West-Jersey pioneer., 1870-04-15
GOOD CH E ER.
BY REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE.

sons are born cross. See that man with
long face that never shortens into
laugh Tell me did not his mother have
trouble with him when he was small !
Why, he never was pleased. Did he not
make riots in the nursery among looking
glasses and glass pitchers Was his
nurse ever able on her knee to jolt down
his petulance or shake up his good hu-
NOR? Did he not often hold an indig-
nation meeting fat on the floor-his
hanGs, his head, and his feet all partici-
pating in the exercise? Could not his
| father tell you story of twelve o'clock
/ at night, with hasty toilet, walking the
floor with the dear little blessing in his
arms? A story that would be caution
to old bachelors.
Some are from infancy light and happy
they romp, they fly. You can hear
their swift feet in the hall. Their loud
laughter rings through the house, or in
the woods bursts into score Of echoes.
At night you can hardly hush their glad
hearts for slumber, and in the morning
they wake you with their singing Alas!
if then they leave you, and you no more
hear their swift feet in the hall and their
loud laughter ringing through the house,
or in the woods bursting into score of
echoes; if they wake you no more in the
morning with their sweet song; it the
color 90 out of the rose and its leaves
fall; if angels for once grow jealous and
want what you cannot spare; if packed
away in the trunk or drawer there be ST.
lent garments that once futtered with
youthful life, and by mistake you call
some other child by the name Of the one
departed d-ah me ah me
But while We may all from our child
hood have certain bent given to our
disposition, much depends upon ourselves
whether we will be happy or miserable.
You will see in the world chiefly that
which YOU look for A farmer going
through the country chiefly examines the
farm, an architect the buildings, mer-
chant the condition of the markets, a
minister the churches, and SO a man
going through the world will see the
most of that for which he especially
looks. He who is constantly watching
for troubles will find them stretching off
into gloomy wildernesses, while he who
is watching for blessings will find them
hither and thither extending in, harvests
of luxuriance.
Like most garments, like most carpets,
everything in life has a right side and
wrong side. You can take any JOY, and
by turning it around, find troubles on
the other side; or you may take the
greatest trouble, and by turning it around
find joys on the other side. The gloom
lest mountain never casts shadow on
both sides at once, nor does the greatest
of lifes calamities. The earth in its rev.
olutions manages about right-it never
has darkness all over at the same time.
Sometimes it has night in America, and
sometimes in China, but there is some part
of the earth constantly in the bright sun
light My friends, do as the earth does.
When you have trouble keep turning
round, and you will find sunlight some
where. Amid the thickest gloom through
which you are called to pass, carry your
own candle. A consumate fret will, in
almost every instance, come to nothing.
You will not 20 to such merchants store,
employ such mechanic, nor call such
minister.
FretfuIness will kill anything that is
not in its nature immortal There are a
large class of persons in constant trouble
about their health, although the same
amount of strength in cheerful man
would be taken as healthiness. Their di-
gestion being constantly suspected of un-
faithfulness, finally refuses to serve such
a master, and says, thereafter make way
with your own Holsters J" and the sus
pected lungs resign their Office saying:
"Hereafter, blow your own bellows !"
For the last twenty years he has been
expecting every moment to faint. bis
nerves make insurrection, aad rise up
against his head, saying: "Come! let us
seize upon this armory His face is
perpetually drawn, as though ne either
had pain or expected one.
You fear to accost him with, elbow
are you to-day 2" for that would be the
signal for shower of complaints. He is
always getting lump on his side, an en-
largement of the heart, or curve in the
spine If some Of these disorders did
not actually come, he would be sick of
disappointment. If you should find his
memorandum-book, you would discover
in it recipes, in elderly female hand-wri
ting, for the cure of all styles of dieases,
from softening of the brain in a man,
down to the bots in horse. His bed
room shelf is an apothecary infantum,
where medicines of all kinds may be
found, from large bottles full of head
wash for diseased craniums. down to the
smallest vial, full Of the best prepara-
tions for the removing of corns from the
feet. Thousands Of men are being de-
stroyed by this constant suspicion of their
health.
Others settle down into gloomy state
from forebodings of troubles to come.
They do not know why it is, but they are
always expecting that something will hap
pen They imagine about one present
ment week. A bird flies into the win
dow, or salt-cellar upsets on the table, or
a cricket chirps on the hearth, and they
shiver all over, and expect messenger
speedily to come in hot haste to the trout
door, and rush in with evil tidings.
Away away with all forbodings as to
the future. Cheer up, disconsolate ones!
60 forth among nature. Look up toward
the heavens insufferably bright by day,
or at night when the sky is merry WIN
ten thousand stars, joining hands OF i'gns, snS
with earth in the ring, going rouno s anu
round with CLEAN, aud dance, aod so1s' r.
making old Night feel young again. ~
to the forest where the woodman 80 =
rings on the trees, and the soiiluu0 .
broken by the call Of the woodspaiit", 49,
and the chewink starting up from ~ 49,.
huckleberry-bushes. Go to wnele .ha;r ~.
streams leap downoff the rocks, : snu !. sns 'nsh.
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