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Things That Endure, J.R. Miller (1908)
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DR.
A
J.
R.
MILLER'S BOOKS
Joy of Service Heart Garden Beauty of Every Day Lesson of Love Beauty of Self-Control Making the Most
of
Life
Ministry of Comfort Building of Character Morning Thoughts Personal Friendships of Come ye Apart
Dr. Miller's Year Book
Jesus
Evening Thoughts Every Day of Life Finding the Way For the Best Things Gate Beautiful Glimpses through Life's
place
Strength and Beauty Things that Endure Things to Live For Upper Currents Windows When the Song Begins Glory of the Common- Wider Life
Young
lems
People's
Prob-
BOOKLETS
Beauty of Kindness
ness
of Bethany Master's Friendships Secret of Gladness Secret of Love Gentle Heart Secrets of Happy Home Girls Faults and Ideals Life Glimpses of the Heav- Summer Gathering enly Life To-day and To-morrow
Still
By the
Waters
Mary
Go Forward
Inner Life Joy of the Lord
Turning Northward
Ideals
How? When? Where? Unto the Hills In Perfect Peace Young Men: Faults and
Cfjtngg
tfjat
<nbure
BY
J.
R.
MILLER
1
EDITED
BY
FARIS
JOHN
T.
NEW YORK
THOMAS
Y.
CROWELL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
CI.A351559
FOREWORD
W HEN
nounced,
of
many
who
his
there would be no
more of
While
fulfilling
a promise to
him
dropped from
ered
his
among
his
So
it is
volume in the
million
have
been
The chapters
of "Things
That En-
[v]
iforetoorb
dure" are here presented just as they came
of
joy
in helping others.
John T.
Philadelphia, U.8.A*
Faris.
[vi]
CONTENTS
I.
Page
II.
The Cost
III.
When
Kindness
Unkind
of the
17
IV.
The Interweaving
Days
27
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII. IX.
37
No True Work
Is
Vain
43
51
Be Thou a Blessing
Life
59 67
Words of God
X.
Two Ways
of Being
77
XL The Duty
XII.
XIII.
Always Strong
85
Strength for a
New Year
,
93
105
XIV.
The Sin
Life
of Drifting
Responsibility of
113
One
121 129
The Folly
How Not
to
Show Sympathy
[
137
vii
Content*
XVIII.
Choosing Our Friends
Page
145
157
XIX.
The Entanglements
of Love
XX.
XXI.
XXII.
XXIII.
Home
Learning the Lessons of Patriotism
Is
165
173
181 189
Making
XXIV.
On the
Footpath to Success
197
XXV.
XXVII.
XXVIII.
Causes of Failure
to One's Calling
205 215
XXVI. Sticking
The Misuse
223
231 239
The Danger
Much
XXX.
247
257
of Being Obliging
265
What to Do with Our Money XXXIV. What to Do with Our Hands XXXV. Some Indirect Ways of Lying
XXXVI. Putting away
Childish Things
273
283
291 299
307
[ viii ]
<3P[Hngg
tfrat
Cttimte
CHAPTER
^fjtngg
tfrat
ofrrtmre
cient poetry
Charon,
From
As he
are
palaces,
went away, he
ashamed."
thus,
life
are.
Many
things that
men do
leave no
little
permanent
results,
nothing to show a
while after-
No
an enduring im-
[3]
and yet
it
may
hearts of those
ley advises,
who behold
lose
it.
Charles Kings-
"Never
an opportunity of
Welcome beauty
who
the foun-
for
it
is
and drink
your eyes
;
it in it is
simply
all
a charm-
They may
leave
But
there
is
a large
do which neither
who do them.
life,
It
is
possible to live,
last.
In
all
our busy
we may be laying
gold,
life's
silver,
fire
[4]
Clunga
tfjat
Cttimre
Here a cup of
self.
tance of good.
There
is
What though thy seed should fall by the wayside And the birds snatch it, yet the birds are fed; Or they may bear it far across the tide
To
give rich harvests after thou art dead.
Our work
by
love
will last
is
only when
in the
it is
inspired
and
wrought
name
of Christ.
Nothing that we do
There
is
seeking.
The glory
of self-conceit
is
only a
But what we do
live.
in love for
One made
it
many
silver
was
had decayed
nothing was
life
left
save
the
These were
The
will
which
silver threads
in.
which
empty
lives.
The memory
flower sent
room
its
message
is
never
The
make no enduring
spires
when
love in-
ministries of kindness
bless.
[6]
something which
blessing
will last,
which
will live in
and good.
where
as I
I tread?
What What
have I
left in the
way
passed
It
is
pitiful to
in
any
life.
We
single
day pass
We
should seek
by
of toil
liness,
from dreariness, emptiness, and earthand make them radiant in Gcd's eye
they write for eternity.
and
in the story
"For me
to
have
made one
soul
To
[7]
Cftingg
tfjat
Cnfcmre
for truth
lies;
of right
in the souls of
men
life.
To have been
Shall be immortality."
tt
tfie
2fre*t
CHAPTER
II
tfje
2foat
OME
little
calculation which
interesting.
A bar of iron
its
of a certain size, in
rough
state, is
worth
five dol-
lars.
If
it
be
made into
horseshoes,
it is
worth
twelve dollars.
When
it
made
is
into needles,
instead of horseshoes,
its
value
increased to
The same
made
made
is in-
sum of two
These
hundred and
fifty
thousand
dollars.
is
no doubt
is
capable of becoming
its
rough
The
through
certain processes.
Cf)mg$
fire,
tfjat
Ofrttmre
rolled, pressed,
it is
cut,
The more
worth
in
must
into
It requires
it
There
is
an
way
in
in
human
lives
can be
brought out.
by the proand
cesses of education
and
self-discipline,
would
live
up
in
him can-
along through
translations.
toil.
and
and
girl
who would
live
up
in
and
We
endure hardship,
self-denial,
pinching econ-
[12]
tfje
2fost
But
trial.
no necessity for
re-
economy, no struggles.
main
mon
grow
Christlikeness.
Even
life
of Jesus
it is
made
only by losing
it.
We
by the crucifying
worst.
We
true
life,
of
life.
We
if
we
our
of
Many
in their
way,
making something
of our
lies
life.
The law
of sacrifice
beautiful living.
Everywhere we
[13]
Cfnng*
trations of this.
forest.
tijat
Cttimre
It
is
beautiful in
majesty.
It
is
ornamental.
Be-
neath
its
its
Among
birds
his
and the
sing.
axe,
am
being de-
So
it
seems, as the
The
birds
The
summer
history
foliage.
But
let
It
is
built into
it
is
worshipped.
Or
it
The
it.
It died
that
ful.
it
The
plates, cups,
[14]
tfje
2fa*t
picks,
and the
mill,
and burned, at
last
coming forth
in
beauty to
If the clay
making
into beauty
and
value.
illustrations of the
law
human
life.
We
must
Newell's
missions
life
to
home and
friends,
bride,
all in
really
years her
to
[15]
Climsst tfmt
hearts of gentle
Ofrrtiure
as
Had
Harriet Newell
life
in
life
sacrifice.
it.
She
lost
her
she might
We
can reach
cost.
[16]
Wfyn
fctntoiefitf
fe
Enfemfc
CHAPTER
III
Wbtn
fctttimeg* fe Uttfemb
HE
is
that
It
all
is
things shall be
so in homes.
easy.
Nothing must be
They must be
be
made
too heavy.
exacting.
made too
fied.
be refused.
Even
their
way
this
method of training
carried out.
"0
'Don't,' just
now
to Dorothy.
How
could you ?
Not always
is
[19]
Cfnnga
Still
tfjat
Ofrtimre
this
there
is
in
spirit of indulgence
home government.
The same
is
true also in
many
schools.
The
will
them and
require
any
effort to
understand them.
It
is
lie
in bed
and have
up
to them.
