Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-06-24


philanthropic and Christian endeavor,
ana you are heralds of that day of Cos
peiization which will yet food all the
mountains and valleys of our sin-cursed
earth. Hail, morning start Keep on
SHINING with encouragement and Chris
tian hope
Some of you are evening stars, and
you are cheering the last days of old
people, and though cloud sometimes
comes over you through the querulous-
ness or unreasonableness OF your old
father and mother, il is only for a mo-
ment, and the star soon comes out
/ clear again and is seen from all the
balconies of the neighborhood The
old people will forgive your occasional
shortcomings, foU they themselves
several times lost their patience when
you were young, and slapped you when
you did not deserve it. Hail, evening
star! Hang on the darlSening sky your
diamond coronet.
But are any of you the star Worm
wood? Do you scold and growl from
the thrones paternal or maternal? Are
your children everlastingly peclSed at?
Are you always crying "Hush" 10 the
merry voices and swift feet, and their
laughter, which occasionally triclSles
through at wrong times, and is sup
pressed by them until they can hold il
no longer, and all the brrriers burst
into unlimited guffaw and cachin7a-
ton, as in high weather the water has
trickled through slight opening in
the mill-dam, but afterward makes
wider and wider breach until il car
ries all before IL with irresisti-
bic freshet? Do not be too much
offended at the noise your children
now make. 1t will be still enough
when one of them is dead Then Won
would give your right hand to hear
one shout from their silent voices. or
one step from the still foot. You will
not any of you have to wait very long
before your house is stiller than Won
want it. Alas, that there are so MANY
homes not known TO the Society for the
prevention of Cruelty TO Children.
where children are put on the limits.
and Thacked and cuffed and ear-pulled.
and senselessly called to order. and an
swercd sharp and suppressed, until It'll
wonder that under such process they
do not all turn out Modoc's and Mana
Sahibs.
neigh borhood, the town or the CITY of
your residence? will suppose that you
are star of wit. What kind of RAYS do
you shoot forth? Do you use that
splendid faculty to irradiate the world
or to rankle 1T? bless all the apos-
tolc colleges OF humorists. The man
that makes me laugh is my benefactor.
DO not thank anybody to make me
cry can do that without any assist
ance. We all cry enough and have
enough to cry about. God bless all skill
ful punstcrs, all reparteeists, all pro
Founders of ingenious conundrums. all
those who mirthfully surprise us with
unusua! juXtaposition of words.
Thomas Hood and Charles Lamb and
Sidney Smith had n divine mission.
and so have their successors in these
times. They stir into the acid beverage
of life the saccharine. They make the
cup of earthly existence. which is
sometimes stale, cffervesce and bubble.
They placate animosities. Thcv foster.
longevity. They slay follies and alb
surdities which all the sermons of all
the pulPits can not reach.
They have for examples Elijah. who
made fun of the Baalites when they
called down fire and il did not come.
suggesting that their heather rod had
gone hunting, or was off on Journey.
or was asleep, and nothing but vocifer-
alton could wake him, saying: CRY
aloud Tor he is god; either he is talk
ing or pursuing or peradventure he
sIeepcth and must be awaked." They
nave an example in Christ, who. with
healthful sarcasm, showed up the w.
ing hypocritical Pharisees by suggest
ing that such perfect people like them
selves needed no improvements. saving.
The whole need not a physician, but
they that are sick"
But what use are YOU making Of vour
wit? Is it beSmirched with profanity
and unc!eanness? Do YOU employ il in
amusements at physical defects for
which the victims are not responsible?
Are your powers Of mimicry used 20
put religion in contempt? Is il a bunch
OF ncttlesome invcctive? Is it a bolt of
unjust scorn? Is it fun at others mis-
fortune? IS IL glcC at their disappoint
mcnt and defeat? Is it bitterness mn,
drop by drop into n cut? Is il like the
squeezing of Artemisia Absinthium into
draught already distastcfully pun
p ''r. l'h you are lle star worm
wood. Your, is the fun Of rattle
snake trying how well IT can sting
1t is the fun Of a hawk irving how
quickly it can strike out the eye of a
dove.
But will change this. and suppose
you are star of Worldly Prosperity.
Then you have large opportunity.
You can encourage that artist by buy
ing his pictures You can improve the |
helds, the stables, the highway. by in |
Producing higher style Of fowl. and
horse, and COW and sheep. You can
bless the world with pomolo,,- |
zeal achievements in tho orchards
You can advance arhoriculture
and arrest this beautiful icono- |
clasm Of the American forests You
can put piece 81 sculpture into the
niche Of that public academy. You can
endow college You can locking |
thousand bare feet from Tine winter
frost. You can build "a church You
can put a missionary Of Christ on that
foreign shore. You can heIu ransom, a |
world a rich meu witl bis heart
right can YOU tell how much good a
James Leuox, or "a George Pcabodr. or
Peter Cooper, or "a William T.. DODGE
did while living, or IS doing now that
he Is dead2 There is not "a city. town
or ncighbOrhDyd that has not oI,rf,,ys