Milford chronicle., 1901-12-20

It IN TINS world Perhaps it is your first
sorrow. "Ne have net passed this way
before" God grant that you may never
pass this way again.
But follow the ark. and il will lead you
to rivers of consolation You will End
that your child has gone into a heaven OF
children. a land where children are in
vast majority. a score Of infant souls to
one manly or womanly soul for the vast
majority of the race die in infancy 1t is
the exception when people live to grow
up. Heaven Il great playground for chill
dren. Palaces for kings and queens? Oh,
yes! But what wide halls Of pleasure,
what gardens of delight. what raptures,
such as on earth with ball and kite and
hoop they never felt! Let them 90, moth
er. You can trust him in the land of mu-
sic and flowers. The front door of that
eternal home was opened by him who
said. Suffer the little children to come
unto me and forbid them not, for such is
the kingdom of heaven" What time
the children have up there! Can you not
almost hear their quick feet on the ivory
stairs? What rounds of gladness! What
laughter of eternal glee! Follow the ark,
and it will lead you to the crossing into
the reunions of the home where you will
never part.
Discovery of New Things.
As our sorrows are new, our joys are
new and all our experiences are new.
Our life is one long discovery of things
that we did not know and could not
know, because we have not passed this
way before We have found. for instance,
that gratitude is the rarest of virtues
You used to suppose that if you do a
kindness it will be fully appreciated and
reciprocated. You have found out by ex-
perience, as you could have found out in
no other way. that gratitude is apt to be
only another ak TO grind. While there is
a possibility that you may return still
more service you are thanked. but when
you can return no more advantage you
are dropped. Here is u man whom you
have helped in political elevation. When
the time comes for the compliment to be
returned, you are not only refused help,
but you receive positive opposition. You
have found out that you should do the
right thing not with respect to reward or
gratitude. but because it is the right
thing to do. Many are miserable because
they are all the way looking for gratitude
which they cannot find You might as
well go down Pennsylvania avenue,
Washington, or Broadway, New York. OF
fremont street, Boston, your eyes scruti-
nizing the pavements looking for tur.
quoises and emeralds and rubies. Per-
haps you might find them. but there is
not much probability that in fifty years
you would find one of them.
No one has come to midlife who has
/ not been stung of ingratitude. On the
I battlefield Of Alma in 1854 a wounded
! Russian was crying in anguish of thirst
for water. Captain Eddington Of tn,
English army ran to him and gave hin
drink. As the captain was running by t
4 join his regiment the wounded soldier
shot him. Almost all languages hav,
proverbs setting forth this perversity
English prOverb, Bring up a raven. an(
it will pick ont your eyes" Arabic prov
erb, Eat the present and break tn,
dish" Italian prOverb. THE ass. afte
having drunk, gives a kick to the buck
ct" An old proverb says. IF God wer,
to be so complacent as to carry US ON hi
back to Rome we would not thank hin