It
pleasant for
to have their
work made so
them
to
not the
lives.
To
evade effort
to fail of achieve-
ment.
to rob
him of the
results of
faithful study.
us.
If
we
insist
on never
[20]
Wfyn
rewards.
fcinimed*
ts;
WLnkixib
not pleasant
it
may
be pleasthe
The
who
is
diligent
grows
enthusiastic.
He
oil" in pursuit of
knowledge.
He finds
joy
On
He
probably blames
it
on the
neces-
no hard study.
He
is
teacher
who
Good teaching
of
the least
can
it
The demand
tell
many
pupils
is
that the
He
shall
[21]
Cfuttgg
bright, charming
tfjat
Cnbure
the pupils shall be
way that
is
made happy.
others.
There
the same
demand
in
man
is
set to guide
The people
thinkings
if
in the
They do not
want hard
they go
is
to church to be
entertained and
fault
is
grow
sleepy
make his sermons impressive. Books must be made interesting or people will not read them. They pronounce them dull if
know how
to
is
of the
insists
that
which
will
toil.
"To
make
more certain
[22]
Wf)tn
kittimtsto fe Mnfemfc
make
it
more probable
;
down
in the struggle
to send
to suffer
that
is
Life
full of tragedies
The
loving-kindness of
God is God is
never unkind
in-
he
cannot be unkind.
Yet he never
not good.
way when
when pain
sists
their
own way
is
He does He
in-
may
be, be-
cause no other
blessing
is
and
the
good.
Anything
else leads to
the spoiling of
life,
the
marring of character.
Perhaps no other
failis
so
produced
[23]
Cfnng*
tfjat
ofrtimre
is
by overkindness, or what
kindness.
thought to be
All
who are
teachers of the
young
The
is
that we should
it is
But
not thus
that the divine teaching runs. "Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God." Pain is the way to the highest, truest life. God gives joy, the most perfect
joy, but we reach
it
through suffering.
well that
We
let
we can
them
shall be perfected.
Then
highest,
for ourselves, if
we must be
willing to suffer, to
pay
any price of
We
than
anything
less
want
to rest in.
runs,
prayer by F.
W. H.
Meyer
quillity
"From
may
There
is
[24]
Wf)tn fcutime**
ideal.
te Mnfeinfo
finished in clay.
city that night
At
last the
work was
But sudden
freeze
his
cold
his
model would
and be destroyed.
attic,
He had
no
fire in
poor
sleeping-room.
the statue
bed,
from
his
He had
to
We
should be ready to
may
be
kept unmarred.
Nothing of
cost or sacrifice
may
reach the
[25]
Qfyt Slntertoeatring of
tfie
J^apa
CHAPTER
IV
tfje
Cfje 3lntertoeabmg of
J&ap&
live
is
by the day.
its
en-
Emerson puts
it
well
"Finish
it.
what you
ties
could.
as
it
you can.
well
To-morrow
;
to be
This
day
with
is all
good and
fair.
It
is
too dear,
its, hopes
and
invitations, to waste
a mo-
Yet important as
is
The
endless chain.
Each day
[29]
'Cfjingfli tfjat
<$ntatre
day which comes
its close
passes
it
down
to the
after.
ories
We start every new day with the memof all our days trailing after us. We
all
have
We have also
the expe-
day
but a
of
a great web,
warp
running through
life is
all
serial story,
one
little
We
when we
make to-day beautiful with truth and faithfulness. To-day is the blossom, to-morrow is
the fruit.
is
To-day
is
the harvest.
The
Bible
all
[30]
Cfie 3ntertoeatring of
duty as the condition of their
link
tfje
J^aptf
fulfilment.
mean a break in the continuity of the blessing. Every minute is a key which, when touched, strikes a note somewhere in the
fidelity will
future.
it will
help to
make music of love and joy. If it be a wrong touch, it will make a discord in the
life.
melody of
lift,
Or
its little
hindering power.
Naught too small to give its gift: Bind their wings, then, as they fly
Till
If those
who
life-
work had any true conception of the relation of early studies and discipline to future power and success, they would think no work too
hard, no study too exhausting, in order to
make ready
It
is
[31]
well
gave the
lake's sur-
"But
how
It
is
to
Behind
all
worthy success
infinitely
lies
painstaking.
technique,
routine,
drill,
in
the
days
fine
to-morrow.
[32]
or
Cfje Slntertoeabmg of
One up a
said
is.
tfce
Pap*
tells
piece of
wood
as he stood talking to a
it
friend.
:
He
turned
grain.
This
wood
ordinary oak.
this is?"
he asked.
"Well,
it
it
of buffeting.
grow
in a forest, sheltered
by other
and
It stood apart in
some
field
alone,
this
tle
wood gets
its delicate
had to wage
It
through
history as a tree.
it
was
was
this expe-
piece of
fibre."
wood such an
is
exquisite quality of
What
true of trees
is
true also of
men
of struggle,
toil,
self-denial.
The
easy
it
may
[33]
string*
does not
life
fit
tfjat
<#n&ure
to-morrow.
The same law applies in spiritual life. Our to-morrow depends upon our to-day. It is possible in a Christian home to put into
the hearts and minds of children such qualities
and
When men
upon the
of iron,
away
in
keel
ribs
stanch
plates of steel.
to
sail
to go
would
But
may
ever have
to encounter.
"Common chances common men can bear, And when the sea is calm, all boats alike
Show mastership in floating; But in the gale of life,
[34]
Cfce Sntertoeatring of
And when
the
tfje
I^ap*
adverse winds
Are wildly raging, Then the stanch ship onlyAnswers nobly to her helm, and can Defy the fury of the tempest's wrath."
If
we
live well
in the days of
life,
it
and
need.
God
is
in all our
and
we are only
faithful each
fall
day as
to our
comes,
lot.
Very
"He
And
Or,
if
am
glad;
he trusted
it
to me,
might be sad.
if
"What
Without
I'd rather he
rest?
And
as its hours
swung open
say,
'My
will is best.'
But
I
this
know:
And
[35]
my
needs,
And
For what
so I rest.
I cannot,
he can
still
see,
And
in his love I
shall
be
Forever
blest."
T36]
CHAPTER V
J^omg anb Mot J^oubtmg
OME
l\
good people
in
talk altogether
strain.
too
much
is
a doleful
In-
too much.
We
have no
right to
fears
and doubts.
fears
In the
doubts,
Christ.
if,
first place,
if
and
to
life
But
keeping, we
tain days,
others.
ter,
we ought not
is
It
life
We
Usually
not possible
away
people's burdens.
Indeed
this
if
we
could.
to his children
it is his will
we
lifted
them
[39]
discipline
of divine love
But
we surely
him
we make
the duty of
There
not
let
is still
another reason
why we
should
own
breast, unex-
mas-
own heart
less
When we
have said a
way
in
some
is
trying
And
every time we
enemy
to
that will
make
us slaves of depression.
When
of a church in
New York,
[40]
he repeated in the
"Oh, how
many
a glorious record
the angels of
me
kept,
He
it
after him,
Years after
this
received.
mon and my
help anybody.
little verse.
me more
reward I
be the
ful,
says, 'Well,
did.'
when you
you
So I try again."
lesson of this stanza
life
is
The
one we
all
may
41
Cfnttgg
God
into
tfjat
o&rtrore
hand and
heart.
The moment we
begins to impart
God
Brave struggle
weakness
good.
God
will
even
if
we
fail of
from them.
it
"Whereas
my
was in thine
This
[42]
$0
<arrue
Wovk
3$t
Wain
CHAPTER
VI
3fe
Mo
Crue Woxk
Wain
fails.
Was
there
ever
in
this
world
the
life
of
Jesus
day he died?
Nothing
in
seemed to be
left.
in that blessed
Even
confidence in
him
as the Messiah.
Yet we
know
rious success.
