The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-04-20

to answer for. Ii some one is higher up in
social position, thank God that those who
are down need not fear fall IL some one
gets higher office in church or state than
you, thank God there are not SO many to
wish for the fastening on of your obsequies
The Duke Of Dantzig, in luxurious apart
ments, was visited by plain friend, and to
keep his friend from jealousy the duke said:
"You can have all have if you will stand
twenty PAGES off and let me shoot at you q
hundred times" "No, no." said his friend
"Well," said the duke, ito gain all my
honors / faced on the battle field more than
q thousand gunshots fired not more than ten
PAGES off,"
A minister of small congregation COM
planned to a minister Of large congregation
about the sparseness of his attendants. "Ah,"
said the one Of large audience, my son, you
will find In the day of judgment that you
had quite enough people for whom to be held
accountable"
Substitute for jealousy an elevating emula-
ton. Seeing Others good, let us try to be
better. Seeing others industrious, let us
work more hours. Seeing others benevolent,
let us resolve on giving larger percentage Of
our means for charity. May God put con-
CALCULATIONS for others into our right hand
and cheers on our lips for those who do brave
and useful things. Life is short at
the longest; let it all be filed up
with helpfulness for others, work
and sympathy for each others misfort-
unes, and our arms be full of white mantles
to cover up the mistakes and failures of
others. II an evil report about some one
come to us, let us put ON it most favorable
construction, as the Rhone enters Lake Leman
foul and comes out crystalline. Do not build
so much on the transitory differences Of this
world for soon it will make no difference to
us whether we had $40, 000, 900 or ten cents,
and the ashes into which the tongue of
Demosthenes dissolved are just like the ashes
into which the tongue of the veriest STAN
merer went.
II you are assailed by jealousy make no an
swer. Take it as a compliment, for people
are never jealous Of a failure. Until your
work is done you are invulnerable. Remem-
Der how our Lord behaved under such exas-
perations. Did they not try to catch him in
his words Did they not call him the victim
of intoxicants2 Did they not misinterpret
him from the winter of the year, to the spring
of the year SO: that is, from his first infantile
cry to the last groan of his assassination
Yet he answered not a world But so far
from demolishing either his mission or bis
good name, after near nineteen centuries he
outranks everything under the skies, and Is
second to none above them and the archangel
makes salaam at his footstool. Christ's
bloody antagonists thought they had finished
him when they wrote over the cross his ac-
cusation in three languages, Hebrew and
Greek and Latin, not realizing that they were
by that act introducing him to all nations,
since Hebrew is the hottest language, and
Greek the wisest of tongues, and Latin the
widest spoken.
You are not the first man who had his
faults looked at through a microscope and
his virtues through the wrong end Of a tel
escope. Pharaoh had the chief butler and
baker endungeoned, and tradition says that
all the butler had done was to allow fly in
the kings cup, and all the baker had done
was to leave a gravel In the kings bread.
The world has the habit of making a great
ado about what you do wrong and forgetting
to say anything about what you do right; but
the same God will take care of you who pro-
vided for Merlin, the Christian martyr,
when hidden from his pun su1Is in a hay
NOW in Paris and a hen came and laid an
egg close by him every morning, thus keep
ing him from starvation. Blessed are they
that are prosecuted, although persecution is
a severe cataplasm. Ointment may smart
the wound before healing it. What soft
pillow to die ON if when we leave the world
we can feel that, though 1000 people may
have wronged us, we have wronged no one;
or, having made envious and jealous attack
on others, We have repented of the sin and
as far as possible made reparation The
good resolution of Timothy Poland in his
quaint but exquisite hymn, entitled Most
Any Day." we might well unanimously
adopt
Well keep all right and good within,
Our work will then be free from sin;
Upright We'll walk through thick and thin
Straight on our way.
Deal just with all: the prize we'll win
Most any day.
When He who made all things just right
Shall call us hence to realms of light,
Be 1t morn or noon cen or night,
We will obey;
Well be prepared to take our flight
Most any day.
Our lamps Wen fill brim full of oil
That's good and pure, that would not spoil,
And keep them burning all the while
To light our way;
Our work all done, wen quit the soil
Most any day.