The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1861-03-29
Comfort.

The great end and aim Of mankind Is, TO
get money enough TO make them comfort.
able,' and yet moments reflection will
convince us that money cannot purchase
comfort only the means of it. A man
may be comfortable without dollar but
to be 50, he must have the right disposition,
that is, heart and mind In the right place.
There are some persons who arc lively and
cheerful, and good naturcd and kind and
forbearing in state Of poverty. which leans
upon the toll OF to-day for to-night's supper,
and the mornings breakfast. Such dispo-
sition would exhibit the same loving traits
in palace or on throne.
Every day we meet with persons, who In
their families are cross and ill.natured, dis
satisfied and finding fault with everybody
and everything, whose first greeting at the
breakfast table is complaint, whose con-
yersation seldom fails to end in an enumera-
tion of difficulties and harlships, whose last
word ut night is an angry growl. II you
can get such persons To reason on the
subject, they will acknowledge that there
is some want ut the bottom of IT,; the want
of better house, q finer dress, more clean.
ly, or systematic or domestic wife. At one
time il is wretched cook, which stands
between them and the sun; or lazy house
servant, or an impertinent carriage driver.
The want of more money than Providence
has thought proper to bestow, will DO found
to embrace all these things. Such persons
may feel assured that gcople who cannot
make themselves really comfortable in any
one set Of ordinary circumstances, would not
be 80 under any other. a man who has a
canker eating out his heart, will carry 1t
with him wherever 1t goes and IL it is q
spiritual canker. whether Of envy, habitual
discomfort. or unbridled ill.nature, 1t would
20 with the gold and rust out all its bright
ness. Whatever man is to-day with last
dollar, he will DO radically. essentially, to-
morrow. with millions, unless his heart is
changed. Stop, reader, that is not the
whole truth. for the whole truth has some
thing terrible In 1t.
Whatever Of an uncomfortable disposition
man has to-day without money he will have
tomorrow to an exaggerated extent unless
the heart be changed, the miser will be more
miserly; the drunkard more drunken; the
debauchee moro debauched; the fretiul still
more complaining. Hence the striking wis.
dom Of the Scripture injunction, that all our
ambition should begin with this. Seek
frt the kingdom Of God and his righteous
ness;' that's to say, IL you arc not comfort
able, not happy now. under the circum-
stances which Surround you, and wish to be
more comfortable, more happy, your first
step should be to seek u change OF heart. OF
disposition, and then the other thing will
follow - without the change OF greater
wealth /! And having the moral comfort,
bodily comfort and health will follow apace,
to the extent Of your national means. Bodi-
ly comfort, or health and mental comfort
have on one and another the most powerful
reactions; neither can be perfect unless the
other, at least, approximate to it; in short
cultivate health and good heart; for with
these you may be comfortable without
hrtbiny without them never although
you may posscss millions.-Haifs Journal
Of Health.