Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-04-04
THANKFULNESS.

The Good Book, too good to be in the AP-
PRAL's library, and consequently not imme-
dIately available, contains any amount OF
terse, sensible paragraphs on thankfulness
In the olden time, when men gave favors with
a willing heart and others received with thank
fulness, the memory of the recipient was the
longest. A good many hold that the world Is
getting less generous daily If this is a fact
and the APPEAL doesn't argue that it isn't
it is because generosity finds such poor en-
enlargement Men are naturally kind Of
heart, and ready to act for the benefit of their
fellows; but they finally get sick and disguised
with the cold ingratitude they receive IN re-
turn, and stop giving and helping. There is
a gentle touch to the hand of charity, and it
likes not the feeling and texture of cold and
irresponsible flesh. Charity gets all the pay
it wants in the thankfulness and gratitude of
those upon whom it bestows favors; but the
milk of human kindness turned to the gall of
disgust, is worse if anything than the love of
woman turned to hatred. Many of the men
to whom the world points as close, stingy and
thankless wretches whose rule of life is to fas
ten the fangs of ingratitude into the hand that
deals them bounty. Some men are ever ready
to accept boost in the world, but if they ever
attain eminence, they forget every one who
ever did them favor. Dumas made it rule
never to lend money. He explained on the
ground that he wished to make as few enc
mics as possible. There was once New York
Jockey who was astonishin.ly successful in
his business, and when asked how he managed
80 well, replied that he stopped doing favors
for people, and success followed. Early in
life he had helped everybody who needed help
and got his pay in hard hits. At last he was
sensible enough TO reverse his tactics and made
friends and fortune. No wonder that men
become mean and ungenerous when they re-
fleet that nearly all the dirty, contemplate
tricks that they have been served with, ena-
mated from persons who were indebted to
them for favors. No wonder that breasts grow
cold and hearts callous when they are contln-
ually getting stones in return for bread. Most
man are born with sympathetic feelings, and
if they lose their sympathy it is because they
have been robbed of it. These reflections are
not pleasant and perhaps have their well spring
in the cold, drizzly weather that spreads the
pail of its 9 loom over the APPEAL office, and
the whole of Carson Just at present. The
readers of the APPEAL have been accustomed
of late years to some sort of sermon on Sun
day morning, aud the present occupant OF the
pulpit regrets that the Capitol Church does
not resound with the eloquence of the gifted
tongue which once furnished the preachments,
and so without attempting to make his voice
reach 80 far, or his words sink as deeply, pre-
SCENTS the truth in plain way, and begs the
congregation to remember that there is no man
30 stupid, but that in foundering through a
subject he will extract some truth from it,
worthy of being stored away and pondered
over, by much better men than himself. Let
no man or woman, however, within the reach
of this discourse lay the false JUNCTION to their
soul, that ingratitnde is an excuse for mean
ness Better bestow fruitless bounty upon
thousand thankless, scampish scallawags, who |
in return for daily charities would play poker
upon your tombstone, than to Withhold your
sympathy, loving kindness and trade dollars
from one needy or deserving man or woman.
If you fail in getting good interest on your in
vestment in this world, there is big bank |
only few years away from here where gold |
bullion is being piled up for you every time
you do the square thing by your neighbors,
and every time they do the mean thing by
you only adds to the pile; a place where
neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, nor thieves
break through and steal