Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-02-08

Financial loss, which just now said IS
sure to come, never breaks up man VINO
has strong faith in God. In most cases "
is loss of surplus or it is the banlshmeInt
OF Injuries Most of the wants OF the
prosperous classes are artihcia az wa Man nSc
The late Mr. Armour, of the $oo,oOO,oOo
estate. pointed to one of his clerks on or
dinary salary and said THAT man. has
better appetite than l, sleeps better nights
and enjoys life more than do" Oh, the
gigantic miseries of those who have too
much! A man in Solomon's time, ex-
pressed as philosophic and reasonable
wish as anv man of those times or OF our
times. His name was Agur, and he Of
fered a prayer that he might never have
superabundance or a deficit, crying, out;
"Give me neither poverty nor riches!
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
seen the equity foot, and the Indigestion,
and the insomnia, and the anxiety about
large investments, and the threatened
paresis often characteristic or 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 we'll being They have
no Murillos on their wall. nor "Belshaz-
zar's Feast" in their dining room, ncr
pair of $4,000 sorrels at their doorway.
But thev 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 to
plain food. they do not suffer from mid
night salads and are not victlmlzed 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 we'll in the plain graveyard as those
who have over them an arch OF sculptnred
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 deformed
child, or an inherited tending toward in;
sanity, OF q dissolute son, or despoled
reputation. or a weakened heart that may
halt under the least excitement. Envy no
man. Envy no woman. Be contend with
such things as ye 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 disas.
tiers we would be more reasonable and
thankful.
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
Use because we want more luXuries, for
getful OF the fact that He promised bread,
not cake, water, not sparkling cordia!s.
The reason so many people are misera-
bic is because they do not let well 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
they sell out to make investments that
will yield @en per cent. and lose all. Bet
ter settle down and stop. fretting about
yourself and the world.
An officer in Cromwell's time was so
worried about public affairs that he could
not sleep. His servant, a Christian man.
said he would like the privilege OF ASKING
d
the servant said: "Do You not think that
God governed the world very. we'll before
YOU came into it," mo doubt of it,
was the reply "And do you not think He
will govern it quite as well when you are
gone out of it?" Certainly" "Then-
pray, sir, excuse me-out do you not
think you may trust Him to govern it as
long as you live in it?' The remark was
so sensible That sieeplessness departed
and tranquility came.
Some scientists are now discussing the
opening of communication between ouI
earth and the planet Mars. EXPERIMENT.
are being made, out they will not succeed
We cannot build fire large enough TO at
tract the attention Of That world, or lift a
lens powerful enough TO see any response
interstellar. We Go not positively know
that that world is occupied by living
| beings, OF that, if it is occupied, commu
nication with them would be desirable
1t might not be so good world as this
and thus communication with it would be
| debasing. =.
But / 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, wor.o
and that world, and coming and going
perpetual.
Going out Of this world is as natura
as coming into it, but the one is with pang
and the other is with rapture, if we are
fitted for the uplifting process. 1t shall
be well with YOU. Now, DO not get sc
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 enforcement. II shall be vel
with you. Take as good care OF YOU
health as you can, have the best doctors
you can employ, observe all sanitary laws
keep in this world as long as Won are per
mitted to stay, and then when the heaV
emily call comes be glad to go.
/ do not care much about what, youl
"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 menta
Faculties in full p,ay-your words OF kinQ
ness, your words of sympathy, your words
of helpfulness, your words OF prayer.
So live that if you say not a word dur
ing the last day of your life there will bf
no doubt here about the place OF your deS
tination You will go right into saint y
prophetic, evangelistic, apostolic, cherublc
seraphic, archangelic, deific presence. Ii
shall be we'll with you.
Mother, you will go right up into the
possession OF the babe that the scarlet fe
yer or Group took out OF your arms, 1
sorrow that still stings you, and you otter
say she would now be SO many years ole
if she had lived. :,
You will go into the presence of the ole
folks, for L hope you are of Christian an
cestry, and you will find that they have
TO dimness of sight or hating gait that re
quires a staff, for they have taken a draft
from the fountain Of perpetual youth that
springs from under the throne of God.
Oh, the blssful companionship OF heav
en- in which you shall enter! i, 1t It shall a, bf
patton and triumph / like the way tht
sexton rings the bell OF the old country
meeting house. I used to stand and admire
him pulling the rope Of that bell. HI
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