The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-11-05

ioT happiness anu longevity. II
we are happy in doing good-in
working to win men from dissipa
tion to a care for their manhood
from the gutter to the parlor-from
the soup-house to dining room of
their own-from a life of idieness
to one of useful labor, let US so Ia
Dor, and let those who do not like
our way, or manner, Or mode of
life, or style of speech, or pecu-
liarity of ideas, or choice Of
friends, go and do different, for
they have the same right to follow
our example or to ignore it as we
Lave to pattern or not pattern by
them.
All these persons come and go.
They meet us once, or more. and
are gone. Our allegiance is not
to them, but to that great princi
pie of independent manhood
SO few ever dream Of. We must
not try to please too many. If VIC
can please and make happy even
one person other than ourself, we
do more than does one in fifty.
Too often we look this way to see
this, that way to see that-another
way to see these and yonder to see
something else, till we see nothing.
AS We strive to please first this
enc, then that. then another, in.
stead of even one who in turn
would please, care for, and make
us happy-all the time fearing
what this one will think, Or that
one will say. AS if it would make
difference with Him who knoweth
all things, what any one thinks or
says.
Those who live to their own
ideas are the happiest, as those
appear best in society who wear
their own garments. The ones
who really enjoy life are those who
walk proudly independent OF all
save the mercies Of God and the
love of some chosen one. Those
who thus live are the happiest, for
they are so loved and guided by
the spirits of those who watch over
them by Divine appointment, that
they walk where others creep
run where others fall, and truly
live where others only exist. Do
you know one thing ? That is of
the life beyond our final Saturday
Night If not, we will tell you,
for to night we are to write thus
to open with the point Of pen lit
tie place through which those who
would may look, and know as we
know.
We so all differ in the continua-
ton of our life over there, from our
life here, so much! Now we are
wrapped ,encoffine in intellect and
knowledge of those great truths
which so fill the minds Of the ig-
norant with fear, but which make
those who have been given light
such a Joyous promise for the fu-
ture. Now we are shrunken in
our ideas, ignorant except by in
spiration, of that knowledge which
will some day be given those who
are purified by the fire of heart
sorrow and ennobled by success
full struggling for the right.
In the grand and glorious Eter-
nun, the confines of which the
minds eye of those who dare be-
lieve here will eventually reach,
we shall be greater and more pow
erful than here, as we shall be
happier.
We shall be greater as we shall
expand in ideas-in liberal:ty--in
noble sentiments and disposition,
not only TO reach out for knowl
edge, but our willingness to be
guided by those to whom the way
has been made so plain there is no
mistake possible when it comes to
choosing between the roads. With
this outbuilding of the soul or
mind will come more greatness
than mortals dream of, except in
rare instances. This much for ex
pansion OF intellect.
To US the future is no sealed
book. We know not its work in
detail. but enough to look for our
final Saturday Night with not
feeling of dread, for Over There
we shall work, and shall win, and
shall rest with that other part Of
ours elf, as we all have counter
parts or loves, united as but few
dream of on earth.
And we shall be happier by con-
centration of the heart. 1t is not
the literal '.having no other God
but me-" but the having but one
object for the heart to rest with