The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-09-04
geadiu1,
Comfort.

The great end and aim OF the mass OF
mankind is, to get money enough ahead to
make them comfortable y and yet, mo-
7nent's reflection will convince us that
money can never purchase s'comfort"
only the means of it. A man may be
Comfortable" without a dollar; but to be
so, he must have the right disposition,
that is, heart and a mind In the right
place. There are some persons who are
lively, and cheerful, and good-natured, kind
and forbearing in state of poverty,
which leans upon the toll of to-day for to-
nights supper, and the mornings break
fast. Such disposition would exhibit the
same loving qualities in a palace, or on a
throne.
Every day we meet with persons, who
in their families are cross, ill-natured, dis
satisfied, finding fault with everybody and
everything, whose first greeting in the
breakfast-room is a complaint, whose con-
versation seldom fails to end in an enunl-
Grafton of difficulties and hardships, whose
last word at night is an angry growl. Ii
you can get such persons to reason on the
subject, they will acknowledge that there
is some owant" at the bottom of it; the
tswant" of better house, finer dress, a
more handsome equipage, more dutltul
child, more provident husband, more
cleanly, or systematic, or domestic wife.
at one time ':wretched cook" which
stands between them and the sun; or a
law house servant, or an impertlnent car
riage driver. The "want" of more money
than Providence has thought proper to
bestow, will be found to embrace all these
things. Such persons may feel assured
that, people who cannot make themselves
really comfortable in any one set of ordi-
nary circumstances, would not be so under
any other. a man who has canker eat.
inc out his heart, will carry it with him
wherever he goes; and if it be spiritual
canker, whether of envy, habitual discon-
tent, unbridled ill-nature, it would go with
the gold, and rust out all its brightness.
Whatever man is to-day with a last dol
lar, he will be radically, essentially, to-
morrow with millions, unless the heart is
changed. Stop, reader, that is not the
whole truth, for the whole truth has some
thing of the terrible in it. Whatever OF
an undesirable disposition q man has to-
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row to an exaggerated extent, unless the
heart be changed: the miser will become
more miserly; the drunkard, more drunk
en-; the debauchee, more debauched; the
fretful. still more complaining. Hence,
the striking wisdom of the Scripture in
junction, that all our ambitions should be-
gin with this "Seek first the kingdom
of God and his righteousness" that is to
say, if you are not comfortable, not hap
py now, under the circumstances which
surround you, and wish to be more com
Portable, more happy, your first step
should be to seek change of heart, Of
disposition, and then other things will fol:
low-without the greater wealth And
having the moral comfort, bodily comfort
bodily health will follow apace, to the ex
tent of your using rational means. Bodi
ly comfort, or health, and mental comfort
have on one another the most powerful
reactions; neither can be perfect without
the other, at least, approximates to it; III
short-Cultivate health and q good heart
for with these you may be comfortable
without a farthing: without them, never
although you may possess millions
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