The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-03-04
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| Burns himself was a good sample of
true culture, for it was said of him
that he was equally at home among the
lowly and among the nobility. 1t was
! his innate grace of SOUL his fine sensi-
bility and thoughtfulness for others,
| that stood him in stead of the art OF
courts. One of the first gentlemen. as
| well as one of the greatest orators.
America has ever produced, was Fred
erick Douglas. born slave, cursed with
black skin. learning to read by spell
ing out the names printed on the ship
ping 1t is the spirit within us, not the
things around as. we must increase and
improve Ii Is the life. not the abund-
ance of things.
Comfort does not depend upon things.
You think II you had finer house, a
new carpet, more furniture or better,
your comfort would be increased. Thor
eau treats the subject of furniture gro
teA1uely, but beneath the oddly of his
language lies a meaning full of COM
nonsense. why should not our fur
niture be as simple as the Arabs or
the Indian's?" he asks when 1 think
of the benefactors of the race, bearers
my mind any retinue at their heels,
any car load of fashionable furniture.
had three pieces of limestone on my
desk, but 1 was terrified to find that
they required to be busted daily, when
the furniture of my mind was all I'M
busted still, and threw them out the
window in disgust" Even so like one
thing about my occupation as an itin-
L
so that when 1 am summoned to go to
another world will not have to break
through a chevaux- -frise Of chairs,
tables. beds and wheelbarrows, thereby
endangering my souls shins; but can
go easily, mourned by afew, and leav-
ing none glad 1 am gone so they can
cast lots for my goods.
Health consists not in things. People
who take the most medicine are the
sickliest Health depends not upon the
perfection of our precautions against
disease as the doctors do vainly teach.
but upon that inward tide of vitality
by which we defy disease. The robust
men do not frequent the gymnasiums.
The people who patronize the health
foods and make a fad of scientific
Ulel are as rule uySpeDtlC ana sal
low. Health Is within and If so be 1t
is at all without, then it Is in Gods
sweet air and green grass and running
water and fresh-smelling earth.
The same thing is true in the matters
of the spirit and it's life. The history
Of the church discloses more piety in
log cabins and mountain Businesses
than in imposing cathedrals. The
Waldenses and the Albigenses l find to
have had more of Jesus spirit than
those who were haling them to prison
and death. 1 fancy there was more real
God-servlng among Charles Fox and
his quaker friends than among the fire.
quenters of the cathedrals of Canter-
bury and York. There Is more sound
Christianity among the Salvation Army
lads than among those who hold their
nose when they pass by. Do not think
you would be better Christian with
better advantages, nor more liberal
with larger wealth. He who is stingy
on four dollars week will be stingy on
four hundred week. do thy next
thing" All earth and hell cannot stop
man determined to do right. For
the kingdom of heaven suffereth vio-
lence. and the violent take 1t by force.