The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-02-08

We First His Kingdom, and H.
II g~itcousness. and Ill These Thing
sal he Added Unto You.' Matt
C: g 81.
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
This is a lesson in the a. =. c. o
rel gil n. 1t is the " Use Teachers call
i g his pupils back to the siInplicitie
faith. There are no subtle>ies 0
here. This is the platform
Of the kin. dom reduced to sinples
terms. AS ever, the elemental is see
to he the vital. Here are the e~ssentia
that this Wealy. jaded, parplexe
world, with its care-wrinklad fact
most needs to learn. This ~declaratio.
fy Jesus Of the best life-philosophy
more luminous than any comment
Gron 1t. SO we extract the lesson pas
in full, from the Sermon on tn
Mount:
Lay not up for yourselves
treasures upon the earth, where
MON and rust consume. and
where thieves break through and
steal: but lay up for yourselves
treasures in heaven, where neither
moth nor ust doth ami
where thieves do not break
through nor steal: for where thy
treasure is. there will thy heart
Re also. The lamp Of the body
is the eye: if TT ,refore thine eye
be single. thy whole body shall
he foil of light. Put if thine eye
he evil. thy whole body shall be
full of darkness. If therefore the
light hat is in thee be darkness.
fCw great is that darkness: No
n an can serve wv masters: for
either he will hate the one and
love the other; or else he will hold
to n and despise the other. Ye
cannot serve God and n1ammOn.
Therefore l say unto you. BE not
arEious for your life, what We
sNall eat, or what We shall drink;
nor yet for your body. what We
shall put on. IS not the life more
tan the food. and the body more
than the raiment? Behold the
birds of the heaven. that they sow
not. neither do they reap, nor
Father into barns; and your
Heavenly Father faedeth them.
t~o We not Of much more value
tina they? And which of you by
teine anxious can add one cubit
unto his stature? And why are
ye anxious concerning rainent?
Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow; they toll not,
neither do they spin: yet | say
unto you. that Eve Soloman in
al his glory was not arrayed like
n Of these. But il God doth 50
ClOthe the grass OF the field,
which today is. and tomorrow is
cast into the yer shall he not
much more clothe you, o We of lit
IT, faith? Pc ye not therefore
anxious, saying, What shall we
eat2 or What we drink? or.
hnrewithal shall we be cloth
&c? For after ali these things do
n" Contiles seek: for your heav-
cn1v Father knoweth that ye have
need of all these things. Put
Sex We first his kingdom, and his
~hteuusness; and all these things
shall he added unto you. Be not
therefore anxious for the NOR
rev; for the morrow will be
p~xtcus for itself. Sufficient unto
tie day is the evil thereof
Better Tina the Notices.
Contrast these great words with tn
wall notices that we see, in home
and offices. How trivial and mar
Inadequate the latter become
Y Nv not seek. as A mental and spi
ituai exercise for a week, to comm
T. this sublime passage froI
the Immortal words Of Jesus? 1t wi
make ones faith simpler ana couraG
stronger.
1t us lift up our thinking OF
times are tainted by scrappy, Moons
Uenttal and rather vulgar mental pre-
cceses. We read too many periodical
and too few books. Is it not logic;
an reasonable that we should go, b
way Of this noble m~Ountain-side phi
Oscphy. to a lO1ticr. purer conceptlo
~ our daily thinking and reading?
met an Atlanta business man a fe
days ago who told me that he ha
cancelled his subscription to a lon
list Cf magazines and had taken I
reading the great books which tim
ma tested. The names of the volume
ne had mastered in a year amazes M
he has been delivered from the poSS
re thralldom Of a scrap-basket min
~ course he gives a first place to tn
! COX OF BOOKS: no other literature ha
It's power TO ella ify a mans thinkio
q q to elevate and strengthen h
thHraCter.
H.. can afford to know less abo'
IN vaccinations OF politicians, II
fanatics OF society" the vulgariti'
q. prolesalona sport, the gyrations
I " - stack r14rl.nt w. H. nanrc q.