The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-20

ardship to answer for. II some one is higher
| UP in social position, thank God that those
who are down need not fear a fall. II 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 Jour obsequies
The Duke of Dantzing in luxurious
a ss1 treu5 was s5 visited 81 kse1 By b,s
friend from jealousy y3D the Duke said: You
can have all have il you viii stand twenty,
PAGES off and let me shoot at you a hundred
times" mo, no." said his friend. "WeI, !"
said the Duke, ito gain all my honors faced
on the battle field more than a thousand gun
shots fired not more than ten PAGES off.
minister of small congregation complained
TO minister of large congregation about
the sparseness of his attendants. "Ah," said
the one of large audience, "my son, you win
find in the Day of Judgment that you had
quite enough people for whom to be held ac-
countable"
Substitute for jealousy an elevatng 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 long
est; let 1t all be filled up with helpfulness for
others, work and sympathy for each others
misfortuues, and our arms be full of white
NANTES to cover up the mistakes and failures
OF others: If an evil report about some one
come to us, let us put on 1t most favorable
construction, as the HhOne enters Lake Lee
man foul and comes out crystalline. Do not
build so much on the transitorV differences
OF this world, for soon 1t will make no diff
ference to Us whether we had ten million
dollars or ten cents, and the ashes into which
the tongue of Demostbenes dissolved are
just like the ashes into which the tongue of
the Veriest stammerer went
If you are assailed by jealousy make no
answer. Take 1t as a compliment, for
failure. Until your work is done
YOU are invulnerable. Remember how our
Lord behaved under such exasperations. Did
they not try to catch Him in His wordl Did
they not call Him the victim of intoxicantsl
Did they not misinterpret Him from the win
ter OF the year l to the spring of the wear 80:
that is, from His first infantile cry to the last
groan of HIS assassination! Yet He answered
not word! But so far from demoishinR
either His mission or His good name, after
near nineteen centuries He Outranks every
thing under the skies, and is second to none
above them, and the archangel makes salaam
at His footstool. Christ's bloody antagonists
thought that they had finished Him when
they wrote over the cross His accusatson In
three languages, Hebrew and Greek and Lat
In, NOT realizing that they were by that act
ALLOuuClHS HllLl 10 all nations, since Hebrew
is the hOlleSt language, and Greek the Wisest
OF tongues, and Latin the widest spoken
You are not the first man who had his
Iaults looked at through microscope and his
virtues through the wrong end of telescope
Pharaoh had the chief butler and baker en-
dungcOned, 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 gravel in the Kings bread The
world mas 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
WEo provided for Merlin, the Christian
martyr, when hidden from his pursuers in
hay-mOw in Paris, and hen came and laid
an egg close by him every morning. thus keep
him from starvation. Blessed are they that
are prosecuted, although persecution Is a Sc
wound before healing it. What a soft
pillow to die on if when we leave the
world we can feel that, though a thousand
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 we'll unan mously ADOPT:
We WG Iv keep aIri IEn and nd good within.
Upright Wen walk through thick and thin
Straight on our way
Deal Just with all; the prize Wen win
Most any day.
When He who made all things lust right
shall cali US hence to realms aims Of G light is"'
BE 1t morn or noon or cen night,
Wen 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 spor
And keep them burning all the while
our work all done, wen quit the soil
Most day.