Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-03-07

them shadow, or WIN you kindle for them
phosp phoreseence?
At this moment there are more people cry
| ing than laughing, more people on the round
world THIS moment hungry than well fed.
| more households bereft than homes un-
broken. What are you going to do about it I
"WeH" ." SAYS yonfer soul, 81 would like &c
do something toward illumining the great
. ocean of human wretchedness, but 1 cannot
do much"
Can you do as much as one of the phos-
phori in the middle OF the Atlantic Ocean,
| creatures smaller than the point of a sharp
pin? oh, yes" you say. Then do that.
Shinel Stand before the looking glass and
experiment to see il you cannot get that
| scowl of your forehead, that peevish look
out of your lips. Have at least one bright
| ribbon in your bonnet. Embroder at least
one white cord somewhere in the midnight
of your apparel. Do not any longer imper-
senate funeral. Shine Do say something
| cheerful about society and about the world.
Put few drops Of heaven into your dispo-
sition. Once in while substitute sweet
orange for q sour lemon.
Remember that pessimism is blasphemy
and that optimism is Christianity. Throw
some light on the night ocean. II you can
not be lantern swinging in the rigging, be
one OF the tiny phosphori back of the keel.
Shinsi "Let your light so shine before men
that others seeing your good works may
glorlfy your Father which is in heaven"
Make one person happy every day, and do
that for twenty years, and you will have
made 1900 happy. You know a man who has
lost all his property by an unfortunate in
vestment or By putting his name on the back
OF a friends note. After YOU have taken a
brief nap, which every man and woman Is
entitled to on a Sunday afternoon, go and
| cheer up that man. You can, If God helps
YOU say something that will do him good
after both OF you have been dead thousand
years.
Shine! You know OF a family with bad
boy who has run away from home. Go be-
fore night and tell that father and mother
| the parable OF the prodigal son, and that
some OF the tllustrious and useful men now
IN church and state had a silly passage in
their lives and ran away from home. Shine
You know OF a family that has lost child,
and the silence OF the nursery glooms the
whole house from cellar to garret. Go be-
fore night and tell them how much that child
has happily escaped, since the most prosper
Gus life on sarth is a struggle.
Shine You know OF some invalid who Is
dying for lack OF an appetite. She cannot
get well because she cannot eat. Broil
chicken and take it to her before night and
cheat her poor appetite into keen relish
Shine You know of some one who likes
you, and you like him. and he ought to be a
Christian. Go tell hi r what religion has
done for you, and ask him If you can pray
for him.
Shinei Oh, for disposition so charged
with sweetness and light that we cannot help
but shinel Remember il you cannot be
leyiathan lashiny the ocean into fury you
can be one OF the phosphor, doing your part
toward making a path OF phosphorcscence.
Then Will tell you what impression you
will leave as you pass through this life and
Rfter you are gone. will tell you to your
face and not leave il for the minister who Of
hciates at your Obsequies.
| The failure in All eulogium OF the departed
Is that they cannot hear it. All hear il eX-
cept tine one most interested. This. in sub
stance, Is what or some one else will say of
you on such an occasion: 'We gather for
offices of respect to this departed one. II is
impossible TO tell how many tears he wiped
away, how many burdens he lifted, or how
many souls he was, under God, instrument
tai in saving. His influence will never cease.
We are all better for having known him.
"That pillow of flowers on the casSet was
presented by his Sabbath-school class, all of
whom he brought to Christ. That cross of
flowers at the head was presented by the
orphan asylum which he befriendei. Those
three single howers-one was sent by poor
woman for whom he bought ton OF coal,
and one was by w8if OF the street whom he
rescued through tho midnight mission. and
the other was from prison cell " li'l he
had often visited to encourage repentance in
"a young man who had done wrong.
"Those three loose flowers mean quite as
much as the garands now br r'athins ttair
AROMA through this saddened home crowded
with sympathizers. Blessed are the dead
who die in the Lord. They rest from their
labors. and their works do follow them
Or If it should be the more solemn hurial
al sea- let it be after the sun has gone down,
and the captain has read the apprOp rate
liturgy, and the ships bell has iOiled, and
YOU are let down from the stern OF the y.'s-el
into the resplendent phospbOrescencc AT the
wake OF the ship. Then let some one sly, in
the words of my text, He maFslh a Pa;h to
shine after him."