Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 November 1900 — Page 6

THE GADABOUT EVIL. Dr. Talmage Deplores the Prevailing Spirit of Unrest.

ChrUitiu Stability the Source of r»efolacao and Hapi»lnca»—Valne at • Fixed Splrltnal Condition. (Copyright. 1900, by Louis Klopsch.] „ Washington, Nov. 2K. From am unusual text Dr. Ta Image In this discourse rebukes the spirit of unrest which characterizes so many people, and shows them the happiness and usefulness to be found in stability; text, Jeremiah 2:36: “Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?” Homely is the illustration by which this prophet of tears deplores the vacillation of the nation to whom he wrote. Now they wanted alliance with Egypt, and now with Assyria, and now with Babylon, and now they did not know what they wanted, and the behavior of the nation reminded the prophet of a man or woman who, not satisfied with home life, goes from place to place, gadding about, as we say, never settled anywhere or in anything, and he cries out to them: “Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?” Well, the world has now as many gadabouts as it bad in Bible times, and 1 think that that race of people is more numerous now than it ever was. Gadabouts among occupations, among religious theories, among ehurches, among neighborhoods, and one of the greatest wants of the church and the world is more steadfastness and more fixedness of purpose. . It was no small question that Pharaoh put to Jacob and his sons when he asked: “What is your occupation?*’ Getting into the right occupation not only decides your temporal welfare, but may decide your eternal destiny. The reason so many men and women are dead failures is because instead of asking God what they ought to be or do they, through some vain ambition or whimsicality, decide what they ought to be. Let me say to all young men and young women in homes or in school or college do not go gadding about among occupations and professions to find what you are fitted for, but make humble and direct appeal to God for direction.

While seeking Divine guidance in your selection of a lifetime sphere examine your own temperament. The phrenologist will tell ybu your mental proclivities. The physiologist will tell you your physical temperament.'' Your enemies will tell you your weaknesses, if’ you are, as we say, nervous, do not become a surgeon. If you are cowardly, do not become an engineer. If you •re hoping for a large and permanent Income, do not seek a governmental position. If yoju are naturally quicktempered. do not become a minister of the Gospel, for while anyone is disadvantaged by ungovernable disposition there is hardly anyone who enacts such an incongruous part as a mrid minister. Can you make a fine sketch of a ship or rock or house or face? Be an artist. Do you find yourself humming cadences, and do the treble clef and the musical bars drop from your pen easily, and can you make a tune that charms those who hear it? Be a musician. Are you born with a fondness for argument? Be an attorney. Are you naturally a good nurse and especially interested in the relief of pain? Be a physician. Are you interested in all questions of traffic and in bargain making? Are you apt to be successful on a small or large scale? Be a merchant. Do you prefer country life, and do you like the plow, and do you hear music in the rustle of a ha>vest field? Be a farmer. Are you fond of machinery, and are turning wheels to you a fascination, and can you follow with absorbing interest a new kind of thrashing machine hour after hour? Be a mechanic. If you enjoy analyzing the natural elements and a laboratory could entertain you all day and all oi^ht. be a chemist. If you are inquisitive about other worlds and interested in all instruments that would bring them nearer for inspection, be •n astronomer. If you have no one faculty dominant and nothing in your make-up seems to point to this or that occupation, shut yourself up in your own aroom, get down on your knees and rev--erently ask God what He made vou lor, and tell Him that you are willing "to do anything He wishes you to do. ^Before you leave that room you will tfind out. But for the sake of your usefulness and happiness and your temporal and eternal welfare do bot join that crowd of people who go gadding about among business and occupations, now trying this and now trying that and never accomplishing anything. Bast summer a man of great genius died. He had the talents of 20 men in surgical directions, but he did not like surgery, and he wanted to be a

preacner. ue coma not preach. I told him so. He tried it on both sides of the sea, but he failed, because he turned his back on that magnificent profession of surgery, which has in our time made such wonderful achievement that it now heals a broken neck and by the X ray explores the temple of the human body as if it were a lighted room. For 40 years he was gadding about among the professions. Do not imitate him. Ask God what you ought to be, and He will tell you. It may not be as elegant a style of work as you would prefer. It may callous and begrime your hands and put you in suffocating atmosphere and stand you shoulder to shoulder with the unrefined and may leave your overalls the opposite of aromatic, but remember that if God calls you to do one thing you will never be happy in doing something else. ' All the great Successes have been gained through opposition and struggle. Charles Goodyear, the inventor, whose name is now a synonym all the world over for fortune added to for

