Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-07-22
HAPPINESS AT HOME.
REV. DR.. rALMAeE DIScouRseS At
THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

Circumstances-''God with Con-
tentment Is Great Gain"
BROOKLYN, July lj.-The Rev. 7. De
Witt Talmage, d. D., took for his sub
iect today; 'In Good Humor with Our
Circumstance" His text was Hebrews
xiii, 8: "Be content with such things as
We have" The great preachers dis Jurse
was as follows:
If should ask some one. Where is
BROOKLYN todayT' he would say, AT
Brighton Beach, or East Hampton. or
Shelter Island" "Where is New York
today" "At Long Branch" Where
Philadelphia" ''Cape May" Where
is Bostonl" "At Martha's Vineyard. +"
"Where is Virginia." "At the Sulphur
Springs" "Where the great multitude
from all parts of the landy' 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
business or circumstances. Among
them all newspaper men, the hardest
worked and the least compensated; city
railrond employees, and ferry masters,
and the police and the tens of thousands
of clerks and merchants waiting for their
turn Of absence, and households with an
invalid who cannot be moved, and others
hindorcd by stringent circumstances, and
the great multitude Of well-to-do people
who stay at home because they like
home better than any other place. refus-
ing To 20 away simply because it is the
fashion to 20. When the express
wagon, with its mountain Of trunks di-
rected 10 the Catskills or Niagara, goes
through the streets, we stand at our win
dow enyious and impatient, and wonder
why we cannot 60 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 time as we have, long be-
fore the first spring was bored at Sara
toga or the first deer shot in the Adiron-
dacks. They made their wedding tour
10 the next farm house, or, living in New
York. they celebrated the event by an
extra walk on the Battery.
Now the genuine American is not
happy until be is going somewhere, and
the passion is so great that there are
Christian people with their families de.
tanned in the city. who come not 10 the
house Of God, trying to give people tn,
idea that they are out Of town: leaving
the dourplate unsecured for the sam,
reason. and for two months keeping
the front shutters closed while they
sit in the back part of IN,
house. the thermometer al ninety
Ny friends. If it is best for us 10 90. Lei
us 60 and be happy. If it is best for Us
to stay nj home, let us stay at home and
he happy. There is a great deal Of good
common sense in Paul's advice to the
Hebrews; BE content with such things
as We have" To be content is to he in
good humor with our circumstances, not
picking quarrel with our obscurity, OF
our poverty, or our social position.
There are four or five grand reasons why
we should he content with such things as
we have.
The first reason that | mention as lead
ing to this spirit advised in the text, /,
the consideration that the poorest of N
have all that is Indispensable In life W,
make great ado about our hariships
! but how little we talk Of our blessings
Health Of body, which is given in larges
quantity 10 those who have never beer
petted, and fondled, and spoiled by for
| tune we take as a matter Of course
| Rather have this luxury. and have i
alone, than, without it, look out of :
palace window upon parks Of deel
stalking between fountains and statu'
airy. Those people sleep soundeI
on n straw mattress than fashionable IN
valids on "A couch of ivory and eagles
| down. The dinner Of herbs tastes better
to the appetite sharpencd on wood
mans ak or a reaper's scythc than
wealthy indigestion experiences seated AT
a table covered with partridge, and ven
ison, and pineapple. The gandest lux
ury God ever gave a man Is health. lie
who trades that of for all the palaces OF
the earth is infinitely cheated. We look
back ut the glory of the last Napoleon
but who would have taken his Versailles
and his Tuileries if with them we had
been obliged 10 take bis gout' "Oh, y
saws some one. ait isn't the gro,ser pleas
ures coyet, but II is the qualification OF
an artistic and intellectual taste. Why,
my brother. you havrthc original from
which these pictures are copied.
What is "A sunset on wall compared
with a sunset hung in loops Of lirc on the
hcavensi What is q cascade sicnt on a
canvas compared with cnscadr that
makes the mountain tromblc, It's spray
ascending like the departed spirit of the
water slain un the rocks Oh, there is a
great deal Of hollow ulfncmtlm about a
fnndness for pictures ON the part OF those
who never appreciate tlir nIlEllal from
which the pinturs are tairm As though
parent 4oui have un regard Tor his
child. but go into ccsta.N- over lis photo
graph. Bl.ss the luri to-day, o man! q
woman! that though you may bc shut
Jut from the works Of q church, a Bier
ralt. a Ruhpns. aud l@.hnel, you still
bavr free access 10 a gallery rDndcr than
the Iouyrc, OF the LuNgmbnrg, or the
Vatican-thc royal gallery & the noon
day heavens, The King "l,crl oi the
midnight Ky
AnGthgr consideration leading Us 20 Q
rpirit ul cm,GlmcUt + thu fuct That oul
happncs D. not dependent upon outward
circuuislancr. You Hu people harry
ana 4 4isorablc amid all circumstance
In family wbcrc the las. loaf Is on th,
table. and the last stick uf wool on ihD
fire. you sometimes lnd a cheerful con
fidencc in God, while IN a very fine llnc