The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-07-28

q FULL satisfaction to the one who renders
the service. Thank God, it is the blessed
privilege OF the minister to do MANY
hniLgs where the idea OF recompense
never enters. He goes into the homes of
Tue poor. de SPEAKS word of cheer to
sne overburdened mother, he lays hia
hand gently in blessing upon the heads
OF the children how many dollars is such
service worth? He points the straying
one Dack TO the fold, he tells the peni
tent now to obtain pardon, he opens up
ne fulness OF Christ's love go that it
ho9os the poor soul which thinks it is
wholly unloved. WHAT arithmeticaI cal
culatlon will you bring to bear as you
compute the value of this servics We
SPEAK or hiring" the minister TO-DAY, as
II ali MS services. were that for which we
could pay. The true minister OF Jesus
Christ has right to fair remuneration
Tor generous service; but he is not true
minister whose many deeds of thought
tulneas do not show that he is not work
ing for remuneration alone.
Thoughtlessness, how many forms this
little sin takes | am almost ashamed to
go into detail. There is the keeping of an
engage ment, how many are slack 10 that
regard? Does the one who is late for an
appointment think to how much incon-
Venlence he is putting the others? Does
In oeAAAA AhAO al diSlSeSuGSs Oh his pafl
mas enc right to take twenty minutes
from the others time? There is the for
getting to pay back small sum that has
been borrowed or book which was only
wanted for week. These are very little
things; but trif1es make PERFECTION, and
perfection is no trif1e.
Impoliteness is form Of thoughtless-
ness. Margaret e. Sangster tells of
home into which she entered. The chill
dren were seated about the centre table
busy in their tasks. The young man, the
busiest OF the group with his lexicon and
grammar, rose upon her entrance and re-
| manned standing until she had taken her
| seat. The atmosphere of that home was
delightful. The boys always took Of
| their hats to their mother when they met
ner upon the street. They always al
| lowed their mother to have her argu.
| ment through In the heated dis
cussions that arose even in that well
regulated home. The attitude of
the daughters to each other was
lovely. They unselfishly surrendered to
each others wishes and sought each not
her own good, but the good of all.
Another little fox is worry. I believe
in worry. Man was born to worry. 1t
may not be generally known that Charles
Dickens described in his character of
Mica wber his father, who was clerk in
the Naval Office, who with his meagre
income and his increasing family did
nes do enough planning to make the twu
ends meet, who was always waiting for
something to turn up but nothing ever
did turn up. the man who would not
worry at last finding himself lodged for
debt in Marshalsea prison. The COW
does not worry. The heritage may dry
up and the brooks in the pasture run
low; under the shade she still contented-
| ly cbews her cud. The toad does moi
worry; but one would not choose the lot
OF the cow or the toad. There is one
destination before the man who worries
too much-the insane asylum; there lie
one destination before the man who
worries too llttle-the poor house. stake
! no thought for the morrow is no coun.
sci to refuse to think or plan.
| i have seen men who did not worry.
They lived in Palestine, the holy Land,
the land our Saviour trod. They lived
/ in we will not even call them one story
houses they lived In what migha more
aptly be termed immense ant-hills.
There was only one low door where q
small man stopped to walk in, there was
/ no chimney, there was no window. In
this one room, with it's dirt floor, the
whole family lived, nay, existed, q pro-
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ducks and pigs, too, lived, for as we walk
ed in, these members of the 10 yer king
dom walked out. These men, these nus
bands III so you can call them, did not
worry; but here they sat in their rags,
their poverty, their filth, and let the
world wag as it pleased. But you do
not have TO 60 so far from home TO find
men who do not worry and hence who
do not do anything that is noble or high.
The rich farmer, his bursting granaries
| too call to hold his crops, said Co his
| soul: sSoul, do not worry, take thine
eaae, luxuriaLe in thy fatness;" but God
said to him, ssThou FOOL When the
prodigal did not worry, he was satisfied
with the husks thrown TO the swine
when he began TO worry, he was filled
with disgust at that style of living and
said, sfil 60 60 my fathers house and
get bread.'
But this right sort of worry is differ.
ent from that ceaseless fret which makes
the one who INDUCES in 1t q burden to
all who come in contact with him. A
return Of spring. She replied: ssI do
not like to see the spring come, for then
my fears are aroused that the boys will
! be drowned while in swimming or IL iur-
/ ed on their wheels I think that the
philosophy of Ole Bulls grandmother Ia
pretty good counsel TO follow. She was
asked il she was not afraid that Ole Bull
and his brothers would be hurt while
climbing among the cliffs Or sailing their
boat on the fiords OF Norway. Her
answer was mo, for il I should worry
about that, I should not leave their
| guardian angels anything to do, and
90 not want to take all the business out
Of their hands,
Achilles, the great WARRIOR. was vul-
isnerable only IN ore part, and that was
the heel. If we and that there ID some
part Of our nature that ID peculiarly
weak and especially open to the attacks