Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-02-07

of useful and successful life. It would
be amusing to see how much children
are expected to learn and know if it
were not connected with the tragedies
of damaged intellects which follow.
Amid the increasing dementia of the
world let US appreciate the goodness of
God to us if our mental faculties are in
equipOise. Voyaging from New Zea-
land to Australia, a storm swooped
upon US, and we saw all around us
fragments Of ships that had been
caught in the same tempest. And how
thankful we were, sailing into Sydney
harbor, that we had escaped! So that
man and that woman whose intellect
goes safely through the storms of this
life, in which so many have foundered,
ought every day and every night en-
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 abid-
ing, by which l refer to those people
who. when good or bad motive may be
ascribed to you, ascribe the good; those
concerning whom you do not wonder
which side they will take when you are
under discussion; those who would
more gladly serve you than serve them
selves; those to whom you can tell ev-
erything without reserve; those who
are first in your home by person or by
telegram when you have trouble. Oh.
what a blessing to have plenty of
friendsI Aye, if you have only one
good friend, you are blessed in that
glad possession. With one such friend
you can defy the world. But he must
be a tried friend. You 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 crowds of
seeming friends. but let bankruptcy
and invalidism and defamation come,
and the number Of your friends will
be 80 per cent off. If you have been
through some great crisis and you have
one friend left. thank God and cele-
brate it on the sweetest harpstring.
"While all this is So says some one.
there are so many things that others
have which have not" reply, it is
lOt what we get. but what we are. that
decides our happiness. With the bare
necessities of life many are unspeaka-
| bly, happy, while others with all the
luxuries are representations of misery.
In the Roman empire there was no
man more wretched than the Nero who
ruled it. The porticoes of his palace
/ were a mile long. a statue Of him in
silver and gold 100 feet high stood in
the vestibule. The walls Of his palace
were mother of pearl and ivory. The
/ ceiling was arranged to shower flowers
and pour perfumes upon the guests.
His wardrobe was so large that he nev-
er wore garment twice. His mules
were shod in silver. He fshed with
hooks of gold. A thousand carriages
accompanied him when he Travelled.
His crown was worth 100000. He had
everything but happiness. That never
came. Your heart right. all is right;
your heart wrong. all is wrong.
The Gospel of Good Morals.
But we must tighten the cords of our
! harp and retune it while we celebrate
gospel advantages. The highest style
Of civilization the world has ever seen
is American civilization, and it is built
out of the gospel of pardon and good
morals. That gospel rocked our cradle,
and it will epitaph our grave It soothes
our sorrows. brightens our hopes, in
spires our courage. fOrgives our sins
and saves our souls. 1t takes a man
who is all wrong and makes him all
right. What that gospel has done for
you and me is a story that we can
never fully tell. What it has done for
the world and will yet do for the ma
tons it will take the thousand years Of
the millennium to celebrate. The grand
est churches are yet to be built The
mightiest anthems are yet to be hoist
ed. The greatest victories are yet to
be gained. The most beautiful Ma
dOnnas are yet to be painted. The
most triumphant professions are yet to
march. Oh, what a world this will be
when it rOtates in its orbit redeemed
planet, girdled with spontaneous har.
vests and enriched by orchards whose
fruits are speckless and redundant, and
the last pain will have been banished
and the last tear wept and the last
grOan uttered, and there shall be moth.
ing to hurt or destroy in all Gods holy
mountain! All that and more will come
to pass, for "the mouth Of the Ford
hath spoken it."
So far l have mentioned nine of the
ten strings of the instrument of graft
tude. now come to the tenth and the
last. 1 mention it last that it may be
the more memOrable-heavenIy antici
patton. By the grace of God W. arc
going to move into a place so much
better than this that on arriving We
,, will wonder that we were for so many
years so lOath to make the transfer
( After we have seen Christ face to fac
and rejoiced over our departed kindred
/ there are some mighty spirits we will
r want to meet soon after we pas
l through the gates. We want to see an,
D will see David, a mightier king il
. heaven than he ever was on earth ant
: we will talk with him about psalmOd,
= and get from him exactly what u
b meant when he talked about the instru
] ment of ten strings. We will confron
r Moses. who will tell of the law givin
e on rocking Sinai and of his mysteriOu
+ burial, with no one but God present
n We will see Joshua, and he will tell u
: Of the coming down of the walls o
d Jericho at the blast of the rams hor
S and explain to US that mirace-hoy
k the sun and moon could stand sti
without demolition of the planetar
It system. We will see Ruth and hav
5. her tell of the harvest field of Boaz
d which she CLEANED for afflicted Mao
It We will see Vashti and hear frOr
IS own lips the story of her BAN
It from the Persian palace by
# Ahasuerus.
n Delights of the Futu
i We will see and talk wit
> and he will tell us how he
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