The
history of Christianity
is
When you
in
your work,
have
hence
Sometime
it
may
will
be years
be appar-
Cfjingg
tijat
O&tiiure
world.
make
that pro-
duces impressions.
sults the truest
Nor are
deepest.
and
work with
change in the
life
The preacher
thinks his
work has
failed be*
The
best work
is
wrought
in the silence.
:
Said Frederick
Robertson
"For teachers
What
;
W.
is
success ?
Not
on character which
He
who
For
ministers
what
is
ministerial
aisles,
success?
Crowded churches,
full
at-
world,
Elijah
thought
so,
his mis-
take and found out that the Carmel applause subsided into hideous silence, his heart well
Ministerial
We
should set
it
down
only as
God works
in us will our
work have
silently.
God works
;
among
Then came
cliff
the
to
cliff
the
When
still
these
by, then
voice"
"a
!
God
came.
small
sound of gentle
stillness"
and
all
How
silently the
day long
No
Yet
in
them
What
[47]
How silently
;
down
in the darkness
all
yet in
the
summer morning
is
new
life
everywhere in
field
and
It
is
garden and
forest.
So
it is
in all life.
God
working through
God
breath-
life.
We
know how
silently Christ
wrought.
His voice
Spirit of
streets.
The
But
if
we work
away
and
if
work
somewhere, there
be
blessing
once.
from
it.
We may
earnest
apparently
unimpressed.
[48]
$0
gregations
Crue Wovk
may
scatter
31$
Wain
Conthe
away
after
from
his words.
But
if
God
will
is
truly in our
sometime surely
be, the strong
Years hence,
it
may
man
will
holding
up
me to my Saviour." The dewdrop sinks away into the heart of the rose and is lost, forgotten. But all day
before
eyes, that led
my
more
lovely
Your
sor-
down
lost.
like the
But the
life
blessed
sympathy of your
and as the
Cfjmgsi
hides himself
tfrat
O^nbure
sight, feeling that
his sermon, because
benefit received
away from
other,
But among
in one life
those
new
in-
seeks
his
months.
One
is
whom
is
in Christ's
One
stronger
the
life
and
lives
more
sweetly,
more
earnestly,
more
lovingly.
thinking
it
really blessed
many
lives,
God be
we need not
noise
Our
may
[50]
"Wt
Cfjou a blessing"
CHAPTER
VII
|0D
What
and we
is
he gives us
is
still
his,
it.
It
lent
it is
to be returned
It
is
it
came
it is
There
is
gifts which
we should not
overlook.
While
primarily,
light,
and
others.
When
the
Lord
called
Abraham
friends,
ham
Then came
53
Cfjingg
the
tfjat
Q&tfcmre
blessing."
He
This
is
Nothing whatever
for ourselves alone.
is
given to us to be kept
Everything that
is
ours
God
We
If
we do not
into
proof that we
God
gives us his
mercy
he forgives us.
to others.
The only
that
we are extending
us.
it
wronged or injured
forgive,"
we are
to pray.
So
it is
of everything
largest
and the
smallest blessings,
we
If
are to
Blessed of
God
in such
a won-
we but
law
and
fulfilled this
[54]
kingdom
this earth
in every particular,
it
is
would make
just what
a heaven.
to do.
Yet that
we should aim
a blessing."
"Be thou
Make
it
personal.
whom
how
to
many
of
these have
There are few of these who did not need something you could have given.
Everybody
is
carrying a burden.
Many
have sorrows of
all
knob.
What are you really doing What are you giving to them?
heavier instead of lighter.
for people?
There are
They
is
are dis-
One
of
never to make
This alone
is
a good thing
never be
of being
a discourager.
But that
is
only a negative
way
[55]
Cf)mgg
a blessing
tfjat
<ntatre
blessing others It
is
by not harming
or injuring them.
But
God wants
"Be thou a
us to give.
blessing."
is
The
This
command
It one.
is
is,
calls for
an active helping.
Blessing
a noble word.
blessing to
a great thing to be a
It
is
any
make him
better, stronger,
filled
We
love of
with others.
"If thou art blest,
Then
let the
On
It
is
life
of perpetual
it,
blessing to people.
Jesus did
but
it
was
He
one he touched.
We
[56]
"2fre
Cfjou a blessing"
What
costs
An
old prov-
breaking eggs."
We
cannot do anything
cost.
If
you
your loving
have finished
will
its
demand
task.
of
and
sacrifices
We
however, when
If
we shrink
for us
it is
too
much
we miss the
is
gift of
God
for ourselves,
which
The
touches.
"Do any
Do any
[7]
Clung*
tfmt
Cntmre
Are you so like your Master Dark shadows to enlighten? Are any happier to-day
Through words that they have heard you say?
Life
If
And know
[58]
CHAPTER
leaking a
Utirittg
VIII
anb
faking
TLiit
ing
class,
said,
"There
is
one
making a
living,
and that
is
making a
life."
The words
ing.
living.
It
is
make a
old
commandment.
neither let
him
regarding
idlers.
We
are
taught in the
for what
God
we
it
to ask for,
and
it is
earned
it.
age are
all.
[61]
living
is
not the
first
thing in
The first thing is to make a life, to build a character, to grow into a worthy manhood. Our Lord showed us the true relations of a livlife
ing and a
when he
said,
"Seek ye
first
;
the
his righteousness
and
The
are things
shall eat,
we need for our bodies what we what we shall drink, and wherewithal
Jesus does not say these
we
shall be clothed.
it is
necessary that
we have
earth.
we stay on the
But
his teaching
is
that
we are not
to
put
first
Inliv-
deed this
is
ing at
all.
We
is,
are to
make
central in all
our
life
kingdom
of God.
will, to
That
we are to
live
to do God's
The supplying
really not our
body
is
matter at
all,
but God's.
If
[62]
M
we
It
is
Utoing
he
attir
a Htfe
our
living.
live truly,
"These things
shall be added."
make a
for.
making
It
means that we
our
experiences to
grow toward
perfection.
We
is
new
our
duties
and experiences
re-
quired.
To
and character.
Our
we do
distaste
we may do
it
negligently, but
if
we
aright.
We may
may be tempted
to think that
we are not
reis
But
there
[63]
Cfnitg*
Another who
is
tfjat ofrtfcmre
it is
for
may
be,
we should never
That
is,
we should never,
not right.
Some-
live."
is
That
is
not true.
live,
The
essential thing
not
that we shall
will of
God.
We
said that
birds,
God
we are
and
unsoiled.
Such nameless fare as seems to sparrows sweet They sought with greedy clamor everywhere.
"Yet 'mid their
strife I noted with what care They held upraised their fluttering pinions fleet. They trod the mire with soiled and grimy feet, But kept their wings unsullied in the air.
[64]
B
My
Like thee,
gain
life's
sordid ways.
hungry,
am
fain
To strive with greed and envy all my days. Would that I, too, might learn the grace To keep my soul's uplifted wings from stain!"
It
is
life
we must
rising
get on in a
way
righteous way.
to prominence,
When we
growing
see a
man
rich, achieving
power
high eminence.
living, or
lose
Where
are those
who
in
making a
wreck and
Our
first
life
and beautiful
is
be-
No
other success
worth achiev-
a splendid living,
fine linen,
if
and
mean-
not making
worth while.
[65]
Our
Utoea
Woxte
of <$ob
CHAPTER IX
<uv TLibut
Wovte
of <$ob
RIENTALS
man
message are
It
is
Lowell
tells
us that
may
write
and
Every
life is
meant
to be a
word
of
God.
Word.
He came
to manifest
Men
image of
sense the
his substance.
He
was in the
fullest
Word.
if it
life,
even
the least,
it, is
fulfils
also a
word
of God.
[69]
Clung*
It
is
tfjat
dtfcure
whom
one to
tell
all,
definite
and
distinct revelations
have
is
But
there
no
whom God
It
is
to men.
