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.sot much Of a subject to write
.'.ut of course, neither is whittling
, 0 f a job, but there are thou
is at it almost incessantly. There
many whittlers "ho do not know
; at they are members of the pro
n There are too many classes
t ne gentlemen and they are
worth studying separately.
The soft Pine Whittlers.
These fellows congregate around
~.0 nl ral stores, and idle away their
, sharp knives cutting sort
; ne< and doing this in a way that
llo t add anything of a helpful
~ lCt r to their names, or family
~"‘. 'ton*. And the unfortunate part
(i ' u a ii is that they make nothing,
t a litter. Carvers can take a
, a . ;,r.d cut up turkey, or ham, or
, v a take an axe and cut wood, but
the store at the cross roads with its
whittlers never makes much but a
ma ss of shavings, and these are not
worth keeping to kindle fires with.
The fellow who has never lived in
fa country can never appreciate this
class, but they are as numerous pro
portionately as any other class. Con
sumers not producers. Eaters and
spenders, not providers and consei v
ers They are parasites on the rural
populations, great talkers and little
doers. It is no sin to whittle on soft
pine if you can not do anything bet
ter but there are so many things
that are more worth while. Eife is
far too short to be thrown away in
such idleness, and time could be
spent in a more profitable way.
Fashionable Whittling.
This is done in the cities and also
in the would-be cities. Now, of
course to be fashionable and up-to
date one could not take a quid ot
tobacco and a jack knife and a bit
of spruce wood and sit down with
one’s feet on a nail keg, and cut and
spit, that would never in the world
do. Some more polite way must be
found out. It has been found, to be
sure. Are you wondering what it is.
.Well, it is simply this and nothing
more. Whist for the ladies and mov
ies for the men. Whist and movies.
My, what a mixture. Who, as a
rule goes to the movies. People with
nothing more important to do. If
uis were not more important they
would at once proceed to get to the
most important thing. When ever
t see a bunch of women playing at
whist I don’t feel that they are un-
saved sinners, I feel that they are
frivolously engaged in a thing ot
secondary importance. When I see
a man bplting his supper without
chewing it and grabbing his hat and
rushing off to the movies, I don't
feel that he is doomed forever but
,1 feel that he is stressing the less
important. Excuses are made of
course. “It is educational,” says one.
“It is entertaining,” says another.
I like the spirit manifest by the old
Puritan who saw r a younger minister
wearing ruffles partly concealed, and
said: “Young man if I were to wear
foolish ruffles I would beman
ino ugh to wear them like a sure
enough man.” I go to the movies
occasionally, but I go for fun, and
amusement. If I went for any other
cause and went continually 1 would
he grievously disappointed. The
only way to stop bad boys from fling
ing rocks is to grow them into men
and let them shovel coal.
One need not worry over the world
going to the bad like the old fellow
v ho got acquainted with a bad piece
oi 1 cheese. He went to sleep and a
n schievous fellow rubbed the cheese
on his mustache, and when he awoke
* ' got a whiff. He smelled it in
O e room, he went out and whiffed
it. towards the setting sun; he turn
ed towards the east and said: “It is
rott “n here,” and thus around until
i disgust he said, “The whole
ed world is rotten.” The fact
t i< y fellow will be lazy, and
v will whittle. There is
"ocih g in this big, noble world for
win <tler to do except to whittle.
An <$ will be ants, and mosquitoes
■ c.osquitoes, and grasshoppers
h be -T'i.sg hoppers. Dr. Gambreil
hay s: Don’t mind about th°
1 ’ L they will shed the rings
■ heir horns, because it is natur
tul 5 yearling to shed the rings
:<)IU its horns.” I hope I am phil-
l ‘ ,} ' enough to keep me from
:I ‘~ slee P over the whittlers. Just
as spring comes and the
JUST WHITTLERS.
(By Rev. W. H, Faust.)
i he
ground gets dry enough to plow
these fellows will close their knives
and vacate their chairs and get cut
and whale the filling out of “Old
Bill,” as they gee-haw in the new
ly- turned ground. These Whittling
whist-playing, pleasure-loving young
folks will soon shed this whist mania
and get busy with matrimonial duties
or else give the doctors a lot of.
practice to do in the way of looking
after chronic cases of imaginary dis
ease.
Theological Whittling.
