Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-04-29


vor nresence to enounce evil when necessary and not
be embtered to keep few friends all the time and these
without any capitalization and above everything else keep
on good terms with your concience and sell AYE,
there the rub! 1t takes to stand when popular
opinion and appaudng hands point another way but IS
possible
Possibly somebody will begin to believe that it is hard
ar 70 do riob than to do wrong Such belief has been
entertained in all ages of the world long before and since
Jesus said in effect that the way to destruction is broad
and easy and many walk therein while straight IS the
gate and narrow the way that eadeth unto lite and tew
there be that hnd it.
But the worlds view is becoming modified and the gos-
mel Of sacrifice and despair and gloom and hell hre is
not being preached so widely confidently as used
TO be- smile has crept into the message OF the church.
for gospel means good things, not the news OF I'M
molation To teach that it is easier peasanter or
more profitable to be bad than to be good teach
arwise to The experience Of all good people and the bad
neope who never lived Of course there must be some
What Of readstment Of values for what the unknd and
avaricious and selseekng and fearsome may consider
the highest value and the greatest reward may not be ate
all the true assessment OF these things.
1t is easier be honest than to be dishonest 1t was
never more easy in all the history OF the world than now
The craft we hear so much about does not that there
Is an, less honesty in the world it simply means that
there are dishonest there always have oeeh
but that the people longer tolerate dishonesty ana nS
craft is under the ban OF popular condemnation In the
business world the man who is known to be tricky and to
cheat is very shortIived commercially alter he is found
out
Il is easier to have little every day than it ever
was before The difficulty is not that 1t costs more c
live. but that the people spend There is vas
difference False and inflated standards OF living compe
MANY people to live beyond their means here is very
general tendency to emulate the example OF the trog Il
the fable and try to he as big the COW VI course
people who do this are apt to go broke. But ther
was never time when thrift and industry and temperate
ness and right living earned such and large reward
as today.
is easier to save little every day Of ones own con
science today than before Tor there greater IN
cenves to right doing and fewer inducements tor wron
doing. The papers are full of the punishment OF evI
thew TEEN with the wrecks Of human lives and huma
hopesA Many people think the papers should print o1l
the niceNhngs But the press immensely yalu
able end in constituting itself days in the week
constant warning against the thinking and doing OF evl
which warning must inevitably embody the converse er
ticemen owad the thinking and the doing Of good
It is always easy to get friends and to keep then
ANYBODY who deserves to have friends have all
wants Friends are reaching out their hands all arour
US The world is crying tor men worth beng taken
the hand and to the heart as friends ,
1t should be easy do right regardless OF the worlo
opinion The right thinking man knows that the world
wrong when it points toward evil from the rig
to any degree Knowing that the world is wrong at SUI
times. II takes only little real courage TO do the rig
thing The main point is to get right, and the man WI
gets thoroughly right will have little trouble IN Dol
right.