The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-07-13
BE SATISFIED.
Contentment the Greatest Bless
ing We Can Have.
Most of the Pleasures of This World are
Within the Reach of the Tranquil
and Peaceful Mind.
IT. Dewitt Talmage.l
SUBJECT: "ENoUGH."

SUBJECT: "ENoU UGH"
TExT-Hebrew xiii, 5: "Be content
with such things as ye have"
If I should ask some one: where IS
Shelter Shelter Island" where is New York
today" "At Long Branch" Where
is Philadelphia? 9" "Cape May" Where
is Boston?S "At Martha's Vineyard"
"Where is Virginia." AT the sulphur
tude from all parts of the landr" AT
Saratoga" the modern Bethesda, where
the angel of health is ever stirring the
waters. But, my friends, the largest
multitude are at home, detained by bus
iness or circumstances. Among them,
all newspaper men, the hardest worked
and least compensated; city railroad
employees, and ferry masters, ana the
DOlice, and tens Of thousands OF CLERKS
and merchants waiting for their turn
of business, and households with an In
valid who can not be moved, and other
mnItitudes by the stringency OF the
times hindered from further eXpendl-
ture. and the great multitude OF Well-to-
do people who stay at home because
they like home better than any otner
place, refusing to go away SIMPLY De-
cause it is the fashion to go. When the
exnress wagon with its mountains OF
trunks directed to the Catskills or Nj
apara goes through the streets, we stand
at our window enV1OuS ana lmpaClenC,
and wonder why we can not go as well
as others, Fools that we are, as though
one could not be as happy at home as
anywhere else. Our grandfathers and
grandmOthers had as good tlne as we
have long before the first spring was
hOred at Saratoga or the first deer shot
in the Adirondacks. They made their
weddinU tour to the next farm house,
or living in the city, they celebrated the
event by an extra walk on the New YORK
Now, the genuine American is not
happy until he is going somewhere,
and the passion IS so great tnat sneLe
are Christian people, with their fam1-
lies detained in the city, who come not
to the house of God, trying to give peo-
nle the idea that they are out OF town,
leaving the dOOr-plate unsecured for the
same reason, and for two months Keep
ING the front shutters closed, while they
sit in the back part of the mousse, WIN
the thermometer at ninety! My friends,
if it is best for us to go, let US go ana
he happy. If it is best for US to stay at
home. let us stay and be happy. There
is a great deal Of good common sense in
at. PauIs advice to the Hebrews: BE
content with such things as ye have.
The first reason that l mention as
leading to this spirit advised in the
text. is the consideration that the poor
est of us have all that is indispensable
in life. We make great ado aoout our
bardabips hut how little we talk of our
bIessin9si Health of body, which Is
given in largest quantity to those who
Rave never betted and fOndled and
spOiIed by fortune, we take as matter
of course. Rather have this luxury,
and have it alone, than without II LOOK
out of a palace window upon parks OF
deer stalking between fountains and
statuary. These people sleep sounGer on
a straw mattress than fashionable In
UaIids on a couch of ivory and eagles
down. The dinner of herbs tastes better
to the appetite sharpened on wood
mans axe or q reapers scythe tnan
wealthy indigestion experiences at a
table covered with partridge and veni-
son and pineapple. The grandest INJURY
God ever gave man is health. He VINO
trades that off for all the palaces OF the
earth is infinitely cheated. We look
hack at the glory of the last Napoleon,
bnt who would have taken his Yer
saiiles and his Tuileries, if with them
we had been obliged to take his goutr
HOh." saws some one, "it isn't the
orosser pleasures / covet, but it Is the
Sratification of an artistic and intel
1ectual taste" Why, my Drother, you
have the original from which these pic
tures are copied. What is sunset on a
wall compared with a sunset hung In
loops of fire on the heaVensT Where
ia a cascade, silent on a canvas, COM
nared with a cascade that makes the
mountain tremble, its spray ascending
like the departed spirit OF the water
slain on the rocksp Oh, there Is great
deal of hollow affectation about fond
ness for pictures on the part OF those
who never appreciate the original from
which the pictures are taken. AS though
a Darent should have no regard for his
child. hut 90 into ecstacies at the photo
yranh. Bless the Lord, o man, 0 woman,
that though you may be shut out from
the works of a Church, B1erstadt, a
Rubens and a Raphael, you still have
free access to a gallery grander than
the Louvre, or the Luxembourg, or the
Vatican-the royal gallery of the noon
day heavens, the Kings gallery OF the
midnight sky.
Another consideration leading Us to
spirit of eOntentment, is the fact that
onr happiness is not dependent upon
outward circumstances. You see people
thanny and miserable under all circum-
Dstances. In a family where the last
loaf is on the table and the last stick of
wood on the fire, you sometimes find a
cheerful confidence in God, while in a
very fine place you may see ana near
diseord sounding her war whoop and
hospitality freezing to death in cheer
less parlOr. l stopped one day on Broad
way at the head Of Wall street, at the
foot of Trinity Church, to see who
seemed to be the happiest people pass
ing. 1 judged from their looks that the
happiest people were not those who
went down into Wall street, for they
had on their brow the anxiety
of the dollar they expected to make; nor
the people who came out of Wall street,
for they had on their brow the anxiety
of the dollar they had lost; nor the peO-
pie who swept by in splendid equiPage,
for they met a carriage that was finer
than theirs. The happiest person in all
that crowd, judging from the counte-
nance, was the woman who sat at the
apple-stand, knitting. L believe real
happiness Oftener looks out of the win
dow of an humble home than through
the opera glass of the gilded box of a
theateT.
/ fnd Nero growing on the throne. 1
find Paul singing in dungeon. 1 find