Newport weekly independent., 1901-06-07

God help them. If He take full pos session of your nature, then you will go down the street a benediction to all who see you, and those who are in the tough places of life and are run upon and belied and had their homes destroyed will say: If that man can be happy, I can be happy. He has been through troubles as big as mine, and he goes down the street with a face in every lineament of which there are joy and peace and heaven. What am l grooming about? From the same place that man got his cheerfulness l can get mine. Why art thou cast down, o my soul, and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for l shall yet praise him who is the health of my countenance and my God.
 Or is your talent an opportunity to set d good example? One person do- ing right under adverse circumstances will accomplish more than many trea- tises about what is right. The census has never been taken of lovely old folks. Most of us, if we have not such a one in our own house now, have in our memory such a saint. We went to those old people with all our trou- blcs. They were perpetual eNangel- ists, by their soothing words, by their hopefulness of spirit, an ineXpressible help. l cannot see how Heaven could make them any lovelier than they are or were. But there are exceptions. There is a daughter in that family whose father is impatient and the mother querulous. The passage of many years does not always improve the disposition, and there are a great many disagreeable old folks. Some of them forget that they were young themselves, and they become untidy in their habits and wonder how, when their asthma or rheumatism is so bad, other people can laugh or sing and go on as they do. The daughter in that family bears all the peevishness and unreasonable behavior of seniity without answering back or making any kind of complaint. If you should ask her what her five talents are or her one talent is, she would answer that she has no talent at all. Greatly mistaken is she. Her one talent is to forbear and treat the childishness of the old as well as she treats the child ishness of the young. She is no mu- sician, and besides there may not be a piano in the house. She cannot skill fully swing croquet mallet or golf stick. Indeed, she seems shut up to see what she can do with q ladle and a broom and a brush and other house. hold implements. She is the personi- tication of patience. and her reward will be as long as Heaven. Indeed, much of her reward may be given on earth. She is in a rough college, from which she may after awhile graduate into brightest domesticity. She is d heroine, though at present she may receive nothing but scolding and de- preciation. Her one talent of pa tience under trial will do more good than many morocco covered sermons on patience preached to-day from the tasseled cushion of the pulpit.
 There is man in business life whose one talent is honesty. He has not the genius or the force to organize a com pany or plan what is called a "corner in wheat or "a corner in stocks" or "a corner" in anything. He goes to business at a reasonable hour and re- turns when it is time to lock up. He never gave a check for $2O, GOO in all his life, but he is known on the street and in the church and in many honor able circles as an honest man. His word is as good as his bond. He has 1 for 30 years been referred to as a clean, upright, industrious, consistent | Christian man. Ask him how many talents he has, and he will not claim even one. He cannot make a speech, he cannot buy up market, he cannot afford an outshining equipage, but what an example he is to the young, what an honor to his household, what a pillar to the church of God, what a specimen of truth and integrity and all roundness of character! Is there any comparison in usefulness between that man with the one talent of hon. esty and the flashing operators of the money market?
 The chief work of the people with many talents is to excite wonderment and to startle and electrify the world. What use is there in all that? No use at all. l have not so much interest in the one man out of the million as I have in the million. Get the great masses of the world right and it does not make much difference about what the exceptional people are doing. Have all the people with one talent en- listed for God and righteousness, and let all those with five or ten talents mi