The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-02-07

clothes and shelter and to educate their
children, and on the other side he mad
seen the .gouty foot, and the indigestion,
and the insomnia, and the anxiety about
large investments, and the threatened
paresis often Characteristic OF those who
are loaded up and loaded down with too
many successes. Those people who are
generally called the masses-tbat is, the
most of folks-have the things absolutely
necessary for their well being They have
no Murillos on their wall nor "Belshaz-
zar's Feast" in their dining room, nor
pair of $4,000 sorrels at their doorway.
But they have something which those
superabundantly supplied seldom have
they have better health because, being
compelled TO walk, they get the necessary
exercise, and; their diet being limited to
plain food, they do not suffer from mid
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
VINO have over them an arch of sculptured
granite IN costliest metropolis or most his
torical abbey
Things are more equally divided than is
generally supposed. That splendid home
IS apt to have a taking off of some kind.
1t may be an invalid wife, or a deformed
Nhiiu, VI al iiiheIlleu lenulng toward IN
sanity, or dlssolute son, OF a despoied
reputation, or 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-
ters 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 diet but we often
act as though God had not kept His prom.
Use because we want more luxuries, for
getful of the fact that He promised bread
not cake, water, not sparkling cordiLls
The reason SO many people are misera-
ole 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
vestments 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 Cromwells 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 question. Leave being granted
the servant said: DO you not think that
God governed the world very well before
you came into itg" mo doubt OF it."
was the reply. "And do you not think He
Will govern 1T 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.
Some scientists are now discussing the
opening of communication between our
earth and the planet Mars. Experiments
are being made, but they will not succeed.
We cannot build fire large enough to at
tract the attention of that world, or lift
lens powerful enough to see any response
lnterstelar We do not positively know
that that world is occupied by living
beings, or that, If it is occupied, commu.
nication with them would be desirable.
1t might not be so good world as this,
debasing.
But l rejoice to know that heaven is in
touch with other worlds for their improve
ment, and a depot for glorious arrivals.
1t is a thoroughfare between this world
and that world, and coming and going
perpetual.
Going out of this world is as natural
as coming into it, but the one is with pang,
and the other is with rapture, if we are
htted for the uplifting process. 1t shall
be well with you. Now, do not get so
frightened about that asthma or that cough
or that influenza or that threatened pneu-
monia. The worst thing that fatal dis
al al In tncha -
ton and enthronement. 1t shall be well
with you. Take as good care of your
health as you can, have the best doctors
you can employ, observe all sanitary laws
keep in this world as long as you are per
mitted to stay, and then when the heav-
emily call comes be glad to go.
do not care much about what your
last words" are going to be. People put
too much emphasis on last words"
would rather know what your words are
now, in days of health and with mental
faculties in full play-your words of kind
ness, your words OF sympathy your words
OF helpfuiness, your words of prayer
So live that II you say not a word dur
ing the last day Of your life there will be
no doubt here about the place of your des
tlnation. You will go right into sanity,
evangelistic, apostolic, cherubic,
seraphic, archangelic, deiic presence. 1t
shall be well with you.
NiObiASis yOu VIII BO IlEub up INTO IIe
possession OF the babe that the scarlet fe-
yer or Group took out OF your arms a
sorrow that still stings you, and you often
say she would now be so many years old
If she had lived.
You will go into the presence of the old
folks, for 1 hope you are OF Christian an
cestry, and you will find that they have |
no dimness OF sight OF halting gait that re-
1uires a staff, for they have taken draft
from the fountain of perpetual youth that
springs from under the throne of God.
Oh, the blissful companionship of heav- |
en- in which you shall enter! 1t shall be |
well with you. | ring this bell of enamel |
patton and triumph. l like the way the |
SEXTON rings the bell of the old country |
Meeting house. l used to stand and admire |
him pulling the rope of that bell He |
rings 1t good while, so that every farm
house within five miles hears it, He may |
malt moment to take breath and give the
sweet sounds time to stir up all the echoes
Of the hills. And when he is old and not
strong enough to pull the rope any more
hen he sits and listens while his son rings
the church bell. So my text seems bell
1f invitation and victory. / began to ring
Il in the opening of this DISCOURSE |
hope to ring it as long as live and may
hose who come after us keep on ringing
t till those farthest off from God shall |
,ome into the great temple of gospel com.
'ort. and all the weary put down their
burdens at its altar and find that peace
which the world can neither give nor take
way, Three times more / ring it: 1t |
hall be %, WE'LL 1t shall be well II shall