Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-02-07

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necessary you have phenomenal world
ly success.
Notice, also, that God gives the right
eous the power to extract good out of
evil and by divine chemistry to
change the bitter into the sweet and
the harmful into the beneficial. The
promise that it shall be well with you
does not imply that you are to be free
from trouble. There is no escape from
that. We all have family relations,
and some of them will be making exit
from this world, so that bereavement
is the universal inheritance. So also
Is financial loss. The difference be-
tween the prospered and those not
prospered is the difference in the
amount they can afford to lose. The
more wealth a man has the more he
can lose, but one man can afford to
lose a million 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 nation
al and international finance monetary
perplexity is as common as day or
night.
So also misinterpretation and SLAM
der come to all who live active lives.
Our actions, thoroughly honest and
aboveboard, may come under suspi-
cion. Every courtroom at every term
of court hears illustrations Of the delu-
sion of what is called circumstantial
evidence. Innocent men are fined or
imprisoned or electrocuted because of
an unfortunate conjunction of events.
What is true In courtrooms Is true in
all circles of domestic or social or polit-
lcal or official life. You have been mis-
understood and misrepresented, or will
be misunderstood or misrepresented.
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 unbeffef
and melancholia and despair. A Chris
tian man finds in them submission and
enlarged views and divine support and
reconsecration. Bereavement to the
wording brings hard thoughts of God
and a resistance so violent 1t dares not
fully express itself. Bereavement
brings to the Christian the thought of
heavenly reunion and a more complete
laying hold of God, and a more tender
appreciation of the divine presence,
and deeper gratitude that we were per-
mitted to have the departed one so
long, and a more lively sympathy for
the sorrows Of others and another evil
dence of Gods love, for whom the
Lord loveth he chasteneth."
Health Better Than Riches.
Financial loss, which l just now said
is sure to come, never breaks up a man
who has strong faith in God. In most
cases it Is loss of surplus or 1t is the
Punishment of luxuries. Most of the
wants of the prosperous classes are ar
tificial wants. The late Mr.. Armour
Of the $60,0O0,00O estate pointed to one
Of his clerks on ordinary salary and
said, .'That man has better appetite
than 1, sleeps better nights and enjoys
life more than l do" Oh, the gigantic
miseries of those who have too much!
A man in Solomon's time expressed as
philosophic and reasonable a wish as
any man of those times or of our times.
His name was Agur, and he offered a
prayer that he might never have a su-
perabundance or deficit, crying cut,
Give me neither poverty nor richest
On the one 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
seen the equity foot, and the indiges-
ton, and the insomnia, and the anxiety
about large investments, and the threat
ened paresis often characteristic of
those who are loaded up and loaded
down with too 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 Mu-
rillos on their wall, nor a "Belshazzar's
Feast in their dining room, nor pair
Of $1,000 sorrels at their doorway. But
they have something which those su-
perabundantly supplied seldom have
they have better health because, being
compelled to walk, they get the neces-
sary exercise, and, their diet being linn
tied to plain food, they do not suffer
from midnight salads and are not vic
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 gran
lite 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 OF Of
some kind. 1t may be an invalid wife,
or a deformed child, or an inherited
tending toward insanity, 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 We have. Do not think,
in order to have it well with you
according to my text, that therefore
you must have more than somebody
else, or even as much as somebody
else. The lord treats us all better than
we treat him, and IL we would study
our blessings as much as we study our
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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 him promise because we
want more luxuries, forgetful of the
fact that he promised bread, not cake;
water, not sparkling cordials.
The reason so many people are mis-
cradle is because they do not let well
enough alone. They are in one occu-
patton and see it's annoyances and so
change to another occupation and find
as many annoyances, il not more. They
live In one place and know its uncom-
Portable environments and move In
to another place which has just as
many limitations. Their investments
yield them 4 per cent, and they sell
out to make investments that will
yield 10 per cent and lose all. Better
settle down and stop fretting about
yourself and the world.
An officer in CromwelPs time was SO
worried about public affairs that he