The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-02-23

your disposition. Once In awhile sub.
stitute sweet orange for sour lemon.
Remember that pessimism is blasphe-
my and that optimism is Christianity,
Throw some light on the night ocean.
If yor cannot DO u lantern swinging in
the rigging, DO one Of the tiny phospAori
back of the keel. Shinel "Let your
light so shine before men that others see
ing your good works may glorify your
Father which is in heaven"
Make one person happy every day, and
do that for 20 years, and you will have
made 1900 happy. You know a man
who has lost all his property by an ul-
fortunate investment or by putting lis
name on the back of friend'snote. Aft
er you have taken brief nap, which every
man and woman Is entitled to on Sun
day afternoon, go and cheer up that man.
You can, If God helps you, say some
thing that will do him good after both
Of You have been dead Thousand years.
Shine! You know 6f family with bad
boy who has run away from home. Go
before night and tell that father and
mother the parable Of the prodigal son,
and that some of the illustrious and use
full men now in church and state had q
silly passage in their lives and ran away
from home Shine! You know of fam
lily that has lost child, and the silence
of the nursery glooms the whole house
from cellar to garrett. Go before night
and tell them how much that child has
happily escaped, since the most prosper
Gus life ON earth Is a struggle.
Shinei You know of some invalid who
IL dying for lack of an appetite. She
cannot get well because she cannot eat.
Broil q chicken and take it to her before
hight and cheat her poor appetite into
keen relish. Shinel You know of some
one who likes you, and you like him, and
he ought to be Christian. Go tell him
what religion has done for you, and ask
him If you can pray for him.
THE FAILURE OF EULoGY.
Shine! Oh, for disposition so charged
with sweetness and light that we cannot
help but shine! Remember if you cannot
be leviathan flashing the ocean into
fury you can be one of the phosphori,
doing your part toward making path of
bhosphorescence. Then / will tell you
what impression you will leave as you
pass through this life and after you are
gone. will tell you to your face and
not leave 1t for the minister who offici-
ates at your obsequies.
The failure in all eulogium Of the de-
parted is that they cannot hear it. All
hear it except the one most interested.
This, in substance, Is what or some one
else will say Of you on such an occasion:
eve gather for offices of respect to this
departed one. 1t is impossibls TO tell
how many tears he wiped away, how
many burdens he lifted, or how many
souls he was, under God, instrumental in
saving. His Influence will never cease.
We are all better for having known him.
THAT pile of flowers on the casket
was presented by his Sabbath school
class, all of whom he brought to Christ
That cross Of flowers at the head was pre-.
sented by the orphan asylum which he
befriended. Those three single flowers
one was sent by poor woman fol
whom he bought ton of coal, and one
was bya waif of the street whom he res
cued through the midnight mission. and
the other was from prison cell which
he had often visited to encourage re-
pentance in a young man who had done
wrong.
"Those three loose flowers mean quite
as much as the costly garlands nov
breathing their aroma through this sad
dened home crowded with sympathizers
Blessed are the dead who die in The
lord. They rest from their labors, ant
their works do follow them"
Or if it should be the more solemn bur
ial at sea, let it be after the sun hal
gone down, and the captain has read tn,
appropriate liturgy, and the ships bel
has tolled, and you are let down from
the stern of the vessel into the resplend
ent phosphorescence at the wake of thu
ship. Then let some one say, in thu
words of my text, He maketh a patti
to shine after him."