Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-04-02

IGSSs Wu116 II you 4UA1s
spunge. wear clothes unpaid for, hang
around where you are not wanted then
5ou soon become afflicted with world,
WEAKNESS" The unsettled, the unem-
IJoyed young man, WHO dtsdains 70
engage himself in usefulness is q
picture Of what is often described in
Gods word: For they shall eat and
not have enough"-their drink is SOM
- will spread my net upon them-T
viii bring them down as the fowls of
heaven"-and they shall say to the
mountains, Y US, and to the hills
fall on us-ye have ploWed wicked
ness, " have reaped iniquity: ye have
eaten the fruit of lies; because thou
dost trust in thy way"
A man cannot trust in his own way,
unless it be a certainty that his way
is also the way of the God Of right
eousness. Neither is Cnis declaration
said by reason of any dogma either;
for this writer is no believer in the
common saying of do this, or do ths
this and you shall be saved, do the
other, OF believe something else, and
you shall be lost. A man either
saved or lost by a complete Network,
and not by holding up his hand to this,
that, or the other proposition, in a pub
lie assembly, though such test might
be useful in turning one from idleness
to labor, from RIGHTEOUSNESS to a good
tree bringing forth good fruit. And
as a man thinketh in his heart, so Is
he, blessed are the pure in heart for
they shall see Cod" not so much the
man who makes professions as the
one who is poor in spirit, that mourn
on account of his i-mperfections, the
meek, the thirster after righteousness,
the merciful, the peacemaker, the per-
secuted on account Of standing for
things right the reviled, for Christ's
sake. :
OF course there is such a thing as
idie workers. IdEeness is said to be
the devils workshop and this myth
cal person, always finds something for
idle hands to do. Then there are vain
workers. The people who are always
seeing something out of the ordinary
unchanging law of. God and Nature
Such for instance as the Misguided
crusaders, the millennial dawnists,
restorationists, the divine plans of the
ages, fulfllment of all things putting
the Gentle out of business and thrust
ing the unwilling Jew into the saddle,
ard even this blessed year, 1914 being
set as the identical time when the
Creator means to bring it to pass.
Even so good a thing as we all
think C~hristendom to be, and the
blessed ~upbuilding it has brought to
the world and the souls of men, yet
now the visionary has come to tear it
all down Notwithstanding the year of
1913, just past, was its greatest, grand,
est and most glorious, since Christ.
hung on the Cross. Ta-ta tickle.
friends, the Interchangeable God is in
his heavens, and the earth is all right
and Christendom is yet to do. more for
this world and its feeble population,
than all other agencies combined and
rest4assured our blessed God has no
plan, divine or otherwise to interfere
with the work that Christendom-h has
done and is yet to do, would without
end, amen. This world is governed
by eternal fixed and Interchangeable law,
and not by man-constructed divine
plans.
With kind regards to all till next
THOS. j. HICKMAN, Asheville, NC.