Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-09-26

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land, used to do. Instead of going
ahead and doing the work that God
gave him to do, and on account Of his
enemies criticisms doing it better and
better all the time, he wasted most Of
his life in chickering's and backbiting
and in trying to destroy the regulations
of those who We're attacking him. The
one way is to do as d. L. Moody did.
He made it the rule of his life to never
individually attack a person who had
attacked him. The more Mr. Moody
was personally assailed and misrepre-
scented the more he would 20 to God in
prayer and ask the Divine Father to
make his life so pure and true that
there might not remain in his heart
any cause for the charge which his EN-
cmies We're making. The other way is
to do as many of US are doing When
a neighbOr or a critic makes any derog-
ptory 81 cement about US and our
work, we prove that we are not falsely
condemned in all particulars, that at
least we have the fault of retaliation,
because we 90 hunting for the faults
in our neighbours lives instead Of try
ing, with divine help, to correct the
evils in our own.
Rise by the Grace of God,
Thus, my brother | want you, by the
grace of God, to rise higher and higher
in the spiritual life until at last you are
at an altitude above and out Of earshot
Of the buzzing sound Of the locusts Of
fault finding enemies. want you to
rise so high in the spiritual life that
you viii not care what people may say
or think about you or yours as long as
you can bring these people to love and
live for Christ. Humanity speaking. it
is awfuliy hard to bear the petty an
uOyances OF your neighbOrs, criticising
you and saying mean things about your
wife and children. 1t is hard, from
human standpoint, to refrain from
flinging a stone at the lOcusts of evil
naggings which are buzzing about you
and your loved ones. But by the grace
of God you can live down these petty
hpnayaRGes. You can 60 on doing your
work, even as Christ went on doing his
work, IN spite of the jeers and the
SCOTS which the Pharisees uttered
against him and his disciples.
II you are absorbed in your Divine
Masters work, you will receive sutfi-
cient grace to make you Indifferent to
the little anpQyances caused by what
people may say against you. You will
be like that gatemau whom Major Cole
some years ago saw in u Chicago de-
pot. II was during bitterly cold
night. Many male passengers We're
grumbling and complaining because
this gateman made every one of these
men unbuttOn his coat and show his
ticket before he could 20 to his train.
MY friend" said Major Cole, you do
not seem very popular with the passen-
gers of this road" mo" answered the
gateman with smile, 'but that does
not concern me. So long as obey or
ders ! am all right. There is only one
man whose good opinion affects me,
and that is the president of the road.
SO long as he is satisfied | do not care
what these people say" In order to
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fault finders may say against you, re-
member, my Christian brothers, our
duty is not to please man, but God, and
God alone. After you are convinced
that in what you do you are pleasing
God it makes but little difference what
any enemy-man, woman or child
may say against you or your loved
ones.
Walking With Christ,
The increasing signs of physical and
mental decadence can also be classed
among the burdens of the buzzing To-
Gust. The annoyance of feeling that
your eyes are becoming nearsighted
and that you have to wear glasses and
sit very close to the light when you
read the Bible or the evening news
paper. The annoyance of having the
eardrum refuse to clearly throw the
echOing sound into the brain, as it once
did. The annoyance of not being able
to run for street car or to step of
that car when it is in motion The an.
noyance of having some young fellow
in the car arise and offer you d seat
as though you We're an old man. Or
what is worse than all, the annoyance
Of feeling that you cannot do as much
work and do it as quickly as you once
did a few years ago. AS your braiI
power seems to lose its grip you pee
yishly place your hand upon your fore
head and say: ~ do not know what /:
the matter with my brain, My memory
seems to have completely left me
cannot recall the simplest names Oh
facts. have to make memorandum
Of everything. Even my children have
to look after me now as though 1 was 1
little child"
When the faculties begin to fail ani
the hair to whiten the burden of tn,