Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-03
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not preach the gospel of good cheer
more than we do!
mo path is WIDELY rough,
Look for the places that are smooth
and clear,
And speak of those to rest the weary
ear"
Don't go into the house of mourning
all the agony of the SORROW. Take
trivial household matter-anything
that makes the heart forget for a few
moments it's burden. If you bring a
smile to the tear-wet face you have
done the Master a service. You have
helped some one lay aside for a moment
the burden, and it will be easier to lay
1t aside the next time.
We believe that Christ will carry our
burdens If we will but lay them at His
feet, and we carry them to Him in
prayer, but when He reaches down TIC
take them. like foolish children we
conclude that we want to carry them
ourselves. We are afraid we will be
without something to cry, and moan
and fret over, and so we hug our sor-
rows and cares close in our hearts
until some one with a brave. cheering
word lets us see that Christ can, and
does bear all our burdens, and that
there is nothing so very terrible after
all
Don't make some one carrying their
for fear of being told how badly they
look. 1t does neither you nor any one
else the least good to harp on
THE minor chord of disease.
Say you are Well, or all is well with.
you,
And God shall hear your words and
make them true.
If you can't think of word on the
bright side when some burden of money
loss and trouble has come to your
friend, say nothing at all on the sub-z
ject. Talk of something utterly foreign
to the thought, and at least be cheer
full.
ooh, / shall try to keep better watch
over my tongue after this" was the
cry of the hurt woman. Il will try to-
say only helpful, smiling words when +
meet my friends and acquaintances."
Let's don't wait until New Years, but
join heart and hand in this determined
woman's resolve to preach the gospel
of good cheer-to talk happiness, faith,
health, success and joyousness.
One might say there is no such thing
as mistaken sympathy, but there is
We had quite a lesson, this last sum-
mer, in having we'll meant sympathy
appear actual cruelty to the recipient.
A pair of robins built cosy home in
a near by tree. and soon there was a
happy family crowding 1t to Its utmost
limit. One cold day we found a fiedg-
ling hopping about on the ground. I'M
the thought of our neighbours
cat aroused generous sympathy for the
sorry creature With loving touch we
gathered it up and started for the home
tree. Mr.. and Mrs. Robin had been
the proceedings and began
crying out in fear, flying close about us
until we were glad to settle their baby
treat. The next day the owner OF the
cat found the wee birdie and carefully
tried to put 1t in safety, giving the par
ent birds another agony of fright. For
several days not one of us walked out in
the yard without hearing Mrs. Robin
scream for Mr.. Robin to come home and
help her protect the baby outside the
fold that we could not find anywhere.
Once in a while we would see her feed
ing it on the ground, but where she hid
it. and how she made 1t stay hidden
under the vines is still a mystery.
There were two rings Fl this amusing
bird show. their terror Of the grown
folks trying to help them and their ut
ter lack of terror of the cat. Madame
is a beautiful white cat. She
was, at the time of the bird episode, in
great sorrow over the loss of a whole
family Of babies killed by some vicious
Thomas. Poor Catherine had no appe-
t!te for even a young bird, but the sins
Of her fathers We're visited upon her I'M
fortunate head, and the birds believed
she was robin hungry.
Listlessly Madame Catherine creptl
out of the house and stretched out her
self in the flower bed. In
Mrs. Robin flew from the nest
and perched herself directly over the
cat, on trellis. Then began series Of
actual shrieks for her lord and master.
Mr.. Robin came in haste and added his
voice in the melee. Madame Catherine
ooked wearily about and stirred not.
Then Mr.. and Mrs. Robin came down
On the ground close to her velvet paw
md ordered her to go into the house.
In a frightened way she mewed few
times, but stirred not. Then Mr.. Robin
lew up on the trellis, followed by his
better half, and they talked the matter
,ver and decided upon more heroic
measures. Down they bounced, >strik
ng kittie on the head with their wings
md back they flew to the trellis. Mad
,me Catherine forgot her SORROWS and
snnui and with a meow sprang toward
he house and the birds after her. 1t
must have seemed mile to the poor
sat fromethe flower bed to the house,
'or often the birds aimed to strike her
hree times in the flight. Day after
lay no one but Mr.. and Mrs. Robin had
my rights in two back yards; then
,aby Robin was seen flying from the
ground to the grape vine and upward to
tree, and Madame Catherine was free
o meow out her sorrows in the flower
,arden, and some grown ups learned
hat well-meant sympathy had only in
,reased and not lessened burden Of
lnxiety. NELLIE REID-CADY.