The Penn's Grove record., 1899-02-03

families and educate their children and
pay their taxes and meet the interest on
l~nortGaged farnss-such men find n terrific
struggle. l demand that office seekers
and politicians fold up their gaseous and
imbecile. speeches about the Independent
life Of a farmer and substitute some word
OF comfort drawn from the fact that they
are free from city eonventtonalities and
city epidemies and city temptations.
Encourage the doctors. You praise the
doctor when he brings you up from an
awful crisis OF disease, but do YOU praise
the doctor when, through skillful treat
ment OF the incipient stages OF disease, he
keeps YOU from Sinking down to the awful
crisis2 There is d great deal of cheap and
heartless wit about doctors, but | notice
that the people who get off the wit are the
first to send for d doctor when there is any.
thing the matter, There are those who
undertake to say in our day that doctors
ARE really useless: One man has written d
book entitled, Every Man His Own Doc
tor" That author ought to write one moro
book entitled, every Man His Own I'm
dertaker." "oh," says some one, q ply;
sicians In constant presence Of pain get
hard heartfelt" Do they2 Tho most cele;
brated surgeon Of the last generation stood
Id a clinical department of one OF the New
York medical colleges, the students gath
cred 10 the amphitheater to see n very
painful operation on a little child, The old
surgeon said " Gentlemen; excuse me II
l retire. These surgeons can do this as
well as I can, and as 1 get older 1t gives me
more and more distress to see pain"
Encourage the LAWYERS. They are often
cheated out of their fees, and so often have
to breathe the villainous air of courtrooms;
and they SO often have to bear ponderous
responsibility, and they have to maintain
against the sharks in their profession the
dignity Of that calling which was honored
nv tha fact that fba only man nllppvn1 tO
stand on Mount Sinai beside the Lord was
Moses, the lawyer, and that the Bible
speaks Of Christ as the advocate. Encour-
age lawyers In their profession of trans
cendent importance-a profession honored
by having on the bench n Chief Justice
Story and at the bar q Rufus Choate;
Encourage the teachers In our public
sehools-occupatlon arduous and poorly
Compensated. Iii dill the cities when there
comes n fit of economy on the part Of OFF,
eials the first thing to do Is always to cut.
down teachers salaries. To take forty or
fifty boys whose parents suppose them
precocious and keep the parents from
hiding out their mistake;t to take an empty
head and fill 1t; to meet the expectation OF
parents who think their children at fifteen
years of ought to be mathematician
and metaphysictans and rhetoricians; to
work successfully that great stun1ng ma
chine, the modern school system. Is a very
HTuuOuS WOFk. encourage them Dy t1e
usefulness and the everlastingness and the
magnitude o. their occupation, and when
your children do we'll compliment the in
structor, praise the teacher, thank the ed
ucator.
Encourage all invalids by telling them
how many you have known with the same
ailments who got we'll, and not by telling
them of their sunken eye or asking them
whether the color Of their cheek is really
hectic or mentioning cases in which that
style of disease ended fatally or telling
them how badly they look. Cheerful
words are more soothing than choral.
more stimulating than cognac, more tonic
than bitterss Many an invalid has re.
covered through the influence of cheerful
surroundings.
Encourage all starting in life by yourself
becoming reminiscent, Established mer-
chants, by telling these young merchants
when you got your first customer. and how
you sat behind the counter eating your
luncheon with one eve on the door. Es-
tablished lawyers, encourage young law
yers by telling OF the time when you broke
down In your first speech. Established
ministers OF the gospel, encourage young
ministers by merciful examination Of theo-
logical candidates, not walking around
with Il profundity and oyerwhelmingness
of manner as though you were one of the
eternal DEGREES. Doctor established, by
telling young doctors how you yourself
once mistook the measles for scarlutina.
And II you have nothing to say that is en-
c~ouraging, o man, put your teeth tightly
together and cover them with the curtain
of your lip, compress your lips and put
hand over your mouth and keep
still.
Encourage the troubled by thoughts OF
release and reassociation. Encourage the
aged by thoughts OF eternal juvenescence.
Encourage the herdsman amid the troughs
OF sin to go back to the banquet at the
fathers homestead. Give US tones in the
major key instead of the minor. Give us
Coronation" instead of Naomi" You
have seen cars so arranged that one ear
going down the hill rolled another car up
the hill. They nearly balanced each other.
And every man that finds life up hill ought
to be helped by those who have passed the
heights and are descending to the vale.
oh, let us bear one hnother's burdensi
A gentleman in England died leaving his
fortune by will to 1.-TWO sons. The son that
staid at home destroyed the fathers will
and pretended that the brother who was
absent was dead and buried. The absent
brother after awhile returned and claimed
hts part of the property. Judges and
jurors were to be bribed to say that the re-
turned brother and son was no son at all,
but only an lmpostor. The trial came on.
Sir Matthew Hale, the pride of the English
courtroom and for twenty years the pride
of Jurisprudence, heard that that injustice
was about to be practlced. He put off
his official robe. He put on the garb Of
a miller. He went to the village where
that trial was to take place. He entered
the courtroom. He somehow got empan-
eled as one Of the jurors. The brides came
around, and the man gave ten pieces Of
gold to the other jurors, but as this was
only a poor miller the briber gave to him
only Ave pieces of gold. A verdict was
brought In rejecting the rights Of this re-
turned brother. He was to have no share
in the Inheritance. "Hold, my lordi' said
the miller. Hold; we are not all agreed
on this verdict. These other men have
received ten pieces of gold In bribery,
and l have received only Ave." 'Who
are you? Where do you come from" said
the judge on the bench. The response
was: II am from Westminster Hall;
my name is ! etthew Hale, lord chief
justice of the A. rs bench. on OF that
place thou villainl And so the injustice
was baked, and so the young man got his
Inheritance. 1t was all for another that
Sir Matthew Hale took off his robe and put
on the garb OF a miller. And so Christ took
off His robe of royalty and put or the attire
OF our humanity, and in that disguise He
won our eternal portion. Now are We the
sons OF Godi Joint heirs! We went off
from home sure enough, but we got back
in time to receive our eternal Inheritance.
And II Christ bore our burden, surely We
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