San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-09
Listen, World!
Misfortune
BY Elsie Robinson

Mrs. Fred Hopkins has written me
about her husband. She wants me
to show him the error of his ways in
accents kind but firm. Husband Fred.
it seems, is questioning the ways OF
Providence. lie is actually doubling
that Everything Is for the Best.
The Hopkinses live on a little farm
outside the city. Recently they have
experienced series of misfortuncs.
The state inspector came around and
ordered their four cows killed just be-
cause one COW they'd bought was slight
ly infected. Next the grain in the
south pasture didn't come up. Then
Pa got blood poisoning in toe from
nail scratch that he thought would
never amount TO anything. Aud ON
top OF that Mrs. Hopkins's brother
failed 10 meet note that Pa had
signed for and Pa had to make good,
So Pa wants to sell the farm and
move back TO the city. Says he never
was cut out for farmer, anyway. and
he knows he could do lot better at
his old job in the grocery. ..... -
But Ma Hopkins doesn't want to
leave. She likes it on the farm: it's
near her folks. Moreover. she Trusts
in God.
Il tell Pa over and over" she
writes, that this was all sent for our
good. If he'll just be a little patient
he'll see that everything is for the
best. OF course L can't see why il
should happen like this, but our Heav'
only Father has a reason for ii all
and we should have faith.
Il try to tell Pa but he won't listen
to me anymore. He says God has
nothing to do with it-that it's just
our bad luck and it is up to us tc
straighten out our own affairs be
cause God has nothing to do with it.
Il tell him that is terrible way &c
talk, and L am sure he will regret il
some day. Won't you please make
him see that, too. Elsie? I'm sure yor
will agree with me that things are al
planned out for our own good"
| You've guessed wrong, Sister.
DO / THINK EVERYTHING Is
FOR THE BEST?
| | DO MOTT
Nor do ! consider it any compliment
| to God to blame our muddled affairs
upon Him.
have no intimate, inside informa
ton concerning the psychology of Goo
nor His plan for human life. But j
would seem to be plain that we arr
expected to work out our own destin,
and pay for our own blunders. Els'
why should there always be a WAY
OUT of mcsscs as well as WAY
IN:
For instance, God didn't FORCl
these misfOrtunes on the Hopkins fam
ily. If Pa Hopkins had taken du
care in buying that new COW b
wouldn't have purchased an infecte
: animal and their herd need not hay
been slaughtered. If he had attende
to that nail scratch he would not hay
contracted blood poisoning. If he ha
used the good old bean and refused
sign that note, he would not ha,
!, BEEN forced to make it good. If l
had had the land in the south pastul
analyZed by the land experts he woul
{ have known it was too damp an
: heavy for the crop he sowed and he
l have saved his time and money. Fina
: ly. he would have gone back to II
! lob that DOES FIT him.
IT'S A WISE BRAIN TIA
KNOWS HOW AND WHEN I
Y ACKNOWLEDGE FAILURE.
t There were plain ways of avoidir
: all these troubles. IL anything is Co
: given, then God gave him sense al
e opportunities to avoid these ills. Il,
/. Pa Hopkins didn't protect himself
e and now you want him to pass d
: buck. ! don't agree with you, lady.
;. God surely never meant us to
miserable and discouraged, sick al
sore and desperate. The great Ii
Force wants strength and health a
| happiness, not weakness and gri
! And We have the wherewithal to pr
: duce health and happiness. On
we've muddled everything. We
made a social discord and domest
l. strife in place of universal harmon
e And then, instead of putting the blar
i where we should and swapping out
i it we lie down and say it is the wi
y of God
e Its nothing of the sort.
: It's our miserable abb for our oV
o Iaginess, cowardicc and stupidit
Maybe VIC couldn't help meeting ,
with difficulty, but nine times out
ten We could have helped turning tn
difficulty into misfortune. We cou
have been SCRAPPERS instead
y. SAPS.
o convrIcht. 1925, King Feature Syn, II