Telegram-herald., 1888-04-16
GRAND RAPIDS MICH MONDAY MORNING, APRIL Ie. 1888

~ : u4n Ny hearers. Il tbs syfl passaoa
j. ~ ans II your so1ls. cry nightly unto
(s.sd for - expul son. Tat = aicb has d9wned
kings zn6 snlperors sAd apostles snd re-
fornlsrs aad ministers or rsLgiga and th0a-
sa1sls ~ god saen zad ~oBsn, = TOO mighty
to yc1 u conlsa1 a. 2ihst uI1alded. Ine evil
hss 80 nzss FooEs Of sach IahnitS convolu-
ton, that aalLlls 0ut the szs -aeTy Of olnnipo-
tszcs c4a pail "a ost. Tradition says thAs
whsa Aosss dftsd ap his saad ~ pray It vas
al -ncr1sts4 vita HlAhaa, and 40 sooner %
yos pray fszn Yoa are belPsl Awsy With
tls accursed. stsdc1ful biaeksning. d&nning
erifns Of jszlo1sy Allow X % stay and lt
vii eat ap sn1 carry % az the religion you
csp - into your soul for the nsIt half
e---rry IL all 30 you more harm than II
dos any one Il sesds you 70 asssil II VIII
delude you wifh the idea thst you can build
yourself up b. pulling somebody else down
You all make more out OF the success OF
others than out of their misfortuaes. Speak
well 0f everybody. Stab no man in the back
BE honey bee rather than = spider, be .
dove rather than a buzzart.
Surely this world Is large enough for YOU
and all your rivals. God has given you a
work % do. Go ahead aud do H. Mind
your own business In all circles, IN all busi-
nesseSs, Ia AL professions there Is room for
straightforward successes Jealousy enter
tanned will not only boiwarf your soul but
IL viii hatten your skull, betnean your eye.
put pinchesiness Of look about your nostril,
give bad curl 20 the lip, and expel from
your face the divine image IN which you
were created When you hear a man or wo-
man abused, drive in on the defendants side.
Watch for excellences IN others rather than
than for defects, morning glories instead OF
nigntshade. II some one IL more beautiful
than you, thank God that you have not 50
many perils Of vanity 70 contend with. IL
some one has more wealth than you, thank
God that you have not 50 great stewardship
10 answer for IL 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 II you will stand
twenty PAGES of and let me shoot At you a
hundred times" ''No, no." said his friend
'wen' said the duke. Ito gain all my
honors faced on the battle field more thsn
thousand gunshots fred not more than ten
PAGES of
A minister Of small congregation COM
plained 10 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 Tor 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 moro hours. Seeing others benevolent,
let us resolve on giving larger percentage OF
our means for charity. May God put con-
gratulations for others into our right hand
and cheers on our lips for those who do brave
and uSsfal 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 he full OF white msntles
to cover up the mistakes and failures Of
others IL 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, ,00OO 900 OF ten cents,
and the ashes into which the tongue of
Demosthenes dissolved are just like the ashes
into which the tongue OF the veriest staua-
merer went.
If you are assailed by jealousy make no an
swer. Take it as a compliment, for people
are never jealous Of 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 wordi Did they not call him the victim
OF intoxicants. Did they not misinterpret
him from the winter of the year, TO the spring
OF the year 80; that is from his first infantile
cry TO the last groan of bis assassination,
Yet he answered not word But 50 far
from demolishing either his mission or his
good name, after near nineteen centuries he
outranks everything under the skies, and 10
second to none above them and the archangel
makes salasm 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 hoIiest language, and
Greek the visest of tongues. and Latin the
widest spoken
faults looked at through microscope and
his virtues through the wrong end Of g tel
escope. Pharaoh had the chief butler and
baker endungeoned. and tradition says that
all the butler had done was to allow a 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.
whea hidden from bis pursusrs in q hay
now in Paris and heu came and laid an
exx close BY aim every morning. TINS keep
, ing him from starvation Blessed are they
that are perSecuted, although persecution il
q severe cataplasm Ointmsnt may smart
the wound before healing H. What q soft
pillow 10 die on II when we leave the world
We can feel that, though 1.ooo people may
have vronged US. We have vronged no one:
or. having made envioDs and jealous attack
On others. ne have repented Of the sin and
{. far ss possible made reparstion. The
Eood resolution ~ Timothy Poland In his
quaint but exquisite hymn. entitled Most
Any Day We might vel unanimously
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Wei rep Al right and good within
Dur work wil then b free from ssn.
egright vel vsis through thick sad fain
Strsixht 90 aur uay
Deal plst with AL the prize We wis
Most anT day
When He who made al thirx< fysSt rixhf
Shau caI us beucs - realms ~ hxaS.
Pc ~ morn ~ uoon or e'en Or riEa&
Ne siA oheT
Wei - prepared 20 take our sizht-
Nost any day
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