To
one
it is
a revealing
;
of science
to anto
another, a
we dare not
disciple,
to him,
how
life
it,
Any
wrongs those to
to carry blessing.
lowliest,
it,
whom
was commissioned
life,
But every
even the
which
its little
fulfils
adds
ure of other
lives.
[70]
4ur Hfoca
Woxte
all
of <$ob
the world
the sky
fleeter;
Some
silver
radiance tender,
And
To crown
No
may
thrill
some heart,
God gives us all some small, sweet way To set the world rejoicing."
The
is
a very
tells
definite
message to
St.
Paul
us that he
flesh.
there should be a
these lives, writ-
it is
paper and
gilt edges,
and with
attractive
illustrations,
lives,
that are
Says Whittier:
The dear Lord's best interpreters Are humble human souls; The gospel of a life Is more than books or scrolls.
[71]
Cfnngg
It
is
tfjat Ofrtirore
how we are
own
life.
It
tongue can
whom it cannot be
that his
life is
reincarnated in them.
When
It
is
God
among men
Christians.
it is
more gospels
in the lives of
tell
It
is
not what we
people
what
to be
life.
is
What was
this life of
Jesus that
life?
Its great
[72
0ur
giving,
Utoe*
Work*
gentle,
of <$ob
thoughtful,
love
unto
the
life.
The
scholarly study
Christian experience.
Every day
reveals
some
new beauty
covers
and un-
new depths
When we think
let these
we are
likeness.
tient, quiet
passionate,
An
lines.
was trying
He
mother
They
lines
and
sacrifice
The
[73]
Cinngg
tfjat
Cntmre
No picture
of Jesus
is
No
mani-
Father and
It
is
his love of
men unto
the uttermost.
own
life.
When we
speak to
This
we are
to
re-
lives
we thus
peat his
life.
There
is
illustrates this.
A prize
[74]
<$ofcr
make
the statue.
He wrought
skill
and
Then
While
This
trates
is
it illus-
who
truly live
diligent
his
for him,
He
and
lives
in them.
Poor indeed
may
[75]
Ctoo Way*
CHAPTER
Ctoo Way*
E
ought not to
live in
the past.
We
3
fore.
ward
the motto
of Christian hope.
The
lived already,
but days
They
They
believe in their
and
treasures.
graves.
ures as
The past holds all their life's hopes They sit uncomforted by their They mourn over its vanished pleasif
a violet pour
live as if
perfume on the
air.
They
the future
[79]
Cfjtngs; tfjat
love,
Cnbure
like
no beauty.
They seem
men who
ice
and
themselves from
grip.
The past
holds
them
in a captivity
cannot escape.
This
ever
is
How-
in the days
We
not woo
summer.
been in
The
its
it
may have
We
cannot
live
on
memories.
Yet there
is
There
may
be made to yield
life
of
grow
life
[80]
<3Ttoo
of
Waps
is
bygone days.
all
Our to-day
always the
deeds we
harvest of
our yesterdays.
The
we
shall never
They
shake them
We
if
We
do not
live well
we
fail
to learn
many
things as
we pass
all
when we go forward
is
manhood, but
that
lovely
and good
we should keep
to do so
is
in
Not
fail
to lose
It
much
is
that
is
richest
if
and best
in living.
always sad
we
of
life
There
is
is
not
mere
oblivion,
is
but
it is
the incorporating of
whatever
phases of
life
We
put
away
childish things
[81]
string*
tfjat
Cnbure
Starlight
in the
new
glory
not needed.
calls
We
us
afield,
but we carry
live
of toil
and struggle.
the
seeds in days
we should reap
harvests of which
we sowed the
We never can get away from our past. We carry it all with us. We carry its memories.
The
children used to be told that the strange
sea's
in the
on the shore.
It
is
the
way
We
talk
much
of living
off
by the day.
We
may come
into to-day's
life.
But
there
[82]
Ctoo
is
Wty*
The days
threads
The
and then
life
One day's
alone,
that were
it
it.
all,
us;
in
friendship draws
much
of
its
sweetness out
We
we
it is
there
we need
the
for
its
hopes.
In our
membrance of the
down upon
[83]
give
is
a link
pass away;
to think
Of days that pass and never For memory and hope to live, Each is our only day."
[84 J
C&e
Strong
CHAPTER XI
Cfje ^utp of 2fremg 3Utoa?a
Strong
is
Weakness
virtue.
never set
is
down
as a
There
abundant proof
of divine
ness.
God
is
WeakIt
an especial degree.
affection.
is
so in the realm of
is
human
A child
is
that
watched over
strong
and
of
well,
and draws to
help.
itself
a larger measure
sympathy and
its
contributes of
an
illustra-
way
the love of
God
discriminates,
We may
be sure, therefore,
all
if
we are weak,
[87]
Clung*
This
is
tfmt <nimre
said,
what
I
St.
"When
am
weak, then
am
I strong."
is
In-
the
for
way
God
in
to help.
failed
his
efforts,
when at
last
he learns his
own
own
strength, he
if
only he
turns to God.
because
trust
is
weakness,
Self-dis-
it
strength when
upon
the
divine power.
Thus weakness
into
is
which
it
would sink
had no resources
It
it
beyond
itself.
one
reaches
human
hopelessness, that
it
it
seeks to save
the
lost,
that
brings
its
This
is
a secret which
all
who are
in the
[88]
be-
come addicted
Mr.
Drummond was
and you
a steep
man and
hill,
pose," added
sat
by your
you?"
The man
his friend
is
ready to take
it
into
power.
While
it still
it is
Weakness
never to be de-
We
need
39
Cfnng$
tfwt Cttimre
strength in order to
life.
make anything
is
of our
Nothing worthy
ever
attained or
achieved by a driveler.
Thousands of men
with
fine possibilities
One
of the
Psalms has in
it
call
make to
glory,"
his
own inner
is
"Awake up, my
There
condemnation of ambition.
The world
is
not
one.
No
But
not
the
in this world.
He
is
he were
a glory hidden, a
It
is
bilities.
wake
up
on
may
find itself
and put
A man
among
For a time
the
But
[90]
looked
up
and someFlap-
thing in
ping
its
wings,
soared
Too many
men meant
selves
Now and
up
then they
effort necessary
So they spend
their immortality. It
is
that
us become, to do what
lines strike
he made us to do.
the right note:
Dr. Babcock's
Be
strong!
We We
have hard work to do, and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle; face it. 'Tis God's
gift.
[91]
to
blame?
shame!
in God's
Be
strong!
It matters not
the wrong,
How
[92]
^trengtfc for a
$eto gear
CHAPTER
Jtoettgtf) for
XII
a $eto gear
every year.
They should be
higher.
like
new
not to
plane.
our feet a
live
We ought
To
best
The
weary
of,
of
Christians
grow
faint
and
not weary
Roumonotony,
and exacting,
not reap.
life is
dreary in
in vain.
We sow
and do
dis-
We
find
disappointment and
Hopes bright
its brilliant
is
Youth has
Work
The
hard.
He
price of
success in
any
We
[95]
Clung*
He who
self
tfmt a&tfrore
if
we would do good.
makes
from exhausting
and
sacrifice,
nothing of himself.
to redeem the world.
The mind
if
that was in
we would be
saving the
lost.
So we grow
faint
Christ.
But we can be
for us.
God has
St.
strength
How
It comes to us in
many
ways.
James
tells
down from
then,
No
matter,
it
how
really
We may
find it in a book,
warm
the heart
service.
We may
find it in
us with
gear
through
He
human human
He
gives
in
power to us
in
our
faintness,
and hope
our discouragement,
their
and
cheer.
The
Bible
tells
us a great
days.
to
their
encouragement
After our
weary or struggling
ones.
him
in his faintness.
In his agony
ening him.
No
in
come usually
human
love.
is
imparted in other
his
through
words.
We
are
in sorrow, and,
that God
and
believe
is
our
is
full of blessing,
God's
child.
