Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1935-11-01
THE Law OF RETRIBUTIOW
BY
By
MRS. L. NJ MITCHELL, A. g.. Rust College, Holly
Springs, Mississippi

fitting that individuals by. collectively a group and
Race, pause to examine ourselves, note our short
comings and thank, God is Good 1t is only thought
\ lessness that makes forget His mercy and love-
few facts, very essential to successful life, that
we must forget and cannot escape
% Whatsoever man soweth that shall he also reap
90 Do others you would have others do you
CD Give the world the best you have and the best will
back to YOU
If gardener plant mustard seed few weeks later
he does not forth expecting tomatoes for he knows
from experience that only mustard will grow from
tard seed. What is there who does not know this
natural law? Yet will seeds of injustice, malice
greed and selfishness and seemingly fail to understand
that misery unhappiness and ack of must follow
These the fruits of the seeds in daily life One
cannot wish llluck trouble and pain for another without
later experiencing these worst ILL., This is
raj law. To every act there is equal and opposite
n If man would succeed in life he must not only
this law but he must put it in thought and action.
sometime neighbor who knows how to do
to make things go; instead Of wishing that
we'll, instead of saying to another, How success
is, everything he does prospers' are inclined
IT. ~ We say mean things about him but some
a continues to succeed and efforts 1nea-
nd failing. Why, you say? The is obvious. We
net realize that Mr. is happily attending his business
while little seeds Of envy and of nothing
grow from these seeds but hate jealousy and malice
The sower himself thinks of happiness and joy he
merely wishes Mr. misery and the things he would
q thrust upon Mr. A only come back to him.
Mussoni looked about him for glory Already he had
in few years reached certain heights his native land
but he wasn't satisfied. As dictator he great but
glory he desired; he felt that he must do some
thing retain the height he had reached Italy became
nation only few and to increase her power
or rather his power Mussolin looked upon Ethiopia
desired territory Her riches would add to his glory
Ambitious and greedy for power forgefu OF the laws
" Of Cod and Mussoin for more than month has
waged against peace-oving and peace provoking
people Whatsoever soweth that shall he also reap
Nations have risen against Mussol Destruction follows
TToI Cr1aa to- ho.-a
1el. to ascend the throne He, too must the
Price
The great Napoleon fell because he failed to observe
this natural law and the Golden Rule Do unto others as
you would have others do unto you.
Harriet Beccher Stowe died happy because she lived
life of service and happiness 1t she who did for
others what she would that others would do for her She
loved freedom and when she Race enslaved denied
that which she loved she put forth effort to make
this Race free. She wrote Uncle Toms CABIN book
which portrayed the horros of slavery book which put
good to thinking and result, Harriet BeecherI
Stowe sowed seeds which reaped freedom to 100000
black souls They that in tears, Harriet Beecher
- Stowe said. shall reap in joy
It takes noble character, big heart to work on,
strive when all about is disturbing Booker T. Wash
ington such character Men condemned his ideas
and criticized his theories severely but Booker T. Wash
ington continued to build Black of his own
called him enemy traitor, but Booker t. Washing
IN worked Today the who criticized him have
lived to him great and Tuskegee monument to the
great for which they looked for greatness have long
since crumbed and hear Of them 1t not
the for which these stood that hear Of them
but envy, jealousy and you must not succeed
attitude that lurked in their bosoms We can't forget
the who built the scafold for another which he
himself hanged Whatsoever soweh. that shall
he also reap, whether good CT bad.
1t is generally conceded that Of the greatest OBJ
saeles of the Negro Race that is which hnder its pro-
ges is lack of cooperation The Negro does not succeed
IN business non-cooperation He fails develop
nrf
every corner and every hillside" there is kind
of institution and academy institute college for the
simple that called leaders have not learned
cooperate wonderful opportunity is here for Give
the world the best you have and the best will
back to YOU"
We fail to be successful fail to up to the
standards Of achievement because have not learned
the law of retrbuton We say God is love but do not