The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 07, 1919, Page 6, Image 6
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
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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
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! 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
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with this other world that the soul
of man has kinship.
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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."
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declared he had rather believe any \
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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?"
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