The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-07-27
Returns In Good Humor.
Rev. DR.. T~sInage breaches Is-in In his Own
Pulpit, his Subject Tsing 'sIn Good
HnmOr With OuI OIrcumstances.s ,,

The Rev. 7. Dewitt Talnage, d. D, took
for his subject at his church in Brooklyn:
"In Good Humor with Our Circumstances"
His text was Hebrews ch. Is, v. g: BE con.
tent with such things as We have" The great
preachers discourse was as follows:
If | should ask someone, Where is Brook.
Ign today2' he would say, "At Brighton
Beach, or East Hampton, orshelter leland"
Where is New York today At Long
Branch" Where Philadelphia HCape
May" "Where is Boston2" "At Martha's
Vineyard" where is Virginia." cat the
Sulphur Springs" Where the great multi
tude from all parts of the land2'' cat Sara
tOga," 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; the city
railroad employees, and ferry masters, and
the police and the tens of thousands of clerks
and merchants waiting for their turn of alb.
sence. and households with an invalid who
cannot be moved, and others hindered by
stringent circumstances and the great mul.
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 it
is the fashion to go. When the express wagon,
with it's mountains of trunks directed to the
Catskill or Niagara, goes through the streets,
Hb Hbduu ~ our WluRON GMNlOuS anu ulpd-
tent, and wonder why we cannot go as well
as others. Fools that We are, as though one
could not be az happy at home as anywhere
else. Our grandfathers and grandmothers
had as good a time as we have, long before
the first spring was bored at Saratoga, or
the first deer shot in the Adirondacks. They
made their wedding tour to 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 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 'swn;
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
90I My friends, if it is best for Us to go, let
us go and be happy. III it is best for us to
stay at home, let us stay at home and be
happy. There is a great deal of good COM
mon sense in Paul's advice to the Hebrews:
BE content with such things as We have"
To be content is to be in good humor with
our circumstances, not pickinga quarrel with
our obscurity, or our poverty, or our social
position. There are four or five grand rea-
sons why we should be content with suck
things as We have.
The first reason that / mention as leading
TO IllB BDlf1u duNlbeu Ia bu6 OeAN3 IN bAt YIN
sideration that the poorest Of us have althat
is indispensable in life. We make q great
ado about our hardships, but how little we
talk Of our blessing. Health of body, which
is given in largest quantity to those who
have never been petted, and tondied, and
spoiled by fortune, we take as a matter OF
course. Rather have this luxury, and have
It alone, than, without it, look out of a pal
ace window upon parks of deer stalking be
tween fountains and statuary. These peo-
pie sleep sounder on a straw mattress than
fashionable inValids on q couch ofivory and
eagles down. The dinner of herbs tastes
better to the appetite sharpened on a wood
mans axe or a reaper's scythe. than wealthy
indigestion experiences seated at q table
covered with partridge, and v%enison, and
pineapple. The grandest luxury God ever
gave a man is health. He who trades that
ohfor all the palaces of health is infinitely
cheated. We look back at the glory Of the
last Napoleon, bat who would have taken
his Versailles or his Tuileries if with them he
had been Obliged to take his gout2 "Oh,"
says someone. at isn't the grosser pleasures
I~covet, but it is the qualifications Of an
artistic and intellectual taste" Why, my
brother, you have the original from which
these pictures are copied.
What is q sunset on the wallcompared with
q sunset hsiag ~ Loops Of ire on the heaYensf
What is2a cascade silent on canvas COM
par8G sith a cascade that makes the noun
tain tremble, its spray ascending like the de-
ljarted spirit Of the water slain on the roeks2
Oh. there is a great deal of hollow Alteration
about a fondness for pictures on the part Of
those who never appreciated the original
from which the pictures are taken. Asthougih
q parent should have no regard for his child,
but 90 in5o ecstacy over it's photograph.
Bless the Lord today, 0 mani y Womanl
d that though you may be shut out from the
works Of the Church, o B~ierstadt, q Hubens,
and a Raphael, you still have access to q
gallery grander than the Louvre, OF the
Luxembourg, or the Vatican-the royal gal
Iery Of the MONDAY heavens, the Kings gal.
lery ofthe midnight sky.
Another consideration leading us to q spir-
it ofcontentmentis the fact that our happiness
is not dependent upon
ces. You see people happy and miserabe
amid all circumstances. In a family where
the last loafis on the table, and the hast
stick Of wood on the IRE, you some
times find q cheerful confidence IN GOD,
while in q very fine place you will see and
hear discord. sounding her war whoop, and
hospitality freezing to death in q cherries
parlor. / stopped one day on Broadway 81
the head Of Wall street, OF the footof Trinity
Church. to see who seemed the happiesb PEG.
pie passing. Judged, from their % ths
happiest people were not those who went
down into Wall street, for they had on theiI
brow the anxiety Of the dollar they expected
"a make. nov TIE people who came out 81
Wall street, for they had on their brow the
anxiety of the doIlar they had lost; nor tbs
people who swept by In snlendid equipage
for they met q carriage that was finer tnaI
theirs. The happiest person IN all thai
crowd, Judging from countenanee, was this
woman who sat at the apple stand knitting
/ believe real happiness oitener looks out q
the window 81 an humble home, than througE
the opera glass Of t1e gilded box Of theater.
I And Nero growing on q throne. nne
PAM gtaa1ng ii q dungeon. lind hlng Ahak
poInp to bed OF moor through melancholy
while near by is Naboth centented N th'
possession Of q vineyard. Hannah, prime
minister Of Persia, frete himself almost e
death because a poor Jew viii not ttp ms nat
and A~hithopel, one OF tho. greatest law
vers Of Bible times, through fear Of dying
hanre himself. The wealthiest man, 40 year.
aQo. il New York, when congratulated owe
his large estate, replied: "4hl yon DON
Know how much Trouble have had ~ takluf
care Of it.n Byron declared 10 his last hoari
that he had not seen more than AZ HAPPY
DAYS Is an his life, Ido not believe he hat
seen IL minutes thorough satisfaction. M
Dolaan /. said. Il turn With disgust non
cowardice and s~elHshness Of nan. hoie
lie 4 horror; death Il repose. What ! nav
suffered tie past 20 days II beyond numai
CONGRATULATIONS" While, on the Other hana
fo SHOW how any one may behappy amid n
most di~sadvantageous circumstance, l9s