Milford chronicle., 1888-04-20


You viii make more out Of the success Of
others than out Of their misfortunes. Speak
we'll of everybody Stab no man in the back
Be honey bee rather than spider; be a
dove rather than a buzzard.
Surely this world is large enOuel, for you
and all your rivals God has given you a
work to do Go ahead and do IT, MId
your own business. In all circles. in ell bust
nessess in all professions there is room for
straightforward successes. Jealousy enter
tanned will not only bedwarf your soul but
it will hatten your skull, bemean your eye,
put pinchcdness Of look about your nostril,
give bad curl to the lip, ard expel from
your face the divine image in which you
We're created. When you hear man or wo-
man abused, drive in on the defendants side
Watch for excellences in others rather than
than FOR defects, morning glories instead Of
nigntshade If some one is more beautiful
than you, thank God that you have not 50
many perils of vanity to contend with. II
some one has more wealth than you, thank
God that you have not so great stewardship
to answer for. Ii some one is higher up in
social position, thank God that those who
are down need not fear fail. II some one
gets higher Office in church or state than
you, thank God there are not SO many to
wish for fastening on Of your obsequies
The Duke of Dantzig, in luxurious apor+
ments was visited by plain friend, and to
keep his friend from jealousy the duke said:
"You can have all have if you will stand
twenty PAGES of and let me shoot at you a
hundred times "No, no. said his friend
"Wen," SAID the duke, "to gain ali my
honors faced on the battle field more than
a thousand gunshOts fired not more than ten
PAGES off,"
A minister Of small congregation COM
planned to minister of large congregation
about the sparseuess Of his attendants. "Ah,"
said the one of large audience, ''my son, you
win find in the day Of Judgment that you
had quite enough people for whom to be held
accountable
Substitute for jealousy an elevating emula-
tion. Seeing others good, let us try to be
better. Seeing others industrious, let US
work more hours. Seeing others benevolent,
let us resolve on giving larger percentage Of
our means for charity. May God put con-
gratulations for others into our right hand
and cheers on our lips for those who do brave
and useful things. Life is short at
the longest; let ID all be filed up
with helpfulness for others, work
and sympathy for each others misfort.
unes, and our arms be full of white mantles
to cover up the mistakes and failures of
others If an evil report about some one
come t. US, let US put on it most favorable
construction, as the Rhone enters Lake Leman
foul and comes out crystalline. Donot build
so much on the transitory differences Of this
world, for soon it will make no difference to
US whether we had SlO,0O0,OO0 or ten cents,
and the ashes into which the tongue of
Demosthenes dissolved are just like the ashes
into which the tongue of tho veriest stam-
merer went.
( If YOU are assailed by jealousy make no an
swer. Take it as compliment, for people
are never jealous Of a failure. Until your
worl, is done you arc invulncrGble kemenl-
Der how our Lord behaved under such exas-
peratons. Did they not try to catch him in
his word! Did they not call him the victim
Of intosaicants. Did they not misinterpret
him from the winter Of the year, to the spring
of the year 80; that is, from his first infantile
cry to the last groan of his assassination
Yet he answered not a wordl But so far
from demolishing either his mission or his
/ good name, after near nineteen centuries he
outranlis everything under the skies, and is
second to none above them and the archangel
makes salaam at his footstool. Chlist's
/ bloody antagonists thought they had finished
him when they wrote over the cross his ac-
cusation in three languages, Hebrew and
/ Greek and Latin, not realizing that they were
! by that act introducing him to all nations,
/ since Hebrew is the holiest language, and
/ Greek the wisest Of tongues, and Latin the
( widest spoken.
You are not the first man who had his
/ faults looked at through a microscope and
| his virtues through the wrong end Of tel
/ escope Pharaoh had the chief butler and
baker endungeoned, and tradition says that
| all the butler had done was to allow a fy in
/ the kings cup, and all the baker had done
was to leave a gravel in the kings bread.
| The world has the habit Of making great
ado about what you do wrong and forgetting
I to say anything about what you do right; but
/ the same God will take care of you who pro
/ vided for Merlin, the Christian martyr,
| when hidden from his pursuers in hay
NOW in Paris and a hen came and laid an
/ egg close by him every morning, thus keep
/ ing him from starvation Blessed are they
that are prosecuted, although persecution is
a severe cataplasm. Ointment may smart
| the wound before healing it. What a soft
/ pillow to die on if when we leave the world
we can feel that, though 1000 people may
have wronged us, We have wronged no one;
/ or, having made envious and jealous attack
| on others, we have repented of the sin and
| as far as possible made reparation. Tho
| good resolution Of Timothy Poland in his
| quaint but exquisite hymn, entitled "Iost
| Any Day" we might well unanimously
adopt.
! Wen keep ell right and good within,
Our work will then be free from sin;
/ Upright wen walk through thick and thin
Straight on our way.
Deal just with all: the prize wen win
! Most any day
When lie who made all things just right
Shall call us hence 70 realms of light,
Be il morn or noon or cen or night,
We will obey;
Wen be prepared 10 take our flight
Most any day.
Our lamps wen ill brim full Of oil
That's good and pure, that would not spoia,
And keep them burning all the while
! To light our way;
Our work ali done, wen quit the soil