The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-04-11
OLIO NO. IL.
Prosperity and a Dialogue.
MI MRS. NJ s. WHITAKER AUTHOR OF "AL-
BERT HASTINGS.
PROSPERITY.

Prosperity either proves blessing or q
curse to ourselves and others, In proportion
30 the means by which IL has been secured
and the manner In which 1t is employed.
Some men rise with the occasion. II
wealth increases llberaity expands their
hearts, and, like fountain, their benefeenoe
extends to deserving objects. Others are
cramped by the desire OF still greater gain !;
the more they accumulate, the more thirsty
do they grow for gold, and this devouring
greed makes them ineffably mean In small
things, while In more weighty matters their
show of generosity and benevolence Ia but q
ualcksand or mirage, which cheats the I'M
wary, and substitutes bitter disgust for graft
tude In the seeming recipientsof their favors.
Those who have risen to prosperity by
hard shifts and lynx-like sagaoity In obtain
inR money, seldom part with that world
esteemed and valuable ruler OF destiny
without securing for themselves some fully
adequate or superior reward for the so-ealled
gift which, in nine cases out Of ten, Is
grudgingly bestowed and will In time call
for Its pound OF flesh near the heart.
It Is possible that some men rise to az
J auence by honest industry, and, retaining a
tellow-feeling for those seeking to rise In the
same way, will lend helping hand to strug-
CLING merit. God bless them II they are but
few, so much the more should they be priced
and entitled to worthy consideration. We're
those In high places wealth being regarded
as criterion OF elevation) swayed by this
noble spirit, how many tears would be wiped
away from the eyes OF the oppressed; how
gladly would they exchange burning feel
Ing OF injured pride and sickening repulsion
for one OF unmingled admiration and de-
votion only ceasing with the term of their
ffl-starred existence.
Those who bear the cross deserve the
crown, and 1t may be that In the high courts
OF heaven alone human wrong shall be
righted. Providence is inscrutable to mortal
KEN Its mysteries OF time will be made
plain In eternity.
1.-THE bud may have bitter taste.
But sweet will be the flower"
SO sang the great Watts long ago, and SO
Naked and utterly stripped Of worldly con-
sequence, will mankind at last stand before
that august tribunal whose glorious and In
alienable attribute 10 justice. A little while,
and changing time consigns the moving, busy
and prosperous to narrow house, where the
worm shall feed as sweetly on the bloated
and consequential children Of prosperity as
on their lean and prosecuted brethren, who,
graphing with adversely, learned to turn
their eyes to better country. because there
was no room for them and their honest pur-
poses In q world where success too often
crowns the undeservtng.
Prosperity is the universal aim OF man; yet
Augln was aware OF its dangers and tempta-
tions when he prayed, Give me neither pow
erty nor riches" The golden mean OF inde-
pendence is that which wise men desire, and
FOR which they should strive with sipgleness
of heart and diligence. In the sff1uence OF
his poetical conceits and mythical religion,
the pagan worshipped Fortune, turning her
wheel, but blind to all excellence and deserv-
lug. We scarce wonder at this In an age when
revealed truth had not yet taught mankind
to look away from and beyond the seemingly
unjust and cruel ailotments OF a transient so
journ on earth. here we have no abiding
place, nor is there appointed to any OF mortal
birth a continuing city. Ever do we press on
to that dark Inn, the grave! What does 1t
matter, then, whether we rustic In elk, and
feed daintily, and sleep IN eouches of down.
or wear simple vestments and repose on hard
beds The all-equai and eternal life lies be-
fore us. Thlther we tend, and there should
our hopes repose.
A COLLOQUY.
"You should write on live topics, UNCLE"
said sprig of upper tendon to a venerable
hooking old man.
s.Well. what are these7 A glance round the
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