The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-01

TO control the interests OF other people,
make them fashion. their lives according
| 70 our own plan, II we are good simply
tnat we may escape punishment, such
| profession OF religion is almost worthless.
| ihe dineulty Is not IN our surroundings, but
in ourselves. Joy is not in things, IL is
| IN us.
| met 2 young woman this winter in the
South VINO Told me that she was the pos
| SCISSOR oi $1,000 violin, and with shin
ing tace she said, You should hear the
| munc OF that instrument, and yet in the
hands of very many people it would have
peen Just producer OF unharmonious
SOUNDS, while II the hands OF this gifted
young woman 1t was truly marvellous. and
an because the music was in her. and the
vlonn was the best movement of the ex
preston Of that music.
When Ole Bull, the great violinist, played
70 Princeton, one Of the professors asked
MN II the secret OF his success was in the
Vionn or IN the DOW or in himself, and he
saio, me yioin and the bow amount to
put httle. 1 never play until l. feel that
there Is music in me that must be ex
pressed, ana tnen any instrument touch
becomes remarkaole. Many of us are un
htted Tor life because we have become too
artineiai, nave had wrong ideals and have
tred 70 De what we never can be.
a friend recently sent me that wonder
NJ IIi ntte book, The Simple Life" by
90 well to read; To the author Of this
Dook l am indebted for some of the ex
piressions used above, but in one of the
chapters he tells us in speaking OF the
nome iife, In the time OF the Second EN-
pre-, IN one OF our pleasantest sub-prefec
some baths freouantsd by ~ TEsy E,yyn. LII.
there was a mayor, a very worthy man,
and intelligent, too, whose head was aud
denly turned by the thought that his SOW
ereign might one day descend upon his
home. Up to this time he had lived in
the house of his fathers, son respectful
OF the slightest family traditions. But
when. once the all.absorbing idea of receiv
ing the Emperor had taken possession OF
his brain he became another man In this
new light what had before seemed suff
cient for his needs even enjoyable, all thi.
simplicity that his ancestors had loved. ap
peared poor, ugly, ridiculous Out of the
question to ask an Emperor to climb this
wooden staircase, sit in these old arm
chairs, walk over such superanuated car
pets. So the mayor called architect and
masons, piekaxes attacked walls and de
molished partitions, and a drawing. room
was made. out Of all proportion to
the rest of the house in size and splen
dor. He and his family retired into close
quarters, where people and furniture in
commoded each other generally. Then
having emptied his purse and upset hi,
Oy hhln obiOhC VI kCHlus, ne
awaited the royal guest. Alas, he soon
saw the end Of the empire arrive. but the
Emperor never. The folly of this poor
man Is not so rare. As scottish as he are
all those who sacrifice their home life tc
the demands OF the world"
IT
W.. A.. go, 50,
r;M Mhdt was tne aiihcuity with EliJah'
TITS. MS Physieai strength mad been over
StAsu. ne nau oeen laDoring under tine
nIehese tension, ms nerves were unstrung
Sn. Suu ne was Just ~ the position where
arn oa.an uouiI .emPt MN tne worst. Ihere
aalenia aale many IKE MN To-Day. lney are IN
u;.Spia,rs ;tMlia,s ana sney neeu NOT 50 ipHch spir
.uahphysic,an as tne presence OF doctor
VINO can tel them That their bodies must
nase Les'' their nerves must De punt up,
~ snu 'hey .neIhseives must rememper that
SI oouiss are the temples OF the Holy
;rst ss anu tru,, Una. sney may SIN against Goo
touching the body as when they commit
sins touching the soul. Elijah needed rest,
and instead of taking it he prayed that he
might die.
Second, he looked away from Cod to hi.
circumstances. Unto that time he en-
dured as seeing Him who was invisible
then like Peter when he saw the wind thai
think that any minister. could preach to.
day Il he realized the. iniquity that sur.
sN"huNN MN, the hypOcTlsy III many
hearts, the awful sins in many lives; he
would grow faint and sick at heart, and
all because he looked down, while it is
possible, on the other hand. for anybody
to preach in the midst of all this desola.
nnzrar rne GiincS.y S with you Is not that your
SoMSi is ueau' out ina, your eyes are tast,
,nsu Ipon .he erounu instead OF turned
ipwaru 70 heaVeh, ana the cause OF your
iiseress Is not that your mother mas gone
way rom your nome. but that you are
,tahuing hke Mary looking IN at the tomb,
wnen you ougnt 10 De standing with up
midst of the angel COMPANY in heaven
what If the difficulties are great, let us
'ook to God in it all.
The other day. in my mail came a little
piece OF poetry from friend in England.
which has been singing its way like bird
d paradise through my soul all the week.
when the wav seems dark and drearv
Think oS Him '"''
Iest tby heart crow fo;nt o,a ,,,oo
TbinL ~ Him i"''' anu "e"i''
For He knowetb ali the way
A., liz stranS,th ",n Iii 1Iv wy,
~ AIS etiShsth WIN pc tHy sldyJ