It is mighty hard to write about
the theological hair-splitter, but he
is abroad in the land. This variety
of orthodox-monstrosity is always
with us. He is eternally engaged in
quibbling over the dfiferer.ee between
tweedledum and tvveedledee. He can
tell one exactly what to do to be Bap
tist, but he stops just there and can
tell one what to do after bap-
tism. He can tell you accurately the
the difference between Primitive and
Missionary, but he can not tell the
dfferenice between the needs of the
lost in China and the lost in Africa.
He is a stickler for orthodoxy but
when it comes to orthopraxy he is
small potatoes few in a hill and far
between. Much of this class of
stuff is perpetrated on the public
now-a-days, men in the pulpit and in
the pew are talking about the dif
ference between ‘in’ and ‘into’ while
souls are going down to ruin. Oth
ers are quietly discussing the differ
ence between supralapsarianism and
sublapsarianism and all the while sin-
ners are not urged to flee the wrath
to come. Others are disputing about
the cut of the uniform while the ene
my is flanking the rear and almost
ready to cry out victory. \Ye have
great conventions in centrally located
cities to plan for extensive com
paigns of enlistment, men go and
spend much time and money to hear
some little two-by-four tooter toot
his little horn and when the horn
tooting is over we all go back home
and if possible do less than we did
before. I spent quite awhile in the
Seminary finding out about Radical
Criticism. I didn’t know very much
about it at the close and then went
out in the active work and was sur
prised to find that the world had
doubts enough of its own and didn’t
want to know' anything about the
views of Wellhausen and others of
his school. The fact is the average
man doesn’t know anything about a
lot of fool fads that the old skele
tons of Judoism and Sadducean the
ology dress them up in new phrase
ology and dish them out to the world
as “New' Theology.” Nothing to it
and of course it is folly to get up in
the pulpit and help give it to the
public. The real preacher has enough
to do to preach the Gbspel and it is
meet that he should let the fool
and the infidel perpetrate his own
Colly.
Denominational Whittling.
Sam Jones used to say that it was
good for a hound dog to have a few
fleas, they kept him busy scratch
ing and didn’t leave so much time
foV brooding over the fact that he
was a hound. On the same grounds
one might justify the denominational
fighter, and we have a lot of them.
They are intolerant and that is had,
’but the worst part about the whole
business is that they never get over
their intolerance. It has not been
so very long since ministers of one
denomination would not be tolerated
in the pulpit of another denomina
tion. 'lt is alright to hit sin and to
hit sin hard wheverever found. If
it is in any church do not condone it.
But the rather condemn it. But it
is always the test for one to praise
rather than censure, if he wants to
change anything that is even liable
to be construed as error. You can
lead many, whereas you can drive
only a few.
Just Ordinary Whittling.
There is so much of it that there
is only one redeeming feature about
it all and that is that time and the
vicissitudes and changes of life will
bring it out all right. The drinker
and cigarette smoker i3 a whittler
idly and often foolishly cutting off,
slowly of course, time that is pre
cious from the already short span of
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at both ends.
Gossipping and gadding about is a
flimsy sort of wiiittling. Slicing off
here and there a choice piece of a
man’s reputation until finally he has
i.\i t enough left to fill an ordinary
thimble. When an idler is ruining
soft pine he is doing no special harm
but when a tattler is cutting )on rep
utation he is ruining that which he
can not repair and doing an injustice
not only to himself but to others also
Whittling means wasted energy,
that is the sad part about it all. The
fellow' who works gets tired, the
w'hittler also, but one is tired in the
the effort to help others and the
other is tired in the effort to amuse
himself.
Genius is the flower to turn the
whittling habit into account. To
cut out a model or something that
is worth while and then make from
that model an instrument that will
benefit the entire world.
The substance of it all is wasted
energy, and talent and time and
life. Two men sat down with knives
and wood, one carved a toy that for
years pleased and made happy a boy,
the other just whittled and it wasn’t
worth a continental. Let us resolve
by the help of Divine grace that
we will carve statues that shall be
the admiration of the world instead
of whittling shavings that will cause
the floor sweeper trouble and extra
work.
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John: Mary, what is the difference
between printing and publishing.
Mary: Well, as an example, you
may print a kiss on my lips, but
don’t you publish it.
John put his arms around her and
went to press. —Athens '(Ala) Hus
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