Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-01-25

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said to his friend, sd eicolus, why are you al
ways smiling7" The reply was, Because no
| one can take my God from mel" We want
more men to feel that they have a mission
to cheer others and to draw up the corners
OF peoples mouths which have a long
while been drawn down, more Davids who
can shepherd whole focks of bright hopes.
and can play harp of encouragement.
and strike down Goliath of despair, and
OF whom we can say, Thou art worth TO-
900 of u.s."
I admit that this thought OF my text
fully carried out would change many of the
worlds statistics. Suppose village is
said to have 1000 inhabitants. and that
one-half Of them-namely. 500-have for
years been becoming less in body, and
through niggardliness and grumbling less
In soul. Each one of these is only one-half
OF what he once was or one-half of what
she once was.
That original 500 have been reduced one
half in moral quality and are really only
$50. Suppose that the other 500 have
maintained their original status and are
neither better nor worse. Then the
entire population of that village is $50.
But suppose another village of 1000, and
500 of them, as the years go by, through
mental and spiritual culture, augment
themselves until they are really twice the
men and women they originally were,
and the other 500 remain unchanged and
are neither better nor worse, then the pop
ulation Of that village is 1900. Meanness
is subtraction and nobility is addition.
According as you rise in the scale of holi-
ness and generosity and conservation, you
are worth five or ten or fifty or 100 or 1000
or 10 900 others.
Notice, my friend, that this David, war
rior, strategist, minstrel, master of blank
verse and stone singer at the giant, whom
the soldiers of the text estimated clear up
into the thousandfold of usefulness on this
particular occasion, staid at home orin his
place OF temporary residence. General
Joab, General Abishai and General Ittai
who commanded the boys IN the right wing
and left wing and centre, did their work
bravely and left %, 900 of the Lords enc
mics dead on the field, and many o. the
survivors got entangled in the woods of
Ephraim and mixed up in the bushes and
stumbled over the stumps of trees and fell
into bogs and were devoured of wild beasts
which seized them in the thickets. But
David did his work at home. We all huzza
for heroes who have been in battle and
on their return what professions we
form and what triumphal arches we
spring and what banquets we spread and
what garlands we wreathe and what ora
tions we deliver and what bells we ring and
what cannonades we firel But do we do
justice to the stay mt homes? David, who
was worth 10000 of those who went out to
meet the Lords enemies in the woods OF
Ephraim that day did his work in retire.
ment.
HOh, the world needs day of Judgment,
to give many of the stay at homes proper
recognition. In the different wars the sons
went to the front and on ships deck OF
battlefield exposed their lives and earned
the admiration of the country, but how
about the mothers and fathers who through
long years taught those sons the noble SEN
timents that inspired them to &C and then
gave them up when perhaps few words
Of earnest protest would have kept them
on the farm and in the homestead? The
day OF final reward will reveal the sell
sacrifice and tie fidelity of thousands who
never in all their lives received one word
OF praise. oh, ye unknown, We faithful
and Christian and all enduring stay at
homsst. have no power now to do you
Justice, bur. L tell you OF one who has the
power and ofths time when the tnimble
and ladle, S-he darning needle, and
row, will come to as hisaI:fn appreciation
as a seventy four FOUNDER, or the sword
or the battering ram that pounded dow
! the wall or the flag that was hoisted on tn 4
scaled parapets.
The warrior David of my text showed
more self control and moral prowess IL
staying at home than he could have shown
commanding in the field. He was ma.
tural warrior. Martial airs stirred him.
The glitter of opposing shields fired him
He was one of those men who feel at home
in the saddle, patting the neck of paw.
ing cavalry horse. But he suppressed him
self. He obeyed the command of the troops
whom he would like to have commanded.
Some of the greatest Sedans and Aus.
terlitzes have been in backwoods kitch.
ems or in nursery, with three children
down with scarlet fever, soon to join
the two already in the churchyard, OF
amid domestic wrongs and outrages
enough to transform angels into devils, OF
in commercial life within their own count
ing rooms in time of Black Friday panics,
or in mechanical life in their own carpen-
ter shop or on the scaffolding of the walls
swept by cold or smitten by heat No tele.
graphic wires reported the crisis of the
conflict, no banner was ever waved to cele-
brate their victory, but God knows, and
God will remember, and God will adjust,
and by Him the falling of a tear is as cer-
tainly noticed as the burning OF a world,
and the futter of a sparrow's wing as the
flight of the apocalyptic archangel.
oh, what God we have for small things
as well as big things! David no more
helped at the front than helped at home.
The four regiments modified for the de-
fense of the throne of Israel were right in
protesting against Davids expose of his
life at the front. Had he been pierced of an
arrow or cloven down with a battieax OF
fatally slung for snorting war charger, what
a disaster for the throne of Israeli Absalom,
his son, was low fellow and unfit to
his handsome face and his long hair-so
long that when he had it cut that which
was scissored off weighed 1000 shekels,
after the kings weight" and when a man
has nothing but handsome face and an
exuberance of hair there is not much of
him. The capture or staying of David
would have been calamity irreparable.
Unnecessary exposure would have been a
crime for David. as 1t is crime for you.
Some people think it is a briJ' ht thing 20
put themselves in unnecessary peril. They
like to walk up to the edge of a precipice
and look off, defying vertigo, go among
contagious when they can be of no use but
to demonstrate their own bravado, or with
glee drive horses which are only harnessed
whirlwinds, or see how clo5e'they can walk
In front of a trolley car without being
crushed, or spring on rail train after it
has started, or leap off rail train before it
has stopped. Their life is n series of
narrow escapes, careless of what predica-
ment their family would suffer at their
sudden taking off or of the misfortune
that might come to their business partners
or the complete failure of their life work,
II coroner's jury must be called in to de-
eide the style of their exit. They do not
take into consideration what their life is
worth to others. Taken of through
such recklessness they go criminals.
There was not one man among
hose four full regiments of four
thousand Isrs.elites that would have 50
much enjoyed being in the fight as David,
out he saw that he could serve his nation
pest by not putting on helmet and shield
and sword, and so he took the advice of the
armed men and said, what seemeth to
you best will do" l warrant that you
will die soon enough, without teasing and
oantering casualty to see if it can launch
you into the next world.
Some of the screws used in watch
es are so small that it takes $500 of
them to weigh a pound.
The world uses 100000 steel pens
a day.
In the Black sea no animal life OF