Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-22
RoRRoWIna TRouBLE.

} SERIoUs and petty trials,-open griefs with
fhich others can sympathize-secret sorrows
;newn only TO ourselves,-are sure evidence oi
ne fact that this life is life of trial, and Of
le necessity of summoning every possible aid
,hich is within our reach to support and coun-
sraet the depressing Influences thus busy
round US. There can surely be little necessi-
then to aud fuel to a fame so constantly
Grning; to drop gall into the bitter cup. or
1b wounds already enAamed and aching;
tile wisdom is wantonly increasing the bur
en- which Is appointed for man to bear. Even
5 the sparks fly upward, so is man born to
rouble. It is part of the inheritance of disobe-
lience, no less than death and the grave
We feel as little sympathy for the selfn-
licted torments Of the western asceic, whatev-
ar be his creed, as for those of the eastern
Oeryish. Granted that they are sincere in
heir selfimposed penance, honest in the belief
hat they are thus exLiating their offences. at
pest they exhibit but zeal and gelEdenial
which might have led to greater excellence
lad it been better direc ted. But these en-
husiasts are nothing, as compared to that very
large class Of self-tormentors who have not
religious enthusiasm as an excuse for their
+ oily, class who rival the celebrated Flagel-
liant in their ingenuity in knotting whips for
their own backs, aud weaving the poisoned
shirt, which, like that of the hero of old, wears
away their very lives in pro6tess suffering
I'VE speak Of those very numerous and most
Unconscious offenders against their own peace,
and that Of Others, whom we can only describe
. emphaiieally as borrowers OF trouble.
IL Fff-
sess sufficient Of the article themselves
Hence, by adopting this epithet, we at once
exclude those who roalIy have an unusual
humber of trials and troubles, who have to en-
counter an excess of suffering beyond that Of
their fellows: for it most frequently happens
that these persons are remarkably free from
! The failing Of which we are about to speak;
and evenif their strength fails, and their spir-
its break under the heavy pressure ofaccumu.
lated sorrow, they are worthy rather of sym
pathy and support, than Of blame or harsh
Comment. But the fact is, thai the silly peo-
pie of whom We are speaking are often rather
exempt from severe trial gtIlan. otherwise; and
often, wien an actual sorrow comes, they as
tOnish every one BY the unwonted fortitude
and composcure they display. Indeed it is
no unusual spectacle to see persons who have
teer to-mcnting their friends aad themselves
all their lives, while in ease and prosperity,
with their lretful complaints and imaginary
grievances, and lamentaliiy over their hard
s1t% in being so sadly tried, so singular!y uu-
hrtnuenie, exhibit under real calamities
degree Of cheerful fortitude of which no one
would have thought them capable It is like
a nervops person bearing severe Illness ulr-
rcpiningly, after having lived for years in the
constant belief that every finger ache was the
prelude Of approaching death; or rather, like
storm clearing the air, and destroying a
Whole host o. yerIria which had been irritu-
ting their unhappy victim into sort OF chron-
lie fever, from which sharp ft of illness is an
actual relief.