Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-07
the hardshlps, loss, p~rivatlons, prisons

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wrong, the stewardship Of faith and
truth and right, these, says he, are the
worth while things in life.
But was Paul right? Is my life pat
termed after his Masters, any life that
counts the inner joys, the glorles OF
service. the rewards of character rs SUI
prcmc. and so misses the treasures for
which the many strive, a success?
Let history answer. Is it fame we
seek there were n thousand famous,
mighty, successful men in imperial
Rome when Paul. from his prison.
wrote these words. Well might they
have despised the poor prisoner had
they even heard of him. Yet who to-
day remembers the name of one of these
great ones? And who is there has not
heard of and honored that poor, con-
dcmned prisoner? Even much more Is
all this true CONCERNING the lowly man
of Nazareth.
Let our own hearts answer. Is 1t
riches we seek what is all prosperity
without peace of heart? Can money
ever buy comfort, content, or sympathy?
Money is to be measured by it's earning
power, the interest accruing in happi-
ness and usefulness. The worth of the
things you hold in your hand depends
on the riches Of your heart. Think you
not Thu world would be the better
place md life the Weather for us oil
if all were seeking the things unseen,
truth and right and holiness, love and
service. seeking to see their God and
4. ,-,, +l,D;,. f,1l,u-SS THAT would nor
mean a race of myStics it would mean
more manhood, less mammon; more
wealth and fewer fortunes. Deep In
all our hearts we know his is the best
way it's toilsome path alone gives
peace: its intangible prizes alone are
permanent; its supreme reward is char-
actcr, the soul, the one asset we can
carry from this world and the one leg
acy which it is safe to leave to others.
COMMERCE AND CHRISTIANITY.
By Rev. r. S. Storrs, .. D.
Text-"Go We therefore, and teach
all natioas."-Matthew xviii: 10.
Yes, our missionary work assists
commerce.. This is not our first work,
but it is a work which goes on with
all the propagation Of the gospel over
the earth. For commerce and the
Gospel are in harmony in this, at least,
tina the aim of each is coSmlcal, Is
earth-emDracing; and, 1T may De salu
of commerce., as Of the wisdom OF God,
thai she "layeth the beams OF her cham
bers in the waters and walketh upon
the wings of the wind" There is no
-, ,z,.I -, 20 orninrt no fpihn
so remote or so degraded, that the
Gospel does not seek it and that COM
merce will not gladly reach out far
for access to it. They go together. The
home of commerce is on the liquid
bands that separate yet unite and en-
compass the continents the horizon OF
commerce is the rim Of the planet and
nothing less; and commerce AID Chris
tianity go together, Christianity help
ing Not that u mission
aries go out for that purpoSe-they do
not barter life for gold. They give life
freely, that men whom they did not
know, of another language and another
race, may by and by wear the immortal
crown. But wherever their errand is,
and wherever their teaching is felt,
there the way is opened for a widen
ing Intensity of conviction
carries them where the commercial
agent gladly follows, but would not
lead. Who opened Africa, Of which we
heard this morning? Moffat and LlV-
inSstone, Christian missionaries. VINO
opened the interior of China? Chris
tan missionaries. Who were first in
Guinea and New Zealand in the Navi-
gator Islands, now famous in the world
as Samoa, in the cannibal islands OF the
Pacific where shipwrecked crews were
slaughtered and eaten? Everywhere
Christian missionaries and the COM
mercial agent follows.
| shall not see it; many OF you will
not see it; it may be that none OF US
will see it: but 1 believe that the child
is now born who will see the time
when m and Christianity,
equally carth-embracing in their aims,
and advancing in majestic harmony,
shall possess the whole earth When the
ships of Tarshish shall be foremost, as
in the prophetic vision, in bringing
their sons from afar, their silver and
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Lord our God; when Holiness to the
Lord shall be upon all the balls OF
those swift horses of the modern COM
merce whose race-course is the ocean,
which go trampling The wages d
their iron feet; when the revolving
wheels on every railway and of every
steamship :GlaIl have the living spirit
Of truth and of grace without them;
when the trumpets of which
are Weakening the world on every bar
barrie shore to new ideas, to new as
Dirations after wealth and culture and
liberty and law. shall carry to all those
tribes the message Of the angel over
Bethlehem. shall carry the mighty story
Of the Son in the world, shall carry the
great argument of the Pauline epistles,
shall carry the final prophecy Of the
New Jerusalem descending out OF
heaven from God, and becoming on the
earth a tabernacle in which God shall
dwell with men. God hasten the
time and unto Him be all the praise.
:. SHORT METER SERMONS.
, ~Self-mastery is half of all morality,
Life without difficulties is but death.