Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-02-08

more wealth a man has the more ne can
lose, but one man can afford to lose a mil
lion dollars where another man cannot
afford to lose one dollar. On larger or
smaller scale all suffer financial loss.
Amid the rapidity of the revolutions OF
the wheel of national and international
finance monetary perplexity is as COM
mon as day or night.
So also misinterpretatiOn and SANDER
come to all who live active lives. Our
actions, thoroughly honest and above
board, may come under suspicion. Every
courtroom at every term of court hears
illustrations of the delusiOn of what is
called circumstantial evidence. Innocent
men are fined or imprisoned or electro
cuted because Of an unfortunate conjunc-
ton Of events What is true in court
rooms is true in all circles of domestic or
social or political or official life. You
have been misunderstood and misrepre-
scented or will be misunderstood or mis-
represented. Then how can my text be
true? My explanation is this: The man
without any divine grace in his heart
finds in these troubles irritation and I'M
belief and melancholia and despair. A
Christian man finds in them submission
and enlarged views and divine support
and reconsecration. Bereavement to the
wording brings hard thoughts of God
and resistance so violent it dares not
fully express itself Bereavement brings
to the Christian the thought of heavenly
reunion and more complete laying hold
Of God, and a more tender appreciation
Of the divine presence, and deeper graft
tude that we were permitted to have the
departed one 50 long, and a more lively
sympathy for the sorrows of others and
another evidence Of Gods love, for
''whom the Lord lovcth he chasteneth."
Misery of Loving Too Much.
Financial loss, which just now said
sure to come, never breaks up ma
who has strong faith IN God. In most
cases it is a loss Of surplus or it is the
hanishmcnt of Injuries Most of tho
wants of the prosperous classes are arti
/ fetal wants The late Mr.. Armour of the
! S6000O,000 estate pointed to one of his
| clerks on ordinary. salary and said. "Tha
/ man has better appetite than /, sleep
/ better nights and enjoys life more than
do" Oh, the gigantic miserics of thOs
who have too much. A man in Solomon
time expressed as philosophic aud rea
sOnable a wish as any man Of those time
or Of our times. His name was AguI
and he offered a prayer that he nigh
never have a superabundance or a deficit
crying out, Give me neither poverty no
riches" On the one side he had seen tn
awful struggle Of the poor to get foo
and clothes and shelter and to educat
their children, and on the other side h
had seen the equity foot. and the indige'
ton, and the insomnia. and the anXiet
about large investments. and the threat
encd paresis often characteristic of thos
who are loaded up and loaded down wit
too many successes. Those people VIII
are generally called the masses-that i
the most of folks-have the things abs,
lutely necessary for their well being. The
have no Murillos on their wall, nor BE
shazzar's Feast" in their dining room, NJ
a pair Of $1,000 sorrels at their doorwa
But they have something which thO'
superabundantly supplied seldom hav
They have better health because, beir
compelled to walk, they get the necessal
exercise, and, their diet being limited
plain food. they do not suffer from mi
night salads and are not victimiZed
rare caterers. They retire for Who'll
some sleep at the very hour in whit
others are leaving their homes for Il
dance or the card party. They will sle'
the last sleep just as well in the pla
graveyard as those who have over the
4 an arch of sculptured granite in costlie
: metropolis or most historical abbey.
: Things are more equally divided thu
y is generally supposed That spleud
a nome is apt to have taking OF OF sol
lind 1t may be an invalid wife. or {