Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-04-01
GOOD CHEER.
ny REV. T. DE wirr rA1MAeE.

\ ny REV. t. DE WITT TALMAGE. f'''
Our disposition is much of our own
making. We admit there.is is great differ
.ence in natural constitutions. Some per
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 humot6 Did he not
often hold an indignation meeting fiat on
the foor-his hands, his head, and bis feet
all participating in, the eXerclse2. Gould
mot 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 eau
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 4 score of echoes At night
you can hardly hGsjl their glad hearts sfor
slumbep anu in the morning they wake
you with their singing. Alas ,f 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 themorning
with their sweet song; if the color go out
of the rose and tits leaves fall; if angels
or once grow jealous and want what you.
cannot spare; if packed away in the
trunk or drawer there be silent garments
that once fluttered with youthful life, and
by mistake you call some other child by
the name of the one departed-ah me
ah me
But while we may all from our Child
hood have a certain bent given to our dis,
! position, much depends upon ourselves
whether we win befhappy 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 architect the buildings, a mer-
chant the condition of the markets, a min
lister the churches and SO 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 luXuri-
ance.
Like most garments, like most carpets,
every thing in life has a right side and a
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 gloomiest
mountain never casts shadow on both
sides at once, nor does the greatest of life's
calamities. The earth in its revolutions
manages about right-it never has dark
ness all over it at the same time. Some
times it has night in America, and some
times in China, but there is some part of
the earth constantly in the bright sun
/ light. My friends, do as the earth does.
round, and you will find sunlight some.
where. Amid the thickest gloom through
which you are called to pass, carry your
own CANDLE A eonsummate fret, viii i'll
almost every instance, come to nothing.
! You will not go to such merchants store,
nor employ such mechanic, nor call such
a minister S1aEsa} ~ rn
Fretfulness will kill any thing 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 a cheerful man
would be taken as healthiness. Their di-
gestien being constantly suspected of un
faithfulness, finally refuses to serve such
a master, and says, Hereafter make way
with your, own lobstersT and the sus-
] pected lungs resign. their office, saying
Hereafter, blow your own bellowsT'
tFor the last twenty years he has been eX
} peeting every moment TO faint. His
nerves make instruction, and. rise up
against his head, saying: NCome, let us
i seize upon this armoryl' His face isperl
petually drawn, as though he either had q
pain or expected one.
You fear to accost him with, "How are
Fyou todayP" for that would be the signal
for shower of complaints. He is always
getting lump on his side, an. enlarge
ment of the heart, or curvein tho spine
If some of these disorders did not actual
ly come, he would be sick OF disappont-
ment. 1t you should find his memoran-
dun book, you would discover. in it re-
cipes, in elderly female handwriting, for
the cure of all styles of diseases, from
softening of the brain in man, down to
f the bots in d horse, His bedroom-shelf is
, an apothecary-infantum, where medicines
of all kinds may be found from large bot
, ties, full of head wash for diseased era
, NUNS down to the smallest vial, full OF
the best preparations for the removing OF
corns from the feet. Thousands of men
are being destroyed by this constant sus'
picion of their health.
Others settle down into a gloomy state
, from forebodings of trouble to come
They do not know whyit is, but they are
always expecting that something will hap
, pen. They imagine about one presenti
, ment week. A bird flies into the win
! dow, or salt-cellar upsets ON the table
or cricket chirps on the hearth, and
, they shiver all over, and expect messen
| ger speedily to come in hot haste TO tho
. | a In, with Aktf1 filin
AWAY away! with all forebodings at
to the future. Cheer up, diseonsolat'
ones Go forth among nature. Look NJ
toward the heavens insuflerably, bright by
day, or at night when the sky is merry
with ten thousand stars joining hands o
light, with the earth in the ring, goinl
!, round and round with CLEAN, and dance
/, and song, making old Night feel young
! !, again. Go to the forest where the wood
mans axe rings on the trees, and the soil
tude is broken by the call of the wood
|, sparrow, and the cheewink starting VI
) from among the huckleberry-bushes, G'
v 10 where the streams leap down otf tn
!. rocks, and their crystal heels clatter owe
!. the white pebbi,s Go to where the vii
. flowers stand drinking out of the mouu
n tain-brook, and, scattered ON he sras
4 look as if all the breads had cast thel
+ crowns at the foot Of the steep. llark
the 1luting of the winds and the lon
4 metre-psaln Of the thunderl Look at tn
q Morning coming downthe mogntains, an
e Evening drawing aside the curtain iror
q heavens wall of jasper, amethyst, sal
q donyx, and chalcedony Lock at all TIM
a and then be happy Hearth and Home.
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