Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-03-23
COMFORT.

The great end and aim of mankind is to get
money enough ahead to make them % comforta-
ble;" and yet a moments reflection will con-
vince us that money can never purchase q COM
fort only the means of it. A man may be
" comfortable without dollar but to be so,
he must have the right disposition, that is, a
heart and mind in the right place. There
are some persons who are lively, and cheerful.
and good-natured, kind and forbearing, in a
state Of poverty, who lean upon the toll of
to-day for to-night's supper and the mornings
breakfast. Such disposition would exhibit
the same qualities living in palace or on
- throne.
Every day we meet with persons who in their
families are cross, nlnatured, dissatisfied, find
ing fault everybody and everything, whose
first greeting in the breakfast room is COM
splaint, whose conversation seldom fails to con-
sain au enumeration of difficulties and hard
ships, whose last word at night is an angry
growl. If you can get such persons to reason
on the subject, they will acknowledge that there
is some "want at the bottom of it the
"waut - Of better house, finer dress, more
handsome equipage,a a more iutiful child, more
cleanly, or systematic, or domestic wife. At
Otlc tlLalC II Is d WrtlC0PU COOk WHICH StdluS
between them and the sun or lazy house
servant, or an impertinent carriage-driver. The
- waat OF more money than Providence has
thought proper TO bestow, will be found to en-
brace all these things. Such persons may feel
assured that, people icho cannot make themselves
really comfortable ia Gag one set Of ordinary
circumstances, arould not be so under any other.
A mau who has a canker eating out his
heart will carry it with him wherever he goes :;
and if it be spiritual canker, whether of envy,
habitual discomfort, unbridled ill-nature, it
would go with the gold, and rast out all its
brightness. Whatever man is to-day with
last dollar, he will be radically and essentially
tomorrow with millions, unless his heart is
changed. Stop, reader, that is not the whole
truth, for the whole truth has something of the
terrible in it. Whatever of an undesirable
disposition a man has to-'ay without money.
he will have tomorrow to an exaggerated ex-
tent, unless the heart be chaaged; the drunk
ard, more drunken the dcbauchee, more de-
-bauched; the fretfu still more complaining.
Hence, the striking wisdom of the Scriptnral
Injunction, that all our ambitions should begin
with this /: " Seek first the Kingdom of God
and his righteousness ~ that is to say, if you
: are not comfortable, not happy, now, ,under the
circumstances which surround you, and wish
TO be more comfortable, more happy your first
step should be to seek change of heart, OF
disposition. and then the other things will fol-
low-without the greater wealth And hav-
ing moral comfort, bodily comfort, bodily health
Twill follow, apace. to the extent of your using
rational uteans. Bodily comfort, or health, and
fol b,,.a I'm,
powerful reactions neither be perfect
without the other, at least, approiimatcs to it !;
in short, cultivate health and good heart !;
s for with these you may be comfortable without
a farthing without them, never! although you
may possess millions !-HaifS Journal Of,
Health.