Year: 1869

The great end and aim of the mass of mankind
is, to get money enough ahead to make them
" comfortable J" and yet moments reflection
will convince US that money can never purchase
" comfort only the means oft. man may
be comfortable without dollar but to be
so, be must have the right disposition, that is,
a heart and mind in the right place. There
are some persons who are lively, and cheerful,
and good -natrred, kind and forbearing in
state of poverty, which leans upon the tolls of
to-day for to-nights supper, and the morning
breakfast. Such disposition would exhibit
the same loving qualities in a palace, or on a
throne. Every day we meet with persons, who
in their families are cross, ill-natured dissatis-
fed finding fault with everybody and every
thing, whose first greeting in the breakfast
room is a complaint-whose conversation sell
dom fails to end in enumeration of difficulties
and hardships-whose last word at night is an
angry gfowl. If you can get such persons to
reason on the subject, they will acknowledge
that there is some 90 want at the bottom of it
the "want" of better house, finer dress, a
more handsome equipage, more dutiful child,
more provident husband, more cleanly or
systematic. or domestic wife. At one time it is
''wretched cook" which stands between them
and the sun or a lazy house-servant, or an i'm
pertinent carriage driver. The g want" of more
money than Providence has thought proper to
bestow, will be found to embrace all these





people who cannot make themselves really COM
Portable in any one set of ordinary circumstances,
would not be so under any other. man who
has canker eating out his heart, will carry it
with him wherever he goes; and if it be spr-
itual canker whether of envy, habitual discOn-
tent, unbridled ill-nature, it would 60 with the
gold, and rust out all its brightness. Whatever
a man is to-day with last dollar, he will be
radically, essentially, to morrow with Millions
unless the heart is changed. Stop, reader, that
is not the whole truth, for the whole truth has
something of the terrible in it. Whatever of an
undesirable disposition man has to-day without
money he will have tomorrow to an exagger-
ated extent, unless the heart be changed the
miscr will become more miserly; the drunkard
more drunken the debauchee more debauched +;
the fretful still more complaining. Hence, the
striking wisdom of the Scripture injunction,
that all our ambitions should begin with this ::
Seek first the kingdom of God and his right
eousness - that is to say, if you are not COM
Portable, not happy now, under the circumstances
which surround you, and wish to be more
comfortable, more happy, your first step should
be to seek change of heart of disposition, and
then the other things will folow-wthout the
greater wealth And having the moral comfort,
bodily comfort, bodily health will follow apace,
TO the extent of your using rational means.
Bodily comfort, or health, and mental comfort
have or one another the most powerful reactions
neither can be perfect without the other, at
least, approxmates to it in short-cultivate
health and good heart for with these you
may be comfortable" without a farthing
without them, never !-although you may pos
sess millions