As we
receive
read,
it
what
we
read,
and
[97]
Cfjings
tfjat
<ntmre
comforted.
Some day we
tractions,
myriad
dis-
den-bearing.
God
I
speaks to us in
am
with you
;"
I leave with
you ;"
"My
feel
grace
for thee;"
is
we
One who reads the Bible own Word, and hears God's voice in
continually strengthened
as God's
its
promis
ises,
by
it.
But
this.
there
is
God
is
our
lives
with
tells
own
love
prophet
us this:
"He
creaseth strength."
less
[98]
a direct importation of
strength
for
God's
fainting
is
and
This
a wonder-
power
of Christ
is
in
may
make us a
love,
little
by
his
but he
own
life.
What
the
is
to us.
If the
branch
its life
into
to
its loss
and
That
is
what Christ
does.
is
He
giveth
per-
power to the
faint.
His strength
made
fect in weakness.
need, the
come
we
get
till
we come
We
is,
shall never
we have
how God
gives strength
and consolation
in grief.
this
How
promised strength?
that wait
The answer
shall
is:
"They
renew their
strength."
It
in
God's guidance, to
live in
unbroken
his
upon
is
arm,
Prayer
part of
When we go
to him in
our
lives, in
unbroken
strength
according
to
our needs.
is
When we
less
;
of power
increased.
As
its
shore, so
is
God's strength
fills
linked
[100]
Jtettgtf) for a
to him.
^eto gear
receive,
Of
his fulness
we
and grace
for grace.
Note
also the
word "renew"
in the promise.
shall
"They
that wait
renew
their strength."
As
exhausted,
give out,
it is
replenished.
As
us.
fast as
we
like
oil,
God
gives
anew to
It
is
up
them.
We
calls of love to
God
or
man
are
upon
upon God, we
shall ever
We
him
their
who made
by
who
weary.
He
is
back of us
the while
is
all his
important strength
life
from us
when
101
Cfnng*
we give
you,"
tfjat
<rtimre
to others in Christ's
name he
;
fills
the
emptiness.
is
"Give and
it
shall be given
unto
Thus
it is
when
We
we
can never rejoice or sing as before, that we can never take up again our work, our tasks.
But God
We want
strong
tion.
in purpose,
among men.
We
life's
want to walk
erect
We
"Be
do not want to be
God
to us all
of
is:
strong."
conscious
weakness.
evil
We
cannot stand
Over
light.
all
the
[102]
J>trengtfj for
a J^eto gear
will
not be strength.
God
needed power to do
He
never lays on us
it.
He
but
He
never
its
calls to
any
service
he provides for
performance.
We
need
then
all
the strength
we
given, as
we go
on,
day by day.
singing sweet,
Went forward
Then came
And
lifted
me
Then on
his
arm
all
was done;
And
My
task complete."
[103]
J^ore
tfjan |teeat
CHAPTER
XIII
Movt
HE
us
tfjan
.peat
\Wk
is
the reality in
of us
ourself.
tear
away
;
the roof, or
fire
may
destroy the
building
life is
not affected
is
by
the
The body
not
Sickness
strength, or
flesh.
may waste the beauty and accident may wound and scar the
life is
and
achieves.
Amid
ever-
changing
experiences
joys
and
sorrows,
losses, smiles
and
life
the
what becomes of
[107]
C&tng*
erty,
tfcat
Cttimre
infinite
but
it is
a matter of
real
importance
shall a
life.
"What
man
shall
life?"
The problem of living in this world is ever to grow into more and more radiant and
lovely character, whatever the conditions or
experiences
may
be.
It
is
in this that
we most
new radiancy of
and
difficulty,
We
but we are to
We
can-
we are
by
it.
Many
tion
people receive
harm from
the
fires
Many
and
fall in
tempta-
and
lie
in dust
again.
Many
[108]
life.
But
amid
all
fires
that
and
if
ye take
up
in
serpents or drink
No
lives in
we must
Danger
in
lurks in every
in every
patch of sunshine.
the circles of
Our
best friends
may tempt
which duty
in
us to self-indulgence, seeking to
them
possible
by committing our
He
is
able to keep
and to
[109]
Cfjings;
In
all
tfjat
OSntmre
no other but Jesus
gentlest, purest,
child's
is
who can do
strongest
life
The
in absolute safety
and bring
it
without
blemish
truest,
home
The
wisest,
hold your
life in
blemish, no marring,
no hurt,
shall ever
come
to you.
Few thoughts
we come
life into
our hands.
A
its
In
my
spirit.
Guard
powers,
evil
my
life,
teach
me my
lessons, train
my
hide
me from
Let no
touch me.
Prepare me for
for eternity."
all
knows
life.
Her hands
She
is
Her part
child,
is
faithfulness in all
duty to the
example, teaching,
[110]
restraint, training,
J^ore
the
tfjan
peat
making
"The baby has no skies But mother's eyes, Nor any God above But mother's love; His angel sees the Father's face, But he the mother's, full of grace."
Blessed
is
the mother
life
who
truly interprets
God
in her
own
and
in her teaching
and
Then
Christ will do
The same
friendship.
is
Have you
whom you
We
we do which
may
sway our
tainted,
new
if
friend's life.
fail
If our influence
is
we
acts, if
cm]
CJnngsi
So
it is
tfjat
<$nbure
lives to
also
another.
friendship
human
enough
wondrously benign.
perfect.
But no huwise
man
is
friend
is
None
is
None
and
truest
best
little
Then the
sweetest
human
while.
But
the hands of
God
are safe
We
lives to
We
shall be
and
spotless
home at
last.
[112]
Cfje
<m
of drifting
CHAPTER XIV
^fje
&in
of drifting
is
wood to
on the water.
else.
It
cannot do anything
It has
and no power to
rent in which
it finds
It has no reis
not
to blame
is
if it floats
an eddy, or
away
in
a wild torrent.
of
wood to be a
waif.
But
it is
is
Drifting
It
is
in-
and forge
tides
his
own
course, whatever
way
the
may be running
of
Man
creature,
many men who merely drift aimlessly through life. They fall unresistingly into whatever
[115]
borne upon
them.
it
whithersoever
it
may
carry
When
make no struggle
its
but
let it
have
way with
them.
When
something happens
which discourages them, they yield to the depressing influence without an effort to over-
come
it.
When
up
all their
resources
and
reserves of courage
failure.
The
whatever
sistance,
it
without re-
when yielded
life,
until a
man
seems at
have
Resignation
is
We
it is
to rule
[H6]
Cfje
in
of drifting
life.
Nothing
It
is
is
in place of God's,
We
should always
may
be.
What
seems
loss
selfish
pain
And
His plans for us are wide and sweet, His love and wisdom guide our feet
Ever upward and forward and on: Deeper joys for the joy that is gone, Nobler days for the day that is dead,
Higher hopes for the hope that
is
fled
will,
still."
And
is
a blessing
But
when
it is
resignation
sin.
is
not
is
a virtue,
when indeed
It never
yield to
any
evil influence,
"When
Nor
dolence.
up
to in-
ought to be
ashamed of
They
God's
not
that their
life
should be so weak
come
difficulty.
to quit
in
all
themselves
like
The
do not come
easily,
cannot
be
won without
struggle.
The
toil
worthiest at-
and
tears.
Res-
life.
prove the
and
what kind of
spirit
we are
of.
The
[118]
Cfie
&in
of drifting
way
It
is
pitiable
to see a
man standing
feebly
re-
and triumph
That it becomes no man to nurse despair, But in the teeth of clenched antagonisms To follow up the worthiest till he die."
It should be the purpose of all
young peo-
make
all
things
their
growth and
progress.
They should
life
life,
the kind of
Christlike
In-
and then
spite of
what
is
[119]
Cfjtng*
tfjat
Cnbure
it
may
There
is
He was
governor
and
He
then said,
of the fear of
God."