time, waded many years chin deep through the world’s scorn and was thrust in debtors’ prison and came with his family to the v^rge of starvation, but continued his experiments with vulcanized rubber until he added more than can be estimated to the world’s health and comfort, as well as to his own advantage. Columbus and John Fitch, and Stephenson and Robert Bruce, and Cyrus W. Field and 500

others were illustrations of what tenacity and pluck can do. “Hard pounding,” said Wellington at Waterloo, “hard pounding, gentlemen, but w« will see who can pound the longest.” Yes, my friends, that is the secret, not flight from obstacles in the way, but “who" can pound the longest.” The child had it right when attempting to carry a ton of coal, a shovelful at a time, from the sidewalk to the cellar, and some one asked her: “Do you expect to get all that coal in with that little shovel?” And she replied: “Yes, sir, if I work long enough.” By the help of God choose your calling and stick to it. The gadabouts are failures for this life, to say nothing of the next. There are many who exhibit thia frailty in matters of religion. They are not sure about anything that pertains to their soul or their eternal destiny. Now they are Unitarians, and now they are Universalists, and now they are Methodists, and now they are Presbyterians, and now they are nothing at all. They arc not .quite sure that the Bible was inspired or, if inspired, whether the words or the ideas were inspired or whether only part of the Book was inspired. They think at one time that the story in Genesis about the garden of Eden is a history, and the month after they think it is an allegory. At one time they think the book of Job describes what really occurred, but the next time they speak of it they call it a d^ama. Now they believe all the miracles, but at your next interview' they try to show how these scenes had nothing in them supernatural, but can be accounted for by natural causes. Gadding about among religious theories and never satisfied. All the evidence is put before them, and why do they not render a verdict? If they cannot make up their mind with all the data put before them, they never will. There are all the archaeological confirmations* of the Bible brought to view by the “Palestine Exploration society;” there are the bricks of Babylon, the letter “N” impressed upon them—“N” for Nebuchadnezzar, showing that he was not a myth—and the farther the shovel of the antiquarian goes down the more is revealed of that most wonderful city of all time. Prof. Heilprecht, of the University of Pennsylvania, presents us tablets found in the far east ratifying and explaining Scriptural passages which were before in mystery? As the builders in Jerusalem to-day dig for the foundation of new houses they turn up with

tnefr pickaxes *the ashes of the.animals that were used for burnt offerings in the temple ages ago. demonstrating the truth of the JSible story about the sacrifices of lam^s and heifers and pigeons. There is the history by Josephus. described on uninspiring pages scenes which the Bible depicts. On the banks of the Dead sea there are pieces, of the very brimstone that fell in the sulphurous storm that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Make up your mind whether the Bible is a glorious revelation of God or the worst imposition of the centuries. Why go gadding about among infidels, atheists and deists asking questions and surmising and guessing about the authority and value of a book which involves the infinities? It is either a good book or a bad book. If it be a baik book, you do not want it in your house nor have your children contaminated with its teachings. If it is a good book, your eternal happiness depends upon the adoption of its teachings. Once and forever make up your mind whether it is the book of God or the book of villainous pretenders. My text also addresses those who in search of happiness are going hither and yonder looking for that which they find not. Their time is all taken up with “musicales,” and “progressive euchres.” and teas, and yellow luncheons, and “at homes,” and dances, and operas, and theaters; and, instead of finding happiness, they get pale cheeks, and insomnia, and indignation, and neuralgia, and exhaustion, and an abbreviated lifetime. There is more splendid womanhood sacrificed in that way in our cities than in any other way. The judgment day only can reveal the awful holocaust of jangled nerves and the suicidal habits of much of our social life. The obituary of such reads well, for the story is suppressed about how they got their death while standing in attire of gauze, waiting for the carriage on a raw night, on the front steps. While in their lifetime they possessed all the ability for the relief of pain and impoverishment^jyt they have no time for visitation of the

poor, or to win the blessing of such as comes upon those who administer to those who are ready to perish. Enough flowers in their dining halls to bewitch a prince, but not one tuft of heliotrope to perfume the room of that rheumatic on the back street, to whom the breath of one flower would be like the opening of the front door of Heaven. Find me one man or one woman who in all the rounds of pleasure and selfishness has found a piece of happiness as large as that half dollar which the benevolent and Christlike soul puts into the palm of the hand of that mother whose children are crying f$r bread. Queen Victoria riding in triumph through London at her jubilee was .not so sublime a figure as Queen Victoria in a hut near Balmoral castle reading the New Testament to a poor dying man. Let all the gadabouts for happiness know that in kindness and usefulness and self-abnegation are to be found a satisfaction which all the gayeties of the wovM regated cannot afford.

