Smyrna times., 1870-04-13
MiSceIIU IL e o us.
Good Cheer.
BY REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE.

| Our disposition is much of our own making.
| We admit there is great difference in natural
constitutions Some persons are born cross.
See that man with long face that never short
ems 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 lsoking-glasses and
! glass pitchers Was his nurse ever able on
! her knee to jolt down his petulence or shake up
his good humOr? Did he not often hold an in
dignation meeting fiat on the foor-his hands,
his head, and his feet all participating in the
exercise? Could not his father tell you a 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 a 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 a 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 a score of
echoes; if they wake you no more i'll the morn
ing with their sweet song if the color go out
of the sweet rose and its leaves fall if angels
grow jealous and want what you cannot spare :;
if packed away in the trunk or drawer there
be silent garments that once huttered with
youthful lite, and by mistake you call some
other child by the name of tie one departed
ah me ah me
5 But while we may all from our childhood
have a 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 farms. an archi.
II tect the buildings, a merchant the condition Of
the markets, a minister the churches; and SC
u man going through the world will see the
d most of that tor which he especially looks HC
who is constantly watching for troubles vii
r find them stretching off into gloomy wilder
/, nesses, while he who is watching for blessing,
r. will find them hther and thther extending il
10 harvests of luxuriance.
Like most garments, ike most carpets every
thing in life has right side and a wrong side
If 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 il
a around, find joys on the other side. The
gOomiest mountain never casts a shadow OF
both sides at once, nor does the greater Of life
-, calamities. The earth in its revolutions man
N ages about right-it never has darkness a
over it at the same time Sometimes it ha
= but there Is some part Of the earth constant
in the bright sunlight. My friends, do as tn
earth does. When you have trouble, kee
turning around, and you will find sungl
somewhere. Among the thickest gloom throug
which you are called to pass carry your ow
NJ. candle A consumate fret, will in almo,
er. every instance, come 10 nothing. You will ne
go to such merchants store, nor employ sue
mechanic, nor call such minister
EretfulneSs will kill anvthiuO that iS not
''' its nature immortal There are large cla
OF persons in constant trouble about the
health, although the same amount of strengt
,S in cheerful man would be taken as health
ness. Their digestion being constantly su
pected OF unfathtulness, finally refuses to ser,
such master, and says, thereafter NAL
be- way with your own Holsters |" and the suspeC
ave ed lungs resign their Office saying: "Hereafte
: as blow your own bellows!'' For the last TWEEN
'o"' years he has been expecting every moment
lalnt. Ills nerves make insurrecton and ri
,re up against his head, saying: Come, let
'a9 80 seize upon this armOryl" His face is perpet
o. ,;oa ally drawn, as though he either had pain
tce expected one.
You fear to accost him with, How do "
/ do to-dayY' for that would be the signal foI
shower of complaints. He is always getting
o lump on his side, an enlargement of the hea
"a. or curve in the spine. If some of these d
A1@ orders did not actually come, he would be 81
of disappointment. Ii you should find
memorandum book, you will find in it recir
ID. in elderly female handwriting, for the cure
u all styles of diseases, from softening of I
brain in a man, down to the bots in bor
very His bedroOm-shelf is an apothecary-nfantu
vnss where medicines of all kinds NAV be fonI
10y from large bottles full of head-wash for disc
soId ed craniums, down to the smallest vial. full
aims the best preparations for the removing of co
, r. from the ieet Thousands of men are bei
,0i destroyed by this constant suspicion of III
~ health.
- Others settle down into a gloomy state fr
fore bodings of trouble to come They do
know why it is but they are always expect
~ that something will happen. They imap
-S"- about one presentiment week. A bird
into the window, or sat-cellar upsets
IT the table, or a cricket chirps on the hea,
and they shiver all over, and expect mess
ger speedily to come in hot haste to the Fl
door, and rush in with evil tidings
Away away with all forebodings as to
future. Cheer up, disconsolate ones Go fc
90 among nature. Look up toward the heay
ye insufferably bright by day, or at night W
,I9 y the sky is merry with ten thousand stars, j
- ing hands OF light, with the earth in the r
way going round aud round with gleam and da
aud song, making old Night feel young az