The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-16
NO SENSE IN DISC0NTENT
EVERY MAN SHOULD BE IN GOOD
HUMOR WITH HIS LOT.

Talmage Indorses the Good Advice
Given by Paul to the Hebrews-The
Poorest Provided With All That Is In
dispensible in Life Earthly Differ
ences Only Transitory.
BROOKLYN, July 15.-The Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, D. D., took for his subject
to-day: I'm Good Humor With Our Cir
cumstances." His text was Hebrews viii, 5:
"Be content with such things as ye have"
The great preachers discourse was as fol
lows:
If l should ask some one, "Where is
Brooklyn, to-dayp he would say, "At
Brighton Beach, or East Hampton, or
Shelter Island" "Where is New York to-
day" SAT Long Branch" "Where
PhiladephiaN Cape May" 'Where is
Bo,tonF' AT Martha's Vineyard. ." where
is Virginia. "At the Sulphur Springs
"Where the great multitude from all parts
of the landP' "At Saratoga the modern
Bethsada, where the angel OF health is ever
stirring the waters But my friends, the
largest multitude are at home. detained by
business or circumstance. Among them
all newspaper men, the hardest worked
and the least compensated; city rail
road 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 hindered by stringent circumstances,
and the great multitude of well UO-do pe)-
pie who stay at home because they like home
better than any other place, refusing TO 30
away simply because it is the fashion to 60.
When the express wagon with its noun
tain of trunks directed to the Cat,kills or
Niagara goes through the streets, we stand
at our window envious and impatient, and
wonder why we cannot 60 as well as others.
Fools that Ne are, as though one could not
lie as happy at home as anywhere else. Our
grandfsthers and grandmothers had as
good q time as we have, long before the
first sprng was bored at Saratoga o. the
first deer shot in the Adirondacks. They
made their wedding tour to c next farm
house, or, living i'll New York, they cele-
brated the event by an extra walk on the
"battery.n
Now, the genuine American is not happy
until he is going somewhere, and the passion
is 50 great that there are christian people
with their families detained in the city, who
c6me not to the house of God, trying TO give
people the idea that they are ouJ 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 back part of the house, the thermome-
ter at ninety Ny friends, if it is best for
us to CO. let us go and be happy. Ii it is
best for us to stay at home, let US stay at
home and be happy. There is a great deaf
of good common sense in Pauis advice to
the Hebrews: BE content with SUCH things
as ye have" To be content is to be in good
hurnor with eur circumstances, not picking
quarrel with our obScurity, or our pow
erty, 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 lead
ing to this spirit advised in the text, is the
consideration that the poorest of us have
all that is indispensable i'll 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 to
those who have never been patted, and
fOndled, 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 palace window upon parks of
deerastalking between fountains and statu-
ary. These people sleep sounder on a straw
mattresS than fashionable iuvalids on a
couch of ivory aud eagles down. The
dinner Of herbs tastes better to the appe-
tito sharpened on w odman's axe or
reaper's scythe, than wealthy indigestion
experiences seated at a table covered with
partridge, aud vensiOn, and pineapple The
grandest luxury God ever gave man is
neath. 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 Tuilleries if with them we had been
obliged TO take his goutl ooh, " says some
one, lit isn't the gro>ser pleasures | covet.
but it. is the graf ficatiOn OF an artistic and
intellectual ta te." Why, my brother, you
have the original from which these pictures
are copied.
What is a sunset on wall compared with
a sunset hung in loops of fire on the heaV-
ems What II a cascade silent on n canvas
compared with IA cascade that makes the
mountain tremble, its spray ascen ling like
the departed spirit of the water slain on
the rocks! Oh, there is a great deal of hol-
low aifoctatlo about a fOndness for pict-
ures on the part of those who never appre-
CIate the original from which the rictures
are taken. As though a parent should have
no regard for his child but 90 into ecstasics
over its photograph. Bless the Lord today,
o mani o womenl that though you may be
shut out from the works Of a Churcn, a
Bierstadt, a Reubens and n Raphael you
still have free access TO a gallery grander
than the Louvre, or the Luxembourg, or the
Natcan-royal gallery of tho monday
heavens, the kings gallery of the midnight
sky.
Another consideration leading us TO q
spirit of contentment is the fact that our
happiness is not dependent upon outward
circumstances. You SEQ people happy and
miser able amid all circumstances. In n
family where the last loaf il on the table
and the last stick Of wool on the fire. YOU
sometimes fiud cheerful confidence in God
while in very fine place you will see and
hear discOrd sounding her warwhOop, and
hospitality freezing TO death in IA cneariess
parlor stopped one day on Broadway at
the head Of Wall street, at the foot Of
Trinity church. to see who seemed the hap
piest people passing. judged from their
looks the happiest people were not those
who went down INTO Wall street, for they
had on their brow the anxiety of the dollar
they expected to make; nor the people who
came ous of Wal street for they had on
their brow the anxiety Of the dollar they
had lost, nor the people who swept by in
splendid equipage, for they met a carriage
that was finer than theirs The happiest
person in all that crowd, judging from the
countena ce, was the woman who sat at
the apple stand knitting. | believe real
happiness oftener looks out OF the window
of an humble home, than through the
! opera glass Of the gilded box Of theoter
find Moro growing on n throne. find
Paul singing in a dungeon. | find King
! Ahab going 10 bed at noon through
melancholy, while near by ID Naboth CON
tented in the possession of a vineyard.
! Haman. primo minister of Persia, fret8
himself almost 10 death because poor Jew
will not tip his hat; aud Ahithophel. one Of