French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-05-04
COMING FROM PAST, UP TO THE
FUTURE HENDERSON COUNTY.
All Things FIOW-NOthings Abides. or
Stands Still.
(By Thos. J. Rickman.)

Stands Still.
(By Thos. j. Rickman.)
Editor Hustler:
While in Henderson County, recent
ly a man said to us, Taken all in all,
l cannot say whether Henderson Coun-
ty should be pronounced good or bad"
He put this writer to thinking, and l
wish to say just a few things briefly,
with the hope of getting some o Of
your readers aggitated along the think
ing line.
We sometimes lose patience with the
man, or wonan who constantly Whines
that this world and life of ours, is
made up of sorrow,-that the whole
earth is polluted and that we can do
nothing but groan in sadness, from
our birth to our grave. Some others
seem to get satisfaction out of point
ing to the great world war, now going
on, and with a long sigh, proclaim
some such doctrine, that perpetual war
is now kindled amonst all living crea-
tut es.
Others are ready to break out with,
Eyes there is nothing in tits life that
does not involve misery and the ques-
ton that is about to run me distracted
is, where shall. the blame be placed,
on the Creator, or on mankind?"
What is the reason, we cannot get it
into the heads of such people the truth
which declares, Everything that is, is
right; provided the lis" is brought
about by God, or one of his good creaz
lures E? Henderson County, is, and is
right. It's mountains, rivers, valleys
and, hills are, and r right. Hender"
sonville, the work of man, is, and is
right, under the guiding hand of a
good Providence.
A man, or set of men, builds a
beautiful and useful house, church,
or school, clears and enriches a field,
constructs highways, &C., and if hon
est upright men and women, do such
sincerity, they and their works T
just as good as the Creator and as
good as the Creator would have them
he, so far as. that part of their lives go.
Then We naturally ask. why should
the race of mankind continually make
il their life-work TO decry themselves,
as alien mendicantS from their Maker,
operating ali the while under known
rules of hateful pessimism? We adj
nit that wrongs are often heaped
upon many of the human family, but
let US ever bear in mind, that such
evils may be said TO emanate from one
thing. or spring out Of what is
bodied in one word. injustice.
Study that word and it's origin.
In the flow and non-ablding OF
for seyenty-five years of Hen
County history, comes the
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inhabitants, Are they good or are
of the people Of Hendersonville
place one of their leading
clergymen in the pulpit and demand
Of him that he open the Bible and de-
to them, under the modern
scheme of theology,-whether that
congregation was good, or bad, in the
lis knees would knock together. While
writing OF the wall would be as visi-
bic, as was to Balshazzer.
We have optimism and pessimism
with epicurianism and stoicism, Civ
ing the bright and joyful side of life,
the one hand, and the gloomy, he
roic, suffering side on the other, while
the teaching of the worlds Saviour,
u oil pldNLICdDI6 pu1 PO0So COAn
bination of the two PHILOSOPHERS. Whiic
the preacher referred to above would
be staged with too many theories, con-
and doctrines, mapped on his
program, to give any short cut answer,
this writer is perfectly willing to say
the word to that congregation.
Men and women, sit up. and take
notice-your ears may be tingling
worse than those who listened to the