St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26
BY REV. HENRY r. ROSE.
AUBURN, ME.


to be useful. Usefulness is, In great meas
ure, determined by cheerfulness and hope
1uiness. Courage is the backbone of achieve
mtnt. But courage is not developed out of
brooding. man who dwells on his failures.
and conjures up all the difficulties that lie
before him will be weak man; you would
never put him at the head of an exactine
enterprise. Power comes from confidence;
confidence springs from faith; faith is born
in heaven, and it forgets all about past fail
ures and future obstacles because it has
the spirit and some of the vision of God!
The men of faith are, as a rule men of
buoyant natures. Their buoyancy however
does not arise from inexperience, but from
a fine contempet for certain kinds of expe-
|, riences They have failed often they have
made many mistakes, but they believe the
other name for the future is opportunity and
wherever they find the word opportunity
written, they see it's companion word re-
trieval. They dwell not on their mistakes
and failures save to learn their lesson.
Through the whole range of life the people
who know how to shake off the blues, to be
undisturbed by triies, to be undaunted by
calamities-these are the people who are of
use; who do something more than exist; who
shall one day stand before the King and rem.
der glowing account of their stewardship
| hold, then, that it is mans duty to burn
his own smoke for his own sake. Health,
of bitterness, remorse, doubt and the long
line of vultures that eat at the vitals of faith
and hope and endeavor. But go step fur
ther, and hold it is a mans duty to rise
above his trials and troubles, for the sake of
others. Consider the health of those in your
home. Has it never occurred to you that
your temperament has affected them? invis-
lilly, almost unconsciously but yet surely
the vitality of countless men and women is
being sapped by the influence of morbid
complaining natures about them. Only heav-
en- knows how many invalids there are whose
weakness is to be traced Immediately to a
querulous husband or whining wife. l
have seen the morose, stingy, selfish nature
OF father warp the lives of his children
at the core Of their being. He passes be-
fore my mind as extreme example, but
he belongs to that class of people who are
uDwholesome, whose very presence causes
our flesh to creep whose everlasting cyni-
cism and pickering wear out our lives.
AS precious peace and Joy are to us,
equally dear are they to others; but how
steadily they are driven out of lives that
you and know by the people who emit their
own smoke. One cannot but feel that this
duty to make life about us Just as bright
and tranquil as possible is a strong reason
why people should not wear mourning.
Every man should bear his own burden of
sorrow" When the burden comes upon him
he has right to expect sympathy from his
friends; he has a right to expect help and
fellowship from those who are near and dear
to him, but no one has right to carry his
gloom into others lives; no one has right,
because he is walking in shadow, to shadow
the paths of those around him. That is my
objection to the wearing of mourning. / do
not mean the wearing of every form of black,
but to the wearing Of that kind Of black that