Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1876-07-21
the AVANT COURIER.


Every man should bring to the affairs
Of life 90 much of himself, should associ.
sts with cu.war1 things SO much of his
inward being that the outward should be
traasfiaursd and Transformed. Great Is
ths power Of association.
Kew the wilderness blossoms like a
foee % those who look at it through their
Affections! How cold and cherries IS the
palsce where there is no love, no hope, nc
traneport, no joyful experiences! 1t il
stately, brilliant. beautiful. but desolate'
The old brown house where you were
brought up, and the old barn where from
day to day you did duty with stubbed
fingers snd bare feet, and the old field over
whose hills you have climbed-homely as
these scenes Gre, Is there anything SO beau
tiful to you a. they are IN their homeli
ness, when you 60 back to them? 1t is
what you have put on these old thinge
that makes them 90 dear to you. Il is
that memory Of your own life which has
grown in connection With them. It is tina,
part Of yourself which yor see IN them.
30 The duties of HE become more agree.
ale by reason of their association with
ourselves and that which IS dear to US. 1t
ID not always the most co:ne,y Offices that
are the most tolersble. The services IF a
Q mother TO q child involves something
more than the mere act. It is invested
with . feeling which makes 1t to the moth
Or ono Of tho most delightful of occupa-
tions. Whist mother does not know that
It is . privilege to tend her own babel
What sick mother does not Look sadly
and snviously upon the nurse that per
forms the functions that must be perform
Cd for the child? And yet they ere often
ten functions which. il they were per-
formed for any other than the mother S
own child, would be odious to her.
And that which we see III the mother
extends more or less through every part
Of life That to which you bring dill
gence, and conscience, and taste, and
chesrfulness, and gladness, and sympathy,
becomes transformed. Whether a man
befn the stable, or in the colliery. or in
the stithy, or on the ship wherever a
man is, 1t he has q manly heart, and can
bring to his affairs real manliness-their
duty to him blossoming, ard that is sweet
khich otherwise would be bitter.
Let not men, therefore, humble their
business as unhunary boys do their IN
welcome brad. Let not men say: ''Oh,
you have Z good time preaching; but if
you were blacksmith you would find it
different" sometimes wish we're one.
! have hammered as much cold iron in the
pulpit = ever . blacksmith did hot iron on
the anvil. Let not men say: ''Aht If
you were poor aud had to drudge you
would not see things as you do now" l
Aave been poor and had to drudge. Ihave
been through the various stages between
adversity and'prosperity, and have found
that some functions require less aud some
more moral elements than others; but
have also found that klngly, noble
spirited man can redeem many duties
which are in themselves unattractive and
repulsive, snd make they honorable and
Beautiful and agreeable.
There Is no place where God puts you
where it Is not your duty to turn round
end say: ''How shall I perfume this
taace sn<l nseke it fragrant as the honey
suckle and the violet, ard beautiful rs the
rose!" IL This world you are TO perform
the great duties of spiritual, moral and
physical life in the place where you are
Reverend Gentleman in Odd Fellow s
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