The Penn's Grove record., 1901-02-08

night salads and are not victimized by
rare caterers.
They retire for wholesome sleep at the
very hour in which others are leaving
their homes for the dance or the card
party. They will sleep the last sleep just
as well in the plain graveyard as those
who have over them an arch OF sculptured
granite in c~ostliest metropolis or most his
torical abbey.
Things are more equally divided than is
generally supposed. That splendid home
is apt to rave a taking off Of some kind
II may be an invalid wife. or a deformed
child. or an inherited tending toward in
sanity, or a dissolute son, or a despoiled
reputation. or a weakened heart that may
halt under the least excitement. Envy no
man. Envy no woman. Be content with
such things as ye have.
Do not think, in order to have it well
with you, according to my text, that
therefore you must have more than some.
body else, or even as much as somebody
else. The Lord treats US all better than
we treat Him, and if we would study our
blessings as much as we study our disas-
tiers we would be more reasonable and
thankful.
In Isaiah God says that bread and
water shall be sure, and none of us has
been put on so low a diet, but we often
act as though God had not kept His prom
w HaAh ~ lhAu ltS. lDI-
getfui of the fact that He promised bread,
not cake, water, not sparkling cordials.
The reason so many people are misera-
bic is because they do not let well enough
alone. They are in one occupation and
see its ~annoyances and so change to an
other occupation, and find as many annoy
ances, if not more. They live in one
place and know its uncomfortable environ
ments and move into another place which
has just as many limitations. Their in
v,estments yield them four per cent, and
they sell out to make investments that
will yield ten per cent; and lose all. Bet
ter settle down and stop ~fretting about
yourself and the world.
An officer in CromwelPs time. was so
worried about public affairs that he could
not sleep. His servant, a Christian man,
said he would like the privilege of asking
the officer a question. Leave being granted
the servant said: "Do you not think that
God governed the world very well before
you came into it?" mo doubt of it."
was the reply. And do you not think He
will govern it quite as well when YOU are
gone out of it," Certainly" "Then-
pray, sir, excuse me-but do you not
think you may trust Him to govern it as
long as YOU live in it?' The remark was
so sensible that sleeplessness departed
and tranquility came.
A particular Providence is as certain as
a general Providence. It did not Just hap
pen. so that Brunei noticed a shipworm
into the wood, so suggesting to the
engineer the tunneling of the Thames. 1t
dld not Just happen so that a spiders
web strung for tree to tree suggested the
suspension bridge to its first originator.
Nothing just happened SO in your life or
1t is not an autocrat at the head
of the universe, but a Father.
Do any of us fully realize the fact that
God gives us three things in unlimited
supply, although no formula of prayer
air and sunlight? Water by the ~riverful.
Water by the lakeful. Water by the
o%ceanful. Some for ablution, some for
shaking OF thirst, some for baptistery, some
Tor fountains and aquariums. | never ap-
preciated what a wonderful thing water is
until last summer | stood by the foun-
before and around the Emperor's
palace at Peterhof, Russia.
| have been familiar with this wonder
full element of nature from childhood, hav-
ing been born on the banks of the beauti-
ful .Raritan, and as a barefooted boy dab
bied in the brook near my fathers house.
But l never realized until last summer
what water could do in play, or in strange
or Identification, or when climb
ing the ladder of the light. or when skill
full workmen took hold of it to toss it or
IA ~ VI SuhpC ~ lhbp NIoNhS VI hOlst
It into columns, or spring it into arches,
Or hit 1T into stars, or turn it into cres-
cents, or build it into temples. You for
get you ever saw the less glorious waters
1t C~hatsworth, England. or Versailles,
as you stand in the balcony of the
palace overlooking the Finland gulf, be-
Tildered and transported as you look at
The water rolls down over
.w~enty-four steps one foot high and TWEEN
y feet long. All of these twenty-four
iteps are covered with sheets of FURNISHED
yoid. Silver step of the water on stairs
# gold! What a glee of liquids Rolling,
flashing, foamlng, enrapturing splendors!
Chorus of foods! Poetry OF waters! Dox-
'logy of torrents. But that which most
impressed me there and elsewhere is the
abundance of water, the fact that there
ire so many waters that the continents
an afford to throw them away into the
ea, Hudsons and 0hios, Oregons and
amazons, Rhines and Danubes and Vol
,as, and so abundant that the earth can
Itford to have its oceans evaporate into
he heavens, Mediterraneans and Atlanties
md Pacifies. How rich the earth is with
%vaters! Best beverage OF all the nations.
or after the richest banquet with the
ichest beverages every one wants at least
sip of it-water, cool water, God de-
cended water!
With still more abundance is the air dis
ributed. An earth full of it; a sky full OF
Swiftest and strongest eagle cannot fly
10 high as not to have it in the nostril OF
unlightl No one but the infinite God
ould dispense so much of it. The golden
andlestick set on the blue mantel OF the
So great that the Almighty is
ompared to it, the psalmist crying out,
The Lord God is a SUM" 1t is high
ime that we recognize in our hturgies and
n our formulas of prayer the three most
blessings of the universe which
ONE to all.
Some scientists are now discussing the
'pening of communication between our
and the planet Mars. Experiments
re being made, but they will not succeed.
We cannot build a fire large enough to at
ract the attention OF that world, or lift a
ems powerful enough to see any response
nterstellar. We do not positively know
hat that world is occupied by living
or that, if it is occupied, commu-
with them would be desirable,
But 1 rejoice to know that heaven is in
ouch with other worlds for their improve
nent, and a depot for glorious arrivals,
t is a thoroughfare between this world
nd that world, and a coming and going
erpetual.
Going out of this world is as natural
5 coming INTO II, Dut the one Is with pang,
nd the other is with rapture, if we are
tied for the uplifting process. 1t shall
e well with you. Now, do not get SO
'ightened about that asthma or that cough
T. that influenza or that threatened pneu-
nonis. The worst thing that fatal dis
ase can do is to usher you into corona
ion and enforcement. 1t shall be well
you, Take as good care Of your
as you can, have the best doctors
can employ, observe all sanitary laws,
leep in this world as long as you are per-
to stay, and then when the heav-
My call comes be glad to go.
l do not care much about what your
last words" are going to be. People put
90 much emphasis on "last words" l
iould rather know what your words are
Iow, in days OF health and with mental
a~culties in full %play--your words of kind
ess, your words of sympathy, your words
( h~elpfulness, your words OF prayer.
So live hat if you say not a word dur.
ng the last day Of your life there will be
% doubt here about the place of your des,
You will go right into sanity,
rophetic, evangelistic, apostolic, cherubic,
arehangelic, deific presence. 1t
hall be well with you.
Mother, you win go right up into the
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