The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-09

cape from all fatigue and the rising sun finds you a new man, body, mind and soul--you have an advantage that ought
 to be put in grsyer and song and con
 most wealthy enough to purchase king dom. but the victim of insomnia, wrote,
 "No slumber to be bought in any mar ket." He was right. Sleep is gratuity from Him who never sleeps. Oh, the felicities of slumber! Let all who have this real benefaction celebrate 1t. That is one of the sweetest strings in all the instrumept of ten strings the power of physical locomotion. To be able to go where we wish and all un- aided-what kindness! What multi
 tudes have to call in the aid of cane and crutch and invalid's chair, and their
 whole life Is a hinderment How hard
 to get about with lack of strong and
 healthy and supple limbs! Congratulated
 ought you all to be if you have the
 usual physical endowment. and sympa-
 thized with ought all those to be who
 can neither walk nor climb nor enter
 upon any great activities. That is one
 of the thousands of reasons why l hate
 war with a complete hatred. It takes
 off with bullet or shell or surgeon s knife the capacity of men to achieve their own livelihood or do the work for which they would otherwise be fully qualified.
 Brave men, self sacrificing men, for the
 rest of their life are put on the limits
 and strangely suffer in stormy weather from limbs amputated.
 Give Thanks for Sound Limbs.
 How much of the human family in
 every century has been cut up and shot
 to pieces and passed into mutilation!
 American manhood had hardly recovered from the lacerations of the war of the Revolution when it was called to be carved by the swords and stabbed with
 the bayonets and blackened with the gunpowder of 1872. Hardly recovered was our American manhood from that when
 the war with Mexico began its butchery. Hardly was American manhood recovered from that before the civil war took hold of it and dug its grave trench through | the North and its grave trench through | the South Hardly was our American | mandhood recovered from that when the | Spanish war came, with its malaria and | crowded hospitals. Thank God that now | four of the greatest nations are allied l in good understanding-the United States. | England. Germany and Russia-and if i they will do the right thing they can forever stop national and international strife and put an end to wholesale afn- | putation. There are enough accidents in | time of peace to keep the race muti- | lated more than it ever ought to be, and
 the human family needs all its arms and | hands and feet to do the work that God
 calls 1t to do
 Further, celebrate on the instrument | of ten strings our illumined nights They
 spread their tents over us. and some of
  | ing the nights other worlds come in sight. The author of my text chimed the | silver bells in the tower of the midnight Heavens, saying, When l consider the Heavens, the work of Thy fingers; the
 moon and the stars. which Thou hast | ordained, what is man that Thou art
 mindful of him?' We thank God for the day; We ought also to thank Him
 for the night. Worlds on worlds in sight
 of the naked eye. but more worlds re-
 vealed by telescope. At least one night ill his lifetime every man ought to go l into astronomical observatory and see
 what has been done by the great World Builder Thank God for lunar and stellar illuminations!
 Further, on the instrument of ten strings, celebrate the possession of our reason. A severe stroke upon the head or a sudden calamity or any one Of hfty l kinds of accident might dethrone our reason and leave us worse off than the brute. for the brute has a substitute for reason in what is called instinct, but a mans brain shattered and he has neither l mind nor instinct. The asylums for the | insane, though all the time multiplying, | are not enough to shelter the demented. Through the cramming system employed l in many of the schools of this country | there are tens of thousands of children | having their brains depleted. Philoso- | phers at 10 years of age. astronomers at II years of age, geofogtsts at l2 years
 of age. They will be first on exam4na- l
 full and successful life. It would be
 amusing to see how much children are | expected to learn and know If It were
 not connected with tte tragedies Of | damaged intellects which follow. Amid | the increasing demenua of the world 1 let us appreciate the goodness Of God
 to us if our mental faculties are in equl- 1 pose Voyaging from New Zealand 10 | Australia a storm Swooped upon uS and we saw all around us fragments of ships | that had been caught in the same temp | est. And how thankful we were, sailing | into Sydney harbor, that we escaped! | So that man and woman whose intellect goes safely through the storms of this | life in which so many have foundered. ought every day and every night em- ploy one of the ten strings in gratitude for that particular mercy.
 The Blessing of Friendship
 Another string of this instrument l
 now touch-friendships deep and abiding by which I refer to those people who, when good or bad motive may he as
 cribed to you, ascribe the good; those
 which side they will take when you are
 under discussion; those who would more gladly serve you than serve themseives' those to whom you can tell everything without reserve; those who are hrst an
 your home by person or by telegram when you have trouble. on, what blessing to have plenty of friends! Aye. if you have only one good friend, you blessed m that Rldu poSSGSSlOh' W
 one such friend you can defy the world Eut he must be tried friend fou cannot tell who are your real friends till disasters come. As long as you collect vast dividends and have health Jocund and popularity unbounded you Will have friends, but let bankruptcy and inyal- idism and defamation come, and the number of your friends will be- .5 per
 cent. off If you have been through some great crisis and you have one friend left, thank God and celebrate IT on the. sweetest harpstring.
 While all this is so says some one, "there are so many things that others
 have which l have not" reply, It Is not what we get, but what We are, that decides our happiness. With the bare necessities of life many are unspeakably happy. while others with all the luNurieS are impersonations of misery. In the Wretched than Nero who ruled it. The
 porticos of his palace were mile long A statue of him in silver and gold iZO feet high stood in the Vestibule. The walls of his ralace were mother Of pearl and ivory. The ceiling was arranged 10
 shower flowers and pour perfumes upon
 the guests. His wardrobe was 90 large
 that he never wore a garment twice; ~
 His mules were shod in silver. He hshed with hooks of gold A thousand car riages accomrAnied him when he tray eled. His crown was worth s50O'oOo He had everything but happiness. That
 never came. Your heart right all is
 right; your heart wrong. all ls wrong.
 The Gospel of Good Morals
 But we must tighten the cords of our
 harm and retunc 1t while we celebrate
 gospel advantages. The highest style ot
 civilization the world has ever seen IS