The Forrest City times., 1888-07-21
TALMAGE.
THE GREAT BROOKLYN DIVINE
Dnates to a Sweltering Throng
 in the Tabernac,s


 Happiness Is Not Depsudent Upon Out
 ward Circusast@noss-Ths Hart Right
 Toward vod and Man, We Are Happv-The
 Heart Wrong Toward God and Man, We
 Are Unhappy.
 BROOKLYN, July 15--Thc Rev T. pewiu iainage, D. D., took for hls sahiect io dsy; Tn Good Hamor Wiih Ger Circumstances. D HIS text was Heerews, Ch. i3 5: "Be con. tent VIE srca things as ye haye.r The great pfeschefs discourse was as follows:
 II should ask some one, "Whcre |. Broo,z- Iyn, to-dayF' he would sav, uAt Brightop Beach or East Hampton, or Shelter Island. n
 "here IS New York, to-dayin At i,one nranch." Where is PhiladelpalAlh Cape Msy'" Where Ia Rossonf' At Marths's s vineyard" Where is virginias' "As ths e1phur Springs" "Where Inc great multi tude from all parts ol the landr' At sarato- go," the npdern Bethesda where the angel ci health Is ever stirring the waters. Ret, sny iriends' the largest mullit.de are at home uetained by business cr circumstances. Among them all newspaper men, the hardest worked ane toe least compensated; city railroad em pioyes' and ferry masters, and the police. and the tens Of thousands of clerks and merchants waiting for their turn of absenee and house- holds with an Invalid who csnno. De Ynoyed. and others hladered hy stringent circum stances, and the great multitude of yell-to- do people whe stay at home because they Ike nome better than any other place, refus- Ing 70 go away simply because 1t Is the fash ion 10 go Whom the express wagon, with its mountain of trunks directed to the Catskllls or Niagara, goes through the streets we stand at our window envious and impatient, and wonder why we cannot go as well as others. Fools that So are. IS though one could not DC as happy at home as anywhere else. Our grandfathers and grandmothers had as good ,lme as We have, long before the first spring was bored at Saratoga, or the fret deer shot in the Adrondacks They made ,helr wedding.iour to the next fsr1t.house, or iVlng in New York, they celebrated the event bY an extra walk on the Battery
 Now, the genuine Amertcan is not baDnv until hc Ia going somewhere, and tue passion IS so srest that there are Christian people Nitu thelr families detained in the city, who come not to the house of God trying 10 give people the idea that they are out of toan, leaving the door -plete unsecured for tbe same reason, and for two months Keeping ,,,e iront shutters closed while they -i: in the back part Of the house, the thermometer at ninetyi My friends, if it is best for us to 90 iet us go and be bsppy. If it is best for us to stay at home. let us stay at home and be happy. gtere is a great deal of gool comnor sense In Paufs advice to the Hebcewn. Be content with such things es ve haven To be content is to bc iH good humor with our Circumstances, act picking a quarrel with our obscurtN or our poverty, OF our social position There are four or five grand rcasous why we should be content with each things as we have.
 Inc drsf rnasnn that ss.o.s.. to this spirit advised in the text, is the con consideration that the poorest of us have all that is Indispensable in life. We make a grVat ado about our hardships, hut how little we talk of our blessinvs Health of bodv which is given ia largest quantity 10 those Who nave nevef been petted, and fondled, aud spoiled ty iortune we take as matter of course. Rather have this luxury, and have it alone, than, without it, look out of 6 palace window upon parks of deer stalking between fountains and statuary These people sleep soa.l ler on straw mat ot ivory aud eag es' dowc. The dinner ot herbs tastes be,ter to the appetite sharpened on e:3odmaH's ax or reaperis seythe, thso NeaItAy indigestion experiences seated 2. ttole covered with partridge, and Nenison, and pineapple. The grandest lux. dry God ever gave man is health. 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 1ulerles If with them we had been obliged 10 take his goatf 'Oh," says someone, it isn't the grosser pleasures 1 coget, but 1t is the gratthcGt on or an artistic and intellectu- a. taste" Why, my brother you have the original from which these pictures are copied.
 What Is a sunset on a wall compared with a sunset hung in loops of fire oa the heayenss what Is cascade silent on canvas com pared with cascade that makes the moun- tain tremble it's spray ascending like the departed spirit or the water slain on the rockst Oh there is great deal of hollow affection about fonduess for pictures on the part of those Hhe never appreciate the original from which the pictures are taken As though parent should have no regard for his child, but 90 into ecstasles over it's photograph, Bless the Lord to-day, o man U womanl that though you may be shut out rom the works of a Church, a Berstadt Rubens, and a Raphael, you still have free access 10 gallery grander than the Louvre. or the LuXemburg, or the Natiean-the roy al gallery Of the monday heavens, the Kings gal cry of the midnight sky.
 Another consideration leading us to spirit of contentment is the fact thst our happiness is not dependent upon outward circumstances. You see people happy and miserable amid all cir.
 
 loaf Is on the table, and the last stick of wood on the fire, you sometimes find cheer ful confidence in God, while in 6 very fine place you wsl sec aud hear discord sounding her war @hoop, and hospitality freezing to death f-. cheerless parlor. l stopped one day on Broadway nt the head of Wall Street, at the foot of Trinity Church, to see who seemed the henl lest people passing l judged from thei; looks the happiest people were not those sho went doan into Wall Street, for they had on their brow the anxiety of the dollar they expected to make; nor the people who came out of Wall Street. for they had on their brow the anxiety of the dollar they had lost nor the people who swept by ln splend equipage, for they met a carriage that was iin- CT than theirs. The happiest perf0n in all that crowd, judging from the counteeanee. was tbe the woman who sat atthe applest and knitting l believe real happiness oltener looks out ot the window of an humble home, than through the opera glass Of the glded box of a theatre.
 1 find Nero growing on a throne. l find Paul singing in a dungeon. find King An b going to bed at noon through melancnolF, while near by is Naboth eontented in the pos ter of Persia, frets himself almost to death because a poor Jew wil not tip bis hat; and AhithOphel one of the greatest lawyers Of Bible times through fear Of dying, hangs himself The weallhlest man, forty years ago i'm New York, when congratulated over 1NA' know how much trouble have in taking care of it." Byron declared in his last hours that he never seen more than twelve happy days in all his life. l do not believe he had seen twelve minutes of thorough sat jsfaction. Napoleon l. said: ''I turn with disgust from the cowardice and selfshness of man. l hold life horror; death Is repose. What have suffered the last twenty days is bey 5nd human comprehension While. on tho other hand to show how one may he hap py amid the most disadvantageous elrcnui- stances. inst afier the Ocean Monarch had been wrecked in the English Channel, a steamer was cruising along in the darkness, when the captain heard song, sweet song, coming over the water and he bore down to- wards that voice, aud found it was Chris tian woman on a plank of the wrecked steam er singing to the tune Of St. Martin's-
 Jesus lover of my soul.
 Let me to Thy bosom nY,
 While the pillows near me roll. .
 While the tempest still Is high.