Milford chronicle., 1908-02-28

in their rooms and walk for a little
while amid the flowers in the gardens
they begin to grumble about the meals
and grumble about the superintendent
and grumble about the people who are
living in the rooms next to them. The
average person. I care not in what de-
partment of life you may take him.
does not know what loyalty means.
A Good Notice.
1 think the best notice ever saw
hung upon the walls of business es-
adjustment had written on it these
words. The more l have read them
over the more their honesty and far
reaching significance have appealed to
me. Listen and ponder well: IF you
work for a man; In heavens name
work for him! If he pays you wages
that supply you bread and butter
work for him, speak well Of him.
stand by him and stand by the institu-
ton he represents. If put to PINCH
an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound
Of cleverness. If you must vilify, con-
denim and eternally disparage, resign
your position and when you are out
side denounce to your hearts content.
But as long as you are part Of the in
stitution do not condemn 1t. If you do,
you are loosening the tendrils that
hold YOU to that institution, and the
first high wind that comes along you
will be uproOted and blown away IN
the billiards. track, and probably you
will never know why" Woman, have
YOU ever thought of that when as
servant girl you are talking against
your mistress? StenOgrapher, have you
ever thought Of that when you are
talking against your employer? Clerk.
have you ever thought of that when
YOU are talking against your employer!
Beneficiary, have you ever thought OF
that when you are talking against
YOUR benefactOr? Are you loyal to the
men who feed you and put clothes on
your back and give you a home III
which to live? If you are. you are the
exception, for the great masses Of PEG
pie cast mud at the windows Of the
homes in which live the men and the
women who support them and who
should be esteemed their best friends.
In the Spiritual Life.
What is true of the temporal life is
emphatically true of the spiritual. Do
you know why you have so small
spiritual harvest? In the first place,
some of YOU talk against your minister
who is trying to build up your church.
Then YOU talk about some Of the peO-
pie who are in the church. You COM
plain about your superintendent OF
about the president of your Ladies' Aid
or Missionary society. Then you find
fault with the church people because
they do not call upon you more. Then
YOU grumble against God because be
does not let You live in better home
Then you get angry because your nus
band was not elected an elder. Then
YOU find fault with the choir. Then
YOU will begin to sulk because your
| little girl was not asked to lead the
procession at the children's day serV'
ice. Then in high glee you go around
! spreading the scandal of some domes'
tic Preside and call the members OF
that marital catastrophe "hypocrites'
because they persist in coming &c
church in spite of their moral delin'
0uencies. And it is disparagement here
and fault finding there and deprecia
ton farther on. My brother, do you
know what is the matter with you
You do not know the first principles OF
loyalty to God and loyalty to his Sun
day school and loyalty to the house
hold Of faith. In order to reap spir
itual harvest what you need in the
first place is to get down on your
knees and get right with God and gel
right with Gods institutions, no mat
ter where they may be. If you belong
to Gods great family, then live for the
harmony of his spiritual family anC
never parade your differences before
the eyes Of the outside world or hus
band or nurture these enInities IN your
own heart. First be loyal to his oil
vine institutions. Speak well Of them
do everything in your power to make
] this inner life harmonious and lovingly
happy.
/ Oh, that we would do everything IN
our power to keep the purity and the
honor of the Christian church from
being derided and ridiculed by the meE