Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 36, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 January 1899 — Page 3

WANT MOKE DAVIDS. Dr. Talmage Says Every Community Should Have One. Tfce People Seed (Soerpetle Christian Le«drr« In Their Fight Against Saiu-Leusa from the ' Old Prophet. •v(Washington. Jab. *.. Copyright. 1899.1 v From a text probably never before discoursed upon Dr. Talmage in ibis sermon shows how some people multi* ply their resources for usefulness and , in a novel way urges the putting forth Of more energy in right directions; text, II. Samuel 18:3; “Thou art worth 10.000 of us.M One of the most wojpdrous characters of his time was David. A red-haired boy; he could shepherd a flock or carry “Jen loaves and teitxUces of milk cheese to his broil hers'jfMtho regiment,” or with leathern thong, stonepoaded, bring j down a giant whose armor Weighed two hundredweight of metal, or cause a lion which roared at him in rage to roar with patin as he flung it, dying, to the roadside, or could marshal a host or rule an empire, or thumb a harp so successfully that it cured Saul’fjdementia—a harp fropi whose strings dripped pastorals, elegies, lyrics, triumphal xnarches^Mnedictions. Now, this man, a combination of music and heroics, of dithyrambs and battlefields, of coun--tfy quietudes and statesmanship, is to fit out a military expedition. Four thousand troops, according to sephus. were sent into the field. The captaips were put in command of the companies and the colonels ip cothmand of the regiments, which were disposed into right wing, left wing and center. Gen. Joab. Gen. Abfshai and Gen. Jttai are to lead these three divisions. But who shall take the field as commander in chief? David offers his services, and proposes to go to the fron/* He will lead them in this awful charge, for he has not a cowardly nerve in all his body. He did not propose to .have his troops go into perils which he himself would not brave, and the battlefield required as much couragje then as now, for the opposing forces must, iii order to do any execution af, all, eotue up to within positive reach of

saber and spear. But there came up from the troops and the civilians a mighty protest against David’s taking the field. His life was too important to -1he nation. If he went down, the empire went down, whereas if the. whole 4.000 of the ranks were slain another army might be marshaled and the defeat turned into victory. The army.and the nation practically cried out: *\No! 2so! You cannot go to the front. We estimate you as 10,000 nnbn. Thou art worth 10,000 of us!” * That army and thatnatkmjtben ands there reminded David, and no^s£itemind ns. of the fact which we forget or never appreciate at all that some people are morally or spiritually worth far m$re than others and isome worth far l«*s. The census and>statistics of neighborhoods, of churches, of nations, serve their purpose, .but they can never accurately expre$|t the real state' of things.” The practical subjefet that I want to present to-day is that those who have especial opportunity, especial graces, especial wealth, especial;talent, especial elbquence, oughtato ntake up by especial assiduity and consecration for those who have less opportunities . and less gifts. You ought to do ten times more for God and human uplifting than those who have'only a tenth of your equipment. The ranl^and the file of the 4;000 of the text told the truth when , they said: “Thou art worth 10,000 of us.” 1 : In no city; of its size are there so many men of talent as are gathered inn this capital of the American nation. c Spine of the states are at'timesi repre^ sented by men who have neither tal- , ents nor good morals. Their political' party compensates them for partisan services by sending them to congress, or by securing for them positions in the war or navy or, pension or printing departments. They were nobodies before they left home, and they are nobodies here. But they are exceptional. All the states of the Union generally send their most talented men and men of exemplary lives and noble purposes. Some of them have the gifts and qualifications of ten men, of 100 men—yea, of 1,000 men—and their constituents

could truthfully employ the words of my text and say: *Thou art worth 10,--000 of us.” With sueh opportunity are they augmenting their usefulness in every possible direction? It is a stupendous thing to have power—political power, social power, official power. It has often been printed and often quoted as one of the wise sayingsof the ancients: ■“Knowledge is power.” Yet, it may as certainly be power for evil as for good. The lightning express rail train has power for good if it is on the track, but horrible power for disaster if it leaves the track and plunges down the embankment. The ocean steamer has power for good sailing in right direction and in safe waters and under good helmsmen and wide awake watchmen ■on the lookout, but Indescribable power for evil if under full headway it strikes* the breakers. As steam power or electricity or water force® tnay be stored in boilers, in dynamos, in reservoirs, to be employed all over a town or city, so *God sometimes puts in one man enough faith to supply thousands of men with courage. ITh man happens to be thus -endowed, let\ him realize his opportunity and improve it. At this time mil-j lions of men are a-tremble lest this nation make a mistake, and enter upon some policy of government for the islands of the sea that will founder the republic. Qod will give to a few men on both sides of tlda question faith and courage for all the rest. There are two false position* many are now taking. false as false can be. The one ia that if we decline to take under fall charge Cuba and Porto Rico and the

