The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-07-19
HAPPINESS.
SERMON by REV. DIR. TALMAoE.
Christian Conten, mcnt Will Mako
the Darkest Places Radiant.

ne hare. Hebrews xiii, 8.
IL should ask some one: "where is Brook
Iyn to-dayf he would saw ''At Brighton
Beach, or East Hampton, or Shelter Island" ="
where Is New York to-dayp "At Long
Branch" Where Phiadelphial' AT Cape
May" Where is Bostonf' ''At Martha's
Vineyard" Where is Virginian "At the
SulLhur Springs Where the great multi
tude from all parts of the andfT 'At Sara.
toga," the modern bethesda, where the angel
OF health is ever stirring the waters But,
my friends, the largest multitude are at home,
detained by business or circumstances
Among them all newspaper men, the hardest
worked and the least compensa ed: city rail
road employees, and ferry masters, and the
police and the tens of thousands OF clerks
and merchants waiting for their turn of alb
sence, and households with an invalid who
cannot I've moved, and Others hindered by
stringent circumstances and the great mul.
tttude OF well TO do people who stay at home
because they like home better than any other
place, refusing to go away simply because it
Is the fashion TO GO When the express
wagon, with its mountain of trunks directed
to the Catsklls or Niagara, goes through the
streets. we stand ut our window envious and
impatient, and wonder why we cannot 20 as
well as others. Foo's that we are, AS though
one could not he as happy at home rs any
where else. Onr grandfathers aud grand
mothers had as good "A time as we have long
before the first spring was bored at Sara
dacks. They made their wedding tour To
the next farmhouse, or, living in New York,
the celebrated they event by AN extra walk on
She Battery.
Now, the genuine American Is not happy
urrtil he is going somewhere, and the passion
rs so great that there are Christian people
with their families detained in the city who
COME not TO the house of God, trying to give
people the idea that they are out OF town;
leaving the door plate unsecured for the
same reason, and for two months keeping the
nont shutters closed while they sit in the
back part OF the house the thermometer at
ninety MY friends, II 1t is better for us to go
let us go aud be happy II it be best for us
TO stay at home, let us stay at home and be
happy There is great deal of good com.
mon sense in Paups advice To the Hebrews:
"Be content with such things as We have
To lie content Is to be in good hunor with
or circumstances, not picking quarrel
w.t. >, obscurlty, or our poverty, or our
social position. There are four or five grand
reasons why we should be content with such
things as We have.
The first reason that mention as leading
to this spirit devised in the text, is the con
sdderation that the poorest of us have all that
IS indispensable IN life. We make n great
ado about our hardships, but how little wo
talk OF our blessings. Health and body.
which Is given III largest quantity to those
who have never been petted, and fondled and
spelled by fortune, we take as n matter of
Souse' Rather nave TINS luxury, ana have
~ alone, than, without It, look out of a
palace window upon parks of deer stalking
between fountains aud statuary. These peo.
pie sleep sounder on straw mattress
than fashionable invaids ON couch
OF ivory and eagles down. The dinner
OF herbs tastes better to the appetite sharp
ened on a woodmans ak or a reaper's scythe
than wealthy indigestion experiences seated
at table covered with partridge, and yeni-
son, and pineapple The grandest luxury
God ever gave man is healta. He who
trades that Off for all the palaces of the earth
is.infnitely cheated. We look back at ,he
glory OF the last Napoleon, but who would
have taken his Versailles and his Tnileries il
with them we had been obliged to take his
RonIi Oh," says some one, ''it isn't the
grosser pleasures covet. but 1t Is the gratifi-
cation OF an artistic and intellectual tasten
why, my brother, you have the original
from which these pictures are copied.
What Is sunset on wall compared with
sunset hung in loops Of fire on the heavensi
What is a cascade silent on q canvas com.
pased with cascade that makes the noun
tam tremble, Its spray ascending like the
departed spirit of the water slain on the
rocxs' On, there is great deal of hollow
affectation about a fondness for pictures on
tne part OF those VINO never appreciate the
original from which the pictures are taken
AS though parent should have no regard
for his child, but go into ecstasies over its
photograph. Bless the Lord to-day, oh. mani
oh, woman! that though you may be shut
out from the works OF Church, "A Bierstadt,
Rubens and Raphael, you still have free
access 10 gallery grander than tho Louvre
or the Luxembourg or the Natican-the royal
gallery OF the MONDAY heavens, the Kings
gallery of the midnight sky.
Another consideration leading us to a
spirit OF contentment is the fact that our hap
piness is not dep p,ndcnt upon outward cir.
cumstanceS. You see people happy and mis-
cradle amid ali circumstances. In a family
where the last loaf is on the table, and the
last stick OF wood on the fire, you sometimes
find cheerful confidence in God while in a
very fine place you will SEQ and hear discord
sounding her war whoop, and Hospitality.
freezing TO death in the cherries parlor
stopped one day on Broadway at the head Of
Wall street, at the foot of Trinity church, to
see who seemed the happest people passing
judged from their looks the happiest peo-
pie were not those who went down into Wall
street for they had on their brow the ankle
" OF the dollar they expected to make; nor
the people who came out Of Wall street. foI
they they had on their brow the anxiety
OF the dollar they had lost; nor the people
who swept by in splendid equpage for they
met carriage that was finer than theirs.
The happiest person i'm all that crowd, judg
~ .}ng from the countenance, was the woman
vho sat at the apple stand knitting. be
ieve real happiness oftener looks out of the
window of an humble home than through
The opera glass Of the glded box Of theatre.
find Nero growing on the throne. find
Paul singing In dungeon. find King Ahat
going to bed at noon through melancholy,
while near by is Naboth contented in the pos
session OF a vineyard. Haman Prime Minis
Ter OF Persia, frets himself almost TO death
because poor jew will not tip his hat; and
Anithophel, one Of the greatest lawyers of
Bible times, through fear OF dying hangs
himself The wealthiest man, forty years
ago, in New York, when congratulated over
ms large estate. replied: "Ah! you don't
know how much trouble 1 have In taking
care OF it," Byron declared in his last
hours that he had never seen more than twelve
happy. days in all his life do not believe
he had seen twelve minutes of thorough sat
lsfaction. Napoleon |. said: IL turn with
disgust from the cowardice and selfishness Of
men; 1 hold life a horror; death is repose.
what j have suffered the last twenty days is
beyond human comprehension. While on
the other hand, to show how one may be
happy amid the most dsadvantageous cir
cumstances, just after the Ocean Monarch
mad been wrecked in the English channel, a
steamer was cruising along in the darkness,
when the captain heard q song, sweet song,
coming over the water, and he bore down
toward that voice, and found it was a Chris.
t,an women on plank OF the wrecked
Steamer. singing In ba funa % h