Milford chronicle., 1904-10-28


ten or fifteen years ago, when you
would have jumped into that boat
without fear? Oh, no, not that. No
one could charge you with being q
coward. Personally you would just
as lief run the risk now as you did
fifteen years ago. but now you have a
wife and children. which was not so
fifteen years ago. Now you have 9th
ers dependent upon you. Now you
cannot afford for their sakes to need
lessly risk your life.
Why They Were Reckless.
"What kind of soldiers are the most
reckless" was one day asked Lord
Kitchener, the British general of the
Boer war. Without any hesitation he
/ answered: Bachelor soldiers. Not that
they are at heart Drawer, but when a
man has a wife and children depend
ent upon him for daily bread he guards
his life more carefully on their ac-
count and does not run into any useless
dangers" Now, my friends, when Il
true father is careful not to run into
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prive his wife and children of their
daily bread, is not man by the same
law of reasoning the more unwilling to
run into spiritual dangers and tempta-
tions if he realizes that the joys of 9th
ers, in a spiritual sense, are wrapped
up in his own joys and that sorrows
in other lives will be caused by his
eincS I ord Raaou in ono oF bfss match
less essays, once said, After a man
marries he surrenders into the hands
Of success his wife and children as
hostages" BY that Lord Bacon meant,
every man who is married is handi-
capped in the race of life" He meant
that a man becomes timid when he has
a wife and children. In the crises Of
life, when success is won by the man
who casts everything into the scale.
the married man hesitates because he
is afraid to risk the future of his wife
and children. But he overlooked the
fact that his love for his family will
keep him from running foolish risks.
So when Il man enlarges his circle and
makes the welfare of others his CON
cern he has an inspiration to a better,
truer, nObler life. He shrinks from
wrOngdoing because he knows that he
will injure others by his example. The
ascetic has only himself to consider,
but the man who has entered into 9th
er mems Joys and sorrows knows that
his fall or his good life may affect the
lives Of others.
What the Scripture Means.
But how is Christian sympathy to
enter truly into the existence of an
others life? First my text says, Re .
joiee with them that do rejoice" Do
you know what that means? Why, the
Interpretation is simple enough to un-
derstand. 1t means when you see an
old school friend getting ahead in life,
when you see a brother succeeding at
the law or in medicine or in the pulpit,
when you see u sister living in finer
house than yours or driving in a car
riage while you walk, or when you
know that your brOther-in-law is able
to take his family and children to the
country to get back the flush of health
to their pale cheeks, while you cannot
afford TO go. that you must not be jeal-
Gus of their successes. If you are
and you hear of another
church holding great revival and
gathering in new converts by the
you are to go to the minister of
that church with warm, loving gOs-
pei handshake and say: Brother,
you! We are praying for
you and the great good you are doing.
May God bless your new members and
make them mighty agents for Christi
1t means that if you are a candidate
for some Office and another is elected
to the presidency of that society in
your stead then you are to pitch in and
work just as hard for the successful
outcome of your successful rivals ad-
as you would have work
ed for your own, and, Furthermore, not
only work just as hard for the new
man, but be just as happy in his ~uc-
cesses as you would have been in your
own successes.
"Oh," says some one, with a quick
gasp Il did not know this text meant
as much as that That is pretty bitter
for an average disciple to
swallow. 1 cannot understand how /
George B. Mcclellan would feel very
kindly toward Major General Burn
side, who superseded him after the
battle of Antietam Neither is it nat
ural for a Seward or a Chase to be
enthusiastic over the election of
Lincoln OF course there have been
some great, big hearted, noble men,
like Samuel Adams. who were ready
to stay in the background and pushi