The Brandon news., 1910-04-14
Edited by R. A. WHITFIELD

-, the pleasures of this world.
How, then, shall we treat seen things?
'Look not at the things which are seen."
| Love not the world, neither the things
which are in the world" We must rightly
value the seen. Christ does not want us to
| quit the world and become sour ascetics.
There is much in the world that is beautiful.
| God made the world of nature, and He
made it beautiful. God pity the man who
has nothing in his soul that responds to
the music of the birds. Every flower that
blooms has upon it the impress of Gods
hand "The heavens declare the glory OF
| God We can see God in nature. 1t is
not wrong for us to follow our occupations.
| 1t is not wrong for us to be happy. But
we must not put too much value on the
SEEN Our danger is, that we will become
so absorbed in the seen, that we will cling
to the things of this life for the sensuous
qualification they bring. All that is in
the world-the lust of the flesh, the lust
of the eyes, and the pride of life-;s not
of the Father, but of the world" Solemn
words for us. They teach US that these
| pleasures, desires of life are innocent when
kept in their proper place. But when they
ngross our affections they become "lusts"-
fleshly lusts which war against the soul.
But the greatest danger is the love Of
the Father is not in HIM" This is the
charge brought against the people in the
days of Noah and Lot They had no time for
God. Jesus tells US III the 17th chapter of
Luke why such an awful fate overlook
these people. 1t is not said that they were
grossly wicked. '"They ate, they drank,
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until the day that Noah entered the ark,
and the flood came, and they were all de-
stroyed." And so it was in the days Of
Lot 'They ate, they drank, they bought,
they sold, they planted, they builded; but
in the day when Lot went out of Sodom
it rained fire and birthstone from heaven,
and destroyed them ALL" They were SO
immersed in the affairs OF this life that
they had no time to consider the future.
God was crowded out completely. Ii
seems to me that men today are more com
pleteIy absorbed in the affairs of this life
than in the days Of Noah and Lot. Every
where men are locking on the seen and
forgetting the unseen and eternal. Better
| give too little attention to the seen than
be swept away by it.
help US for the life that is to come. Every
thing must be brought into subjection to
Christ. "Seek first the kingdom of God"
Every other thing must take secondary
place.
| To do this we need the help of God,
and He ever stands ready to help us. Let
US live for that which abides when the
world and the fashion thereof passeth
away. "He that doeth the will of God
abideth forever"
We would here undertake to remind
those of our farmers who are raising the
Louisiana cane for the purpose of making
molasses this fall, that they have in view
the idea of cultivating it carefully and
make No. article of syrup to ship west
to try the market out there and learn
whether it will pay to raise cane more ex-
tensively afterwards-all as substitute
fer much cotton. and SAVIOR of SO much
time and expense of labor. Any man, on
due reflection, can see that syrup at So
cents per gallon, extracted from cane rais-
ed on good and suitable land, costs less
to raise and prepare for market, and
brings more to the pocket in the end
Many neighbors will buy the long sweeten-
in through the year, when they won't buy
your cotton. And in this consideration of
things, you are chinking some cash all
through the year.
And another thing we want to call to
minds. The legislature made an attempt
twice if we remember aright-to break up
the Deed in Trust business. 1t may yet
do this at the next session; and people
who have habit of giving deed of trust
to get meat and lard and biscuits and bread
on time will do well to begin right away
to raise such needed supplies as they can
sell throughout the year-pigs, potatoes,
pinders, peas, pumpkins, and poultry pro
tenn and perpetual, ct cetera, saying roth
ing about a vegetable garden and an or
chard tended properly and carefully. A
farmer, so-called, is not a farmer in truth
till he plants his plans and practises ac-
cordingly, to raise such things as his far1-
| ily and stock require, with surplus to
sell his nearest and furtherst neighbors
We presume the corr club fcllows-little
and big-are hard down 1T their Jobs
now. Great interest will be shown through
cut the state this fall in the outcomes of
corn contests.
| According to parties in Washington City,
Halley's comet may be seen about go in
the morning of Friday, the 18th of April.
During April and the first part of May
the ccrnet will be visible in the cast be-
fore sunrise, a few degrees north of east.
| Bv May I, it will be too nearly in line
with the sun to be seen in the morning,
but from then on will appear in the west
in the evening as soon as II gets dark
enough. On May 20, it will set two hours
after the sun, and setting later each spc-
ceeding nights Prof. Woods, of John Hop
kins University, of Baltimore, referring
to the fears and talks cf some people that
this comet will do damage, said: Cali
such talk is absolute nonsense. Halley's
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