Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-03

H Yas possessed Of house In the city.
villas u the country, beautiful wife ana
children; All went wen with him until the
denied hie servants money to buy seeds for
the sowing Then he began to deny him
self clothes to wear apd food to eat He
no one to care for his lands. and then sold
his lands for more gold SO that he had no
gardens, and he and his family qften went
hungry. For more gold he sold his beauti-
full pictures and curtains until his house
was bare. One day the slave traders en-
tered his house and found him gloatinS
over his gold and offered him more for his
children They were led away in chains.
At last the wretch sold his own wife. BY
that time his house was 30 filled with gold
that there was no room for himself SO he
slept upon his own doorstep and miserably
persisted with the cold. We cannot but feel
that this verse twenty four: woe unto you
that are rich for We have received your con-
solation,' is well Illustrated here.
President Mott once told newly mar
ried pair: Il want to give you this advice
my children: Don't try to be happy. Hap
piness is shy nymph, and IL you chase her
you will never catch her. You must go
quietly on and do your duty and she will
come to you.
Bishop Hicks says: " Ills to be happy
that we run after pleasures. but we, alasl
mistake our happiness, and fooiishly seek
Ii where 1t is not to be found; as silly chill
dren think to catch the sun when they see
1t setting at so near a distance. They
travel on and tire themselves in vain and
the thing they seek is in another world
God made the beasts looking down to-
ward the earth to show that their satisfac-
ton might be brought from thence, and &C
cordingly 1t does afford them what Is suited
TO their appetite; but the erect figure OF
mans body which looketh upward, showed
him that his happiness lay above HMM
cnd- hat ha W.
''''' eN' anu ''o' = THOMAS BOSTON.
An old colored woman, whose husband
and children had one by one been sold from
her as slaves at the auction, and VINO nau
not heard from a friend In years, was car
ing for member of the Christian commis-
sion who was grevousiy sick from fever
at Vicksburg She exhorted him to look on
the bright side of things. and he asked ner
how she could do that with all the trouble
she had been through. Dis is de way.
massa" she said. when I see de black
cloud comm over an pears like it's comm
crushin down on me, den l JUS whips
round on de odder side, an I find de Lord
Jesus dar; and den it's all bright an clear
De bright sides always where Jesus u.s.
massa. She went away and the SICK man
turned on his blanket and said in his heart:
1.-The Lord is my shepherd, 1t Is all right
and we'll. Come fever or health. come death
or life, come burial on the Yazoo blum or In
a
shepherd" Then sweet peace fell over
him, the peace which passeth understand
ing" and he fell into refreshing sleep and
awoke to find his fever gone.
young man in a promiscuous company
was talking of the pleasures of brutal ana
dangerous sports which sometimes ended IN
death or crippling for life by the partlei-
pants. minister in the company said: =
am grateful that have found better way
to happiness than that" They all wished
to know what was the better way. II have
In my pocket" said the minister, map
that will describe the way, and the only
true way to happiness They We're all
curious at once to see this map, and the
minister took from his pocket copy of the
New Testament and opened to the words
II am the way, the truth and the life"
"There are those that would hammer out
their own happiness. like the spider climb
ing up by the thread OF her own weaving.
OF all the parts and abilities that be IN
YOU, you may well say as this young man
did of his Ratchet, Alas, master, 1t was
but borrowed QI Kings, vi:5)
BROOKS.