The Penn's Grove record., 1889-07-20

salute, we would begin to ami our
symptoms. After meeting the second
gloomy accosting, we would conclude
we did not feel quite as well as usual.
After meeting the third, our sensations
would be dreadful, and after meeting
the fourth, unless we suspected q con-
spiracy, we would go home and go to
bed, and the other six pessimists would
be a useless surplus of Encouragement.
Ny dear sir, my dear madam, what do
You mean by going about this world
with advertisements? Is not the sup
ply of gloom and trouble and misfortune
enough to meet the demand without
your running a factory of pins and
spikes? Why should you plant black
and blue in the world when God so
seldom plants them? Plenty of scarlet
colors, plenty of yellow, plenty of green,
| plenty Of pink, but very seldom a plant
| black or blue. / never saw a black
| flower, and there's only here and there
a blue-bell or a violet; but the blue is
for the most paAt reserved for the sky,
and we have to look up to see that, and
| when We look up, NJ color can do us
harm. Why not plant along the paths
| of others the brightness instead of the
glooms?
DO o MISFORTUNE.
If you must be a prophet at all, be an
| Ezekiel, and not aJeremiah. Inancient
| times prophets who foretold evil were
| doing right, for they were divinely
| directed; but the prophets of eviliu our
| time are generally false prophets. Some
of our weather;wise people are prophe-
sying we shall have a summer of unpar-
l ,1I.loI ,aocn1. IL rr-i1l mob ha chat NJ
all. / think we are going to have a
summer of great harvest and universal
| health; at any rate / know as much
about it as they do. Last fall all the
| weather prophets agreed in saying that
We should have a winter of extraordi-
nary severity, blizzard on the heels of
blizzard. II was the mildest winter l
| even 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 sombre chariots, and no
| one has any authority in our time to
announce their coming. Load yourself
| up with helpful words and deeds. The
hymn once sung in churchesis unfit
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 a quarter of n 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 sportman'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
| attitudes of heaven.
At Baltimore a few days ago 1 talked
into
PHONoGRAPH.
| The cylinder containing the words was
| sent on to Washington, and the next
| day that cylinder from another phono-
| graph instrument, when turned, gave
back to me the very words l had uttered
| the day before, and with the same into
nations. Scold into a p~honograph, and
| it will scold back. Pour mild words in
to a photograph, and it will return the
| gentleness, Society and the world and
them acerbity, and rough treatment, and
| tCtI IVY anu Ioukh tIChtiilClt you WIN
| get hack. 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: 81
everybody" ga man that hath friends
must show himself friendly We want
something like that spirit of
SACRIFICE FOR OTHER
| which was seer in the English channel,
where in a storm a boat containing
three men was upset, and all three were
in the water struggling for their lives.
A boat came to their relief, and a rope
was thrown to one of them, and he re-
fused to take it, saying: ''First fling it
to Tom; he is just ready to go down. l
can last some time longer" A man like
that, be he sailor or landsman, be he i'll
upper ranks of society or lower ranks,
will always have plenty of friends.
What is true MAYNARD is true Godward.
We must be the friends of God if We
want Him to be our friend. Wecannot
treat Christ badly all our lives and ex-
pect Him to treat us lovingly, l was
reading Of a sea fight, in which Lord
Nelson captured a 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 resistance
to God must precede Gods offer OF
pardon to us. Repentance before for
giveness. You must give up YOU re-
bellious sword before you can get a grasp
of the divine hand.
Oh, what a glorious atate of things to
have
FRIENDSHIP OF GOD!
Why, we could afford to have all the
world against us and all other worlds
against us if we had God for us. He
could i'll a minute blot out this universe,
and in another minute make a better
universe. / have no idea that Godtried
hard when He made all things. The
most brilliant thing known to us is light,
and for the creation of that He only
used a word of command. As out of a
flint a frontiersman strikes Il spark, So
out of one word God struck the noon1
day sun. For the making O the present
universe L do not read that God lifted
SO much as q finger, The Bible fre-
q~uently speaks of Gods hand, and Gods
arm, and God's shoulder, and Gods
foot; then suppose He should put hand
aud arm and shoulder and foot to
utmost tension, what could henot make?
That God, of such demonstrated and
undemonstrated strength, you may have
iur your present and everlasting friend,
not "a stately and reticent friend, hard
to get at, but as ~approachable as II
country mansion IN II SIMMER day when
all the doors and windows are wide open,
Christ said: 81 am the door" AndH
is II wide door, a high door, II palace
door, an always open door,
Ny four yenr=old child got hurt and
did not cry until hours after, when he,
mother came home, aud then she hurst
into Weeping, and someof the dolaestics,
not understanding human nature, said
She answered.; "Ihere WAS no one tc
cry to-" Now l have to tell You that
VIII ,le human sympathy may he absent,
divine sympathy is always accessible