Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-08-11
REV DR.. TALMAGE.
THE BRooTLYN DIvINES SUNDAY
SERMON.
Text Be- e0ntent scith such things a
ye hare. ~ Hebrews xiii, 8.


lyn today" he would say, "At Brighton
Beach, or East Hampton, or Shelter Island 4"
Where is New York to-day.n sAt Long
Branch" "Where Philadelphial' AT Capd
May" Where is Boston" AT Martha'a
Vineyard "Where is Virginasn AT the
sulphur Springs" where the great multi
tube from all parts of the landF' ',At Sara
toga,n the MODERN bethesda, where the angel
Of health is ever stirring the waters. But,
my friends, the largest multitude are at home,
detained by business or circumstances.
Among them all newspaper men, the hardest
worked and the least compensaied city rail-
road employees, and ferry masters, aud the
police, and the tens OF thousands OF clerks
and merchants waiting for their tu:n of alb
sence, and households with an invalid who
cannot be moved, and others hindered by
stringent circumstances, and the great null
titude of well to do people who stay at home
because they like home better than any other
place, refusing to go away simply because 1t
is the fashion to go. When the express
wagon, with its mountain OF trunks directed
TO the Catskils or Niagara, goes through the
streets, we stand at our window envious and
impatient, and wonder why we cannot 90 as
well as others. Eco that we are, as though
one could not be as happy at home as any
where else Onr grandfatheIs and grand
mothers bad as good time as we have long
before ,he first spring was bored at Sara
toga, or the first deer shot in the Adiron-
dacks. They made their wedding tour to
the next farmhouse, or, living in New FORK,
the celebrated they event by AN extra walk on
the Battery.
Now the genuine American is not happy
until he is going somewhere, and the passion
is SO great that there are Christian people
with their families detained in the CITY who
come not to the house of God, trying to give
people the idea that they are out OF town;
leaving the door plate unsecured for the
same reason, and for two months keeping the
front shutters closed while they sit in the
back part of the house. the Thermometer at
ninety My friends, if it is better for US to GO
let us so aud be happy. If it be best for Us
to stay at home, let us stay at home and lie
happy There is great deal of good cOm-
mon sense in Paups advice to the Hebrews.
be content with snch things as We have y
10 he content Is to he ia good humor with
our circumstances, not picking a quarrel
with cur obscurlty, or our poverty, or our
social position. There are four or fye grand
reasons why we should be content with such
things as We have.
The first reason that mention as leading
to this spirit devised i'll the text, is the CON
sideration that the poorest OF us have all that
is indispensable in life. We make great
ado about our 'hardships, but how little we
talk of our blessings Health and body,
which is given in largest quantity to those
who have never been petted and fondled and
spoiled by fortune, we take as a matter OF
course. Rather have this luxury, and have
it a one, than. without it, look out of u
palace window upon parks of deer stalking
between fountains and statuary. These PEG
pie sleep sounder on a straw mattress
than fashionable invalids on couch
of ivory ami eagles down. The dinner
OF herbs tastes better 10 the appetite Sharp
ened on woolnlans ak or reapers scythe
than wealthy Indigestion experiences seated
at a table covered with partridge. and veni-
son, AMI pineapple The grandest luxury
God ever gave a man is ealtI. He who
trades that oil for all the palaces of the earth
is infinitely cheated. We look back at the
glory Of the last Napoleon, but who would
have taken his Versailles and his Tuileries if
with them we had been obliged to take his
gouts oh, says some one sit isn't the
grosser Pleasures | covet. but il is the gratiti-
cation OF an artistic and intellectual taste
Why, my brother, you have the original
from which these pictures are copied.
What is a sunset Oh wall compared with
a sunset hung in loops of fire On the heavensi
" hat is cascade silent on a canvas COM
pared with a cascade thst makes the noun
tain trenble, its spray ascending like the
departed spirit of the water slain OH the
rocks Oh, there IS a great deal of hollow
aifectatiOn about a fondness for pictures on
the part of those who never appreciate the
original from which the pictures are taken.
As though parent should have no regard
for his child, but go into ecstasies over its
photograph. Bless the Lord to-day. oh. man
out from the works OF q Church. a Bierstadt
a Rubens and a Raphael. YOU still have free
access 10 gallery grander than the Louvre
on the Luxembourg or the Natican-tho royal
gallery of the hoonday heavens, the King 8
gallery of the midnight sky.
Another considerat on isa1ng us to
spirit of contentment is the fact that our hap
piness is not dependent upon outward err
cllmstances. You see people happy and mis-
cradle amid all circumstances. 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 will see ard hear discord
sounding her war whoop, and Hospitality.
freezing 20 death i'll the cherries parlor
stopped one day ON Broadway Z { the head of
Wall street, at the foot Of Trinity church, ia
see who seemed the happiest people passing
Judged from their looks the happiest peo-
rle were not those who went down into Wall
street, for they had on their brow the ankle.
ty of the dollar they expected to make: nor
the people vino came out Of Wall street. fsss
they they had on their brow the anxiety
Of the dollar they hal lost: nor the people
who swept hy in splendid ecu page, for they
met carriage that was inner than theirs
The happiest person in all that crowd, iudg-
ing FROM The countanance, was the woman
who sat at the apple stand knitting. he
lleva real happiness oftensr looks out Of the
window OF an humble home than through
~
find Nero growing on the throne. ! find
Paul singing in a dungeon. ! find King Ahab
going b. irsl at noon through melancholy,
while near by is Nlbotb coutante1 in the pos
s'ssiol Of vineyard. Hnsnan, Prime Minis
Il Of Persia frets himself almost TO death
ieeau g poor jew will not tip his hat. AMI
Ahitiophel. one OF ths greatest lawyers of
Bible times. through fear Of dying. hangs
mself The weatl;iest man. forty years
SGD, a. New York, when congratulated over
his arge estate, replied: "Ah you don't
know how much trouble | have in taking
.srs Of it, Byron declare in his last
hours that he had never seen more than twelve
Happy days in all bis life do not believe
H. had seen twelve minutes OF thorough sat
slaetion Napoleon l. said Il turn with
iisgIsi from the cOwarlice aud sellishness Of
men; bold life horror; death is repose.
What have suffered the last twenty days is
beyOni human comprehension. While. on
the other hand, TO show how one may lie
nappy and The most disadvantageous cir
,un.t tnces. just after the Dcenu Monarch
had ie-n wrecked IN tn English channel
~ iIner was cruising along in the darkness,
IS hen the captain heard a SOM. a sweet song
coming over the water. AMI he bore down
coward that voice. AMI found IL was Chris
silD women on a plank OF the wrecked
steamer. singing 70 the tune OF st. Mar
TINS