Milford chronicle., 1888-07-20
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY, JULY 30 1888.

you people who are fretting about worldly
circumstances, and who are fearing you arc
comiug to want, understood that tho oath of
the eternal God is involved in the fact that
you are TO have enough to cat and to wear.
Again: I remark that the religion of Jesus
Christ is the grandest influence to make a
man contented. Indemnity against all finan-
ciai and spiritual harml Il Gains the spirit,
dwindles the earth into insignifcance, and
swallows up tho soul with the thought Of
heaven. o We who have been going about
from place to place expecting 70 find in
change of circumstances something to give
solnce TO the spirit, l commend you, this
morning, to the warm hearted, earnest, prac-
teal, common sense religion of tie Lord
Jesus Christ. There is no peace, saith my
Col, for the wicked, }" and as long as you con-
tinue in your sin you will DO miserable.
Como TO Christ. Make him your portion,
and start for heaven, and you will be happy
man-you will be a happy woman.
Yet, my friends, notwithstanding all these
inducements to a spirit Of contentment,
have 20 tell you this morning the human
race IS divided into two classes-those who
scold and those who get scolded The car
penter wants to be anything but carpenter,
and the mason anything but mason, and
the banker anything but a banker, and the
lawyer anything but a lawyer, and the min
ister anything but minister, and everybody
would be happy If he were only somebody
else. The anemone wants to be a sunlOwer,
and the apple orchards throw down their
blossoms because they are not tall cedars,
and the scow wants to be a schooner and the
sloop would like to be a seventy flour FOUNDER,
and parents have the worst children that ever
were, and everybody has the greatest mis-
fortune and everything is upside down, or
going to be- Ali my friends, you never
make any advance through such spirit as
that You cannot fret yourself up; you
may fret yourself down. Amid all this graf
ing Of tones 1 strike this string of the Gospel
harp: "GOdliness with contentment is great
gain. We brought nothing into the world,
and il is very certain we can carry nothing
out; having food and raiment, let US there
with be content"
Let us all remember, il we are Christians,
that we are going after awhile, whatever be
our circumstances now, 20 have a glorious
vacation. As in summer we put of our gar
nents and go down into the cool sea to bnthe,
so we will put OFF these garments Of flesh, and
step into the cool Jordan We will look
around for some place to lay down our
weariness; and the trees will say: "Come
and rest under our shadow and tho earth
will say: Come and sleep in my bosom;"
and the winds viii say; "Hush while l sing
thee cradle hymn;" and while six strong
men carry rs out to our last resting place,
and ashes come to ashes and dust to dust we
will see two scared feet standing amid the
broken soil, and lacerated brow bending
over the open grave, while a voice, tender
with all affection and mighty with all
impotence, Will declare; Il am the resur-
rectiou and the life; he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live. "
Comfort one another with these words.