Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-09-02
CHEERFyLNESS.

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CHEERFVLNESs.
What we call low spirits is frequently
the result of bodily weakness or dis
ease. People, with few exceptions,
love to be cheerful, and do not have to
hear sermons and lectures on the SUBJ
ject to appreciate cheerfulness. But
these frail bodies are easily put out of
tune, and despondency is very apt to
accompany the small ills which seem
but slight and for which we find but
little sympathy. When Elijah sat down
under the juniper tree in great despon-
dency, SO great that he longed to die,
the angel of the Lord did not say
" Man, you give UP too easily; despon-
dency is dreadful thing, never give
way to it, No, the Lord is too wise a
physician for that. He knew that the
prophet was suffering from bodily
weakness and WEAKNESS. The good
man was allowed to rest first of ALL;
mark that. Sleep and rest are often all
that is needed to cure low spirits, Then
a miraculous meal was prepared, and
the angel touched the angel touched
the sleeper and said: ARISE, and eat,
for the journey is too great for thee. !"
How sympathizing and tender were
these words! Elijah did according to
this bidding, and we have no more
complaints of that kind from him.
Just here is the secret in numbers of
cases where dependency holds sway:
"The journey is too great for thee. !"
The tolls and cares press so heavily that
the mortal frame is out of order, and
dependency is the result. Avoid over
fati que, taking too much thought for
the morrow, grumbling and brooding,
and anything that is hurtful to the ply
steal nature. And remember that the
greatest cheerfulness is induced by q
firm trust in the Lord. When the
journey is necessarily too great for thee,
the angel will come and give thee meat
that shall strengthen thee.
FIRST AND SECOND HoNEYMooN.-The
real honeymoon is not always delight
full moment. This, which sounds like
heresy to the romantic, and bias
phemy to the young, is fact which
great many people acknowledge readily
enough when they have gone beyond
the stage at which it sounds like an Of
fence to the wife or to the husband who
is supposed to have made that period
rapturous. The new pair have not the
easy acquaintance with each other which
makes the happiness of close companion
ship; perhaps they have not that SYM
pathy with each others tastes which is
almost better practical tie than simple
love. They are afraid of each other,
they are making discoveries every day
of new points in each others characters,
delightful or undelightful as may be,
which bewilder their first confidence of
union; and the more mind and feel
ing there is between them, the more
likely is this to be the case, The shall
low and superficial "get on better than
those who have great deal of excel
lence or tender depth of sentiment to
be found out. But after the pair have
come to full acquaintance; after they
have learned each other from A B G up
to the most difficult chapter; after the
intercourse of ordinary life has borne
its fruit, there is nothing in the world
so delightful as the heneymooning
which has passed by years the legiti-
mate period of the honeymoon. Some
times one sees respectable fathers and
mothers enjoying it, who have sent off
their children to the orthodox honey
moon, and only now feel with sur
prised pleasure how sweet it is to have
their own solitude deuc to be left to
themselves for serene and happy mo-
ment; to feel themselves dearer and
nearer than they ever were before.
There is something infinitely touching
and tender in this honeymoon of the
old.-Saturday Reriec