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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF RELIGION, EDUCATION, LITERAI URE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
VOL. XVIII.
People Will Talk.
Yes, people will talk ;
The saying is irue.
They talk about me
And they talk about you.
If we go to the opera.
Someone will say,
We should go to church
And learn how to pray.
If we go to church r
And offer up prayers.
They say we are hypocrites,
And putting on airs.
If we are rich,
They' call us a thief,
Scoff at our sorrows.
' And laugh at our griefs.
if we are poor,
They say that we shirk,
We’re always lazy.
■ - And never would work.
They talk of our prospects.
They talk of our past,
And if we are happy,
They say it can’t last,
They talk of our loved ones.
They talk of our foes.
They talk of our follies.
They talk of our woes.
They talk of our joys,
They talk of our fears,
They talk of our smiles.
They talk of our tears.
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They talk if we are single.
They talk if we are wed,
_They talk of us living,
And they talk of us dead.
Tho’ we live like an angel,
With circumspect walk,
Our efforts are useless,
For people will talk.
—Tbomasvlile Press.
The True Religion.
Many are the styles of religion
today. There are creeds and sects
and red tape as long as the string
on Johnnie’s kite. Even learned
men quarrel and let rancor breed
within their hearts over the way to
be religious. All this when the
most human, the simples creed is
the beet —the belief and practice of
being kina to your fellow men.
‘‘Do unto others as you would be
done by.’ A man who is kind and
who does by others as he would be
done by, needs no other religion.
He need not necessarily forswear
creeds or remain away from church,
but if he li.ves up to this simple,
yet grand, standard, he will have
have been truly great and g*od. a
sincere follower of Jesus of Naza
reth. What we need is a practical
softening of the heart of this mon
ey-grabbing world, a kindlier in
terest one in the other. There are
too many scowls and not enough
smiles, too many faces that should
be bright in the enjoyment of an
ennobling spirit of brotherhood
Be kind.
“Do unto as you would be done
by.”
It is enough !—Western Publish
er.
Some people feel so big that thev
are invariably astonished that so
many people can get into the same
room with them. ,jr.. ,
Notice.
At a meeting of the ”oard of
Education held on Sept. 28, 1908,
the Board decided that for the
scholastic year 1909 teachers be
employed at salaries as heretofore
fixed, that is, thirty, forty and fifty
dollars per month, according to
grade, except that said salaries be
based upon a general average at
tendance of fifty, the patrons bind
ing themselves to pay what the
public fund does not pay.
The term fixed at five months,
divided thfee in the winter and
two in the summer, with the privi
lege of six or seven months term
in any settlement that may desire
to make contract with teacher for
same, to be taught four or five in
winter and two in summer. All
contracts to be made as heretofore.
All teachers’ contracts with pat
rons must be, made and filed with
the Commissioner by the 2nd Mon
day in November.
By order of the Board of Educa
tion.
C- L. Harlis, C. S. C.
Mind Your Own Business.
Those are ju9t the words. "Had
we looked through “Webster’s Un
abridged” we could not have found
tour words that expressed so en
tirely our meaning as these. We
believe the four words were made
with direct reference to the grumb
ling, growling mischief makers.
People who never mind their
own business are very much such a
class of animals as the cross, surely,
whiffet dogs, that are always bark
biting and nabbing somebody. We
wonder if they would appreciate a
lecture? We will ask them a few
questions just to find out. Don’t
you think the world and the peo
ple in it will live and prosper with
out the tremendous anxiety you
carry on your shoulders by keeping
an eye on everything and everybody
in the whole neighborhood and
world besides? Can’t Mrs. A. make
a sweet-cake without your lying
awake nights tor fear there is go
ing to be a wedding and you will
not be invited? Can’t Jennie have
anew gown but you must immed
iately see it, know the price, and
for what special occasion it was
purchased, or die of curiosity?
Can’t neighbor B. and his wife go
by but you’ll bet they’re going to
see somebody and have slighted
you?
Did God make you and us on
purpose to superintend His uni
verse, and everybody’s affairs and
assume the control of the “free
will” he gave men? Is this the
purpose and plan of our existence
and destiny, to forever be meddling
with somebody’s business? It
gives us “that tired feeling” to
think of the pains some people take
to gather the smallest item of
“news.” They leave their own
garden to grow full of weeds while
they are trying to hold up before
everybody, the few they pull from
their neighbor’s. They do every
thing hut mind their own business.
GUMMING, GA. OCTOBER 2 .1908
They never speak of their own
faults or follies. No. indeed ;bv
the time the whole town is criti
cised and judgment pronounced )
they have not a moment left to do
more than congratulate themselves
on their own good works.
People who don’t mind their bus
iness bring more misery into fami
lies, societies and churches f an
everything else combined. They
turn the pleasant, peaceful stream
of good will into a loathome pool.
Minding our own business will
make peaceful homes, happy neigh
bors and a sweet conscience that
will make us know why Jesus lov
ed the peacemakers and said of
them ‘‘Blessed are the peace mak
ers, tor they smill be called the
children of God.”
Now th s is plain talk, but if the
shoe does not fit you, then do not
put it on. bnt should it fit the lon
ger you wear it the better it will be
for you and the entiie communi
ty-
Of Less Importance.
It is generally believed that a
very steady attendance upon the
regular services of one's church is
a particular evidence of his being a
Christian, and also a very exemp
lary one. Pastors of churches are
much inclined to have a far more
favorable opinion of the member
who regularly attends all of the
services than they have of that
member who only seldom attends
the services. But such an opinion
is not a safe one to be governed by.
