Show VALUE OF DISCONTENT SOMEHOW we tl think this athis conk contentment con- con k t can be over done An n eastern preacher has been telli telling 1 pe people that ibM no matter matter matter mat mat- ter how bow unfortunately they are arc situated no matter how little money they earn no nb matter how bow poorly they are clad or housed or 01 how v V their horizon is they should hould be content For contentment contentment contentment content content- ment said he e is the thin thing that tbs t makes akes one sleep soundly at nt night it du dulls ls the tooth of care it brings b balm to the wounded soul and gives the weary rest rest 1 That preacher had hid just had an excellent dinner or he ho knew where he was going to get one a The Tho chances are ure that he is arrayed sumptuously and that the first of the month holds no terrors for him It is so easy to preach contentment contentment contentment con con- to the other othet follow fellow What the preacher should have i- i talked about was Wa cheerfulness Th There r itt is is the quality that makes it a Ii lot easier to deal with the worlds world's work and the worlds world's worry worry But cheerfulness and c contentment contentment con con- m- m are arc very different things 4 very different nt lt t A 4 man man may be cl cheerful without t being con contest to at he may be be content without being cheerful If Abraam Abraham Abraham Abra Abra- ham am Lincoln had been content i with hi his lot as a a. splitter of rails rails il 3 1 fJ A. A he cheerful enough ho would was enough enough he 3 ti 1 never have been president of the 4 United States s. s If Dr Jenner had t been Jeen con content tent to follow in the footsteps footsteps footsteps foot foot- I steps of his predecessors it would have been loft left to some other scientist to discover the principle of vaccination as a preventive of If Watts had been content to dream over the tho spec of steam spouting from a atea atea tea teakettle kettle another inventor would havo have solved the problem of the utilization of steam as power po Suppose the American colonists had been content with taxation without representation 1 Y Would the tho United States be bo a republic tod today Illustrations of this thi char char- charI I actor mi might ht bo be multiplied without end In tho the 1 last analysis it will willbe willbo willo bo be o found that discontent has been rc responsible for most of tho the groat r movements for fOl tho the betterment of the tho world in lu men in politics in principles T ele IS suc such a thing thin of course coarse as foolish h discontent i It is found in men w who o spen spend ao so o much of their theil time in grumbling i that they have havo none nono left for planning plan 4 r ning their own improvement and i working it ft out 0 e eYes Y Yes 05 con contentment docs does make Wilke ono one 0 r I. b r r 7 l' l r tr o tf t I sleep soundly at ni night ht but it often of- of of often I f-I fIt t ten makes on one l sleep leep soundly throughout hout tho day too wb when n some Home discontented fellow follow is awake i and and carrying off about everything in sight Understand we have no patience with the common J growler We Ve like the man young or old who dispenses sune sunshine sun sun- e shine ine as he goes no m matter how thick his own clouds are but we dont don't care much mUth for the man who is thoroughly satisfied with his lot Your thoroughly sat satisfied man manis manis manis is his in inferIor inferior inferior in in- tho the man who sticks in position doing his work well perhaps but always sticking there there while other men often less able men race by him to positions position of trust and nd high honor A pinch of discontent would have havo made a a. a woi world Id name out of many a name name that will never be bo known outside its particular p villa village e. e Discontent nt nt is the leaven that work works every oTery one who possesses it onward and upward to better thin things s. Herald |