Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-10-18
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amount of money for livelihood and for tn
supply of those whom we leave behind
after we have departed this life IS I'M
portant, for we have the best AUTHORITY
for saving: ssHe that provideth not Tor M
/ own household is worse than an inhdel,
1 but the large and fabulous sums for whici
many struggle, if obtained, would be
hindrance rather than an advantage. The
anxieties and annoyance that those have
whose estates have become plethoric car
only be told by those who possess them
1t will be good thing when through YOU
industry and public properties you car
own the house IN which you live. But snip
pose you own fifty hou ses aud you have all
those rents to collect, and all those tenants
to please. Suppose you have branched ou'
in business successes until in almost every
direction you have Investments. The fire
bell rings at night you rush up stairs to look
out of the window TO see if II is any of your
mills Epidemic of crime comes and there
are entertainments and abscondings in all
directions, aud you wonder whether any OF
your book-keepers will prove recreant. A
panic strikes the financial world, and you
are like hen under a sky full of hawks and
trying with anxious cluck TO get your over
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certain stage of success has been reached you
have to trust so many important things TO
others that you are apt TO become the prey OF
Others and you are swindled and defrauded,
and the anxiety you had on your brow when
you were earning your first thousand dollars
is not equal TO the anxiety on your brow
now that you have won your three hundred
thousand The trouble with such a one is he
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text. You have more fingers and toes
than you know what to do with. Twenty
were useful, twenty-four are a hiudering
superiority. Disraeli says that king OF
Poland abdicated his throne aud joined the
people and became porter to carry burdens.
And some one asked him why he did so and
he replied: upon my honor, gentlemen,
the load which quit is by far the heavier
than the one you see me carry. The weight
est is but straw when compared TO that
world under which labored. | have slept
more In four nights than have during all
my reign. begin to live and TO be king
myself Elect whom you choose, for me who
am so well it would be madness TO return 70
court"
"Well" says somebody "snch overloaded
persons ought to b. pitiel /. for their worri-
nervous prostration are genuine" reply
that they could get rid Of the bothersome
surplus by giving ii away. II man has
more houses than he can carry without
vexation let him drop few of them. If his
estate is so great he can not manage 1t
without getting nervous dyspepsia from
having too much, let him divide up with
those who have nervous dyspepsia because
their sixth finger with more care than they
did the original five They go limping with
what they call govt and know not that, like
the giant of my text. they are famed by
superfiuous toe. A few Of them by large
charities bleed themselves Of this financial
obesity and monetary plethora, but many Of
them hang on TO the hindering supsrfluity
till death, and then as they are compelled to
give the money mp anyhow, in their last will
aud testament they generously give some of
it 10 the Lord, exp citing, no doubt that
Fls will feel very much Obliged to
hem. Thank God that once in while
we have Peter Coooer wh1, owning an in
.erest in the iron works At Trenton, said to
Mr.. LESTER n do moi fes quite easy about
he amount we are making Working un-
Ter one Of our patents we have a monopoly
which seems 10 me something wrong
Every body has 20 come DO US for Il, and wo
lre making money too fast" 80 they re-
iucsi the price. AMI this while our philan.
hropist WAS building Cooper Institute,
which mothers hundred Institutes OF kind
iess and mercy all over the land But the
world had 10 wait five thousand eight hun
lred years for Peter Cooper ! am glad for
he benevolent institutions that get a legacy
rom men who during their life were rs stingy
IS death, but who in their last will and testa-
nent bestowed money on hospitals and mis-
ionary societies. but for such teststors
rave no respect. They would have taken
yerycent OF it with them II they could. and
fought up half OF Heaven aud let it ont at
uiuous rent, or loaned it out 10 celestial
itiAens al two per cent a month aud got
corner on hsrps aud trumpets. They lived
n this world fifty or sixty years in the
'resence Of APPALLING suffering and want aud
made no effort for their relief The chart
les of such people are for the most part in
paulo-post future" tense. aud they are go
ng TO do them. The probability is that If
uch a one in his last win by donation to
BENEVOLENT societies tries TO atone for his
fetime close tistedness, the heirs at-law
will try 70 break the will by proving that
he old man was senile or crazy. and the ex-
ense of the litigation will about leave in
be lawyers hands what was meant for the
american Bible Society o We overweighted |
business men, whether this SER |
lon reach your ear or your eye, let me say /
hat II you are pro ~trated with anxieties |
bout keeping or investing these tremen- |
Gus fortunes, ] can tell you how you |
an do more to get Your health back and |
our spirits raised than by drinking gallons /
bad tasting water at Saratoga. HON. 1
urg, or Carlsbad-give TO God and humanity /
nd the Bible ten per cent. of all your in /
ONE, and il will make new man of Won.
nd from restless walking Of the floor at /
light you shall have eight hours sleep
Tithout the help of bromide of potassium.
nd from no appetite YOU will hardly be
Bile TO wait your regular meals and your
IAN check will fill up and when you die the
lessings Of those who but for you would
ave persisted will bloom all over your
rave with violets if ii be spring. or gladio-
is if it be autumn.
Perhaps some of YOU will take this adj
Ice, but the most of you viii not. And YOU
ill try TO cure your swollen hand by got
ng on it more fingers. and yonr rheumatic
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