The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-07-27
TALMAGE.
THE GREAT BROOKLYN DIVINE
Olates to a Sweltering Throng
in the Tabernacle.

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BRooKLYN, July 15.-The Rev 7. DeWit
lalmage, d. D., took for his subject to-day
I'm Good HUmcr With Our Circumstances.
Ills text was Hebrews, Oh. 10. v. 5. "Be sci,
tent with such things as We have" the grea
preachers discourse was IS follows:
IL should AJAX some one, "Where is Brook
yn' to-dayt" he would say cat Brighton
Beach, or East Hampton, or Shelter Island. ~
Where Is New York, to-day1r ''At Long
Branch" "Where is Philadelphia" Cape
May" ''Where Is Boston." AT MARTHA.
Vineyard" "Where is Virginias" sat the
sulphur Springs" "Where the great multi
tudc from all parts of the landp AT Sarato
20, Inc modern Bethesda, where the ange
oI health is ever stirring the waters But, nv
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 railroad EN-
ployes' and ferry masters, and the police. and
LIE tens OF thousands Of clerks and merchants
waiting for their turn of absence, and house
holds with an invalid who cannot be moved.
and Others hindered by stringent circum.
stances, and the great multitude of well-to.
40 people who stay at home because they
ike nome better than any other place, refus-
ing 10 go away simply because it Is the fash
'oh 10 go. When the express wagon, with it's
| mountain or trunks directed to The CatslSfIls
Or Niagara, goes through the streets, we stand
hC our window envlOuS and inpatient and
WONDER why VIC cannot go as well as Others
roofs That We are, as though one could not
NC as uuppY at home as anywhere else. Our
Brand1athers and grandmOtheEs had as good
lime as we have, long before the first
spring was bored at Saratoga, or the first
1ecr shot Ia the AdirondaCks. They made
thelr Wedd1ng-tOur to the next farmhouse. or.
ilVlng In New York, they celebrated the event
0Y an extra walk on the "Battery"
NOW, the genuine American is not hannv
untll lie is going somewhere, and the passion
10 so great that there are Christian Deople
with Their families detained in the city, who
come not to the house of GOD, trying 10 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
Dack part OF the house, the thermometer at
ninety! My friends, if it is best for us to 90
let us 90 and he happy. If it is best for us to
stay at home, let US stay at home and be
happy. There is great deal of good common
sense in Pauls advice to the Hebrews s.Be
content with such things as We haven To he
content 1s to be in good humor with orr
circumstances, not picking a quarrel with
our obscurlty, or our poverty, or our social
reasons
why we should be content with such things
as we have.
The first reason that mention as leading
TO this spirit advised In the text, is the con-
consideration that the poorest of us have all
mat Is indispensable in life. We make a
great ado about our hardships, but how little
we talk OF our blessings. Health of BODY
which is given in largest quantity 10 those
VINO nave never been pctted, and fondled, and
spoiled by fortune, We take as a matter of
course. Rather have this luxury and have it
atone than, without it, look out of a palace
neLwtHs" fountains and Dtatu~ry. These
people sleep sOunder on straw mat
ress, than fashionable invalids on a couch
vi ivory and eagles down. The dinner
" ner9S tastes better to the appetite
sharpened on woodlands AK or a reaper's |
Scythe, than wealthy Indigestion experiences |
seated at table covered with partridge onJ |
venIson, and pineapple. The grandest lux |
ufy GOd ever gave man is health. He WHO |
trades that off 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
Iulleries II with them We had been Oblped
10 take his gOutf Oh" says someone. 'sit
sn't the grosser pleasures | cOvet, but il ia
he qualification of an artistic and intelIectn.
Al taste" Why, my brother, YOU have the
copied "''
what is sunset on a wall compared with q
sunset hung i'll loops of fire on the heayens1
"hat Is a cascade silent on a canvas com
pared with cascade that makes the noun
am tremble, its spray ascending like tile
departed spirit of the water slain ON the
ocks? On, there is great deal of hollow
Injection about fOndness for pictures On
he part of those who never appreciate IT,
.rlglnal from which the pictures are taken
As though a parent should have no REGARD
or his child, but 90 into ecstasies over it's
photograph. Bless the Lord to-day, Oman
woman that though YOU may be shut out
rom the works of a Church, a Bierstadt, a
Fubens, and Raphael, YOU still have free
cceSs TO gallery grander than the Louvre,
r the Luxemburg, or the Vatican-the row
gallery oil the MONDAY heavens, the Kings
aiery OF the midnight sky.
Ahother consideration leading us
o spirit of contentment is
ne TACT that our happiness is not
epenuent upon outward circumstances You
&c people happy and miserable amid all cir.
umstances In the family where the last
)aI is on the table, and the last stick of
oou on the IRE, you sometimes find a cheer
III confidence in God, while in a very fine Mace
on will see and hear dsCord sounding her
ar "hoop' anu hospitality freezing TO death
chcerless parlOr. | stopped one day ON
BROADWAY at the head of Wall Street at the I
DOT OF TRINITY Church, To see who seemed {
ne haprlest people passing ! Judged from
ielr LOOKS the happest people were not those J
no went down into Wall Street. for they |
al on Their brow the anxiety of the dollar !
Icy expected To make; nor the people who I
anne out OF Wall Street, for they had ON ]
lelr brow the anxiety OF the dollar they had !
st; nor the people who swept by in splendid |
lulpage, Tor they met carriage that was fin {
Than theirs. The happiest person In all that J
OWL, judging from the Couutenance was the {
re woman who sat atthe applest and knitting. !
believe real happiness Ottener looks out of l
he window of an humble home, than through L
he opera glass OF the gilded box of theatre. ]
L ma Nero growing on a throne. find |
iul singing in dungeon ] find King All 10 |
lIng 10 bed at noon through melancholy, l
hlle near by is Naboth cOntented in the pos
sSion of a vineyard. Hannah, prime minis =
OF Persia, frets himself almost 10 death l
cause poor Jew will not tip bis hat; and t
hlthopheL one of the greatest lawyers of +
IDLE times. through fear of dying hangs =
mselt. The wealthlest man. forty wears !
20, in New York, when congratulated over :
Is large estate, replied: "Ahi YOU don't y
now how much trouble have in taking care :
it," Byron declared in his last hours 4
at he never seen more than twelve !
ippy DAYS in all his life. | do not believe .
had seen twelve minutes of thorough sat !.
faction. Napoleon |. said: Il turn with |
Sgust from the cowarlice aud selhshness OF
an. hold life a horror; death Is repose
hat ! have suffered the last twenty DAYS is
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