Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-02-28

rows of others and another evidence Of
Gods love, for whom the Lord lovetk
| He chasteneth."
Financial loss, which Just now said 10
sure to come, never breaks up a man who
has strong faith in God. In most cases il
| is loss of surplus or it is the banishment
OF luxuries. Most of the wants of the
prosperous classes are artificial wantss
The late Mr.. Armour, of the $50 600 ,OOC
estate, pointed to one Of his clerks on or
dinary salary and said: "That man haa
better appetite than 1, sleeps better nights
and enjoys life more than do" Oh, the
much A man in. solomon's time. ex
pressed as philosophic and reasonable a
wish as anv man of those times or of our
times. His name was Agur, and he Of
fered prayer that he might never have a
superabundance. or deficit, crying out:
On the other side he had seen the awful
struggle of the poor to get food and
clothes and shelter and to educate their
children, and on the other side he had
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 toe
many successes. Those people who are
generally called the masses-that 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 tc
plain food, they do no. 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
who 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 taking off of some kind.
1t may be an invalid wife, or a deformed
child, or an inherited tending toward in
sanity, or 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 we 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 dsas
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.
ca tse
not cake, water, not sparkling cordials.
The reason SO many people are misera-
BILE is because they do not let we'll 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
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,
the officer question. Leave being granted
the servant said: do you not think that
God governed the world very well before
you came into it?" '.No doubt of it,"
wa; the reply. And do you not think He
S sus Of it Yte #s when TSen zfr
} 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 a
interstellar. 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 a world as this,
and thus communication with it would be
debasing.
But l rejoice to know that heaven is in
touch with other worlds for their improve
ment, and depot for glorious arrivals.
1t is 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 pahg,
and the other is with rapture, If we are
fitted 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
ease can do is TO usher you into corona,
ton and enthronement. 1t shall be we'll
with you. Take as good care of your
health as you can, have the best doctors
you can employ, oDserNe all sanitary laws
keep in this world as long as you are per
mitted to stay, and then when the heav-
, eny call comes be glad to go.
l 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 helpfulness, your words of prayer.
SO five that if 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,
tination. You will go right into sanity
prophetic, cvangelistic, apostolic, cherubie,
seraphic, archangelic, deitic presence. 1t
shall be well with you.
Mother, you viii go right up into the
possession OF the babe that the scarlet fe-
yer or Group took out OF your arms,
sorrow that still stings you and you often
say she would now be so many years old
il she had lived.
You will go into the presence of the old
folks, for | hope You are of Christian an