Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1911-02-17
MAURERTOMN.

Woodstock.
Mrs. A. G. Shaver returned home
from Winchester last Saturday.
W. E. McInturff left for Richmond
on Sunday evening, where he has q
business deal with the International
Harvester Co.
| W. D. Shaver who is attending the
Brideewater College this session, was
home from Saturday until Tuesday.
Frank Beydler who has been sick
for the past several weeks, is now able
to attend to his business duties.
On last Saturday morning our
town was excited over what might
have been disastrous fire. s. J.
Wagner had put quart can of grease
On his stove in the chair factory
which boiled over and started blaze
in the shavings ard chair fixtures
which reached the ceiling. A few
minutes more start and the entire
building and saw mill would have
gone up in smoke.
Melvin Shrum will open a meat
store in our town March LIST. This
will be quite convenient for our town
and vicinity.
/; DR.. w. E. Shaver, the veterinary,
met with an accident on his way to
see sick horse. In passing the stone
crusher on the Valley pike he signal
ed the men to stop, but the man put
ting in the stone refused to heed the
signal, and his horse was scared and
ran away, breaking the shafts of the
buggy and tearing the harness. The
Doctor thinks some one should COM
pensate him for the damages sustain
ed.
The meeting now in progress III this
village is growing in interest. Prof.
CARRIER, of Dayton, is doing the
preaching. His subjects for this
week have special bearing on the
home, social and church life. Tues
day night he made plea for an
everyday religion" He said in
part: To combine business and re-
ligion is seemingly the hardest task of
the christian life. 1t is not hard to
be good on Sunday, nor difficult to
feel pious in the house of prayer, but
when Monday morning comes with its
burdens and sponsibilities we are
prone to forget our religious princi-
Piles. The crying need of the age is
for an everyday religion-a religion
that will go with the farmer to the
orchard when he is packing apples
and see that he does not put all the
little ones in the middle of the barrel;
that will go with the wife to the store
and see that she does not palm of
eggs that would not hatch after three
weeks careful attention of the old
hen, es strictly fresh; that will be
with the merchant and see that he
gives thirty-six inches to the yard
and sixteen ounces to the pound. A
religion that will give an honest wage
fol days work and in return an
honest days work for that wage.
If religion will take a whlskey
drunkard and rede EN- him and restore
him to christian manhood-and is
will-then answer me why will you
contend that it has not the power to
redeem the temper and passion Of the
drunkard? Just so sure as whiskey will
wreck human being mentally, NOR
ally, physically and spiritually, just
so sure will the continual giving way
to your temper wreck you mentally,
morally, physically and spiritually.
You sisters will not fall out with
me if l tell you of your besetting sin?
Losing your temper. These men take
it kindly when l tell them of their
mearness, and you will not be less
generous. Let me illustrates: A wo-
man went to her pastor and said: ~
can't get along with my husband; he
is cross and Grabbed The pastor
detected the trouble at once and re-
piled: "Have you tried heaping
Goals of fire upon his head?" She
replied: sit wont do. 1 tried billing
water this morning." Now, "bilirg'
water is mighty poor way to man
age a husband. Let me tell you
something about the rest cure. You
fl; all to pieces over the least trihes
and scold your children and nag your
husband until your nerves are wreck
ed, and the doctor sends you away for
the ''rest cure" If he were to tell
you the truth, he would simply say,
l want you to sober up. You have a
case of the ''jim-j jams" and you are
seeing things just as the whiskey
drunkard does. He knows if he gets
you away among strangers that you
will be decent enough TO CONTROL your
temper and sober off that long drunk
of temper and passion. Do not mis-
understand me, l do not mean to say
that every case of shattered nerves is
a case of temper drunkenness.
You say, 81 know 1 have temper
and I fly all to peices and have my
say, but it is all over in a minute. ;"
Yes, and SO is the explosion of a |
inch gun, but it leaves ruin
and wreck in It's path, and so does the
explosion of your uncontrolled tem-
per wreck the happiness and peace of |
those around you. 1t is just as great
sin to get drunk on temper and pas
sion as it is to get drunk on whiskey.
You have no more right to say you
can't control your temper than the
Vhiskey drunkard has to say that he
,aa't control his appetite for whiskey
A religion that will control your tenn