, 1880-01-22

There are multitudes of things in
life that have no immediate results.
The men who SOW to-day and reap
tomorrow are poor men; for know
of no crop that ever ripens in
night but toad stools.
Now, it is a part of Christian duty
to accept the condition in which we
are as long as we are in it, and to
make that condition beautiful by our
fidelity, and to render that which is
odious in life important by clothing
it with something that is within our
own souls, pouring On it the element
of beeuty. Cheerfulness does it.
The law of associatiation does it.
Men make the homeliest houses
more beautiful than kings palaces
when they have left in them their
heart, and the memory of father and
mother, brothers and sisters, and
children. The coarsest and rudest
stand there, and there with the rec.
objection of our love become grander
than Pompey's Pillar or the Needle
of Cleopatra. The world is full Of
the literature of the heart: and a
man can put it on what he plsases.
He has the power Of overlaying
things with it as with garment.
The heart is loom, and it may
weave what it pleases. 1t may make
life continual progress toward tri'
umph.
Are there not men, poor, unlet'
tered, and yet of great and beautiful
souls, who meet the storms and hard
nesses Of life with perpetual cheer,
with mirth and with sweet services.
The boys from them ght the tritles
that are denied them at home: they
know the fishing places; they know
where the chestnut. trees are; they
know where are the sqnirrel's holes:
they know where strings, aud bows,
and tops, and kites are. They know
about all the things that the young
desire; and their life is service to
the young. liza painter desired a
figure most grotesque and uulovely
OF aspect, satyr, he perhaps would
see what he desired in such a crea-
ture, but to all the children he is
more beautiful than Apollo; for we
learn to give things the color of the
heart; and associated with him are
gratitude and love. Under such cir
cumstances homeliness is transformed
into beauty. Beauty strikes through
and through, and is radiant and in
destructible, There are thousands
that are under dcspotism in foreign
lands, the world around, to whom
the apostle says, "Honor the king"
"But may l not discrown him ?"
Yes. "May / not tumble him off
from his throne, and put president
there?" Yes. You may change the
forms of laws and institutions and
governments when it is best that it
should be changed; but 80 long as
they abide as the government, the in.
stitutions, and the laws, the conduct
! of citizens under them is not to be
morose, and rebelious, and complain
ing and assassinating When a ma
tion shooses to lay aside an old gar
ment, and put Oh a better one, it has
the right to do it; but until it does
that the command is, "Honor the
| king" "Obey those that have rule
over you" is the command; and it is
just and equitable command.
There are those who are the slaves
of unfit masters to whom the apostle
addresses the same command. 1t is
not good thing to be a slave; no
man would be one who could help it;
slavery carries in it the sum of hu-
man misfortunes; nevertheless, so
long as man is slave for him the
right wav toward freedom is by good
conduct. He is to do his duty; not
with eye.service, as man pleaser;
he is not to do it as unto men; he is
to rise superior to his bondage by the
large. hearted conduct of Christian
man that lives in two worlds, tread
ing under foot the neither, and bath
ing his head eternally in the light and
beauty of the upper. The way of
emancipation is the way of larger
manhood. The way out of Egypt is
forty years of haroic endurance--yes
and hundreds Of years of endurance
afterwards; aud the way to over
throw oppression is to make man so
large and beautiful that men will not
want to oppress him.