French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26
MR. HICKMAN WRIFEs.

If this natural world in its uniVer-
sal extent. whatever that extent may
be should have to be shaped and con-
trolled according to the thoughts of
people, it surely would be a c~onglomer-
ated mass of confusion. / If the Crea-
tor and author of all things temporal
and spiritual should there be such q
division, had to exisG and be judged
according to the different standards of
peoples thoughts and beliefs, thenAthat
author, which we term God would be a
wonderful being. or rather a series OF
beings. 1t was never intended that we
/ should. but if we only know. how diff
ferent it all would be.
Much like unto the above picture is
it in our minds as to places and parts
of the world which we have neVe een
We read of San Francisco and the aW-
full earthquake which wrought such
great destruction a few years ago. we
have lev see the place,but we have
a picture in our minds of the great city.
wedged up between San Francisco Bay
and the Pacific ocean, the city is all
laid out, but when we actually arrive
and look it over what a different scene
to what we had in our vision. Hilly
and almost mountainous, one would
have thought it the last place in the
WoEld to have been visited by the most
terrible catastrophe ever known to u
globe. The San Franciso of today
shows as little indication of an earth
quake or even of a destructive fire as
any place in the world.
The inhabitants of the world have
their way of thinking and while small
changes may be made in thought, here
and there. yet in the main, like Eph-
rain of old, all are joined unto their
idols. Our good Methodist friends, all
over the country are proud of a great
Western Circuit Rider, they once had
and it is perhaps no secret, that his
was Peter Cartwright and he was a
believer in Sanctidcation. On one oc-
casion. some n asked the great
preacher if he really believed that he,
himself had attained unto Christian
perfection and Sanctification? The
great and immortal Shakespeare said
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
which taken at the flood leads on to
fortune" but the saying is not a truth.
for there is no such certain event in
mems lives. for if so more poor suffer
ing men and women would which out
for that tide and take advantage of it.
Men and women must be the architects
Of their own fortunes, for tides will not
bring it to them. Society. the laws
and courts, are using their utmost en-
deavors to find out who are the guilty
ones and who are the innocent ones.
1t not be so often, that those who are
pronounced guilty are innocent, but
it is certainly true, that many who are
passed out honorably as innocent are
,-nn Iy o,,fl+-, -4a ALrSoo 1,,;I4ry VTL~
knoweth the heart of man.? The So
ciety woman,-the bar room high
stopper, the glib-fingered card shuff1er
the wearer of dazzling diamonds and
heliotropes,-if all taken together in
the real scrutiny of true morals, would
sink deeper in damnation than the.
beggar n outcast, We have seen
persons who seemed to be great lovers
of perfumes and musts,-you can even
meet the drafts as you pass them in the
street, which is all right if a clean
heart is within blu the odor Of the
musk-oX and the mink, will not wash
away sins. nor blot out my transgres-
Sions. "Do you know this mans
character? what is it? Good sir
good? Yes he wears good clothes, goes
to meeting, attends Sunday schools
a man of distinction, prominent in pol
itics, makes money, owns lands: rides
in an autoaobile-goes on JOY rides,
turns everything he touches into mon
ey. the shrewdest trader in all the
land, always watching for bargains,
knows a good thing when he see it, is
Johnny-on-the-spot, at forced sales
but the tears of widows and orphans,
he needs not-hasn't the time-needy
souls are a hindraace to busisess-love.
sympathy, pity, tenderness. benevo-
lence and charity, are all to his way
of thinking, a public nuisance"-but OF
course, such a one, "a always prove
a good character.
But after all. to the glory of Chris
tianity and the free republics of earth,
such characters as above described,are
becoming few and far between" NFor
the knowledge of the Lord shall cover
the earth as the waters cover the sea-"
Mora anon