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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1903)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN. 3 without working! OMthe beat kind of a life, yoing to foot-ball games every day, doing every tiling I want to, and not work in?.. No you would not. Maybe one or two Una would think, w II, 'I have worked all my lif lime, o I can take it easy,' but men who are so rich that they do not. h ve to work; are the most deplorable class of people. The most absolutely pitiable m in in the world, is ihe man who is built to work and dues not do any work in the world. When 1 go through the streets and pee the man with his hands hardened, his clothes soiled and begrimed with the day's labor,' well I never go by 'such a person without saying "there goes a man who is worthy of the highest recognition,"' but ) when I see one of tho3 "little dudes"? ? ? I I think "he ought .to get" off :the earth to make room for the people t that do want to work." I knew of a mnn who; once went into a.i clay shop where thn potter was. turning a whet!, turning ... awheel all day long, with his foot. While he was moulding; the man who was visiting the clay fhop said to him: "Well I pity you, how that foot of yours that turns the' wheel all day,- how tired-it must be." The man turned to the visitor and saM; "Oh no! this foot that does the' turning mver'gets tired, it is the foot on Which I rest. It is not the foot that works, the hand that works, the hoy that works if not iherrnn tha' g-fts lira I, i ,ii the boy thitdcsnot work) lounges about and does nothing, he is Hie tiied man. I would impress upon your minds tho word ''perseverance." What do you think is the meaning of "perseverance." (Ans.) To keep after a thing until . you find it, and alter finding it, stick to it, stick to it, stick to it. There were tvo frogs that fell into a pail of milk; they did not know what to do; they did. not want to drown. Of course a pail of milk to a frog is as 1 rge as a tank of water to us. Now what do you think they did? The oue little frog gave a few sighs nnd said: "There is no use, I am in for it," and be fell over dead. Theother little frog said : lam not going to drown." What do yon think he did? He kicked, and kicked and kicked for about four'houra and churned the milk until it became bu'ter and jumped out. Now boys and girls, you just fall into a tub of milk and if you kick long enough you will have churned all the butter and be able to jump out. The one frog gave a few gasps and drown ed, theother little frog that stuck to it, and he bad what we call 'perseverance.' Y.ou, boys and girls, know sounetbing about the Bible. Have you ever thought that when Jacob was lying down asleep and in the light saw a vision. Question. What was the vision of Ja cob? Answer. He saw a ladder stretched froaaw Heaven, upon which were Angela ascending and di scending. Now, boys and girls, have, you ever thought why, there was a ladder, st retched ,. fromiHeaven to earth?.. I rather think, the Lord permitted. a ladder- stretched from Hfaven to earth tohhow that even Angels have to climb step by , step, and if Angels cannot fly, you cannot expect to fly from the beginning to the end. You cannot ex pect to achieve your end oi the goal, unless you go step by step. The Augelsdid. not go from Heaven to earth, but the Bible said, that tiny ascended nnd dfscended. The An? gels that Jacob saw were good rtsolutions that he planned when they went to Heaven, and they came back to him iu the form, of Angels. in his hie. Now I. am going to make you realize that word 'perseverance.' There was a father who had a great track of land. He had three sons, and he said to his three sous: "My boys, 1 am getting old, so I give you the land that I own, and I will divide it into three equal parts, I will give to the first, oue part; second part to the second and third part to - the third; But I waat to tell you. this, my. sons, I want you to dig in your land until you. find a well. When you find that well, you will (Continued on page six; ),