Amour the race of gadabouts at* those who neglect their homes in order that they may attend to institutions that are really excellent and do not so much ask for help as demand It. I am acquainted, as you are, with women who are members of a© many boards of direction of benevolent institutions, and have to stand at a booth in so manjr fairs, and must collect funds for so msny orphanages, and preside at so

many philanthropic meetings, and are expected to be in so many different places at the same time that their children are left to the care of irresponsible servants, and if the little'onta waited to say their prayers at thd$r mother's knee they would never shy their evening prayers at all. Such a woman makes her own home so unattractive that the husband spends hia evenings at the clubhouse or the tavern. The children of that house are as thoroughly orphans as any of the fatherless and motherless little onea gathered in the orphanage for which that gadabout woman is tailing so industriously. By all means let Christian women foster charitable institutions and give them as much of their time as they can spare, but the first duty of that mother is the duty she owes to her home. But no one can take a mother’s place, and it is an awful mistake that that mother makes who sacrifices home duties for any church meeting, however important, or any hospital, however merciful, or any outside beneficence, however glorious and grand. Not understanding this, we mistake when we try to give statistics as to how many Christians there are in our churches and in the world. We understate the facts. We look over our church audiences on the Sabbath or our week service and conclude that they represent the amount of piety in that neighborhood. Oh.no! There are many most consecrated souls that are not found in churches. Look into those houses with large families of children and little or no hired help. For much of the year there is some one ill, and a special guardian care is requisite. How much time can that mother give to churches and prayer meetings when most of the family are down with scarlet fever or have colds that threaten now one kind of disease and now another? That mother watching at home as much pleases the Lord as the mother who at church takes the sacrament or in the mission school tells the waifs of the street how they may become sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. That mother at home is deciding the destiny of the state by the way she leads that boy into right thinking and acting and is deciding the welfare of some future home by the example she is Setting that girl, and though the world does not appreciate the unobserved work Heaven watches and rewards. On the other hand, you have known women who are off at meetings humanitarian and philanthropic, planning for the destitute and the outcast, while their own children went unwashed and unkempt, their garments needing repairs, their manners impudent and themselves a general nuisance to the community

m which they live. One bad habit these gadabouts, masculine or feminine, are sure to get, ‘and that is of scandal distribution. They hear so many deleterious things about others and see so much of wrong behavior that they are loaded up and loaded down with the faults of others, and they have their eyes full, and their ears full, and their hands full, and their mouths full of defamation. The woman who is endowed of gossip can so easily untie her bonnet strings and sit down to spend the afternoon. A man can afford you a cigar as a retainer if you will patiently hear all he has to say about those who cannot pay their debts, or are about to fall, or are guilty of moral mishap, or have aroused suspicion of embezzlement. All gadabouts are peddlers, who unpack in your presence their large store of nux vomica and nightshade. Such j gadabouts have little prospect of Heaven. If they got there they would try to create jealousy among the- different ranks of celestials and make trouble among the Heavenly neighbors, and start quarrels seraphic, and would be on perpetual run. now down this street and now up that, now in the house of many mansions, and now in the choir of the temple, and now on the walls, and now in the gates, until they would be chased down and pushed out into the pandemonium of backbiters and slanderers after Jeremiah had addressed them in the words: “Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?” Now, what is the practical use of the present discourse? This:* Whereas, so many have ruined themselves and ruined others by becoming gadabotits among occupations, among religious theories, among churches, among neighborhoods; therefore, resolved. that we will concentrate upon what is right thought and right be

havior, and waste no tune in vacillations and indecisions and uncertainties. running about in places where we have no business to be. Life is so short we have no time to play with it the spendthrift. Find out whether the Bible is true and. whether your nature is immoral, and whether Christ i6 the Divine and only Saviour, and whether you must have Hhfi or be discomfited, and whether there will probably ever be a more auspicious moment for your becoming His adherent, and then make this 12 o’clock at noon of November 25,1900, the most illustrious minute that you will ever have passed since the day of your birth until the ten millionth cycle of the coming eternity, because by complete surrender of thought and will and affection qpd life to God through Jesus Christ you become a new man, a new woman, a new soul, and God the Father, and God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, and all angeldom, cherubim and seraphim and archangel became vour allies.

