South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-08-04


see people happy and miserable un.
der all circumstances. In family
where the last loaf is on the table and
the last stick of wood in the fire, You
sometimes find cheerful confidence
in God, while in very fine palace
you see and hear discord sounding
her war.whoop and hospitality freez.
ing II death in cherries parlor. /
stopped one day on Broadway. mt the
head of Wall street, at the foot of
Trinity church, to see what seemed
10 be
THE uaPPItsT PEOPLE "A
passing / judged from thor looks
that tho happiest leople were not
those who went down into Wall street,
for they had on their brows the anxi-
ETY. 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 people who swept
by in splendid carriages. for they met
Il carriage that was finer than theirs.
The happiest person in all that crowd,
Judging from the countenancc, was
the woman who sat ut the apple stand
knitting. believe real happiness of
iener looks out of the windows of an
humble home than through the opera
glass of the gilded box of a theatre. /
find Nero growing on throne.
find Paul cinging in u dungeon. find
'Ahoh going 10 bed ut noon through
melancholy, while near by is Naboth
oontcnted in the possession Of n vine
yard. lIaman, Prime Minister OF Per.
sia. irets himself almost TO death be-
cause q poor j ew will not tip his hat,
and Ahithopel, one OF the great law.
yers of Bible times. through fear OF
dyings, hangs himself. The wealth.
est man forty years ago In New YORK,
when congratulated over his large es
tate, replied: .Ah, you don't know
how much trouble | have III taking
care Off Byron declared in his last
hours that he had never seen more than
twelve happy days in all his life. / do
not believe he had seen twelve min.
utes of thorough satisfaction. Napo-
leon l. said: Il turn with disgust from
the cowardicc and scliishncss OF man
| hold lite horror; death is rcpose
What | have suffered the last twenty
days is beyond human comp ehension.'
While, on the other hand, 10 show how
one may be happy under most disad-
vantageous circumstances, just after
the Ocean Monarch had been wrecked
in the English Channel, n steamer was
cruising along in the darkness, when
the Captain heard Il song, IL sweet
song, coming over the water. and he
bore down toward that voice and found
it was Christian woman on plank
of the wrecked steamer, singing TO the
tune of st. Martins:
'Jesu,, lover Of my soul,
Let ME 10 thy bosom hy,
While the pillows near ne roll
While the tempest still IL high"
The heart right toward God and man.
we are happy. The heart wrong to
ward God and man, we are unhappy.
ANOTHER REASON WHY
we should come TO this spirit inculca>
ted i'll the text, is the fact that all the
differences of earthly condition are
transitory. The houses you build, the
land you culture, the places in which
YOU barter, are soon TO 90 into other
hands. However hard you may have
it now, If you are Christian lie scene
will soon end. Pain, trial, pcrsecu-
ton never knock at the door Of the
grave A coffin made out of pine
boards is just as good n resting place
as one made out of silver mounted
mahogany or rosewood. Go down a.
mong the resting places of the dead
and you will tind that though people
there had great difference Of world.
Is circumstances now they arc all alike
unconscious. The hand that created
the Senator and the President and the
King is sc still "a tho hand that har.
dencd on the mechanics hammer or
the manufacturers wheel. 1t docs
not make any difference now whether
there was plain stone above them.
from which the traveller pulls aside
the weeds to read the name, OF q tall
shaft spriDging into the heavens, "a
I though 10 tell their virtues TO theskies
IN that silent land there are no titles
for great men and there arc no rum
bling Of chariot wheels and there is ne.
yer heard there the foot of tic dance
The Egyptian guauo, which is thrown
on the fields IN the East for the ell
richment Of tie soil, is the dust raked
out Of the sepulcheis of kings & lords
and mighty men Oh, the chaQrin of
those mighty men if they had ever
known that III after ages of the world
they would have been called Egvp-
tan guauO.
Another reason why We should cGl
tivate a spirit Of cheerfulness is the
fact that
OOu KNOWS WHAT - BrsT
Tor bis creatures. You know what il
best for your clald. lie thinks YOU
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