The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-12-24
! zASATURDAY
E NIGHT
! / SERMONS
BY
ne xSA'muW .PuR,rM
BY THE SWEAT OF THE FACE.

ulaue Hill WORK TOT living. WOfE
and slave for board and clothes, and
not the best of either. Stink off early
in the morning. drag home weary at
night. Brown goes to town ut 8 O'Clock
IN his car. fools around till noon talk
ing to his stenographer, 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 that? Yes. sir.
fate deals me. hand with no trumps
and few face cards. With Brown the
cards are stacked and it's always his
deal" Poor Gray! know him. He
isn't Il had fellow. In spite of his
card phraseOlogy he never touches one
He is sticking pretty close to his job
aud is 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, ami
Brown seems to be having lots of cake
There's Gray's trouble-he's hungry for
cake, So are most of u.s. But better
II diet Of all bread and no cake than
ali cake aud no bread-there's a reason.
Its part If the wise plan Of the Al
mighty Father for his children.
Swat the ldler!
Adam fell. The first step in the plan
OF salvation was to put Adam to work.
The kingdom of earth and the kingdom
nf heaven are easier to 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 nd
vance. The fellow who earns his by
/ the sweat of his neighbours mental or
physical brow Is Il parasite. Time is
going to swat him. Only those whose
names are on the worlds Iayrolls
shall hear the voice of eternity say.
We'll done. thou good and faithful
servant" The Bible IL the charter OF
the toiler. Adam WIS q gardener, ia
cob ii droyer. Moses shepherd. Elisha
a plowinan. Gideon miller. Saul
hostier. Jesus carpenter. Peter fish
erIuan. Zacchaeus n tax collector. ST
mon IL tanner. Paul a tentmaker-space
fails me to tell Of the noble band of
men aud wOmen-toilers all. Work
makes men: idleness mars them Man
cannot have fiber put into him except
by the strain of toll It is discipline:
it is moral exercise: it Is to the hrl-
man fraIne what the wind and storm
are to the pine on the mountain sidc-it
develops and toughens and strength
ems. Without work man would be n
tiabhy excrescence. The sloth doesn't
live; be exists. Work is mans affinity
to nature. 1t Is mans natural EXPIRES i
sion of himself in some form Of effect
Man, the Toiler.
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. it
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 sweethrier into the
rose. the crab apple into the pippin.
developed the grasses into vegetables.
improved the bird Of the air aud the
beast of the field. He touched the
forests and they became beams Of
houses and masts of ships; the clay be-
CAME drinking cup and the dust a
cement. the marble q statue. the ore 4
mighty monster of iron aud steel. He
draws lightning from the skies. puts
bands Of steel across a continent. whis.
pers his voice across IL sen. He pre-
serves the song aud the speed, in rec
ords for posterity. He reels of the
films that will 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 physi-
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 d
blessing In disguise. Ont Of It has
come something that lifts man to bis
highest Angels could do no more. He
Is cursed" who cannot work. The
man without a country wasn't near 50
pftiabe rs the man without work.
wouldn't want to be sentenced to
year without purposeful work. II
would spell insanity. rs 1t does in mis-
governed prisons Well. then. what
makes rs dislike work? If 1t is essen
tlal to development. progress disci.
pine. health. c0ntentment prosperity
md happiness why do so many hate II
So heartily? Because. American-like.
We override it 1t becomes a drudSery
and 4 worry. Too much work is bad i
MOI quite as bad as no work. but harm.
I'M When II Il so incessant and ex-
hl'isting that It crowds out domestic
JOY. outdoor sport. friendly intercourse,
intellectual refresl,mem and religions
meditation II is n bane instead Of bless
ing When We carry it into on, sipe,
It Is time to drop some Of 1t One ex
IRENE breeds another Some day we
Will travel in the middle Of the road
HIiinan society is imperfect. and my
friend Gray has nothing but coarse
bread I'm afraid Brown has all cake
Society frequently cnmpels each to eat
to safety Gray naturally hunsers for
rake Brown is sickening on the same.
would rather be the former. Better
wear ont than rust out.
Taking Walk.
y took long walk Yesterday" said
Foreman as be collapsed into seat at