120 J
Cte^pongttiilttj> of
<ne Htfe
CHAPTER XV
Cfje
*Mue
NCE
only good
man
left.
It certainly
all
seemed
so.
the
up
for
and might
was
Lord
of
in
the
experience
us when our
life is
to represent
God
in the place
where we
is
There
is
true
We are always
There may
us.
God has
to depend on at the
be thousands of other
[
lives
about
We
123]
Cfring*
may
tfjat
Cnfcrore
life
that
is
alone in
its
duty.
There may be
Though
doing
his
is
own part
and
if
faithfully,
for you,
you do not do
never
be done.
We
if
God
Luther had
God
the
one of us should
God
in our mission
[124]
IMue
A
story
is
of <nz TLiit
boy who found a leak
off
told of a
in the dike
that shuts
it till
through
all
the night.
it,
and the
all
the
cities.
all this
all
that night.
Had
the
in
boy
But do we
know
that our
own
of
life
may
all
beauty?
Do we know
sea
that our
may
shall
not
let
in
which
sweep away
God has
we stand.
[125]
Cfnng*
into all living.
tfjat
Cnbure
know not what depends upon our faithfulness any moment. We may
think
We
that
in
there
can
be
nothing
serious
de-
enough
mand our
doing
this
we certainly are
is
to go on according
to his will
and purpose.
Then we do not
knew what hurt may result to God's cause or what harm may come to human lives from
our lack of diligence in even the smallest
matter.
We
No
have
other
but
it is
our own.
one can
Our
truest
and best
who
live I
am
the one
by whom
way."
On
it
will
simplify our
[126]
Some people
feel
and seem
to
lives
and work
of others.
There
is
and look
this does
sit in
also
not
mean
the
that
it is
our business to
judg-
ment on
others, to
management
themselves.
know
We
own
life
and
If
we
is
our
little life
we
really
If only
we
would
save
many
of
us
a vast expenditure of
way
It
would save
[127]
CHAPTER XVI
Cfje ifoUp of drifting into
1MONG
into
the
other
drifts
of
life
many young
marriage.
The
childhood
of
youth,
are
nourished
falls
until
at
upon the
a wedding.
is
tachment
may
first
"love at
a marriage in a
while,
marriage
when a boat
The matter
makes
riage
little
is
difference
in
drifted into.
what
it
bilities
no questioning as to
[131]
Cfjmgg
tftat
Cntmre
way
to
make the
love dreams
come
true.
is
Yet
marriage surely
of
young man
in his
made a mistake
change
else
ment
to his future.
If a
it,
hang
it
away
in the storeroom
If one
takes a position,
and afterward
place
is
genial, it
But
marriage
is
us do part."
Therefore
it
God, and
It never should
be drifted into.
[
132
drifting into
Yet
it
Carriage
other step in
there
is
more
deliberation.
is
For nearly
marriage?
all
instruc-
tion, training.
Why should there not be for Why should not mothers talk
when they
be-
come wives?
Why
duties are,
how
live for
the happi-
woman he
selfish
makes perfect
youth,
marriage ?
Such wise
instruction,
given
in
would certainly lead to more thoughtfulness on the subject, and thoughtfulness would prevent
many
inconsiderate marriages.
It
is
"marriage
is
a lottery," as
[133]
Cfjmgg
But
its
tfjat
O&tbure
outcome,
ing into
it.
young woman he
to be his wife.
is
interit
ested in
will
is fitted
Perhaps
live economically,
man's wife?
on
Then
will she
be willing to
live in
their circumstances,
and
be contented
in doing so?
Then has
and
qualifica-
make her
him?
the dearest
woman
in the world to
There
make a woman
man
[134]
drifting into
Carriage
one winter.
on the
to be a good, faithful,
He
regarding himself,
to
whether he
is
the
man
make
is
this
woman
he
many
Then
is
him
he
is
as his wife, he
must
also
will
way
heavy a burden of
sacrifice
upon
her.
Too
[135]
Cfjing*
tfjat
Cnbure
The
that
many a
is
man
she loves,
man who
do,
dear
young
people,
don't
drift
into
marriage.
are doing.
1188 J
i|oto
$ot
to
M*to ^mpatljp
CHAPTER XVII
i^oto J^ot to J>fjoto
^pmpatfjp
to
NE
of
the
suggestions
the
is,
tion,
"Do not ask a neighbor the ques'How are you feeling tois
day? 5 "
this hint.
There
Indeed
ophy.
friend or neighbor,
ill,
or
is
in
who
like
gives
so
much
pleasure as this.
not made.
is
Some
if
no chance
given them
ills.
[139]
Cfjingg
tijat
Cntrare
A
of
inter-
and
is,
The
truth
the husband
of men.
in
is
He
him
a dumb animal.
It
grieves
sorely to have
He
"sym-
That
is,
many afflictions, and then express their pity. Any one who will not do so is hard-hearted. Her husband loves
the story of her
his wife
and
in
any actual
sickness or suffering
sensible
in
her a miserable
140]
i^oto
$ot
to J>J)oto <^|>mpatf)j>
A
was
woman who
and
good deal of
trouble, financially
him
quite
Her
family
in
had suffered
losses
much
self
distress at
home
in
She herin
was teaching
an institution
the
The winter was coming on and she had no provision in the way of clothing adesalary.
quate for
its rigors.
The
money
friend to
whom
sum
of
He
which had
filled
her
She thanked
"But
letter
hurt
me
[141]
CJnttga
very much.
I told
tfjat
Cnbure
my
troubles
you
of all
and
of the sufferings of
my
You
'I
am
sorry
;'
you only
my
child, be
and keep
5 sweet. "
had
troubles,
many
idea of a friend
somebody to
listen patiently
their
woes
to condole with
lot.
lacking in
to do this
unable to sym-
pathize.
The
request
is
of the guests
one.
at the
is
sanitarium
an admirable
It
well
of persons
who
to talk about
symptoms, to
way
[
to think of themselves.
142
i^oto
$ot
is
to <J)oto
in getting
^pmpatfjp
own
con-
But what
sanitarium
is
is
of sanitariums.
No
feels.
one
It
an impertinent question.
It is
nobody's
right, in
affair
how you
feel,
in this
way.
One of
to the disciples
The reason
tion
is
that
so
precious to these
men bearing
program
143
Cfnngg
Our modern
them.
tfiat
Cnbure
make
it
so
when we meet
"How
They
will
You
time
inquiry.
It
"Good
is
a better salutation.
more
It
means more.
It touches
a more
It
is
men.
144
Cfjoogmg
0ur
Jfrienbsf
CHAPTER
XVIII
all
need
human
still
and
joy, but
more
in the
days of
We
human hand
to hold ours
when we
days of
We
our
in the
the hospitals in
to
if
She answered,
if
Lady
Augusta Stanley
will
come and
sit
beside me."
No
on a
life
can reach
its
best alone.
One log
if
fire will
two
147
Cfring*
the other and the
better than one.
tfjat
Ofrtimre
fire
burns hotly.
Two
if
are
have
we
more
fight-
bravely in
battles if another
is
In
all
life
companionship
better than
That
is,
to
of life
is
ing friends.
case of
This
the time
when
life
All
new,
the world
is
new.
The
friendships
in large
The kind
of friends
we take
those
we are
Cfjootfmg
we are setting our
Our
Jfrtenb*
life
But
if,
worthy, whose
life is
earthly
we
in effect fix
soul.
We grow like
we
believe,
those
whom we
love, in
whom
with
whom we
mingle. If therefore
is
unwhole-
On
friends
better.
Many
into
influence of
know
it is
friends.
[149]
dungs
tfjat
OEnfcmre
In
life's first
to us in
whom we take into our life as friends. Young people meet others in school, in neighthose
borhood gatherings,
associations of
in
church
life,
in the
work and
society.
They do
persons
are brought
them and
set
even in these
down close beside them. But cases, we should learn to discrimgood and the
let
evil.
