Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-07-21
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BRooKLYNDIv SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: "In Good Humor With Our
Circumstances"
TExr:-"B, content Nth such things as
PC hare. Hebrews xiii, s.

TExr:-''B, content Nth such things as
nc hare. Hebrews xiii, 5.
III should ask some one: "Where is Brook
vn to-day" he would say. AT Brighton
Beach, or East Hampton, or Shelter Island.
Where is New York to-day" AT Long
May Where is Boston.'' "At Marlha's
Vineyard "Where is Virginia" AT the
ru.Lhur Springs ''Where the great multi
tule from all parts of the land" "At Sara.
toga. the modern Bethesda. where the angel
If health is ever stirring the waters. But,
lmy friends, the largest multitude are ut home,
detained by business or circumstances.
Among them all newspaper men, the hardest
worked and the least compensated: city rail-
road employees, and ferry masters, and tho
police and the tens OF thousands OF clerks
ind merchants waiting for their turn OF ab-
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 ut home
because they like home better than any other
place. refusing to 60 away simply because it
Is the fashion to so. When the express
wagon, with its mountain of trunks directed
10 the Catsk:llS or Niagara. gees through the
streets. we stand ut our window enviouS anu
impatient, and wonder why We cannot 30 as
we'll rs others. Zoos that we are, as though
one could not be as happy at home as any
where else. Onr grandIathers and grand
mothers had as good time as we have, long
before the first spring was bored at Sara
toSa. or the first deer shot in the Adiron-
dackS. They made their wedding tour TO
the next farmhouse, or, living i'll New Hork,
the celebrated they event by an extra walk on
the Battery.
Now, the genuine American is not happy
until lie 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 houSSS7jf God, trying to give
people the idea ~ neg are out OF town;
leaving the doy unsecured for the
Fane reason ree.sssnr il Two months keeping the
-frcnC shutters closed whi.e they sit in the
back part of the house, the thermometer ut
ninety, Ny friends, If it is better for us to so,
let us go and 10 happy. If it be best for US
to STAY at home, let US stay at homo and be
happy There is a great deal of good COM
mon sense in PautS advice 10 The Hebrews:
BE content with such things as We have.
To lie content is 70 be in good hunor with
our circumstances. not picking q quarrel
with our obScurty. or our poverty, or our
so isl losit!cu There are Tour or i've grand
reasons why we should be content with such
things as we have.
The first reason that mention rs leading
to this spirit devised i'll tue text IS the con-
s:Geration that the poorest of us have all thas
is Indispensable i'll life. We make q great
ado about our hardshipS, but how little we
talk OF our blessings Health and body,
which is given i'll largest quantity 10 thoSa
who have never been petted, and fonticd and
spoiled by fortune, we take us Il matter OF
course Rather have this luxury, and have
it one, than without it. look out OF
paluce window upon parks OF deer stalking
between fountains and statuary. These PEG.
PIE sleep Scunder on q straw mattress
than fashionable iuvalids On couch
Of ivory and eaSl.s' down. The Ginnef
of herbs tastes better 10 the appetite sharp
tred on wooiman'S AK or rtaperS Scyen9
than wealthy indigestion experiences seated
at q table covered with partridge, and venl-
son. AMI pineapple. The srandest luxury
Col ever gave 4 man is health. He who
trades that OIL for all the palaces Of the earth
is infinitely cheated. We look back at The
Glory of the Lass Napoleon, but who would
rave taken his Versailles aud his Tuileries II
with them we had been obliged to take hi
govt. oh. says some one, sit isn't the
erosser pleasures covet but il is the sratiti,
rat;cn OF an artistic and intellectual taste.
Why, my brother. you have the original
from which these pictures are copied.
What is q sunset on wall compared with
a sunset hung in loops of fire on tbs heavens!
What is a cascade silent on a canvas COM
pared with n cascade that makes the noun
tain tremble. its spray ascending like tho
departed spirit of the water slain OH tho
rocks. Oh there is great deal Of hollow
affectation about fon.lness for pictures on
the part of those who never a, preciate the
original from which the pictures are taken.
AS though q parent should have no regard
for his child, but 60 into ecstaSies over its
photograph. Bless the Lord to-day, oh, mani
oh, woman. that though you may be shut
o,It from the works of Il Church, q BierStadt,
a Rubens and Il Raphael, you still have free
ACCESS to gallery grauder than tho Louvre
.,freshe Luxembourg or the Natican-the royal
cry of the monday heavens, the King S
ISL Derry of the midnight sky.
I ;,lAnother consideration leading us to
Spirit OF contentment is the fact that our hap
piness is not dependent upon outward cir.
cmnstsnces. You see people happy and mis-
cradle amid all circumstances In q family
where the last loaf is on the table, and the
last stick of wood on the fire. you sometimes
find q cheerful confidence i'll God, while in q
very fine place you will see and hear discord
sounding her war whoop. and Hospitality.
freezing to death in the cherries parlor l
stopped one day on Broadway at the head OF
Wall street. at the foot OF Trinity church, &c
see who seemed the happiest people passing.
Judged from their looks the happeSt pee.
ple were not those who went down into Wall
Street, for they had on their brow the ankle
" of the dollar they expected to make: nor
he people who came ont of Wall street, toI
they they had on their brow the anxiety
OF the dollar they had lost; nor the people
who swept by in splendid equpage, TO- they
met carriage that was inner than theirs
The happiest person in all that crowd Jrug-
ing from the countcnance, was the woman
who sat at the apple stand knlttlnS. | ne,
-l;cye real happiness oftener locks out OF the
window of an humble home than through
,.l .;pera glass of the glded hoX OF theatre,
Wy ts:Nero growing on the throne ma
ii singing in dungeon. find King Ahab
going to bed at noon through melancholy,
while near BY is Naboth contented in the pos
session of vineyard. Harnan, Prime MINIS
Ter of Persia. frets himself almost TO death
because poor Jew will not tip his hat; and
Ahithophel, one of the greatest lawyers of
Bible times, through fear OF dying, hangs
h mself. The weait;iest man. forty years
ago, in New York, when congratulated over
his large estate. replied: "Ah! you don't
know how much trouble l have in taking
care OF it, Byron declared in his last
hours that he had never seen more thantwelve
happy days in all his life. do not believe
he had seen twelve minutes of thorough sat
isfaction Napoleon I. said Il turn with
disgust from the coward:ce and selfshness of
men; hold life q horror; death is repose
What have suffered the last twenty days is
beyond human comprehension. While, on
tho other hand, TO show how one may be
happy amid tine most Instantaneous CIR
runistanceS, Just after the Ocean Monarch
had been wrecked in the English channel,
iteamar was cruising along in the darkness
when the captain heard song, sweet song,
coming over the water, and he bore down
toward that voice, and found it was Chris
tim women on plank of the wrecked
steamer, singing to the tune of ''St. Mar
tins"
Jesus. lover Of my soul,
Let me 10 Thy bosom fly,
While the pillows near me roll,
While the tempest still is high.
the heart right toward Col and man, we
are happy. Tho heart wrong toward God