The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-07-20

yet they prepare their meat for the
summer;
"The comics are but feeble felix,
yet they make their houses in the
rocks;
"The locusts have no king, yet
they go forth by bands;
"The spider taketh hold with her
hands and is in kings palaces.
AS it goes with little people, so
is it with little communities. The
little community is the finest place
on earth to make home, to raise
a family, to become great and
useful citizen.
Like the little people, the little
places have suffered in recent
years, because the bigger places
have sought by every means to
eed upon the little ones. The big
places do not by their own work,
make themselves great. There are
in the big places too many drones
and too many chiselers. They are
unwilling to work for themselves
but want what they won't work
for, at the hands of neighbors.
So my brethren, what do the big
places do? They live off the little
places.
They seek to cause the little man
in the little place to be dissatisfied
with his lot, and they tell him to
move to the big place.
They want to make the big place
bigger, and to live off what the lit
tie man brings from the lit =
place, where he has worked and
saved all his life.
If they cannot get him to come
peacefully, they drive him. Yes,
they can drive him. They can re-
fuse to build roads in his communi-
ty, or they can move his school
away from him, and soon there is
mo appeal to him to live where he
was born, and where rests the
ashes of his fathers, and where al!
that is near and dear to him exist.
So he forsakes the affairs of his
foreparents, and moves away, and
each time one moves away he is
making life harder for those who
wish to remain, for good stores,
and good churches do not thirty?
where people grow fewer.
/ Brethren, the richness of this
earth all brought to the big places
and piled up in stone and steel can
never compare with the wealth of
character and ability that nodded
the genius and soul that made our
nation great.
The great FORCES which welded
the character and tempered the
steel of the great men of oul
country have always been the litttlt
communities, where lived "The
Little People,"
The little communities are dying
out, so for many years the fires N
these FORCES have been dying out
Il countless communities there are
no FORCES burning, and they are
rot producing SO many great men
AID great leaders as used to be
and cur country is suffering.
OF course ir all the little com
nunities there are some men great.
err than others. Sometimes there i:
only one such man.
1 say to you: Poor folks, little
people, stick together, and stand b!
voEr friends. 1t is SO seldom theirs
is strong friend of the litt!,
people.
l am reminded Of something
now that Illustrates what can COM,
to the little man. List We to this:
In Luke, 10Th Chapter:
and Jesus entered and PasseC
through Jericho.
"And behold, there was a ma,
named Zaccheus which was tn,
chief among the publicans, and h
/ was rich.
"And he sought to see Jesus wht
he was; and could not for the press
for he was little of stature.
) "And he ran before and clinic,
ru into sycamore tree to see HIM
: for he was to pass that way.
"And when Jesus came to TIKI
. place, he looked up, and saw him
and said unto him Zacchaeus, max,
hasts and come down; for today
: must abide at thy house.
"And Jesus said unto him, Thu
day has salvation come to thi.