It may hold true in some instances,
but it is far from being trustwor
thy as a standard rule ot universal
application It by no means fol
lows that because a professor of
religion is a strict attendant upon
the service of his church, he is a
really godly 'person. Indeed, such
attendance is of much less import
ance than are several other factors
in true Christian life. To confine
the sphere of evidence to merely
attending church services on the
Sabbath is to narrow the question
below the i.rue standard by which
it is to be determined whether or
not one be a genuine Christian.
One day in a week is too little for
a basis of right decision. Exhibi
tions of piety on Sunday are too
unreliable for safe guidance in pro
nouncing upon the quality of one’s
religion. It is during the other
days in the week that one must be
judged as to whether one be a
Christian or a mere professor of
rel’gion. He who judges that one
must be a Christian because he goes
to church every Sunday, and often
attends the mid-week prayer meet
ing. is likely to b* frequently mis
taken and badly deceived. Roman
Catholics are noted for the regu
laiity of their attending all churcli j
services, however bad the weather
may be, or however poorly dressed
they are. But no one concludes
that they are Christians because of
suen a habit. If one bo areal
Christian he will give proof of the!
fact during all of the week, and it!
j
is during that period that the worth
of Christian character is of the
greatest import.nee to ad classes
of people.
C. H. VVetherre.
Good Counsel.
No young men can hope to rise
in society, 01 perform worthily his
part in life, without a fair moral
character. The basis of such a
character is a virtuou', fixed sense
of moral obligation, sustained and
invigorated by the fear and love of
God. The youth who possesses
such a character can lie trusted.
li.tegrity, justice, benevolence,
truth, are not with him words with
out meaning; he feels and knows
their sacred import and aims in
the tenor of Ins life to exemplify
the virtues they express Such a
man has decision of ch tractor; he
knows wlyit is right and is firm in
pursuing it ; he thinks and acts for
himself, and is not to be made the
tool of unprincipled and lime serv
ing politicians to do the dirty work
of party. Sucn a man has true
worth of character; his life is a
blessing to himself, to his family,
to society and to the world ; and he
is pointed out to future generations
as a proper example for the rising
youth toemulate.
Correct Speakihg.
All young people should ucqure,
in early life, the habit of correct
speaking and writing, and to a
bandon, as early as possible, any
I use of slang -vords and phrases.
The longer you live the more diffi—
I cult the language will be ; and if
the gulden age of youth, the proper
season for the acquisition of langu
age, he passed in its abuse, tho un
fortunate victim, if neglected, is
very properly doomed to talk slang
for life. Money is not necessary to
procure this education. Every
man has it in his power. He has
merely to use the language which
he reads instead of the slang which
he hears ; to farm his taste from
the best of speakers and poets in
the country ; to treasure up choice
phrases in .is memory and habitu
ate himself to their use, avoiding
at the same time that pedantic pre
cision ami bombast which show
the weakness of vain ambition
rather than the polish f an educated
mind.*
*
Married Men.
There is an expression in the
face of a good mamed man who
has a good wife, that a bachelor’s
face cannot possess. It is a indes
cribable. He is a little nearer the
angels than the handsomest young
feller living. You can see that his
broad breast is a pillar for some
body’s head, and that little fingers
pulled his whiskers. No one ever
mistakes the good married man. It
is only the erratic one that leaves
you in doubt. The good one can
protect all the unprotected females,
himself generally agree
able to the ladies, and yet never
leave a doubt on any mind that
there is a precious little woman at
home worth all the world to him
Two Ways.
There are two ways of starting
on life’s journey. One ts to begin
where your parents are ending—
magnificent mansions, splendid
furniture, and an elegant turnout.
The other is to begin a little near
er where fathei and mother —of
blessed memory—began. You see
you can go up as easily and grace
fully, if events show it would be
safe; hut it would be trying and
awkward to come down. And it
cost much now to live. And busi
ness fluctuates; and health is un
certain, and temptations from the
side of pride are strong, and many
• a \oung man who did not mean to
he extravagant, has been led along
and rather than face the position
and descend manfully, has tried to
keep up by embezzlement and been
called a “swindler.”
Our prisons are rapidly being
filled by those who m ike the mis
take of beginning life at the top of
the ladder.
Old Wine in New Bottles.
A barrel stood on the sidewalk,
in front of anew building going up
on East Walker street and beside it
stood a man, says the Milwaukee
Free Press. The man was dressed
in laborer’s clothes and apparently
was in a quandary about how to
get the barrel to one of the upper
floors. He scratched his head and.
pondered and meanwhile a crowd
began to gather.
‘Rig up a derrick and hoist it by
hand,” suggested one man with a
clay pipe in his mouth.
The man beside the barrel made
no response.
“Get a rope and pulley and hitch
a horse to the rope. That’ll get
the thing up in jig time,” suggest
ed another.
The man remained silent.
“Why in the dicken9 don’t he
put it on the temporary elevator
and take it no that way?” asked the
man with red whiskers.
“I know a better way than that,”
said the man with patches on Ins
trousers. “Just rig up a boatr
swain’s ontfit and the thing can be
hauled up quick as a wink.”
Suddenly the man beside the
barrell took a red bandana hand
nerchief from his pocket, wiped
his forehead, took a chew of to
bacco, put the barrell on his shoul
der and carried it up to the second
floor.
The barrell was empty.
If there is one thing above an—
other a young man should be
ashamed of doii g, it is loafing
without aim or purpose or profit.,
on the streets or in stores day after
day. all wfek. If you have noth
ing to do, stay at home—a part of
the time at any rate. No young
tnan with any self respect will con
tent h.mselt with aspiring to no
higher reputation than that of a
chronic loafer and store box mag
nate. Nothing will so blunt the
higher faculties of the mind as in
activity ; and no inactivity is so
baneful and malevolent in its effect
as that voluntary idleness termed
loafing.
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