Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-12

blue is for the most part reserved loI
+ha civ and we have to look up to see
tha+ and when we look up no color can
do MS harm. Why not plant along the
paths of others the brig illnesses instead
Of the glooms? Do not prophesy, ms.
i fortune If you must be prophel ~
al he m Ezekiel. and not a jeremiah.
| T., anc;ent times prophets who toretold
evil We're doing right, for they were
| d;vinely directed: but the prophets of
evil in our time are generally false pro-
phets. Some of our weather wise peo-
ple are prophesying We shall have
Summer of unparalleled scorch. 1t will
not he that at all. think we are going
to have summer of great harvest and
universal health; at any rate l know as
much about it as they do. Last fall all
the weather prophets agreed in saying
we should have a winter of extraordln-
ary severity, blizzard Oh the heel of
blizzard. it was the mildest winter l
ever remember to have passed. Indeed,
the autumn and the spring almost
showed winter out of the procession,
Real troubles have no heralds running
ahead of their somber chariots, and no
one has any authority in our time to an.
nounce their coming. Load yourself
up with helpful words and deeds. The
y
to be sung, for it says:
We should suspect some danger near
Where we possess delight.
In other words, manage to keep mis-
cradle all the time. The old song sung
at the pianos quarter of a century ago
was right: Kind words can never die.
Such kind words have their nests in
kind hearts, and when they are Matched
out and take wing they circle round in
flights that never cease, and sportsman's
gun cannot shoot them. and storms can
not ruffle their wings, and when they
cease flight in these lower skies Of earth
they sweep around amid the higher alti-
tudes of Heaven. At Baltimore few
days ago talked into photograph.
The cylinder containing the words wore
sent to Washington, and the next day
that cylinder, from another phono-
back to me the very words l had ut
tered the day before, and with the same
intonations. Scold into q photograph
and it will scold back. Pour mild words
INTO a phonograph and it will return the
gentleness. Society and the world, and
the church, are monographs. Give
them acerbity and rough treatment, and
acerbity and rough treatment you will
get back. Give them practical friend
Illness, and they will give back practical
friendliness. A father asked his little
daughter: Mary, why is it that every
body loves you?" She answered.: Il
don't know. unless it is because l love
everybody" "A man that hath friends
must show himself friendly" We
Want something like that spirit of sacri-
fee for others that was seen in the En-
glish Channel. where in storm boat
<oS,
three were in the water struggling for
their lives. A boat came to their relief,
and rope was thrown to one of them,
and he refused to take it, saying: First
fling it to Tom; he is just ready to go
down. I can last some time longer" A
man like that, be he sailor or lands
man, be he in upper ranks of society or
lower ranks, will always have plenty of
friends. What is true MAYNARD is true
Godward. We must be friends of God if
we want Him to be our friend. We can
not treat Christ badly all our. lives and
expect Him to treat us lovingly. I was
reading of a sea fight, in which Lord
Nelson captured French officer, and
when the French officer offered Lord
Nelson his hand, Nelson replied: First
give me your sword, and then give me
your hand" Surrender of our resist
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prefer of pardon to us. Repentance
before forgiveness. You must give up
your rebellious sword before you can
get grasp of the Divine hand.
How. refreshing is human friendship,
and true friends, what priceless treas
ures! When sickness comes, and trouble
comes, and death comes we send for our
friends first of all, and their appearance
in our doorway in any crisis is cen
forcement, and when they have entered,
We say: Now it is all right" Oh,what
would we do without friends, business
friends, personal friends, family
friends? But we want something
mightier than human friendship in the
great exigencies. When Jonathan Ed
wards in his final hour had given the
he turned on his pillow and closed his
eyes confidently saying: Now where is
Jesus of Nazareth, my true and never
failing friend?" Yes, 1 admire human
friendship as seen in the case of David
and Jonathan, of Paul and Onesiphorus,
of Herder and Goethe, of Goldsmith
and Reynolds, of Beaumont and
Fletcher, of Cowley and Harvey, Of
Erasmus and Thomas More, of Leasing
and Mendelssohn, of Ladyi Churchill
and Princess Anne, of Orestes and
Pylades each requesting that him.
self might take the point of the
dagger SO the other might be
spared, of Epaminondas and Pelopidas,
who locked their shields in battle de-
termined to die together; but the grand
est, the mightiest, the tenderest friend
ship in all the universe is the friendship
between Jesus Christ and a believing
soul. Yet after all l have said feel 1
have only done what James Marshall,
the miner, did in 1S48 in California, be-
! fore its gold mines were known. He
reached in and put upon the table of his
! employer, Capt. Sutton, thimbleful of
gold dust. Where did you get that"
said his employer. The reply was; Il
got it this morning from a mill Trace
from which the water had been drawn
OF. But that gold dust which could
have been taken up between the finger
and the thumb was the prophecy and
specimen that revealed CALIFORNIA;
wealth to llnations. And to- day have
only put before you specimen of the
value of divine friendship, only thin
bleful of mines inexhaustible and inf.
mite. though all time and all eternity 90
on with the exploration.
Tho rT,,r1,:,l