Good
may blow
carry
it,
may
it
good seamanship
So
should be in
We
God
and determinately.
We
should want
friends
also
who have
[150]
Choosing 4ur
sympathy with
enter into our
us.
life.
ifrtenbsi
those
mean
who can
im-
No
Sympathy
It
is
days of joy.
is
easy enough
to
will feel
with us in our
us, those
grief.
When
trouble falls
upon
who
well to
have
One
is
not
what
it
we know
comes to
will
us.
When
we are
stricken
down and are in trouble or in sorrow, a friend who is a friend indeed will come to us with
true sympathy.
But we
who
will
will
come
who
understand
More
Cijmga
fail in
tfjat
<$nbure
True sym-
We
also
will
think of our
friends
Too many
life.
We
get no
upward
in easy-going ways,
gives to us no help.
friends
we are
in trouble these
in a certain
us, saying,
They
"How
sorry I am!"
But they
leave us no stronger.
True
friendship in such
many
is
Coddling
is
such manifestations
and lead us to
want
is
a friend
who
will
[152]
who
toward
rugged
Emerson
says,
"Our
best friend
we can."
always to do our
When
true friends
suffer-
how sorry
our friends
is
and
heroically.
It
is
a misfortune when
we attach
pities us
ourselves to a friend
who merely
inspire us to anything
There
is
friendship which
very important.
I have
spoken thus far of the responsibility of choosing friends, of thinking of their influence
lives.
This
is
[153]
dunga
sible for
tfmt oftrtmre
life.
While
God
is
may
But there
ble
is
another
side.
also
call
for our
own
influence
who
us friends.
We
may
upon
any other
in-
lives
of others.
story
is
told of Charles
Lamb,
that once a young person evidently wished to have his friendship and give him confidence
and
trust.
Charles
Lamb
confidence,
and saying,
It
am
not
fit
to be
your friend."
was a
But
it is
something which
is
sure that he
to
who comes
him
154]
Cf)oo*mg
and that every
0ur
ipriente
may
be up-
and
noble.
But of all friends in the world one who can bring to us so much
Christ will do.
there
is
no
blessing as
He
He stands
and knocks
in
may come
The
and
friend-
Never
any
sonal friend.
Whatever other
and
rich as it
friends
may do
Sweet as human
is, it
friendship
is
falls
far short
and
help we need.
He
is
Human
us.
friendship can
go but a
little
way with
Soon we must
One
must
sit
by the
[155]
Cfnttga
other's bedside
feel the last
tijat
^nbure
last
words and
well.
But
ever.
He
and
loves us with
an everlasting
love.
and
last
restores us to
home to the
blessedness of an eternal
miss,
let
no one
[156]
CHAPTER XIX
Cfje Entanglements! of Hobe
^'"HERE
not
the
we are
of
the
only
live
ones.
close
Some
to us
others
and
of
The law
and near,
into
They have
claims
upon
us.
We
owe them
We
off
We
so
not an individual
love.
These other
is
and there
not one
despise,
we have a right to
We
other people.
We
[159]
^fjmg*
tfjat
O&tbure
We
should
They have their rights and we must consider these when asserting our own.
of our own.
No
one
may
No
one
may
No
one
harm
Other
may
not invade.
their rights
we owe them
to
love.
To some
it is
not hard
pay
and
winsome.
They
return quite as
It
is
much
as
we have no
choose
people.
friends,
We may
but we
may
not choose
whom we
The Master
said
[160]
And
if
do the same.
And
if
ye lend to them
whom
But
shall
and
kind
evil."
is
So we
see that
our neighbor
anybody who
he
needs us.
He may
may
even
if
we
persist in claim-
all
things.
The
serving
love which
we are taught
to bear to
Love without
It
is
not
is
161
Cinngg
acts that are
tfjat
Cnbure
to do the things
we ought to
be those
do.
Those on
fed
the left
hand
will
the
the sick.
able people in
They may have been very respectmany ways, but their failure
wrong company.
them
in the
We
people.
away from
up
in the
these other
We may
have our
fine theories
of
of
summer
all
these economic
The
self-interest.
is
We
our own
opportunities
may
be
at
common
courtesy,
gentle
kindness
[162]
showing of interest
in
all
On
we
we choose
to be false to all
we grow.
In
we
keep we
lose,
do we really keep.
Then
not
in giving
we do not
When
re-
we give out
to our
love,
less
own
"No
store.
force
is lost,
no action
dies,
Let
this great
thought be ours;
in sacrifice,
powers,
Life, everywhere,
And
[16S]
Hearnmg
tfje
Herons!
of
Hobe
at
#ome
CHAPTER XX
Hearmng
tfje
Herons;
i^ome
of
Hobe
at
Yet
it
and
effort,
make
it so.
We sometimes
for-
We
it
But the
to
fact
is
straint,
patience,
thoughtfulness,
There
is
love
and
where
great
sacrifices
are
cheerfully
There
is
a tendency in
life's
too
many homes
to smother all of
it,
tender-
ness, to
suppress
to choke
it
back.
There
almost unknown.
wives between
whom
There
[167]
Cfjmga
are parents
tfjat
Qfrtbure
who never kiss their children after they are babies, and who discourage in them, as they grow up, all longings for caresses and
marks of
affection.
tells this
ill
story:
child of eight
was very
and thought
of the
to be dying.
In after years
all
memory
knowledge that
my
mother loved
no one
else
was
there.
my
womanhood, for
her
me again. When she was old, I asked why she never caressed or petted us as
and she
said, 'I
children,
thought
I
it
would
I
knew
5
my
presence.
"
this lack of
life
goes
in the
[168]
Uearmng
dreariest
tfte
ILtsKdn* of Hotoe
and
coldest routine.
Many
children
when
affectionateness would
mean
so
much
to them.
"Many
There are
chilled
warmed
while
if
little
only
all
his
weary
caresses
he used to
her heart?
if
these
youthful
parents
Do
and parting?
and
see if there
it.
is
not a
Many who
[169]
With With
And
Do
While
daily bread
is
is
broken:
Gentle speech
the skies."
oft like
manna from
We
we
on our
sleeve.
There
is little
much
needs
into
It
the tenderness
It will not
we can
tell
possibly get
soft
it.
make a boy
and de-
enough for
deed be
for they
may
in-
final farewells.
Many go
out in the
[170]
Hearmng
tfje
Herons;
of
Hobe
we separate even
for a few
may
eyes.
never
look
again
into
is
each
other's
Tenderness in a home
a thing to be ashamed of
it is
one of love's
most sacred
be left out.
duties,
practical
counsels
How
"First,
exists.
home
circle:
how hard he
ily
tries,
tired,
that you
well
love
him for
his constant
if
effort,
he
has failed to do
him how
with a
little
daugh-
171
of
him
as the
the
money comes
for things
of that relation
by planning
birthday
at
hand?
Find out
that,
little
gift
from
little
little
it
fun which
may mean a
new
of
life
to him, because
it
how
truly
you
love
and
[172]
Hearmng
tfje
He&tons
of
^atrtotfesm
CHAPTER XXI
Heantmg
tfje
Hes&on*
of
Patriotism
NE
man
may
to think
country.
pathetic stories in
all
One
of
the
most
is
modern
literature
Dr. Hale's
"A Man
without a Country."
The
it
the
privileges so far
own
life is
men
without a country.
They have no pride in their country. They know little of They never think of the its glorious history.
own,
native land."
cost of the liberties they enjoy as citizens.
my
my
[175]
Cfring*
They
But
tfjat
Q&tbure
sponsibilities of patriotism.
it is
man
to be
as if he
brought
him.
Patriotism
all
ranks
high
is
among
duties.
In
lands treason
re-
Yet the
In
is
a phase of treason.
life,
neutrality
One of the
patriotism,
is
finest
to
know
country.
