Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-04-07
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BIZ REV. WITT rALMAGE.

making. We there Is great differ
ence in natural lstitutions. Some per-
sons are born CT See that man with
long face that ri jkr shortens into laugh
Tell me, did mol Is mother have trouble
with him when 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 humorr Did he not
often hold - indignation meeting fiat on
the foor-his hands, his head, and his feet
all participating in the exercisey 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 eau
tion 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; if the color go out
of the rose and tits leaves fall; if angels
or once grow jealous and want what you
cannot spare; il 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!
al me!
But while We may oil from our child
position, 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, Al architect the buildings, mer
chant the condition OF the markets, min
lister the churches and 30 . man going
through the world will see the moet Of
that for which he especially looks He
who is constantly watching for troubles
wildernesses, while he who is watching
for blessings will find them hither and
thither extending in harvests OF luxuri-
ancc.
Like most garments, like most carpets,
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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, hnd
Joys on the other side. The gloomest
mountain never casts shadow on both
sides at once, nor does the greatest OF life's
manages about right-it never has dark
all ha
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. Ny friends, do Is 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 cOnsummate fret, will, in
almost every instance, come to nothing
You will not 70 to such merchants store,
nor employ such mechanic, nor call such
. minister.
Fretfulne.s will kill any thing that is
not in its nature immortal. There are
large class Of persons in constant trouble
about their health, although tie same
amount Of strength in cheerful man
would be taken as healthness. Their di-
faithfulness, finally refuses to serve such
a master, and says, Hereafter make way
with your own lobstersW and the sus-
pected lungs resign their office, saying:
" Hereafter, blow your own bellows"
For the last twenty years he has been ex-
pectng every moment to faint. His
nerves make instruction, and rise up
against his head, saying: Come, let US
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petually drawn, as though he either had a
pain or expected one.
You fear to accost him with, "How are
you to day?" for that would be the signal
for shower Of complaints. He is a ways
getting lump on his side, an enlarge
ment Of the heart, or curve in the spine.
If some Of these disorders did not actual
ly come, he would be sick OF disappoint-
ment. Ii you should find his memoran-
dunn 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
the bots in 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.
Diums, down to the smallest vial, full OF
the DcSt preparations LOT Tic TcIuDFllR vi
corns from the feet Thousands Of meh
are being destroyed by this constant sus
picion Of their health.
Others settle down into gloomy state
from forebodngs Of trouble to come.
They do not know why ii 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 a salt-cellar upsets on the table,
or cricket chirps on the hearth, and
they SILVER all over, and expect messen-
ger speedily TO come In hot haste 10 the
front door, and rush in with evil tidings.
Away away! with all forebodings as
TO the future Cheer up, disconsolate
ones, Go forth among nature. Look up
toward the heavens nsufferably bright by
day, or at night when the sky is merry
with ten thousand stars joining hands Of
light, with the earth in the ring, going
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 Oh the trees, and the soil
tude is broken by the call of the wood
sparrow, and the cheewink starting up
from among the neutrality-suspicious.. Go
to where the streams leap down off the
rocks, and their crystal heels clatter over