The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-05-04
Growers.

a nan Is an interesting specimen
of humanity when he gets 10 be a
growler. Many men miss this fate,
but many others bring it upon
themselves. 1t is q terrible disease,
and grows upon its subject until it
ruins him. Most people would rath-
er have a case of smallpox about
them than-a regular srowler. They
are dreaded. This Is q pretty good
world, and we are satisfied mankind
and womankind were put here to
enjoy it and make the best of it
for themselves and their comrades
There are hardships to bear. There
are prIvatiOns and sufferings to en-
dure. There will be complainings
In dark and troublesome moments,
but the man who cannet look
through these to something better
beyond, and back to sweet moments
of enjoyment, which give him as
surance that trouble and yexation
are not all there is of this life, is a
poor philosopher indeed. But your
GROWER makes every thing black and
blue. The world is going to de-
struction. Politics are corrupt.
The church IS corrupt. There is no
confidence to be put in anybody.
Mankind, and everything that the
10 sa
enjoyment, are failure. Every
thing is going wrong. This is the
way things look to the growler. A
gloom settles over him, and he
broods over his personal wrongs and
the assumed degeneracy of every
body and everything, till he becomes
q burden and q nuisance to all with
whom he comes in contact. He Is
like the fig tree that had nothing
but leaves. He is a failure. And
Instead of finding the cause of his
condition in his own heart, he lays
it to some one else. Some one has
wronged him, perhaps, and he
spends his life in broodlng over the
wrong, instead of pushing ahead
and working out his destiny with
patience and energy. Instead of
graphing the events of life and
making the most of them,h contents
himself with becoming sour and
growing, as though these would do
him any good. The growler has no
one to blame for his condition but
himself. He cannot justly lay his
failures at others doors. The growl-
er is necessarily q selfish man. Tits
the constant dwelling upon his per-
sonal grievances, mostly imaginary,
that sours his life and makes him
what he is. II he truly understood
this life and its work, he would
soon forget the knocks he receives,
in the trIumphs he makes, or ought
to make. 1t seems 10 us, when we
look about, that Providence has
been lavish in it's provisions to keep
men from selfishness and morose-
ness. He has made the world at
tractive. He has filed it with work
for every mind and every heart.
There is something on every hand
to induce man to push forward.
The growler makes the first mistake
of his life when he finds time to
growl. What he is put here for, il
to make the world better. He can
not do it by growing. He must
have a warm heart and confidence
in the promises of Providence and
in his fellows. We think it impos-
sible for q growler to be christian.
Growing and bigotry go together,
aud a grOwler may think he Is reli-
gious when he is only bigoted.
Religion and moroseness do not
mix. A man whose heart is filled
with the spirit of fault-finding, who
thinks everybody wrong but him
self, does not enjoy heavens richest
and best blessings. Such thing is
impossible. If there is any fate we
should pray to be delivered from,
it is that of the growler. Growing
is q disease which grows on man
until it drives him from his party,
his church, and makes him . regular
IshmaeIite. Shun growing as you
would hydrophobia.