The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-07-13
BE SATISFIED.
Continued from 1st Page.l


not have carried the fragments home in
six satchels. "0h," you say, "the times
haue changed and the day of miracles
has gone" reply that what God dld
then by miracle He does now in some
other way and by natural laws. II have
been Young" said David, "but now am
| old; vet have never seen the righteous
| fOrsaken nor his seed begging bread.
| 1t is high time that you people who are
| fretting about worldly circumstances,
and who are fearing you are coming 10
want, understood that the oath OF the
Eternal God is involved in the tact that
you are to have enough TO eat ana 10
wear.
Again, remark that the religion of
Jesus Christ is the grandest influence to
make a man cOntented. indemnify
against all financial and spiritual harm
| 1t calms the spirit, dwindles the earth
| with insignificance and swallows up
the soul with the thought of heaven. o.,
We who have been going about from
place to place expecting to ind In change
of circumstances something TO give sol
ace to the spirit, commend you to the
warm-hearted, earnest, practical, COM
mon sense religion of the Lord Jesus
Christ. "There is no peace" saith my
God, "for the wicked" and as long as
you continue in your sin you Will De
miserable. Come to Christ. Make Him
your portion and start for heaven, and
you will be happy man-yOu Will oe a
happy woman.
Yet, my friends, Notwithstanding all
these inducements to a spirit of con-
tentment, | have to tell you that the
human race is divided into two classes
those who scOld and those who get
scOlded. The carpenter wants to be any
thing but a carpenter, and the mason
anything bat mason, and the banker
ANYTHING but a banker, and the lawyer
ANYTHING but a lawyer, and the minister
ANYTHING but a minister, and everybody
would be happy if he were only some
body else. The anemOne wants TO De
sunflOwer, and the apple orchards throw
down their blossoms because they are
not tall cedars, and the scOw wants to
be schooner, and the slOOp would like
to be a seventy-fOur FOUNDER; and par
ents have the worst children ever were,
and everybody has the greatest mtsfor-
tune, and everything is upside down, or
going to be. All, my friends, you never
make any advance through such spirit
as that. You cannot fret yourself up.
You may fret yourself down. Amid all
this grating of tones l strike this string
contentment, is great gain. We brought
nothing into the world, and 1t Is very
certain we can carry nothing out. Hay-
ing food and raiment, let US Herewith
be content"
Let us all remember, if we are Chris
tians, that we are all going after awhile,
whatever be our circumstances now, to
have a glorious vacation. AS in summer
we put off our summer garments and go
down into the cool sea to battle, so we
will put off these garments of flesh and
step into the cool garden. We will look
around for some place to lay down our
WEAKNESS, and the trees will say: Come
and rest under our shadow" And the
earth will say: Come and sleep in my
bOsOm" And the winds will say: Hush,
while 1 sing thee cradle hymn And
while six strong men carry us out to
our last resting place, and ashes come
to ashes and dust to dust, we will see
two Scared feet standing amid the
broken soil, and a lacerated brow bend
ing over the open grave, while voice
tender with all affection and might
with all OmnipOtence will declare: 81
am the resurrection and the life; he that
believeth in Me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live" Comfort one another
with these words,