n up nor a rail
displaced. Again I looked ahead and a mountain was on the track, but
before I had time to get off the mountain got off. Next came a
precipice and the engine making directly for it, but we dodged that
and I concluded our train had right of way, so I stuck to the Pullman
car and went through all right.

Ever since God made the world principle has had right of way. Get you
a through ticket, get on the train, battle for the right and you'll
come out victorious in the end.

Napoleon said: "God is on the side of the strongest battalions." He
entered Moscow with one hundred and twenty thousand men. Snow began to
fall several weeks earlier than usual, the highways were blocked,
frost fiends ruled the air, the great French army was broken into
pieces and Napoleon had to fly for his life. God taught Napoleon as
well as the commander of the great Spanish Armada, that victory is in
the hands of Him who rules weather and waves.

The next trait I would mention is contentment. Many persons make
themselves miserable by contrasting the little they have with the much
that others have, when if they would compare their blessings with the
miseries of others it would add to their contentment. Let me give you
an old but a good motto: "Never anything so bad, but it might have
been worse!"

It is told of a happy hearted old man that no matter what would happen
he would say: "It might have been worse." A friend, who wanted to see
if the old man would say the same under all circumstances, went into a
grocery store where he was seated by a big fire and said:

"Uncle Jim, last night I dreamt I died and was sent to perdition."

Prompt the reply came: "Well, it might have been worse."

When some one asked, "How could it have been worse," he answered: "It
might have been true."

Doctor A.A. Willetts, "the Apostle of Sunshine," used to say: "There
are two things I never worry over; one is the thing I can help, the
other is the thing I can't help." "Count your blessings," was a
favorite expression of the same beloved old man.

There are more bright days than cloudy ones, a thousand song birds for
every rain-crow, a whole acre of green grass for every grave, more
persons outside the penitentiary than inside, more good men than bad,
more good women than good men; slavery, dueling, lottery and polygamy
are outlawed, the saloon is on the run, the wide world will soon be so
sick of war that universal peace, with "good will among me