Philippine* we make * declaration that will foe disastrous to our nation, and other nation* will take control of those archipelagoes and rule them, and perhaps to our humiliation and destruction. The other theory is that if we take possession of those once Spanish colonea we iurite foreign interference! and enter upon a career that will finally be the demolition of this government. Both positions are immeasurable mistakes. God has set apart this continent for free government, and the triumphs of Christianiay. and we may take either the first or the second course vHthour' ruin. We may say to those island^ “We do not vrant you. but we have set you free; pow stay free, while we see that the Spanish panther never again puts its paw on your neck,** or we may invite the annexation of Cuba and Porto Rico. and say to the Philippines: "Get ready, by education and good morals, for free government, and at the right time you shall be one of our territoriM, on the way to be ojoe of our states.'* And there is no power in Europe. Asia or Africa or ali combined that could harm this nation in its worldwide endeavor. God is on the side of the right, and by earnest imploration for Divine guidance on the part of this nation we will be led to do the right. We &e on the brink of nothing. There is no frightful crisis. This train of republican and democratic institutions is a through train, and all we wnnb-i^lo have the engineer and the *brakeinan and the conductor attend to their business and the passengers keep their places. We want men in this nation with faith enough for all, We fv&nt here*fcnd there a David worth" 10,000 A vast majority of men have no surplus of confidence for others and hardly enough confidence for themselves. The^r go through'life saying depressing things and doing depressing things. Thtiy chill prayer meetings, discourage chairitable institutions, injure commerce and kill churches. They blow out lights when they ought to be kindling them. They hover around a dull fire on their open hearth and take up so much room that no one can catch the least caloric, instead of stirring the hearth into a blaze, |he crackle of whose backlog would Invite the whole

uejgnooruoou 10 come in to reel toe abounding- warmth and see thetrainsfiguration of the faces. As We all have to guess a great deal about the future, let us guess something good, for it will be more encouraging and the guess will be just as apt to come true. What a lot of ingrates the Lord has at His tablepeople wj>© have bad three meals a day for 50'years and yet fear that they will soon hAye to rattle their knife and fork on an empty dinner plate! llow many have had, winter and spring and summer and fall, clothing for 60 years, but expect an empty wardrobe shortly! How many have lived under free institutions all their days, but Tea? that the United States ipay be telescoped in some foreign collision! Oh, but the taxes have gone-up! Yes, but. thank Uod. it is easier, with iponey, to pay the taxes now that they are up thao<«tt was without money to pay the taxeswhen tbey~were down. We want a few men who have faith in God and that mighty futurh which holds several things. among\them a millennium. Columbanus said to: his friend: “D£ieolus. why are you always smiling?*’ The reply was: “BeeAuse no one can take my God from me!" We want more men to feel that they have a mission to cheer others and tej draw up the corners of. people’s mouths which havea long while been drawn ^own—more Davids who can ^shepherd whole docks of bright hopes and pl^.y a harp of encouragement and strike down jrGoliath of despai&aml of whom we can say: “Thou art worth 1004500 of us.” I admit that this thought of my text, fully carried out, would change many of the world’s statistics. Suppose a village is said to have 1.000 inhabitants and that one-half of them—namely, 500 —have for yehrs been becoming less in body, and through niggardliness and grumbling, less in soul. Each one of these is only one-half of what he once was, or one-half-of what she once was. The original 500 have been reduced onehalf in moral quality, and are really only 250. Suppose that the other 50*0 have maintained their original status and are neither better nor woese. Then the entire population of that village is 750. But suppose another village of 1,000, and 500 of them as the years go by, through mental and spiritual culture, augment themselves until they are really twice the men and womeir

t&ey originally were, and the other 500 remain unchanged and are neither better nor' worse, then the population of that village is 1,500. Meanness is subtraction and nobility is addition. According as you rise in the scale of holiness and generosity and consecration* you are worth 5 or 10 or 50 or 100 or 1,000 or 10,000. —Notice, my friend, that this David, warrior, strategist, minstrel, master of blank verse and 6tone slinger at the giant, whom the soldiers of the text estimated clear up into the thousandfold of usefulness, on this particular occasion staid at home or in his place of temporary residence. Gen." Joab. Gen. Abishii and Gen. Ittai. who commanded thcptoysin the right wing and left wing | an| center, did their work bravely and left 25,000 of the Dord’s enemies dead on the field, and many of the survivors got entangled in the woods of Ephraim, and mixed ug^ia the bushes, and stumbled over the afompfr of trees, and fell into bogs, and were devoured by wild beasts which seized thetn in the thickets. But David did his work at home. We all huzza for heroes who havebeen ^in-battle, and on their return what processions we form, and what triumphal arches we spring, and what banquets we spread, and what garlands we wreathe, and what orations we deliver, and what bells we ring, and what cannonades we fire! But do we do justice td the stay at homes? David, who was worth 10,000 of who went out to

