Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-14
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HELP FOR ALL IN GOD.
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wore filed with wonder when they 81"
a mere boy, from New YORK NIS' '"'
smallest of the ffty-ive competitors
win the great Marathon race.
Jittlencss was better than bigNrSS :
~ouolity than quantity. That the UNI
seen forces of the will. purpose ana
faith are mighti2r than Visible proves"
WAS nro,en when David met HJllAth'
when tine Japanese defeated the huS-
siors. and when john Hayes won the
twenty.siN mile race. consciousness OF
weakness means preparation dlSrlpliNe'
progress and Development ana lhcH'
mean victory. Necessity is "ai!cd the
! mother of invention. therefor" II the
voune man Of wealth feels no necessity
he will fail of the greatest achieve
mcnt.
CARNEGIE and Rockefeller struggled
m from the weakness Of poverty 10
the summit of wealth and influence
| Dante, Ruskin ard Carlyle 1oh%ht
against the weakness of bodily ills TIL
| they attained the climax of intellectual
greatness. The handicap OF blindness
enabled Milton of England, AliiDurh
and Nathewson Of Scotland 10 behold
visions of thought and beauty beyond
their fellows.
uardships. dcprivations and great
difficulties in early life lifted Lincoln
and Grant into their loftipSt seats OF
Doyvcr. Prisons have palaces proved
to minds like Paul and BunNan, where
they were inspired to produce pen PIC
lures that have delighted and blessed
mankind in every land. Is it not 4
sublime truth that there is a pathway
upward for every one? No wonder
that Paul sloried in his infirmities. per
solutions and distrcsses. for he eX-
claimed: when l am weak. then am
I strong, for the power OF Christ will
rest upon me-
The little child becomes strong be-
cause it stretches out its hand to the
parent. The father is noblcr when he
bears his child out of danger into
safety. SO the sinful and troubled soul
that stretches out its hands of faith
to the Heavenly Father feels under
meath tho everlasting arms and nestles
in the bosom of forgiveness and father
hood, and who shall say God is lot
happier and mighticr because Of his
embrace of helplessnesS?
Do you feel crushed by the law of
".the survival of the ~fittcst" or that
"the weakest go to the wall?'
Heavens law of grace creates fitness
and meetness for the highest Inherit
ance.
Do you agonize in the commissions Of
pain? 1t is the divine hand leading
you to greater riches as earthquakes
reveal the gold in the rended rocks.
If God in nature can produce the
diamond from the black carbon, the
white lily from the black earth and
bulb, the great tree from the tiny seed,
He can bring purity out of sinfulness,
strength out of weakness and heaven
out of hell. His power will enable the
soul that trusts in Him to overcome
dangerous hereditary tendencies, unto
ward environments, unspeakable diff
%culties, so that you may become the
author of opportunities and the creator
of circumstances. and, though, at last.
like John Brown, you go down to ig-
nominous death, your liberty-loving
soul will go marching on" through
all millenniums, in blessed companion
ship with Him who arose from the
weakness of the manger the cross and
ruler Of all worlds.
If we put out little crosses at the
foot Of His great cross He will lift
them up until they become tranfiSured
into crowns of glory forevermore.
DOES IT PAYp
by Henry F.. Cope.
"What shall it profit a man?'-Mark
$3.50.
The New England conscience insist
ed that everything that felt good must,
therefore, be bad, that the fact tina
it was a pleasure to do any particu-
lar action was proof sufficient that
that action was dangerous n sinful.
that which pleased b palate must
be pernicious to the health, hat which
the taste rejected must be good for
you"
Holding this view life became a
bundle of contradictions, a perpetual
warfare between those things which
the Creator seems through IL senses
to suggest that we should do and those
which piety prescribed. The good man
was the unnatural one who exhausted
himself i'll fighting against himself.
Religion becomes. under such cir
cumstances, Il matter of determining
whether it pays to endure this pres
ent brief period of restrictions, de-
privations, and denials in order to en-
Joy an eternity of bliss, whether it is
worth while to endure purgatory on
earth for the sake of paradise after
death.
The question of religion goes a great
deal deeper than whether it pays to
be miserable here in order to be selfish
" blisSful in glory; it goes deeper than
considerations of cold cash or com
mercial supremacy; it is this deep, root
question, does it pay to follow your
ideals?
Is it worth while, at any cost. TO
persist in the path of being the best
you know? Surprising that obedience
to that heavenly vision that comes at
least once to Us all leads into paths
OF pain, demands willingness to suffer
and to bear loss, to remain unknown.