Milford chronicle., 1903-07-17

they sometimes drive the destroying
dagger into their own arteries. as
tantalized serpent buries his poison
aus fnnGs in his own flesh.
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Joy of Helping others.
Moral application: Do not try t,
build the temple of happiness out o
yellow bricks. Think not that til,
broad highway which leads TO tn,
( throne room Of JOY is always lined will
apDlauding fand yociferating multi
/ tuaes. The ground mole may tunnc
bis way into gold mine, but he still
! remains a ground mole. The bat fly
ing about In the darkness, may be able
to push his claws into trembling mems
pockets but lie Is still nothing but a
I hateful bat.
Envy and cOvetOusness also lead to
suicide. The unwillingness to love our
neighbors as ourselves is one Of the
Indirect causes of this dreadful sin.
Two ways of looking at this old world
tho one IS through the green glasses
Of envy. the result unhappiness: the
other way is through the sanctffied
crystals Of a tender, a holy love, the
result gospel joy. The one way is to
bitterly bemoan because some people
are supposed to be better off tha.. we
are. The other way is TO try TO find
out how many people are worse off
than we are and then witch a Christian
desire try TO help them as we would
like to be helped If we were IN their
places. Through what kind Of lenses
have you been seritinizlng the human
race? Through the green glasses of
envy, which make all the world look
dark, or through the clear. transparent
crystals Of gospel love, which always
make all the world look bright? No hap
py man ever wanted to commit suicide.
No man can be truly unhappy who is
trying to help his fellow man. When !
he finds that he is making others hap
py, their joys become part of his joys |
The suicidal knife is blunted upon |
the milestone of Kindness and love |
and self sacrifice for another reason:
When n Christian earnestly consecrates |
his life to helping his fellow men he is /
amazed how many troubles are piled |
ut his neighbOr's door and. instead of
at his lot, thanks God for the
nercies he enjoys. He becomes more
20 carry his own burdens be-
,ause rs his brothers sorrows grow
arger and larger in his eyes his own
necessarily by comparison shrink and
lwindle and become less and less.
illustrated is this thought
" an old Latin classic: The gods. hear
ng the continual grumblings of the
iuman race. decreed that all men
hould be able to choose their own bur
lens, but they must choose some. They
ecreed that every man. woman ana
hild should bring their load of trouble
n pack and throw it in one place.
hen all the different troubles of the
rord were piled in a heap. The rich
lan came from his palace; the poor / Z
lan came from his hut. The old man
anne tottering upon his staff: the l
oung man came leaping as roe upon
he mountain side. The father cHme. {
3llOwed by his swarm of children: the
ngle man came alone The bride /
room came, leading bis bride; the wild a
yver came after his wife had been
Matched from his side. All came with |
lsir troubles All threw their packs z
i the one pile. "Sow," said the gods 1
the assembled people, let each in '
ividual select any one pack of trouble I
lat he would" OF course the multi
ldes were overjoyed. Each man at ?
rst lifted and weighed the troubles of S
'ery other man. Then at last" so '
,es the fable. leach individual at a d
ven signal was satisfied to lift up o
sain his own troubles and in content d
ent go his own way" Il
The COVvard's Heart.
No power on earth can make a hu- /
an being more contented than that
hich comes from being brought into
-mpathetic touch with other peoples
ials, for all people have them. The Z
hite, fleecy clouds off in the distance. | a
rcling about the mountain top. may k
ok like sea gulls sporting with the n
est of wave. On nearer approach Z
ey are only fog and drizzling mist. il
le ships far out at sea have spotless h
lis and trimmest hulls. But upon E
arer approach we see that their can a
S is befopled and their hulls SCARED Il
til the blows of many tempests. tJ
ear crystals Of tender love will not tl
ly make us try to help our fellow al
IN and desire to live as long as we W
n for that purpose, but they will also b.
Ich US to be more and more content 81