The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-07-19
WITH SUCH ASYOU HAVE
Dr.. Talmage breaches a Sensible
Sermon to Persons
Who Fret.
How Much Better is Contentment
Than Constant Fault Finding
With Ones Condition.
Real Happiness Among the Humble
Wealth and Power Not
Everything.

Everything.
BEooKIYN, July 15,-The Rev. T. De-
Witt Ta'mago, U. D., took for his subject
to-day: I'm Good Humor With our
Circumstances" His text was Hebrews,
CHI. il, v. 5 "BO content with such things
as ye have" The great preachers dis
curse was as follows:
II l should ask some one, "Where is
Brooklyn, to-day?" he would say, cat
Brighton Beach, or Fast Hampton, or
Shelter Island" "Where is New York,
to-day !" "At Long Branch" "Where
is Philadelphia "C,p pc May" "Where
Is Boston ?" AT Martha's Vineyard"
Where is virginia p "At the Sulphur
Springs" "Where is the great multitude
from all parts OF the land ?" "At Sara
toga Springs" the modern Bethesda
where the angel OF health is ever stirring
the waters. But, my friends, the largest
multitude are home, detained by business
or circumstances. Among them all
newspaper men, the hardest worked and
the least compensated city railroad
employees, and ferry masters, and the
police, and the tens of thousands OF clerks
and merchants waiting for their turn OF
absence, and households with an invalid
who cannot be moved, and others him
Tered by stringent circumstances, and
the great multitude OF well-to. do people
who stay at home because they like home
better than any other place, refusing to
90 away simply because it is the fashion
to go. When the express wagon, with
its mountain of trunks directed to the
Catskills or Niagara, goes through the
streets, we stand at our window envious
and impatient, and wonder why we can
not 60 as we'll as others. Fools that we
are, as though one could not be as happy
at home as anywhere else. Our grand.
fathers and grandmothers had as good a
time as we have, long before the first
spring was bored at Saratoga, or the first
deer slot in the Adirondacks. They
made their wedd ng tour to the next
farmhouse, or, living in New York, th-y
celebrated the event by an extra walk on
the Battery" Now, the genuine Amer
lean is not happy until he is going some
where, and the passion is 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
cople the idea that they are u OF
own, leaving the door plate unsecured
or the same reason, and ior two months
keeping the front shutters closed while
hey sit in the back part OF the house,
the thermometer at ninety My friends.
if it is best for us to go and be happy.
1t it is best for us to stay at home, let us
stay at home and be happy. There is a
great deal OF common sense in Paul's adj
vice to the Hebrews "Be content with
such things rs We have" To he content
is to be in good humor with our circum-
stances, not picking a quarrel with our
%obscurity, 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 l mention as
leading to this spirit advised in the text,
is the consideration that the poorest OF
lis have all that is indispensable in life.
We make a great ado about our hard
ships, but how little we talk OF our
blessil gs. Health OF body, which is
given in largest quantity to those who
lave never been petted, and foudled, and
spoiled by fortune, we take as a matter
ri course, Rather have this luxury, and
have it alone, than, without it, look GU
1f q palace window upon parks of deer
talking between fountains and ~statuary.
These people sleep sounder on a straw
mattress than fashionable invalids on a
ouch OF ivory and eagles down. The
inner OF herbs tastes better to the appe.
lite sharpened on a woodlands axe or a
reaper's scythe, than wealthy indigo stion
experiences seated at a table covered
with partridge, and v%enison, and pine
apple. The grandest luxury God ever
ave man is health. He that trades that
of for all the palaces OF the earth is in
iinitely cheated. We look back at the
glory of the last Napoleon, but who
would have taken his Versailles or his
Tuileries If with them we had been
obliged to take his govt? ooh" saws
someone, "it isn's the grosser pleasures l
rovet, but it is the qualification of an ar.
tistic and intellectual taste" Why, my
hrother, 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 on the
heavens What is a cascade silent on a
canvas compared with a cascade that
makes the mountain tremble, its spray
ascending like the departed spirit OF the
water slain on the rocks? Oh, there is a
great deal of hollow ariectation about a
fondness for pictures on the part of those
who never appreciate the original from
which the pictures are taken. AS though
a parent should have no regard for his
child, but go into e~ctasies over its photo
graph. Bless the Lord to-day, o man
y woman that though you may be shut
out from the works OF a Church, a Bier
stadt, a Rubens, and a Raphael, you still
have free access to a gallery grander than
the Louvre, or the Luxembourg, or the
Vatican-the royal gallery of the noon
day heavens, the Kings gallery OF the
midnight sky.
Another consideration leading us to a
spirit of contentment is the fact that our
happiness is not dependent upon out
ward circumstances You see peope
happy and miserable amid all circum.
stances. In a family where the last loaf
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