► H HI HUGH The Former President of the Trane¥nnl Republic Lends nt the French Pert SIYEI M ElTHIISUSTtC RECEPTION. Mm Sm»mm *• P*miu Aeclaautl»M Be DechucA that the laan WemM Sever Saeritee ThelrPreetfeeas that They VaiM Sahatt ta Exteretaatlaa Pin*, Marseilles, Not. 23.—Paul Kruger, former president of the South African Republic, landed here at 10:44 a. m. Mr. Kruger can not but be elated •t the warmth of his reception by the people of Marseilles. He may be said to have been borne on an irresistible ware of enthusiasm from the landing stage to his betel. The broad streets and boulevards through

PRESIDENT KRUGER. which the route lay presented a perfect sea of human beings, all gathered there prompted by the unanimous desire to welcome the aged Boer | statesman. A Storm of Cheering. From the moment the white, ( twelve-oared barge left the side of the Gelderland, with Mr. Kruger, who | appeared to be in good health, sitting in her stern, surrounded by the Boer representatives, including Mr. Leyds and Messrs. Fischer and Wessels, a j storm of eheeriug broke and never ! ceased until Mr. Kruger entered his ; hotel. Even then a vast concourse j of people remained in front of the ! building until Mr. Kruger appeared j on the baleony, where he had to re- j j main for some time, uncovered, ac~ j knowledging the acclamations of bia j thousands of admirers, who eontin- [ ued cheering until they were hoarse [ with shouting. ! Will Never Sacrifice Their Freedom. Replying to the storm of acclamaI lions from the solid block of thou- | sands of enthusiastic people, Mr. ! Kruger said the warm reception given '■ | him to-day would do much to soothe i the wounds in his heart. The Boers, ! he added, will never sacrifice their freedom. They will rather be exterminated to the last man. Re|>ly to Welcoming Addresses. Replying to the addresses of welcome of the presidents of the Paris ' and Marseilles committee, Mr. Kruger spoke in Duteh, and in a low voice, accompanying his words with ' energetic movements of his hat,which ; he held in his right hand. After i thanking the committees for the warmth of the reception accorded him, and expressing gratitude for the j sympathy he had received from the French government, he spoke of the war as terrible and barbarously conducted by the British.. He said: Accuses BrUiik of Barbarism. “I have fought with savages, but the present war is even worse. We will never surrender. We are determined to fight to the last extremity, and if the republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State lose their independence, it will be because they have e~vry man, woman and child.” This declaration which Mr. Kruger made dispelled at once any impression that he intends to accept a compromise from the British government. His announcement was greeted with a roar of cheers, and cries of “Vive Kruger,” “Vive les Boers,” “Vive la Liberte.” Am Animated Scene.

The scene-at the landing place was animated one. The decks of all the steamers in the Lyons basin were crowded with sightseers. The crowd swelled to great proportions as the news spread through the city that the Gelderland had entered the harbor. A cold northwest wind, which set in during the night, cleared away the clouds, and morning broke fresh but bright with sunshine. The inner harbor \ras all the gayer for the decoration of a number of French yachts with multi-colored flags and pennants, among which Boer flags were prominently displayed. Torpedo Boat Blakely Launched. Boston, Nov. 23.—The topedo boat Blakeley, which, with the DeLong, of equal dimensions and identical Equipment, has been under construction at the works of George Lawley & Son, South Boston, was successfully launched. Makeo a Thousand Men Idle, Bed Wing, Minn., Nov. 23.—Out thousand men were thrown out of employment by the burning, Wednesday night, of the plant of the Minnesota Stoneware Co. The plant was one of the largest of its kind in the United States. Loss, $75,000. The Revenue Reduction Bill. Washington, Nov. 23.—The republican members of the house ways and | means committee have decided to present the bill for the reduction of the revenue to the full committee on December 1.

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