Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-08-04

This discourse of DIR. Talmage shows
how all may help in the restoration OF
good times and is most appropriate
Text: Lamentations iii 30: Where
fore doth living man complaint
cheerful interrogatory in the mos,
melancholy book of the Bible! Jere,
miah wrote so many sad things that
we have word named after him, and
when anything is surchargcd with
grief and complaint we call il Jcre.
miad. But in my text jeremiah, as by
sudden JOLT, wakens us to "A thankful
spirit
Our blessings are SO much more
numerous than our deserts that he i.
surprised that any body should ever
find fault Having life, and with it a
thousand blessings, it ought TO hush
into perpetual silence everything like
criticism of the dealings OF God.
Wherefore doth a living man com
pla.n?'
While every thing in our national
finances is Frightening, for the last
few years the land has been set to the
tune OF Naomi There mas been
here and there a cheerful so,oist. but
the grand chorus has been one Of la
mentatlou, accompanied by dirges
over Frustrated commerce, silent
manufacturers, unemployed mech
anism, and all those dis
orders described by the two short
words "nard times" The fact is that
we have been paying for the bloody
luxury of war, more than 30 years ago
There were great national d differences.
and we had not enough Christian char
acter TO settle them by arbitration and
treaty, and so we went nto battle, cx-
pending life and treasure. and we'll
nigh swapping the national finances;
and north and south. east and west.
have ever since been paving for
those four years indulgence in
barbarism. But the time has come
when this depression ought to end
yea, when it will end-f the people
are willing to do two or three things
by way of financial medicament. for
the people as we'll as congress must
join IN the work OF recuperation The
pest political economists tell us that
there is no good reason for continued
prostraton. Plenty of money awaiting
investment The national health with
Lever SO strong an arm or so clear "A
BRAIN. Yet we 90 on grooming, rroan-
ing, groaulng, as though God hal put
thIs nation upon Cruel, and allowed us
but one decent break fast in six months
The fact j. the habit OF complaining
has become chronic in this country,
and after all these years of whimpcr
and wailing and objurgation we are
under such a momentum of SWIVEL that
we can not stop.
There are three prescriptions by
which l believe that our individual
and national finances may be cured
of their present depression. The
first IS cheerful conversation and be.
havior. | have noticed that the peo-
pie who are most vocifcrous against
the day in which we live arc those who
are in comfortable circumstances.
have made inquiry OF those per-
sons VINO are violent in their
jere miads against these times. and
nave asked them: Now. after all. are
you not making living?' After some
hesitation and coughing and clearing
their throats three or four times. they
say, stammeringly. Yes" SO tina,
with great multitude OF people il
is not question OF getting livcli-
hood, but they are dissatisfied because
they eau not make as muca money as
they would like TO make They have
only 5000 IN the bank. where they
would ike to have - OOJ. They
can clear in a year ou.y So
600, when they would like To
clear $1,000, or things come on, Jus,
even. or in th-ir trade they get -