The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-03-12
Help our Neighbors.

Who was that French boy WI
made his servant wake him eve
morning with the cry, Rise, Monsie
lie Comte, you have great things to
today!" The world has forgotten /
name, and it is probable that he new
did any great thing in it, but we m.
be sure that the call drove him eve
day to do many little good things
which the world was better and ha
pier then, and which, no doubt, a
working in it like leayen for good
this day.
Why should not each one of
waken every morning rememberii
that, though the new days may gil
US no chance for splendid achiey
ment-no line to carry to a sinkii
ship-no word to speak which sh;
uplift nation-there will BIT plen
of chances in it before night to gil
to our neighbors fun, courage,
strength? We cannot, perhaps, wri
a poem like Keats Nightingale; \
cannot discover radium; but we c;
fill our windows with flowers to b
a cheerful good morning to passersH
The old Puritan doctrine that pie
meant self-torture and gloom is dyil
out among us. People of all sects a
finding out that our Father has Civ
us beautiful home, and that !
wishes us to rejoice in it and in Hi
and to help our neighbors to rejoi
with us. Even Isaac Watts, far bal
in his gloomy day, insisted that IRE
gion never was designed to make o.
pleasures less"
But" argues sine girl who b
neither beauty, health, nor social /
sition to give her influence, "wh
can do to make the world better al
happier?"
A woman living a few years ago
a miserable little village planted
front of her house a flower garde
When her neighbors crowded rou
to admire it, she persuaded them
go and do likewise. She gave the
seeds, she helped them to dig a
weed, she kept up the work until til
achieved success and were able
send flowers to the county fair. 7
poor-spirited women in other villag
became wise in seeds and bulbs
stead of scandalous gossip. The mi
for shame, cleaned and drained
streets. The little woman is de
and forgotten, but her work will bf
help to many generations.
An Elton boy, Quintin Hogg, app
ed by the misery of mighty, dread
London, got barrel and a board
couple Of candles and some old boo
and started school at night, UNI
London bridge. He had two wn;
rats as his first scholars. When
died, hundreds of thousands of p
men put black band on their ar
They had been trained in the m;
polytechnic schools which had gre
out of the barrel and boards
only in Great Britain but in her G
MES as well.
In short, we may be sure when
waken each morning, that God
filed our hands with good sc
which if we plant them will go
yielding fruit throughout the age
The best word which est. nj
las" can speak on New Years m
ing to the young folk who read ii
Make the Best of Yourselves;
and help all you can.
Whoever you are-wise or foo
rich or poor-God sent you into
world, as He has sent every other
man being, to help the men and "
en- in it, to make them better and
pier. If you don't do that, no ma
what your powers may be, you
mere lumber, worthless bit of
worlds furniture. A Stradivariu;
it hangs dusty and dumb upon
wall, is not of as much real value
kitchen poker which is used,
fore you in your journey wait
dreds of human beings with wi
you must have relations, whom
must eother urge on or hinder
their way. 1t is your business to
your money, or beauty, or wit
skill, or whatever good thing God
given you, for their help. Why
begin every morning with the Fro
boys thought have great TIL
to do todayl"-Rebecca Harding