas
terry of you. You save every penny you
can. You are miser Your face shows
it Your mind, your body, your whole
life Is warped. You cannot enjoy pic
ture gallery. Music is TO you a perfect
bore. The only columns you love TO
read are the stock market columns.
You are mere money making ma
chine. Now, compare your developed
life to that OF a man like Dwight L.
Moody. He had all the capabilities
OF financial success. He had them I'm
greater measure than you had. But
one day he turned his back upon the
store aud went and knelt in his bed
room and said; Lord, give my life
UP to thee. I shall follow thee and thee
alone. Thy will is to be my will" Was
he not developed? Was he not deveI-
oped in better way than by cringing
before the shrines OF Midas golden
image?
True DEVELOPMENT.
Twist the kaleidoscope little. You
are woman, society queen You
have travelled abroad. The finest books
OF the day are on your library Shelf.
1ou feel you can converse with any
man or woman alive and not be asham-
ed OF yourself. But tell me. with all
your education, have you the true de-
velopment your sainted mother had,
who years ago surrendered her life
and all into the hands of the Master?
Place your photograph alongside OF
her old fashioned daguerreotype. Com
pare the two faces. Your mother was
no ignoramus. Her eyes show it; her
lips show 1t. But behind that noble.
sweet face there is something which
Jour face lacks. The beauty OF a true
soul Is there. IL Is not In your face.
You are not we'll developed; you are
not spiritually developed. You cannot
come TO your true spiritual develop
ment and best moral and mental de-
velopment until you first seek Christ
and his righteousness. and then all
these things-yea, all-will be added
unto you.
Lastly, the struggle for the uecessi-
ties of life represents for some OF W
the great barriers between us and the
sweet scented gardens OF happiness.
IL Is nearly always represented with
the workingman's overalls cast aside.
Inevitably we picture that time In the
dim future when we have amassed
enough money to retire from business.
Then we will buy home In some sub.
urban town; then we will have this
large home always opened to our
friends and our dear ones; then we
will expect the children and the grand
children to come and visit us and stay
as long as they can. Oh, yes; food and
clothes and free homestead represent
not only peaceful old age. but q hap
py youth, happy manhood. And why
should not this be so? Can you find
any life happier than the Christian
life? Can you find any exhIlaration
and Joy more glorious and transcend
ent than that of serving Christ? If
you and l want true happiness we do
not have to seek 1t in a suburban villa.
We truly can find II In Jesus. Seek
We first the kingdom OF God and his
and all this happiness
will be added unto YOU"
Bishop Ken's Courage.
We should be ready to seek this di-
vine happiness at any cost, as was DR..
Ken. who afterward became the bish-
op Of Bath and Wells. Dr. Ken at the
time was living in Winchester To
that town came the licentious Charles
II. of England. with his sinful court.
In this court he brought along the no.