The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-09-30

the worlds sympathies, carrying tht
worlds consolation. Among lawyers
we see rise UP Rufus Choate or
William Writ or a Samuel l.. South
ard, but society would go to pieces
tomorrow if there were not thousands
of common lawyers to see that mel
and women get their rights. A Valen
tine Mott or a Willard Parker rises VI
eminent in the medical profession, bu1
what an unlimited sweep would pneu
monia and diphtheria and scarlet fe'
yer have in the world if it were not
4 for ten thousand common doctors! The
old physician in his gig driving up the
lane of the farm house, or riding on
horseback, his medicines in the saddle
bags, ARRIVING on the ninth day of the
fever, and coming in to take hold of
the pulse of the patient, while the fam
lily, pale with anxiety, and looking on
and waiting for his decision in regard
to the patient, and hearing him say,
Thank God, have mastered the case;
he is getting wellw eXcites in me ad-
miration quite equal to the mention
of the names of the great metropolitan
doctors of the past or the illustrious
living men of the present.
Yet what do we see in all depart
ments? People not satisfied with or
binary spheres of work and ordinary
duties. Instead of trying to see what
they can do with hand of five fingers
they want six. Instead of usual en-
dowment of twenty manual and pedal
addenda they want twenty-four. A
certain amount of money for livelihood
and for the supply of those whom we
leave behind us after we have depart
ed this life, is important, for we have
the best authority for saying, He that
provideth not for his own, and espec-
tally those of his own household, Is
worse than an infidel," but the large
and fabulous sums for which many
struggle, if obtained, would be a him
drance rather than an advantage.
The anXieties and annoyances of
those whose estates have become pie
thoric can only be told by those who
possess them. 1t will be a good thing
when, through your industry and pros
perity, you can own the house in
which you live But suppose you own
fifty houses and you have all those
rents to collect and all those tenants
to please. Suppose you have branched
out in business successes until in al
most every direction you have invest
ments. The fire bell rings at night;
va r,1ch or ips tn lob ont of no
window to see if it is any of your
mills. Epidemic of crime comes and
there are embellishments and abscond-
ings in all directions. and you wonder
whether any of your bookkeepers will
prove recreant. A panic strikes the
financial world and you are like a hen
under a sky full of hawks and trying
with anxious cluck to get your over
grown chickens safely under wing.
After a certain stage of success has
been reached Won have to trust so
many important things to others that
you are apt to become the prey of 9th
ers, and you are swindled and defraud.
ed, and the anxiety you had on your
brow when you were earning your
first $1,000 is not equal to the anxiety
on your brow now that you have won
your 100000.
The trouble with such one is he
is spread out like the unfortunate one
in my text. You have more fingers
and toes than you know what to do
with. Twenty were useful; twenty
four are a hindering supertnity.
| am glad for the benevolent insti-
tutions that get legacy from men
who during their life We're as stingy
as death, but who in their last will |
and testament bestowed money on |
hospitals and missionary societies, but
for such teStators | have no respect. |
They would have taken every cent of |
it with them if they could and bought |
up half of heaven and let it out at ru-
nous rent OF loaned the money to
celestial citizens at two per cent.
month and got a corner" on harps
and trumpets. They lived in this world
fifty or sixty years in the presence of
appalling suffering and want and made
no efforts for their relief. The chari-
ties of such people are in the "PaulO-
post future" tense. They are going to
do them. The probability is that if
such one in his last will by dona-
ton to benevolent societies tries to
atone for his lifetime clOSefistedness.
the heirs at law will try to break the
will by proving that the old man was
'enlle or crazy, and the expense of the
litigation will about leave in the law
yers hands what was meant for the
Bible society o We overweighted, sue
cessful business men, whether this
sermon reach your ear or your eyes,
ct me say that if you are Frustrated
With anXieties about keeping or invest
ng these tremendous fortunes | can
ell you how you can do more to get
your health back and your spirits
aised than by drinking gallons of bad
asting water at Saratoga, Homburg
'r Carlsbad-give to God, humanity
ind the Bible ten per cent. of all your
ncome, and 1t will make a new man
If you, and from restless walking of
he floor at night you shall have eight
hours sleep without the help of brom-
de of potassium, and from no appe-
lite you will be hardly able to wait
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