Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-04-27

quite enough people for whom to be
held accountable.
Substitute for jealousy an eIevating
emulation. Seeing others good, let us
try to be better. Seeing others indus
tT1Ous, let US work more hours. Seeing
others benevolent let US resolve on Civ
ing larger percentage of our means for
charity May God put congratulations
Tor others into our right hand and cheer
on our lips for those who do brave and
useful things. Life Is short at the
longest; let 1t all be filed up with
helpfulness for others, work and sym
pathy for each others misfOrtunes, and
our arms to be full of white manties to
cover up the mistakes and failures of
others. If an evil report about some
one come to US, let Us put on it most
favorable construction, as the RhOne
enters Lake Leman foul and comes out
crystalline. Do not build so much on
the transitOry differences of this world,
for soon it VIII make no difference to US
whether we had so, 600, 600 or 10 cents,
and the ashes into which the tongue of
DemOsthenes dissolved are Just like the
ashes into which the tongue of the
Ver1est stammerer went
If you are assailed by jealousy make
no answer. Take it as a compliment,
for people are never Jealous of a failure.
Until your work Is done you are in
vulnerable. Remember how our Lord
behaved under such exasperatiOns. Did
they not try to catch Him In His word
Did they not call Him the victim of in
tOxicants? Did they not misirt srpret
Him from the winter of the year / to
the spring of the year 33-that is, from
TG first L. 10, To-
Of His assassination Yet He answered
not a word. But so far from demOIish-
ing either His mission or His good
name, after near nineteen centuries He
Outranks everything under the skies,
and is second to none above them, and
the arch-ange1 makes salasm at His
fOOtstoOl. Christ's bloody antagonists
thought that they had finished Him
when they wrote over the cross His
accusations in three languages-He-
brew, and Greek, and Latin-nOt
realizing that they were by that act
introducing Him to all nations, since
Hebrew is the hottest 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 microscope aud his virtues
through the wrong end of a telescope.
Pharaoh had the chief butler and baker
endungeOned, and tradition says that
all the butler had done was to allow atty
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 a great ado about
what you do wrong and forgetting to say
anything about what yOn do right, but
the same God viii take care of you who
provided for Merlin, the Christian mar
tyr, when hidden from his pursuers in
hay-mOW IN Paris, and a hen came
and laid an egg close by him every
morning, thus keeping him from star
walton. Blessed are they that are per
secuted, although persecution is a Sc
we're 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 a
thousand people may have wrOnged US,
we have wrOnged no one; or having
made enviOus or jealous attack on 9TH
ers, we have repented Of the sin and as
far as possible made reparatiOn. The
good resolution of Timothy Poland in
his quaint but exquisite hymn, entitled
Most Any Day" we might well unani-
mOusIy adopt:
We II Keep al L4sS14J anu BOO4 W4ILl1l,
Our work viii 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 He who made all things Just right
Shall call US hence to realms of light,
Be it morn or noon or cen or night,
We Will obey;
Wen be prepared to take our flight
Most any day.
Our lamps wen I'LL brfm full of oil
That's good and pure, that would not spoil,
And keep them burning all the while
To light our way;
Our work all done Wen quit the soil
Most any day.