meet the Lord** enemies int£^^>od^>t Ephraim that day did hia work in retirement. V Oh, the world needs a day of judgment to give many of the stay at boines proper recognition, in the different wars the sons went to the front and\oa ship’s deck or battlefield exposed theit lives and earned the admiration of the country. But how about (he mothers and fathers who through loog years ^augbt those sons the noble sentiments that inspired them to go and then gave /them up. when perhaps a few words of earnest protest would bare kept them on the farm and in the homestead? The day of dual reward will reveal the selfsacrifice and the fidelity of thousands who never in all their lives received one word of praise. Oh. ye unknown, ye faithful and Christian and all enduring stay at homes! have no power now to do you justice, but 1 tell you of one who has the power, and of the <jay when Be wijl put it forth. It wilibe the dltj when the thimble, and the ta%le, and the darning needle, and the washtuh, and the spinning wheel, and the scythe, and the thrashing machine, and the ham tner. and the trowel, and the plot*, will come to as high an appreciation as a 74-pounder, or the sword, ot* the battering ram that pounded down the wall, or the flag that was htisted on the scaled pa raps fa. = < The warrior David of my text show ed more self-control and moral prowess in staying at home than he could have shown commanding in the field. Be was a natural warrior. Martial airs stirred him. The glitter of opposing shields fired him. He wits one of those men who feel at home in the saddle, patting the neck pf a pawing cavalry horse. But he suppressed himself. Be obeyed the command of the troops whom he would like* to have command

ed. 4 r Some of the greatest Sedans and Aus- !' terlitzes have been in backwoods ij^tchens or in nursery with three child«a down with scarlet fever, soon tr join the two already in the churchyard, or amyl domestic wrongs and outrages enough to transform angels into devils, ot in commercial life within their own counting-rooms in time of black Friday panies, or in mechanical life in theirs own carpenter shop, or on the scaffolding of walls swept by cold or smitten by heat. No telegraphic wires reported the crisis of the conflict, no banner was ever waved to celebrate their victory, but God knows and God will remember, and God will adjust, and by Him the falling of a tear isaseertalnly noticed as the burning of a world and the Butter of a sparrow’s wiug as the flight of the apocalyptic archangel. Oh, what a God we have for small things as well as big things!' David no more helped at the front than helped at home. The four regiments mobilized for the defense of the throne ol Israel were right in protesting against David's exposure of his life at the front. Had he been pierced of an arrow, or cloven down with a battleax. or fatally slung from snorting war charger, what a disaster to the throne of Israel! Ab- | solom, his son, was a low fellow and unfit to reign; his two chief characteristics were his handsome face and his long hair—so long that when he bad it cut that which was scissored off weighed “200 shekels after the king’s weight,” and when a man has nothing but a handsome fade and an exuberance of hair, there is not much of him. The captureandslayingof David would have been ,a calamity irreparable. Unnecessary exposure would have been a crime for David, as it is a crime for you. . ,>In nine cases out of ten the fatalities every day reported are not the fault of engineers or brakemen or conductors or cab drivers, but of the stupidity. and recklessness of people^al street or railroad crossings. They would like to have the Chicago limited express train, with 300 passengers, advertised to arrive at a certain hour ic a certain city, slow up to let them get two minutes sooner to their destination, •not one farthing of their own or anyone else’s Welfare dependent on whether they arrive one minute before 12 'o’clock or,one minute after. You ought to get permission from a railroad superintendent to mount beside the engineer on a locomotive to realize how many evils of recklessness there are in the world—funeral processions whipping np to get across before the cowcatcher strikes the hearse; man of family, with wife and children beside him in a wagon, evidently having made close calculation as to whether a stroke from the locomotive would put them backward or forward in the journey to the village grocery; traveler on a railroad bridge hoping that be could get to the end of

the bridge before the train reaches it. Yon have no right to put your life in peril unless by such exposure some thing is to be gained for others. What imbecility in thousands of Americans during our recent Americo-Spanish wax disappointed because the surrender came so soon, and they could not hare the advantage of being shot at San Juan hill, or brought down with the yellow fever and carried on a littei to transport steamers, already so many floating lazarettos, instead of thanking God that they got no nearer to the slaughter than Tampa or Chattanooga or the encampment at their own state capital, mad at the government, mad at God, because they could not get to the front in time to join the 4,000 corpses that are now being transported from the tropics to the national cemeteries of the United States! Exposure and, daring are admirable when duty calls, but keep out of peril when nothing practical and useful is to be gained for your family or your country or yonr God. I admire the David of my text as he suppresses himself and enters the gate Of hie castle as much as 1 admire him when with his four fingers and thumb clutched into the^rizziy locks of Goliath's bead, which he bad decapi tated. and Saul admiringly asks: “Whose son art thou, young man?” and David, blushing with genuine modesty, resjKjuds: “I am the son of tfcjr servant, the Betblehemtau”

