The western sentinel., 1895-10-31
LIVING PEACEFULLY.
From the New York Herald.


the hardships and perplexities of the
present time.
The future we may regard as
assured and leave it to take care of
itself.
sparrow's fight and fall, and Who
has given Us some faint glimpses of
what is to be, will keep the wonder
ful promise, Il go to prepare a place
for you," and we need have no dis
turbing thoughts, but, on the Con-
trary, perfect confidence
Our chief concern should be how to
make the best and the most of this
lite, tor if we are in the right now we
surely cannot go wrong here after
God has hidden certain benefits in
the experiences Though which we
are called to pass, and it is import
ant that as we 60 through the eX-
periences we find Il way to gather the
benefits. | am convinced that no
event in our lives is without it's pur
pose, and if our minds and hearts
are properly developed we shall not
only discover what purpose is, but
have cause for gratitude and in
creased faith even amid sorrows and
tears ana DHredVementS-
1t should be our aim, therefore, to
live as peacefully as possible-thdt is
to say, we should reduce the friction
OF life to it's minimum, and nothing
will serve this end except brainfelt
and heartfelt religion. Feacefulness
depends on interior qualities more
than on environment and external
circumstance. 1t is possible to have
every thing and at the same time
to practically have nothing. 1t is
also possible to travel a rugged and
| wearying path with light heart.
1t does not follow that you are we'll
off because you are rich, but you
| may, if you will, be we'll off in spite of
| carking cares and strange uncertain
ties.
Everything depends on your out
look toward God and your inlook at
| yourself. you can see dim some
thing beyond the stars when you
look forth, and something worth
your atte1,tion when you examine
| your own soul, you have the firm
| foundations on which to build
grand and glorious lite. The riches
disclosed by those two visions are
| beyond computation. In the con-
sciousuess that your destiny out
reaches the limits oil time, that you
are capable OF appreciating the
| spirit of the Christ and Of appropri-
ating it in the economy of life, as He
desired you to do. you become to a
large extent independent of what is
| called good or ill fortune. You have
| priceless comfort in your heart
| which nothing can purchase and of
| which no cunning theft can despOil
you, Tor the most secure of all your
| possessions is the ideal which you
| hope to attain. While it might be
rash to assert that you can become
| wholly indifferent to circumstances,
| it is safe to terlare that if you have
a comforting faith you can be in
finitely happier as poor man than
| you cou d he with all the wealth of
the world at command il you had no
faith at all. 1t Is not the soft bed
which gives refreshing sleep, but a
| quiet conscience and serene trust.
| We know this to our sorrow. 1t is
what you have in your heart, not
what you have in your pocket, that
makes you enviable. A large bank
account has a certain magic in it,
but if you hope to find therein the
means of happiness you will be dis
appointed. The necromancy of life
has it's source in heart-beats.
You wrong yourself and waste
both time and energy in accumula-
tion as the sole aim of life. 1t is i'm
| possible that God can have so
arrane ed the world that dollars will
buy what the poor need as well as
the rich. The most desirable things
must be within reach OF the multi
tude, and L am sure that though you
toll from day to day and bend your
shoulders to the burden OF hardship
you ought to have, and you can
| have, great comforts and great Joys.
True religion is thoroughly Demo
cratic. 1t favors no class, but gives
as plentifully to the unlettered as to
the learned.
The picture of an ideal life which
Christ offers us is wholly enticing and
| aIluring-a Father who listens to
every cry OF your heart; an Elder
Brother who trod the path of an
guish and sorrow, and who tells us
how we may possess our souls in
peace; heaven in which there will
be no more partiDgs, for in it's wide
t. rritory there is no graveyard; a
host of angels with whom we may
communicate, and whose influence is
round about US from day to day.
Can any soul ask for more? What
there else that you can desire
With these faiths you are armed and
equipped for whatever exigency may
occur. | do not say that life will not
still be very serious business, tax
ing your resources at times to their
utmost; Int venture to assure you
that you will have many comforts
which can be earned. but not bought,
and certain quiotness of S Jul which
le alone can enjoy who knows what
| the present means and who sees the
koniDg hand of the future. To
rest calmly on the watchful care ot
Providence even when the way is
| dark and stormy, to feel in the inner
IL epths that the Hand which guides
knows how to guide; to yield in sub.
missive resigua ton to whatever
,efalls, looking ever to the mist
| covered fields of Paradise as the
refuge from grief and toil-this is to
lead a very profitable and a very
| com 'orta BILE life, one that will be a
1aily blessing unto yourself and an
| soul in the world.
GLoRGE 81. HEPwoRTH.
She Had Nothing to Do.
Exchange.