Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-07-27
THE HAPPY PEOPLE.
They Are Not Always to be
Found in the Palaces of
the Great.
One Of Talmage's Sermons.

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Found in the Palaces of
the Great.
One Of Talmage's Sermons.
BROOKLYN, July l5.-The Rev. 7
Dewitt Talmage, D. D.. took for hi!
subject to-day: "In Good Humo
With Our Circumstances. His tex
was Hebrews, chapter xiii, verse 5
BE content with such things as y,
have" The great preachers dis
course was as follows:
II | should ask some one, "Wher,
is Brooklyn, to-day ?" he would say
"At Brighton Beach, or East Hamp
ton, or Shelter Island" "Where il
New York, today 2" At Long
Branch" "Where is Philadelphia
"Cape May" "Where is Boston p
AT Martha's Vineyard" "W here
is Virginia ?" cat the Sulphur
Springs" "Wbere the great multi
tude from all parts of the land ?" "a
Saratoga" the modern Bethesda
where the angel Of health is ever SUR
ring the waters. But, my friends
the largest multitude are at home, de-
tanned fy business or circumstances
Among them all newspaper men, the
hardest worked aDd the least compen.
sated; city railroad employees, and
ferry masters, and the police, and the
tens of thousands of clerks and mer.
chants waiting for their turn of alb
sence, and households with an invalid
who cannot be moved, and others hin.
dered by stringent circumstances, and
the great multitude of well-to do peo.
pie 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 its mountain OF
trunks directed to the Catskills or Nj
agara, goes through the streets, we
stand at our window envious and i'm
patient, and wonder why we cnnnot
90 as we'll as others. Fools that We
are, as though one could not be happy
at home as anywhere else. Our
and grandmothers had
as good time as we have, long be.
fore the first spring was bored at Sar-
atoga, or the first deer shot in the
They made their we'd
ding tour to the next farmhouse. or,
living in New York, they celebrated
the event by an extra walk on the
Battery"
ALWAYS ON THE GO.
Now, the genuine American is not
happy unless he is going somewhere,
and the passion is so great that there
are Christian people with their fam.
lilies detained in the city, who come
not to the house of God, trying to
give people the idea that they are out
Of town; leaving the door plate un-
secured for the same reason, and for
two months keeping the front shut
ters closed while they sit in the back
part of the house, the house, the ther-
mometer at 80 !! My friend, if it is
best for US to go, let us go and be
happy. If it is best for US to stay at
home, let us stay at home and be
happy. There is a great deal of good
common sense in Paul's advice to the
Hebrews: "Be content with such
things as ye have" To be content
is to be in good humor with our cir
not picking q quarrel
with our obscurity, or our poverty, or
our social position. There are four
or five grand 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 consideration that the
poorest OF US have all that is indis
pensable in life. We make great
ado about our hardships, but how lit
tie we talk of our blessings. Health
of body, which is given to those who
have never been petted, and fondled,
and spoiled by fortune, we take as a
matter of course. Rather have this
luxury, and have it alone, than, with
out it, look out of q palace window
upon parks of deer stalking between
fountains and statuary. These people
sleep sounder on a straw mattress
than fashionable invalids on couch
of ivory and eagles down. The din
ner of herbs tastes better to the ap-
petite sharpened on woodman's AK
or a reaper's scythe, than wealthy
Indigestion experiences seated at q
table covered with partridge, and
venison. and pineapple. The grandest
luxury God ever gave man is
health. He who trades that off for
all the palaces of the earth is Infinite
Iy cheated. We look back at the
glory of the last Napoleon, but who
would have taken his Versailles and
his Tuileries if with them we had
been obliged to take his gout ? "Oh, "
says some one, "it isn't the grosser
pleasure | covet, but it is the gratifi-
cation of an artistic and intellectual
taste" Why, my brother. you have
The original from which these pictures
are copied.
TIE WORK OF THE MASTER ARTIST.
What is sunset on wall COM
pared with a sunset hung in loops of
ire on the heavens? What is cas-
cade silent on canvas compared
with cascade that makes the noun.
ain tremble, its spray ascending like
he departed spirit OF the water slain
IN the rocks Oh, there is great
leal of hollow aifectation about
'ondness for the pictures on the part
,f those who never appreciate the or
ginal from which the pictures are
aiken. As though a parent should
nave no regard for his child, but go
nto ecstasies over its photograph.
Bless the Lord today. o man o
woman that though you may be
shut out from the work of Church,a "a