The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-21
ASATURDAY
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\ SERMONS
BY
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BY THE SWEAT OF THE FACE,

Text, IN the sweat or thy face shalt
thou eat bread."-Gen. Iii. 49,
My friend Gray Is one of the un-
happiest fellows ! know. He COM
plains that fate has played on him
contemplate trick in that II has
made him work for living. Work
and slave for board and clothes, and
not the best Of either. Stink off early
In the morning. drag home weary ut
night. Brown goes to town at 8 o'clock
in his car, fools around till noon talk.
Ing to his stenograpner, goes to lunch.
leans back In his chair till 3. motors
out to the ball game, after dinner plays
Billiards ut his club till midnight.
Where's the justice In all that1 Yes. sir,
fate deals me II hand with no trumps
and few face cards. With Brown the
cards are stacked and it's always his
deal" Poor Gray! I know him. He
isn't a bad fellow. In spite Of his
card phraseology he never touches one.
He is sticking pretty close to his Job
and IL really doing better than he
thinks. He Is raising his family and
has his little house nearly paid for He
is eating homely wholesome bread, and
Brown seems to be having lots Of cake
There's Gray's trouble-he's hungry for
cake. So are most OF us. But better
a diet of all bread and no cake than
al cake and no bread-there's a reason
It's part of the wise plan of the Al
mighty Father for his children.
Swat tho ldlsrl
Adam fell. The first step in the plan
Of salvation was to put Adam to work
The kingdom of earth and the kingdom
of heaven are easier to u busy man
than to an idle one. As soon as Adam
had to earn his bread by the sweat OF
his brow the world commenced to ad-
vance. The fellow who earns his by
the sweat of his neighbor's mental or
physical brow Is parasite, Time Is
going to swat him. Only those whose
names are on the worlds payrolls
shall hear the voice of eternity say,
well done, thou good and faithful
servant" The Bible is the charter of
the toiler. Adam was a gardener, Ja-
cob drover. Moses shepherd. Elisha
ptOW Stuebh u hlihSlt ouui q
hostler. Jesus a carpenter. Peter fish
erman, Zacchaeus a tax collector, ST.
mon tanner. Paul a tentmnker-space
fails me to tell Of the noble band OF
men and women-toilers all. Work
makes men: idleness mars them. Man
cannot have fiber put into him except
by the strain of toll. 1t is discipline;
It is moral exercise; 1t is TO the hu-
man frame what the wind and storm
are to the pine on the mountain side-li
develops and toughens and strength
ems. Without work man would be a
fiabby excrescence. The sloth doesn't
live: he exists. Work Is mans affinity
to nature. 1t is mans natural express
sion Of himself in some form Of effect
Man, the ToiIer.
Man is the coworker with God.
Whether it is plain dirt digging. nail
pounding. floor scrubbing-so called
humble toil-or earth. air and water
mastering. bridge. and tunnel planning,
art. music, literature and science, II
matters not. God fashioned the earth;
fire melted the rocks; frost split the
granite: the rain dissolved the soil;
earth. air. sun and moisture sprouted
| the seed. Then man took perfume
from the flower, put commerce on the
sea, turned the sweetbrier into the
rose. the crab apple into the pippin,
developed the grasses into vegetables,
improved the bird of the air and the
beast of the field. He touched the
forests and they became beams OF
houses and masts Of ships; the clay be-
came a drinking cup and the dust a
cement. the marble statue, the ore
mighty monster of iron and steel. He
draws lightning from the skies, puts
bands of steel across a continent, whis-
! pers his voice across sea. He pre-
serves the song and the speech In rec
ords for posterity. He reels Off the
films that viii tell to eyes not born the
movements Of men and things that will
long since have been dust. All that
man owns he has dug out Of the physl-
cal world. Out from the molecules OF
his brain and the tool chest of his
hand have come things worthy Of the
sons of the architect of the universe
| Much Bread, Little Cake.
The curse back in Eden was
blessing In disguise. Out Of 1t has
come something that lifts man to his
highest. Angels could do no more. He
Is cursed" who cannot work. The
man without country wasn't near so
pitiable as the man without work.
wouldn't want to be sentenced to a
year without purposeful work. 1t
would spell insanity. as 1t does in mis-.
governed prisons Well, then. what
makes us dislike work? If 1t is essen.
tiaI to development. progress. disci-
pline. health. contentment. prosperity
and happiness why do so many hate il
go heartily? Because. American-like-
we overdo 1t. 1t becomes drudgery
and worry. Too much work Is bad
not quite as bad as no work. but harm.
| full when it Is so incessant and ex.
hausting that it crowds out domestic
joy. outdoor sport. friendly intercourse,
intellectual refreshment and religious
meditation 1t is a bane instead of bless.
Ing. When we carry it into our sleep
It Is time to drop some OF it. One ex.
| treme breeds another. Some day we
will travel in the middle of the road.
Human society is imperfect. and my
friend Gray has nothing but coarse
bread. I'm afraid Brown has all cake