Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-07-06
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Comfort.

M sR M&& N#@A 81
The great aim of the mass OF man
kind is to get money enough ahead
to make them comfortable" and
yet a moments reflection will con,
vince us that money will never pur-
chase comfort" only the means OF
it. A man may be comfortable
without a dollar, but to be so, be
must have the right disposition, that
is, heart and a head in the right
place. There are some persons who
are lively and cheerful, and goodnna'
tured, kind, and forbearing in state
of poverty which leans upon the toll
of to-day tor to-night's supper and
the mornings breakfast. Such q
disposition would exhibit the same
loving qualities in palace or on u
throne.
Every day we meet with persona
who in their families are cross, ill.
natured, dissatisfied, finding faull
with every body and every thing
whose first greeting in the breakfast
room is complaint, whose convers.
alton seldom fails to end in an emu.
meration of difficulties and hardships
whose last word at night is an angry
growl. If you can get such persons
to reason on the subject, they viii
acknowledge that there is some
s.want" at tho bottom of 1.-THE
swami" of a better house, q finel
dress, a more handsome eqnipage, I
more dutifnl child, more provident
husband, a more cleanly, or system,
atic, or domestic wife. At one tim.
it is 'swretched cock" which stands
between them and the sun or q lazy
house servant, or an impertinen1
carriage driver. &
The "want" of more money thar
Providence has thought proper te
bestow will be found to embrace al
these things. Such persons may fee
assured that people aoho cannot mak'
themselves really comfortable IN an,
one set Of ordinary circumstances, sooalo
not be so under any other. A man who
has q canker eating out his heart
will carry it with him wherever he
goes and if it be a spiritual canker
whether Of envy, habltual discomfort
unbridled ill-nature, it would 60 with
the gold, and rust out all its bright
ness. Whatever man is to-day
with last dollar, he will be radical.
ly, essentially, to,mmorrow with q
million, unless the heart is changed
Stop, reader-that is not the whole
truth, for the whole truth has some,
thing of the terrible in il. Whatever
of an undesirable disposition man
has to-day without money, he will
have tomorrow to- an exaggerated
extent, unless the heart be changed
the miser will become more misery
the drunkard, more drunken; the
debauchee, more debauched the
fretful, still more complaining
Hence the striking wisdom of the
Scripture injunction that all our am
bition should begin with this, "Seek
first the kingdom of God and his
righteousness y that is to say, tina. il
you are not comfortable, not happy
now, under the circumstances which
surround you, and wish to be more
comfortable, more happy, your firs1
step should be to seek q change Of
heart, of disposition, and then the
other things will follow-loithout til,
greater aoealtki And, having the
moral comfort, bodily comfort, bod
lily health will follow apace, to tn,
extent of your using rational means
Bodily comfort, or health, and men.
tai comfort have on one another tn,
most powerful reactions neither car
be:perfect without the other, at least
approximates to it; in short, cultipat
health and a good heart for with these
we may be comfortable" without 0
farthing without them, never, al
though you may possess millions !
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