The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-11-16


SCATTER BLEssMes.-I don't know of
anything in the world that makes body
feel so good as to scatter blessings. Good
temper, good luck, a good wife, rosy chill
dren, are well-springs of pleasure, and
they'll make almost any man want to live
long, but scatter kindness and mercies
with a generous hand. o! it's the most
splendid thing ever heard of to make man
completely comfortable-to give him songs
in the night. and an ocean of delight BY
day. 1i.a
If there's anybody living who, thinks
his match for misery can't be found i wish
he'd come right here to me, and I'll put
him on the right track for comfort. This
whining, this being unhappy, how it
makes man feel and what shame it is
to him. very unhappy man told me he
was miserable, he didn't care for any
body, / told him he didn't care for any
body, and that made him miserable. He
didn't like it much that wouldn't let the
horse step behind the cart just as he put
him, but wasn'tI right. don't know a
great deal, and never expect to, but my
restless, wondering eye has at last tdiscov-
cred the lurking place of pleasure, | know
the secret of happiness, yes do. Scat
ter -blessings--run with your bucket,
and help fill the ocean ofbappiness.
Don't be frightened because you are not
quite as big as everybody else-because
you are not quite as snowy as Goliah Of
Gath. Run straight along with your
bucket, and pour it into the ocean Of hui
man happiness. Don't tremble on the
road for fear you'llmeet some mighty man
who will ask you about "those few sheep
you, left in the wilderness" Go ahead
with your bucket--get through your bus
iness, and you'll 60 home with light
heart, and your face won't look like "Old
Hundred, I" as it did before. You won't
have to say that you live in bright little
world of delight but that your face is SO
elongated by your discomforts that no
yardstick can measure it, Il -i .7.!-f.4it
OF scatter blessings-it's holy, it's sub
lime to do it. Scatter blessings, and COM
forting angels will be your guide--you
will not be in trouble like other men, and
joy "that passeth understanding will fill
your heart" qd4 t.,l. "a ne ba.j-r"
HAPPINESS vRHsus GREET. Henry Ward
Beecher has seldom got of'a better para
graph than the followingiE ga s,ss,' '.er
. "We often see an old and well beaten
man who never had success in his life,
and alwaysdid more and accomplished less
than his associates; who took the quartz
and dirt of enterprise, while they took the
gold and yetin old age he Is the happier
man. He had a sun .of hope, they of de-
sire and greed all his misfortuncs and
mysterious providences, he had that with
lin him which rose up and carried his heart
i above all troubles, and upon the world
wide water bore him up like the Ark on
the Deluge, God has distributed his gifts
1t takes score of them to make one man,
j One supplies the swift sagacity; another the
cautious loggic; another impeling force!
another the hope; another the practical
tact, zone supplies general principles; an
other the working plans. Men seldom
unite by the strong points. II is mems
weakness that binds them together. By
distributing gifts God made one man de.
pendent upon another, and wields society
together, by making every man necessit'
GUS, in some place, as regards other men
This distribution extends to classes and
business interests; some are intensely pro
gressive, and some stoutly stationary.
zy-GIasses reHect with ho,it talkinp. .lasse