The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-24

! ! could only strive 20 acquire more
and more knowledge of the Truth and
live life that would be credit to nv
self T9d enable me to say that there
is salvation for the most afflicted. suf-
fering man in all the world These
last four years my thought has been of
others who have not known how T..
live and who would like to solve the
problem and see n living. walking ex-
ample, proving its solution.
For no other reason do ] write these
things of myself. If before I have con-
cluded this story | have not shown
others how to get out of the road that
leads to hell and death, will have
quit the drug habit and suffered i'm vain.
IL before | draw the curtain on this r,
hearsal have not taught children how
they may easily find the way of life
and happily walk therein, | will have
lived in vain. And here | repeat again
n text | repeated often four years ago:
Father, If thy presence is not with US.
carry us not up hence" If | have not
His presence as | write these lines, they
will do me harm and others no good.
Indeed, If ! have not His presence, this
story will not be written.
AS | quit the drug habit early in 1917
the fight made on my inveterate foe
Is interviewer with that my country
made on its enemy. was living in
Denver. Colorado. with my Oldest son
and Oldest daughter. one just old enough
TO go to war, the other just old enough
To marry. What will become of papaY'
they asked each other and asked me.
with matters of such moment trans
piring and about to transpre. papa
would not permit the question to be
ut 10 the house. The boy was the first
man drafted in Denver.
Wanted a man to watch one hund-
red and seventy sheep in the mountains,
place ve~ suitable for a sem-invalid." D."
The foregoing advertisement appeared
in Denver newspaper early in July.
That's my job, | told my daughter.
| answered the advertisement. but
did not receive an immediate reply as
the place was far out in the mountains.
remote from postoffice. My daughter
said, ~ guess the man is not going t.
give you the job, papa" "Oh. yes. he
WILL that's job made to order for me-"
And the man did give me the job. out
of the 46 who applied for it. / was
chosen.
Now. ! did not know where ! was
going. what sort Of man it was who
would be my boss. where | would live
or how | would llve-I just went. | not
only made no inquiry, but there was
none in my mind. | travelled a hundrc I'd
miles by rail, twenty-five by mail hack,
and ten In an automobile with my EN-.
9loyer. ! was now 35 miles in the soil
tude and more than 5000 miles in thu
attitude Of the mountain Before | hav>
! finished tn insta'lment of my stor,
/ II. will be seen whether | had rr.ena
or not. If Providence gives a man worN
He will be with him and see that he is
able to do the work. In last Sundays
issue of The Az imcTete told the
tory of the dog, whicn. though young
and unti AIMED, ma il possib.s for !. O
to do the work that had been assigned
me, and before have concluded | win
tell what sort of man my boss was.
Back Of the tent which was my hons
was a perpendicular rock wall whicn,
II seemed. had been put there to keep
the mountain peak above from sliding
down on my home. Back of that. where
the sheep ranged, was as desolate :,
region as there Is in the Rocky noun
tains. In front of the tent was a public
highway. across which was d little