PASSING OF THE OX. Om of tM Sai Bat la evitable Keealta at tke Qatckpnrd Life of the Coanlrjr. Notwithstanding the ubiquity of tha bicycle and the tardy development of the automobile, there is no evidence that the horse is losing ground in our social and domestic economy, says the Boston Transcript. On the contrary, there has been an increase of about 40 per cent, in horseflesh since 1812. and of about 12 per cent, in the number of ; mules, while that dear, quaint' and -; faithful servant of man, the patient ox, has barely held his own in the last 16 fears. This is perhaps one of the inevitable results of the quickened life of the country. His star is in the descendant. While the country may be congratulated upon the increased puiih which demands greater speed aud power in our modern activities, a sigh of regret wiH nevertheless follow the vanishing ox just as it did the old stage coach when the locomotive forced it off the road. The gradual passing away of the ox as a beast of burden has“ the pathos that attaches to the extinction of one of the early families. They came into the country together, and together they took a pioneer part in its development. They felled and die w off the trees, they tore up the stumps, they seamed aud mellowed the rooty soil, rnakiug it richly responsive to the needs of man. They pulled out the great stones that fretted the faces of nature and made garden spots of the tugged hillside and plain. The ox was a factor of every enterprise. He was on the farm, at the wharf and the mill, and when in those early days of expensive and adventurous ideas the old places seemed too contracted for the settler he bundled his family into a prairie schooner, while his faithful oxen dragged thft ponderous wain a six months’ journey toward the setting sun, accomplishing a distance which we may now be whirled between the twilight and dawn, browsing cheerily as they wended their toilsome way along, and boarding themselves when the time for nightly camping arrived. But ?the old fellow has had his day except where the conditions are still primitive,, Once he was the steady reliance of every farmer, but now one hardly sees a yoke iu the harvest field or the plow lot. His pace cannot be readjusted to the quick step of modern ideas and inventions, and utilitarianism has noNuse for the poetic or th^- picturesque. More and more his destination is coming to be the shambles. This makes life shorter and we might say merrier, but merriment in an ox is in* conceivable.

LOADING DRESSED HOGS. A Device by Means of Which the Cat* cass Is Handled with Almost No Lifting. 4-$-One of the chief outdoor difficulties at butchering time is the loading heavy dressed hogs intended for market. Frequently this is done by one man, aided by the women of the household, and it is usually productive oi much nervousness and some irritability. All this may be remedied in the following way: Make and keep from one season to another a large tripod by joining at the top three stout poles, c, T8 feet' longv Keep the upper ends of tl\e poles from splitting by means of iron bands. The lower ends are sharpened to a point,

- TRIPOD FOR HANGING HOGS. The upper ends of the poles to form the tripod are joined by a strong iron rod or bolt, a. An iron, b, formed like the letter U is fastened to the outside ends of the rod which joins the poles by running the rod through eyes formed in the iron. This loop of iron is to sup^ port ‘the chain which holds the hog. When ready to hang the, hog, lower one leg of the tripod, fasted on the hog, then raise the leg until the hog hangs sufficiently clear of the ground. In loading back the horses, plf cirg the wagon under the tripod close to the hog. Then raise one leg of tripod until i the hog will swing into the wagon, then lower it. The hog is loadet^in this way with almost no lifting. This tripod ii equally as valuable for hanging hogs to be dressed. They may be left hanging upon it until loaded.—Orange Judd Farmer.

r Frozen Stock la Market. There is some complaint that the iarge amount of frozen stock reduces prices. If the other side is considered it will show that by free freezing the chicks in the fall, when prices are low, better sales are made through the winter; hence, what may be a loss to some is a gain to others. Taken on the wrhole, the refrigerators have increased the markets for poultry by creating a large demand for late chicks. Frozen poultry cunnot compete with that which is choice and fresh, however. It comes on the market and sells because there is nothing to compete with it, and the supply is usually exhausted by the time spring broilers are ready.—Farm and Fireside. If you are near a town it is probably ihe better plan to take the hogs to the town batcher fur slaughter, ^

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