Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-08-31

ence. He will never give up SO long as there
is /, chance in the world p How perfectly
the result of the campaign vindicated this
judgment is now the most glorious page in our
history! n, ia, t..4 rt, ~.
TCOntcnted Christians.
There are hundred successful men where
there is one contented man. can find q
score of handsome faces where can find one
happy face-happy in all weathers, and radi-
ant with the sunshine Of the heart. l can
even find a score OF working, Jealous Chris
tians where can encounter a single Chris
tian who, under the o'erbrooding love of God,
sits as contented as robin does ON its bough,
singing and swinging, swinging and singing,
without one trouble in its heart, or one dis
cord in its minstrelsy A downright content
ed Christian is rare, and all the more attracts
i've for his rarity. Id. ,t....a.... t.t.,
A counterfeit contentment is quite too COM
mon, 1t is the Offspring of Incidence, igno-
rance, or indiference-the self satisfied con-
ceit often of the person whom everybody
thinks worse of than he does of himself
When we are commanded to be content in
whatsoever state we are, we are not enjoined
to be satisfied with pauperism, or with inca
ger knowledge, or,a contracted influence, or
wretchedly defective piety. Contentment
in Ignorance is sin when there is a school,
house within reach. Contentment with spir-
itual fruitlessness is sin; have no business
to be satisfied with myself if am leading no
souls to Jesus. Contentment with religious
hope is fearful sin, if that hope be no strong
er than spiders web.
IN u. T.
learned in whatsoever state am, herewith to
be contentY' He meant, that he was perfect.
ly willing to be just where God placed him,
and to do just what God told him, and to suf.
fer just what God laid on him, and to work
out, through manifold pains and prosecutions,
his mighty mission to Ibis race. He knew
how to be abased and how to abound--how to
be full and how to be hungry. He was not
content without workout content in his work.
The young minister who is not happy in
preaching Christ to hundred settlers in q
frontier cabin, or to hundred poor children
in mission-room, is not fit for the pulpit of
a metropolitan church. If he is not satisfied
to be where God pnts him, let him be assured
that his maker will soon promote him sew
eral pegs lower still Christian contentment
is consistent with the highest spiritual aspra-
tions, but not with single selfish aspiration.
Remember that Paul was exclaiming' II press
toward the mark for the prize of the high
calling of God" at the same time that he
said, II have learned in whatsoever state |
am, Herewith to be content"
would define Christian contentment to be
the cheerful acquiesence Of the mind to the
will of God. 1t does not come from II full
purse, Or brown stone mansion, or pros
porous lot, or exuberant health it is from
within, lts foundation is in the soul Like
faith, it is an attainment, and yet it is the
gift of God, 1t is also habitual. He conld
not be called eontented man who was only
happy in a prayer meeting, or when under
good sermon, or even under extraordinary
trial. Contentment does not only hold still
under the stroke of death, or the loss Of for
time but under the annoying taunts of a churl,
under the inconvenience of long walk, a
hard seat, poor dinner, or crying child
Contentment is happyin a cottage, if it can.
not afford three story mansion. Content
ment eats what is set before it, be it brown
or white. The true Christian feels so un
speakably rich with what God gives to his
soul and with what God promises him in eter-
nifty, that he can afford to weara coarse coat
and to travel his life journey on foot, with just
such companions as poor human nature can
furnish. He wears the herb called hearts
ease in his BOSOM He finds cool spring to
drink of in every vale of sorrow; he feasts ON
a fine prospect from the top of every hill of
difficulty up which he olamheps. When wea-
nv, he sits down under the shadow Of the tree
of life. When hungry, he takes out sweet
promise from his Bible wallet And so, as
he tr,ldges along his happy, heavenward way,
his faith continually sings the hOmely song
which Bunyan puts into the mouth of his
brown-faced boy: pLf .-a., % tg q: ""t
yei 81 am content with what have, ,,!
bal, Little be it,, or muchj j., rI,ir-...,. ri
And, Lgd! contentment still crave,
because thou blcssest such. ,..,
'' Fullness to me burden is,
| '"@Hf As I 60 on pilgrimage, 'a' '''l
Here littlc--but hereafter bliss,
IT, uagi Is best from age to age.' t'a.-
One of the most truly contented express
sions know Of was that which fell from the
lips Of a dying minister. He was asked
whether he wished to recover or not. He re-
piled: "Really, my friend / do not care
which, If / die, shall be with God if
live, God will be with me" 1t may be asked
by some moaning, murmuring, troubIe-tor-
mented professor who reads this brief chapteF,
"How shall gain this contented spirit p
We answer by giving few practical hints.
J. Think moment of the mischief and sin
of discomfort 1t is the rust that gnaws away
all of life s lustre Discomfort never removes
one evil; and it embitters every Joy. Dis
content kills your happiness, disgraces your
religion, offends your loving God. Even
when ON youricross of trial, it only mingles a