The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-01
Ais Well With the World.

AIS Well With the World.
For six and half years the people
Df the United States have worshiped
D golden calf
They have given UP their ideals for
their idols.
They have broken loose from their
moorings.
They took to themselves credit for
achieving the things that providence
did for them.
The Lord gave them prosperity and
they exclaimed: Behold what finan-
cial wiZaI DIS we are"
The Lord withdrew his support,
and they cried: Behold how fate
has turned its hand against us in
spite of our self-sufficiency and our
proven ability"
Sometimes even the Lord doesn't
Know what a man will do in a given
situation until He tries him.
Sometimes He repents that He
sGNOA ihduC illlii1 DIS IlS ulu III liC udy
OF Noah.
Speaking of Noah, there Is no kind
OF admonition, with the written rec
ord of the world before him. that
will convince man that there is n
rainy day ahead, against which he
must provide IL he survives.
The world is round. Everything
moves in circles. The world revolves,
and each season is recurrence
of the season before. when the world
was in the same relation to the sun.
From the beginning of time there
have been seasons of plenty and sea-
sons of famine. We have had food
administrators since Joseph rationed
corn to his brethren.
go to the ant, thou sluggard; con-
slider her ways, and be WISE" said
the story in the blue-bac speller.
But in spite of the admonltlon. as
old as the eternal hills, man contin-
,ues to emulate the ways of the
grasshopper. He flourishes when the
world is warm and cheerful, and food
and drink are bountiful, and life is
one long. sweet song; and when the
frost falls. and the grass withers and
dies, he rails against the unlind fate
that gave him his opportunity but
could not make him take advantage
OF It.
During the past six and a half
years the millionaires In this coun-
try have multiplied, and they in turn
have multiplied their millions
II was never intended that a few
1. men should have all the wealth and
ali the ease and all the luxury and
none of the hardships, sufferings
and heartaches.
The Lord is too good TO load upon
few men all the temporal blessings
that the world can give, and deprive
them Of all the burdens that human
ity was intended to share equally,
with everyone bearing his part.
II would not be fair to distract
their attention from the eternal veri-
ties by immersing and absorbing
them with the fleeting, perishing
things of life. And so they have the
shadows as we'll as the sunshine, the
darkness as we'll as the light,
Some of them thought they would
go on forever building up fortunes
upon fortunes. They heard the voice
OF admonition. but it seemed distant
and afar off and vague. They pre-
ferred rather to heed the siren and
seductive tones that bade them "eat.
drink and be merry. for tomorrow ye
shall surely die" And they did eat
They forgot that nothing that
comes with a burst of profusion en-
dures They forgot that while the
gourd vine that shaded Jonah from
the rays of the scorching sun grew
I'm a day, that a worm also cut 1t
down in an hour. and il withcred
and persisted even sooner than II had
grown,
The man that patted himself on
the back a year ago and said t. him
self What a great man am !, this
year is swearing that an unhnd
providence has conspired with all the
forces of evil to destroy him.
lie has overlooked the fact that We
live in a world of everlasting change,
and that nothing, much less the price
of cotton. is permanently fixed either
high or low.
When it was high he couldn't fund
automobiles high priced enough; hn
couldn't build his garages big
enough, and he couldn't huv them
often enough. The fectorte. simply
couldn't make them fast CROUCH.
The corns disappeared from his
hands and rings appeared on his
fingers.
The land that produced a bale Of
cotton to the acre which sold for a dol
lar a pound was not rich enough for
his blood. lie moved 10 the city and
let somebody palm off on him an old
Mouse on a street that had lost its
pre-eminence.
From a planter last year he is
about to become a farmer next year.
He really hasn't learned anything;
he is merely doing what circum-
stances compel him to do.
1t Is time the peop,e were begin
ming to learn that things ID work
put; that nothing 10 entirely bad and
gew things are wholly good,
They may learn some day that
only the progress that comes Of hon
at foil and faithf1il and cnnsclen-