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4 SUCCESS TALK FOR FARM BOYS An Old Story of a Progressive Farmer Whose Life Was Xevertlieless a Failure. (Clarence Pooe, in the Progressive Farmer.) My Dear Boy: There is a story in a certain Old Book (you can read it in Luke 12: 15-21) aboftt a man who was a progressive farmer. I know he was a progressive farmer because the account says that his ... 3 s j " J nlontifnnv" grouuu ui uugui iwx <-il. ? and that his barns were filled tc happen by accidentcmfwypffl overflowing. Such things do not happen by accident. If this man's farm v brought forth plentifully, it was because he was a good farmer?intelligent. enterprising and industrious, He no doubt set the whole neighborhood a good example in the way he broke his land and cultivated his fields. He was no doubt keen to learc all the best methods of making crops and managing livestock. He no doubl "practiced a proper rotation of crops, kept his fields from gullying, and generally gave strict attention tc business. If he were alive today, he would doubtless be one of the besl informed men about the work of experiment stations, and agricultural department's; a recognized authority on farming subjects in his county. jcvervDoay wouia spea^ oi mm as "one of our best farmers." Nevertheless, we have the highest t authority in this universe for saying that this man's life was not a success, On the contrary he was a failure?a miserable, pitable, ridiculous failure, Just at the time when all his work and study and planning should have been coming into their richest fruitage, God Himself wrote his epitaph in just two terrible, withering words: "Thou fool," said the Almighty as he summoned the soul of the man from bis perishing body. , Why was this man a failure? A success in many notable respects, he I yet failed for just one reason. He forgot that he was an eternal being. He had thought of himself as a mere earth-animal and had taken - no thought of anything beyond this ! i . earth. * ' ! I am writing this letter, my boy, In the hope that I may say something > v which will help keep you from making the same fatal mistake this farmer made. This is a great big subject and it : is not easy to say what I wish in simple words, but I believe it can be done. Will you permit me then to ^ make just three statements, and then follow me while I try to make my meaning clearer? Every one of us in this world has a dual or double citizenship. That is to say I am an inhabitant of the earth but I am also an inhabitant of the v Universe, of which the earth is only a fraction. I am a citizen of time, but I am also a Citizen of Eternity, of which time is only a fraction. Look out tonight when the stars come out and think a minute. You have been thinking that everything has a beginning and an end, but it is not so. Everything connected with our bodies has a beginning and an end, but there is another world which knOWS Of no snr?h j h i . - -t -v- auu ic is with this other world that the soul of man has kinship. if ' J. ,r v This rolling world on which we live circles around a glorious sun, and a dozen other worlds wheelwith us around that colossal globe of fire. . But in the sky tonight we shall see the twinkling light of ten thousand distant suns, each attended by no one knows how many worlds like ours. And if you go millions, billions, tril* lions of miles to the most distant of these visible suns, what lfes beyond? Do yet other worlds and suns shine with yet diviner splendor for other billions and billions of miles, on? and on?to the end? ' But here the brain reels and staggers. We suddenly realize that there can be no "end." For if there is an end, what lies beyond this "end?" So what seems to the human mind an impossible conclusion is yet an inescapable conclusion. We are citizens of a universe which knows no beginning and no end. And so, with regard to time. "In the beginning, God"?that is to say, in the beginning of our earth. But what lay toaek of "the beginning?" And after a million years from now, how many more million years will there be?until the end? And after the end? Xo, there can be no end. I live on tne earth which has a beginning and an end. T live in Time, which has a beginning and an end. But at the same time, by reason of my dual or double citizenship, I live in a universe which knows neither end nor beginning. I live in an Eternity which is without beginning or end. We canndt understand how these things can be. The human mind i is helpless in reasoning out these ( facts. Nevertheless, we know thai they are facts. Does anyone tell me therefore thai it is strange that man, partly mortal should also be partly immortal? ] answer that it is not stranger thar the facts that face us in every starrs * sky, and every shining sun. "The heavens declare the glory of God." The reasonableness of Christianity ".J f ! v [ r ! t I I > I I I i I I I DF I i i i * 1 > I You < Of Gran suranc made f from fi other x puregr water; natura lemons No IT hnmp or nigl Grange' ( and as BAMBEl r! ?that is what I should like to make I; clear to you, if possible, j! What I have already said has been ; I with a view to showing that we are I born into a creation wrapped around :; with the mystery of Infinity and Eterl; nity. It is a creation bigger than our [ i human minds can understand. In l | other words, in every one of the milr lion starbeams of the night God whis) pers to man that he was born for ! something bigger than earth, somei thing more enduring than time. No ''I wonder Xapoleon Bonaparte, when Oraj ?INK O I \ f)PEN an ice-c ?today! Fi sparkling, thirs flowing goodnei efresh you. can enjoy the delici< ge*(3rus/i With COITlp e of its purity becai rom the fruit oil, esh ripe oranges, ai wholesome ingredi< anulated sugar, carl and citric acid, whi 1 acid found in o ; and grapefruit. latter how hot the or away===morninj it, you will alwayi SrusA. Drink it an often as you like. (G CHERO BAHB some infidels argued with him one 1 night, pointed up to the starry sky i and answered: "Who then made all c that?" And no wonder Lord Bacon J declared he had rather believe any \ fable ever written than believe that i the earth and heavens developed by i mere accident. i Granting then that there is a God, ( is it not also reasonable that He ( should wish to make some revelation ' of Himself to His creatures? And if 1 He has so revealed Himself, what re- i ligion seems most like a genuine reve- I %a^s ' (GE-C RANG I old bottle of this ill your glass to t-tempting ss of it will ba 3usness 6ran<jr> lete as= guarant use it is quenchii pressed tidsuch ... , 3nts as We be bonated conf?rm ich is a sanitarj ranges, feet fam day at Grange' X, noon bottle or 5 enjoy drinks a ywhere bottle of order a < COLA B01 ERG, SOUTH CARC a ation? What religion offers the loblest and most enobling conception )f God?Budhism, Mohammedanism, | rudaism, or Christianity? No one! vho has studied them with unbiased' nind, I think, can be in doubt on this j joint. Nor do I think of anything nore reasonable than the coming of j Christ to earth. Why should not a }od who loved His creatures say, 'Let me show men how to live by; Myself living the humble life of a nan for three and thirty years. Let!. Me show men the glory of duty and' * WHSHsMBMP DSf^BSHU^HP^V* A i Y1 RUSH 2-CRU." delightful drint > the brim witl: vge-Crush. The uiish thirst anc \ ' -(Brush, served ice=< eed to bring you r nl?ir/iirc lig ju^ ===aiw clj >ttle Grange'Gras/i III iity with the mos T requirements ar guarantee it to be t ily drink. (Brush is obtainable by the case where^ ire sold. Buy an i Granger (Brush today. :ase for the family TUNC C( ILINA sacrifice by Myself living a human life of duty and sacrifice." But perhaps you may say: "Why, then, doesn't the Almighty make everything so clear that a man need not be worried by doubts or fearst Why does not the Almighty speak bo clearly about the life everlasting and about the wonders of Heaven as to satisfy every human being?" Xo man, of course, can answer these questions definitely, but I have h(Continued on page 5, column 1) : - j j ' V " 1 - * i V"', >. ; i ?? ? o r . J KM." i ^ r > - W1&, -J& t ' "I v ' *}' mm y f ^> %j . 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