Milford chronicle., 1896-04-03
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY, APRIL 3. 1896

that have not on them any faint of in
INTERPRETATIONS in which we may en-
gage for the strengthening Of the body, for
the clearing Of the intellect, for the illumi-
nation Of the soul.
There is still another form Of recreation
which l commend to you, aud that is the
pleasure of doing good. l have seen young
men, weak and cross and sour and repel-
ling in their disposition, who, by one heav-
emily touch, have wakened up and become
blessed and buoyant, the ground under
their feet and the sky over their heads
breaking forth into music "Oh, says
some young man in the house today, Il
should like that recreation above all Others
but l have not the means. My dear
brother, let us take an account Of stock.
You have a large estate, if you only real
izo it. Two hands, two feet, You will
have, perhaps, during the next year at
least $40 for charitable contribution. You
will have ., SEQ cheerful looks, if you want
to employ thom You will have 5000
pleasant words. if you want TO speak
them Now, what an amount that Is to
start with
You go out tomorrow morning, ana you
see a case Of real destitution by the way
side You give him cents. Tho blind
man hears the pennies rattle in his hat
and he says: THANK you, sir God bless
you'll" You pass down the street, trying
to look Indifferent but you feel from tho
very Gepth Of your soul a profound salts
faction that you made that man happy
You 20 on still farther and find poor boy
with wheelbarrow, trying to get it up on
tho curbstorc. He fails in the attempt
You say "Stand back, my lad. Let me
try. You push it up on the curbstone for
him and pass ON. He wonders who that
well dressed man was that helped him.
You did kindness to the boy, but you did
e great JOY to your own soul You Will
not get over it all the week.
on the street tomorrow morning you
will see sick man passing along An,
YOU say. "what can l do to make this man
happyf Ho certainly does not want money;
he is not poor but he is sick" Give him
one Of those =, 500 cheerful looks that you
have garnered up for the whole year.
Look JOY and hOpefulness into his soul IL
will thrill him through, and there viii DO
a reaction upon your own soul. Going a
little farther on you will come TO the store
of friend who is embarrassed in business
matters You will go in and say: What
q fine store you havel I think business
will brighton W, and you will have more
custom after awhile. l think there Is
coming a great prosperity to all the conn
try. Good morning. You pass out
You have helped that young man, and you
have helped yourself
The Greatest Joy.
Colonel Gardiner, who sat with his ell
bow on table spread with all extraYa-
CANT yiands loo5ing of at dog on tho
rug, saving, How / would like 10 change
piaoes with him, l be the dog and he ba
Colonel Gardiner, or those two Moravian
missionaries who wanted to go into the
lnzaretto for the sake of attending the sick
and they were told of you go in there
you will never come out. We never allow
my one to como out, for he would bring
HE o0ntagionV Chen they nado thelF
wills and went ID, first to help the slel:
ana then TO die Which was the happier
Guunel dagdlnap o. tho Mopaviap mis-
sionArios dying for pthorsf Was it all sac
rilce when She missionaries wanted to
bring the gospel to the negroes at the Bar
badas and, being denied the privilege
sold themselves into slavery, standing side
10y side and lying side by side down in
the very ditch of suffering, in order tha5
they might bring those mon up to life and
Sod and heaven. Oh, tharG is a thrill IN
the JOY of doing good 1t is the most
magnificent recreation to which n man ever
put his hand, or his head, or his heart
But heforo closing want 20 impress
upon you that mGrQ secular entertain
ments are not fit foundation for your
soul to build on. / was reading Of a
woman who had gono all the rounds of
sinful amusement, and she came to dio.
She said, 81 will die tonight at O'Clock. !"
"Oh, j." they said Il guess natl You don't
seem TO ho sick, - ~ shall die at q O'Clock,
and my soul will be lost. | know 1t Will
DO lost l have sinned away my day OF
grace" Tho noon cmno. They desired
her to seek religious counsel. "Oh, " she
said, 1T is Of po use My laY IS gone.
hav0 been all tho rounds Of worldly pleas
ure, and il is too late / shall die tonight
at 9 O'Clock Tho day wore away aud II
came 20 : O'Clock and 10 o'clock, and
she cried out at O'Clock: Destroying
spirits, you shall not have me yet 1t Is
not Git is not 6l' The moments went
by, and the shadows began 70 gAFhopr and
the uock struck 6, and while 1t was strik-
ing her soul went. What hour God will
call for us | do not know-whether 9
O'Clock tonight, or 3 O'Clock this afternoon,
or ut o'clock, or at this moment sit
ting wheru you are, failing forward, or
dropping down, where will you go to?
The last hour of our life will soon be
hero, and from that hour we win roYieW
this day proceedings. 1t will be sol
oinn hour. Ii from our death pillow we
have to look back and SEQ life spent in
sinful amusament, there will be q dart
that will strike through our soul sharper
than the dagger with which Virginius slew
Ills child The memory Of the past Will
make US quake Ike Macbeth. The in
lqulties ami rioting through which we
have passed will come upon us, weird and
skeleton as Mog Merrilies, Death, the
old Shylook, will demand and takq the
remaining pound Of flesh and the remain
my drop Of blood, and upon our last op-
purtuntty Tor repentance and our last
jhance for heaven this curtain will forever