The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-13

| one Of than 10 dead. Then you would
give your right hand to hear one shout
from the silent voice or one step from the
still foot. You will not any Of you have
to wait very long before your house ID
| stiller than you want 1t. Alas, that there
are so many homes not known to the So.
ciety For the Prevention Of Cruelty to
Children, where children are whackol and
! oufYed and ear pulled, and serselessly
called to order, and answered sharply, and
suppressed, until 1t is q wonder that up-
der such processes they do not all turn out
Mana Sahibs!
| What Is your influence upon the neigh
borhood, the town or the city Of your resi-
dences I will suppose that you arc star
Of witt What kind Of rays do you shoot
forthP Do you use that splendid faculty
to irradiate the world or to rankle it2 I
bless all the apostolic college Of huIorista
The man that makes me laugh is my bene-
factor. do not thank anybody to make
me cry. I can do that without any assist
ance. We all cry enough and have enough
| to cry about. God bless all skillful pun
sters, all reparteoists, all propounders Of
ingenious oonundrums, all those who
| mirthfully surprise us with unusual juxts-
position Of words. Thomas Hood and
Charles Dickens and Sydney Smith had .
divine mission, and 30 have their SUCCESS
ors in these timea They stir into the
acid beverage Of Life the saccharine. They
make the CUP Of earthly existence, which
IL sometimes stale, enervesoe and bubble.
They plaoate animosities. They foster
longevity. They slay follies and absurd.
ties which all the sermons Of all the pull
pits cannot reach. But what use are you
making Of your WITT ls II besmirched
with profanity and uncleannessP Do you
employ 1t In amusement at physical de-
fects for which the victims are not respon-
sible? Are your powers Of miInicry used
to put religion in contempt Is 1t bunch
Of nettlesome invectivef Is 1t bolt Of
unjust scornP Is 1t fun at others mlsfor-
tuner Is 1t glee at their disappointment
and defeatP Is 1t bitterness put drop by
drop into cup9 IL 1t like the squeezing
Of Artemisia absinthium into draft al
ready distastefully pungentp Then you
arc the star Wormwood. Yours is the fun
of a rattlesnake trying how we'll 1t can
quick 1t can strike out the eye of dove.
Ways Of Doing Coed.
But will change this and suppose you
are star Of worldly prosperity. Then
you have large opportunity. You can en-
courage that artist by buying his picture
You can improve the fields, the stables,
the highway, by introducing higher style
Of fowl and horse and COW and sheep.
You can bless the world with pomological
achievement in the orchard. You can ad-
vance arboriculture and arrest the DEATH
full destruction Of the American forests.
You can put piece of sculpture into the
niche Of that public academy, you can en-
dow college, you can stocking 1000 bare
feet from the winter frost, you can build
o church, you can put missionary Of
Christ on that foreign shore, you can help
to ransom world, A rich man with his
heart rght-can you tell me how much
good James Lenox or a George Peabody
or Peter Cooper or William E. Dodge
did while living or is doing now that he
Is dead? There Is not city, town or
neighborhood that has not glorious speci-
mems of consecrated wealth.
But suppose you grind the face Of the
poor. Suppose, when a mans wages are
due you make him wait for them because
he cannot help himself. Suppose that, be-
cause Instantly is sick and he has had ex-
ira expenses, he should politely ask you to
raise his wages for this year, and you
roughly tell him if he wants better place
to 60 and got 1t. Suppose, by your man
ner, you act as though he were nothing
and you were everything. Suppose you
are selfish and overbearing and arrogant.
Your first name ought to be Attila and
your last name Attila because you arc tho
star Norwood, and you have imbittcred
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minute What are we doing with that
minute? Are we imattering the domes-
tic or social or political fountains, or are
we like Moses who when the lsraelitcs in
the wilderness complained that the waters
of Lake Marah were bitter and they could
not drink them their leader cut oil the
branch into the water, and 1t became sweet
oiN SisshNo 'iiS VAIL Vi INV '"AN 'NSV
Are we with branch of the tree of life
swcetening all the biackish fountains that
we can touchf
The Only sweetcning Power.
Dear Lord, scrd us all ont on this mis-.
sion. All around us imbittcrcd lives |
imbit sered by persecution, imhittered by |
hypcrcriticism, imbittered b.; poverty, |,
imbittered by pain, imbittered by inius-
tice, imbittercd by sin. Why not go forth
and sweetcn them by smiles, by inspiring |
words, by bensfactions, by hearty counsel, |
by prayer, by gospelizcd behavior Let us
remember that If we are NORWOOD to |
others we are NORWOOD to ourselves, and
our life will be bitter and our eternity |
bittcrer. The gospel of Jesus Christ is tho |
only sweataning power that ia sufficient.
-
1t sweetens tho disposition; IL sweetens
the manners; 1t sweetens life; 1t sweeteis
mysterious providences; 1t sweetens afllio-
lions; it sweetens DEATH 1t sweetens every
thing have heard people asked IN go
cial company, IF you could have three
wishes gratiiied, what would your three
wishes bef'' II could have three wishes