Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-15
For Sunday Reading
al Sorts Of Obisisss
My-GardSn.

Would you like to know about my
garden which takes so much Of my
time and care? Thru the center runs q
path with flowers on either side, a
large bed of Patience and a beautiful
bed Of Hope, a fine climbing Courage
and little vine called Cheerfulness
that runs In and out all over my gar
den
Around the garden Is a fence made
Of Determination with posts OF Perse-
verance. This is to keep out the Grum-
BILE Vine that grows all about outside
and tries to get In. The path in my
to a fountain which sometimes plays
tears with which water the garden.
Outside the garden a tree like a
weeping willow grows and sometimes
casts q shadow over my flowers and
once in while at twilight black bird
comes and sings In the branches. It
is called the Complaining Bird--it does
not come often.
In one corner Of my garden is hot
bed where / raise Smiles because they
have TO be forced! Ny gardeners name
is B. A. Goodman.
Later-The Grumble Vine broke my
fence! I have cut it down, but the
root is still there! have mended the
break in the fence with as much Pluck
as could find and have been gathering
my flowers and tying them together
with Good Resolutions.
Where tho Pa-ah,es Have No Point.
Imagine preaching three times a
week to hearers who live in a land of
six months day and six months night,
IN treeless, ice-covered waste, and
using a bible whose revelation of spir-
itual truth comes largely in the i'm
agery Of pastoral, agricultural, semi
tropical country. Truly, much Of a
Palestine bible is useless in a pasto-
rate among the Eskimos of North
Alaska, says J. Frank Cross in The
Congregationalist and Christian World
(Eoston): 1.-The parallels of the sower.
tares. sheepfold. widows mite, prodigal
son, barren fig-tree, vine and ranches,
in fact all the parallels except the lost
piece OF silver and the net and fishes
are possible" The Inconvenience
of this Mr.. Cross did not fully appre-
ciates at first:
But later 1t broke In upon me. At
ter two weeks with the reindeer, and
two days driven home behind a REIN
deer whose action and gait would ex-
asperate saint and spoil the temper
Of an angel: cold. tired, FROST bitten.
late on Saturday night I came back
to my lonesome home.
Sunday was at hand before the lux
ury of bed. after sixteen days in a
poke sack was hardly touched. 1
ransacked my brain barrel for SER
mon, thought out on my long drives
in Dakota for my Indian congregations.
Naturally that automatic text. the
refuge of many q weary. overworked,
or lazy preacher. the first psalm, came
into my head. or out of 1t. 1t always
worked in Dakota, whore every stream
has a fringe Of trees. I said, Aha,
habes.'
1.-The first two verses went ali right.
tho 'blest is hard to translate. My
Interpreter could handle them. But the
third verse, He shall be like a tree
Two hundred miles and more to a
tree! Few Of the people had ever been
Their or seen one. Their wood is
I saw that for them the man would
be too lonely. Next / thought OF the
Shepherd Psalm! But It was no help
proposition of geometry would convey
as muCn spiritual trulh W d PeopiS
whose only domestic animal il dog.
and the dog socially and economically
is not dog, but horse. and what
dog 10 in him Is SO recently descended
from a wolf that his howl Is the wolfs.
and his ferocity not yet gone Cave
Canem' il a good tevt and club o
good way Of applying it. 80 did not
use a psalm that day"
What Or. Aked Must Face.
It Is not exactly cold water that
California pastor throws upon Dr.
Aked's hope of enlarging his sphere OF
activity and influence by going to the
Golden Gate. But he declares that the
outcome will be watched with interest,
and probably counted q miracle IT
succeeds; for "San Francisco has nc