Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-09-14


men met us at certain points on our
way over TO business. and let each one
say, How Siel, you lool!-' though we
should start out well. after meeting
the first and hearing his depressing
salute. we would begin TO examine our
symptoms. After meeting the second
gloomy accosting we would conclude
we did not feel quite as we'll as usual
After meeting the third our sensations
would be Dreadful. and after meeting
the fourth. unless we suspected con-
spiracy, we would go home and go
TO bed and the other six pessimists
would be n useless surplus OF discour-
agemcn,.
My GEAR sir. my dear madam. what
do you mean by going about this
world with dishcartenments? Is not
the supply of gloom aud trouble and
misfortune enough 10 meet the demand
without your running factory OF pins
and spikes2 Why should YOU plant
black and blue in the world when God
so seldom plants them? Plenty OF scar
let colors, plenty OF yellow. plenty 81
green, plenty OF pink. but seldom a
plant black or blue. | never saw "A
black flower and there's only here and
there bluebcl or violet, but the
blue is for the most part reserved for
the sky, and we have TO look M TO
see that, and when we look no no coll
or can do us harm. Why not plant
along the raths OF others the bright.
nessos instead of the gloom?
Do not prophcsv misfortune. II
YOU must be prophet at all, be an
Ezekiel. and not jeremiah. In an
cient times prophets who foretold evils
were doing right, for they were di-
vinely directed, but the prophets OF
evil in our time arc generally false
prophets Some OF our weather
wise people prophesicd we would
have summer of unparalleled heat
1t has been n very comfortable sum-
mer Last fall all the weather proph.
cts agreed in saying we should
have a winter of extraordinary sever.
ity, blizzard on the heels OF blizzard.
1t was the mildest winter ever re-
member 70 have passed. Indeed the
autumn and the spring almost showed
winter out of the procession. Real
troubles have no heralds running
ahead OF their sombcr chariots. and
no one has any authority in our time
TO announce their coming. Load
yourselves up with honeful words and
deeds The hymn once sung in our
churches is unfit TO bc sung. for il
says:
We should suspect some danger near"
Where We possess delight"
In other words, manage to keep
miserable all the time. The old song
sung At the pianos quarter OF a
century ago was right: kind words
can never die. B." Such kind worGs
have their nests in kind hearts. and
when they are hatched out and take
Wing they circle around In flights
that never cease, and sportSman's gun
can not shoot them, and storms can
not ruilie their wings. and when they
cease flight in these lower skies OF
earth they sweep around amid
the higher attitudes OF heaven At
Baltimore talked into phonograph.
The cylinder containing the words was
sent on to Washington, and the next
day that cylinder from another phono.
graphic instrument, when turned
gave back TO me the very words
had uttered the day before. and
with the same intonations Scold
to phonograph and it will scold
back. Pour mild words into n phono
graph and IL will return the gentle.
ness Society and the world and
the church are photographs. Give
them acerbity and rough treatment
and acerbity and rough treatment Won
will get back. Give them practical
friendliness and they will give back
practical friendlinesS \ father asked
In 4 D.
that everybody loves you?" She an.
swered: Il don't know, unless H. is
because love every body" "A man
that hath friends must show himself
friendly"
We want something like that spirit
of sacrifice for others which was seen
in the English channel. where in the
storm "a boat containing three men wa,
upset, and all three were in the water
struggling for their lives. A boat
came to their relief, and a rope
was thrown 20 one of them
and nc refused To take IL. saw.
ing: First fling it to Tom: ne i.
just ready 10 go down. can last some
time longer y man like that. toe he
sailor or landsmaE. be lac i'm unper
ranks of society or lower ranks. will
always have plenty Of friends. What
is true MAYNARD is true Godward. We
must be the friends of God il we wan
Him TO bc our friend. We can not trca
Christ badly all our lives and cxpect
Him TO treat us lovingly. / was read.
ing OF q sea fight in which Lord Nel.
son captured a French friratc and
when the French officer offered Lord
Nelson his hand. Nelson replied: "First
give me your sword, and then give m,
your hand. Surrender Of our resist.
ance TO God MUST preccde Gods proiTe
OF pardon 20 us. Repentance before
forgiveness. You must give M YOUR
rebcllious sword before YOU can r,t a
grasp ON thc Divine hand.
DIR ANITA NEwCoMn McGrr. who boe
been appointed member OF the me
ical ,taii of the United states army. is
the wife OF Prof W. D. McGce of
Washington. D. c., and daughter of
Prof simon Ncwcomb. formerly OF the
naval observatory. DR.. McGec served
for two years on the star Of tine John
Hopkins hospital. and ms she has 10 en-
nt Use heal of tHc work OF selecting all
trained nurses as sent out through enc
government and through the ID s. r.
hospital corps. with headquarters in
Washington. ID. g.. She is now "a
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