Thus
it
in-
great destiny.
was talked of
the way.
or
by
The
re-
became tremendous
So
[176]
No
allurements of
it
to our coun-
make
ourselves noble
large
measured by
needed
if
men. It
is
character that
is
the nation
to
grow
into
of great prosperity in
frien
that
shall
lose their
power of
en-
of character.
that way.
safer,
A measure of hardship
is
not only
but
also
The great
young
[177]
Cfjutga
men who
Fourth of
themselves.
tfjat
<ttimre
are
now about passing through July fervors is to make men of That really is what we are
to
here
for,
not
If
gather money, to do a
or
small,
to
win fame,
into
grow
worthy
manhood.
he
is
benefactor
who
he
is
much
own
character,
young men
build.
They should be
character.
It
is
true.
is
any
false
word. One
may conform
Strength
hood.
It
is
way
other ways.
is
One needs
[178]
Cfje
ciples
TLmtm&
of Patriotism
do
if
and
live righteously.
all
He
all
must be able to
of opposition
manner
subtle influence.
Then
and
ness
man must
be strong
Gentle-
true, he
is
must
also be gentle.
There
are
men who
hood.
Courage
is
manliness.
Courage
a noble
by
itself in
life
it
is
a necessary
element in
all
other qualities.
It takes cour-
is
interest in
life
of the country.
in
Voting
is
not
merely a privilege
it
is
a sacred duty as
The voting should be intelligent. well. Young men should learn to think and to inquire, not casting their ballots blindly
and
[179]
Cfring*
tfjat
Cntiure
men who
are worthy.
The
Then voting
citizenship.
is
It
may seem
But
life
if
is
it, first,
that his
own
makes one
is
by no means a small or
in the great
an unimportant part
wort of
making
[180]
31$
Wtxtpinx a
Cfirfettan J^utp?
CHAPTER XXII
3te WavvpixiQ a Cijrfettan
^utp?
|0T many
worrying as a
It
would
al-
many regard
as a virtue.
Many
if it
about nothing, as
were an effort to
in-
It
is
quite time
ing
a
is
most unseemly
life,
and
The
is
opposite of worrying
is
of
Christ's
legacy
to
his
friends
was
his peace.
He never worried. He
His
own peace he
who
does not
He
worrying
[183]
Cfjingsf tfjat
but
sinful.
Cnbure
said.
Our
not
will he
much more
clothes the
He
own
St.
will
he not
much more
image?
clothe those
who bear
his
paragraph
lays
He
first
down the
leaves
It
is
"In nothing be
anxious."
He
to this rule.
it
and
life.
No one
Still
my
case
is,
is
exceptional."
the quiet
answer
"In nothing be
anxious."
What
If
we are not
what
shall
we do with them?
St.
and
tells
us what to do.
but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be
[
184
3$ Woxxvins a
break in upon our
disturb us,
of our
Christian &uty7
is,
when things
own hands
them
there.
is
This
it
is
most reasonable.
with the hard things, the tangles, the complications, the perplexities, of
lives, in-
There
is
infinitely wiser
affairs so as to
make
is
If his care
The only question that can arise is: "Does God indeed care for such small things as the little frets and tangles of our daily common
lives?"
"If I could only surely
know
That
all
me
so
dung*
What
tfjat
OEnfcmre
The pang that cuts me like a knife, The lesser pains of daily strife
peace
it
would afford!
In
all
these little
human
cares,
who guides through boundless space Each blazing planet in its place Can have the condescending grace To mind these petty things?
If he
"Dear Lord, my heart shall no more doubt That thou dost compass me about With sympathy divine: The Love for me once crucified
Is not the love
to leave
my
side,
There
is
concern
into his
Of
course,
bility
we
The
[186]
3fe
gives,
"Seek ye
first
the
kingdom
all
of God,
and
his
righteousness; and
these things
shall be
The
that we
God's hands.
We
into
little
while
God
neither time
us.
What
him
off.
is,
to take
them
to
in
The promise
that
if
we take everything
it there,
to
God
in prayer
and leave
passeth
"The peace
of God, which
all
The
figure
is
military.
As
the
army
sleeps
confidence because
God
thoughts.
We
"Thou
stayed on thee."
[187]
a lesson which
set themselves
the
Worry
hurts our
It
mars
their beauty.
It saps their
their best
strength.
It unfits
188
Raiting or Itearrmg
2faautj>
CHAPTER XXIII
leaking or barring
ITTLE
things
is
2foautj>
make
perfection."
In nothing
this
in character
and conduct.
are
many
people
who
in great
matters of principle and in the cardinal virtues are without fault, yet the lustre of whose
life is
dimmed by
and
infirmities.
upright and
is
hard
despotic disposition.
Another, who
is
faith-
is
and un-
he
is
with
whom
other
is full
many ways,
yet those
intimately dis-
Cf)mg0
graces
tfjat
<ntmre
adornment of a Christlike
It
is
most
failures
are made.
character.
honeycomb many a
ruin
many
of
life.
Henry
Africa,
Drummond,
tells
writing
tropical
One may
In
and go to bed.
is
there, apparently in
sit
good
him
down on
floor.
it
and
it falls
Dur-
are in like
manner
destroyed.
The timbers
day
There
human
men's
lives
to
eyes,
faults
and
the
sins eat
away
they
It
fall
is
loving which
mar
There are
life
for a
[192]
leaking or parting
friend,
Sfreautp
and expression
fill
The want
An
ing
all
day,
and a deep
was
so slight that
it.
self noticed
It
was not a
bitter
word that
A moment
after he
had
of
left the
and help to
of
his
his wife,
and
193]
Cfnnga
Ofttimes
it is
tfmt
Cnbure
who
does the
little
whom
the unkindness
is
or the neglect
shown.
There
no doubt
is
caused by multi-
than by
"Taking
life
its
great
needless hurts
and
unkindnesses
not so
much through
the order-
Look back and you can readily count up the great griefs and bereavements that have rent your heart and changed your life. You know what weary months were
ings of humanity.
darkened.
and dignity,
mountain top,
looking back,
and
if
[194]
JfSafemg or
jarring
2freautp
that are spoiled by smaller hurts, spoiled because somebody has a foolish spite, a wicked
There
are so
many hard
man
selfishness,
live."
by
all
these
we add
to the
either to the
volume of good we do or
sand
possibilities of
or harshness.
"It
is
not so
the
say,
it;
As
manner
[195]
Cfnng*
It is not so
njat <nfoure
much
As
fair,
And
the tones
may
soft as a
summer
air,
And
the tones
may break
the heart.
"For words but come from the mind, And grow by study and art;
And
It
is
to be true, honest,
and
we should learn
all
[196]
0n
tfje
ipootpatf) to
&uttm
CHAPTER XXIV
<n
tfje
ipootpatf) to
&uttt#x
jVERY young
has
in his
man, unless he be
life,
desire
to
to
achieve
success.
will
He
wants
do something that
while.
make
his living
worth
He
him
before
ness
and energy.
He
is
make a
remem-
name
would better
What do we
are told that a
mean by
certain
success?
is
When we
man
now
successful, that
he began poor
and
is
rich, that
scurity to great
to inquire
how he reached
it
high place. If
if
he crawled to
[199]
^fjmgsi
feet as
tfjat
Cnbure
he went up
if
extortion or
cess is
by
"He
who climbs to power and place pathway of disgrace. He fails not who makes truth his cause, Nor bends to win the crowd's applause.
fails
Up
the
He
fails
not
he
who
Upon
the right,
and dares
qualities
is
which always
life
that
truly successful.
One
industry.
There
is
no royal road to
worldly
attainment or achievement.
Easy
positions, as
rule,
Charles
W.
No man
if
his
We
all
burdens.
200
0n
were
it
tfje
ifootpatf) to ^uccesfc
shrivel up.
"The
stars
Dependableness
in the
winning of
is
success.
"A man
world when
plicitly relied
may
fully.
life
doubt that
Thus
the
man
of the world
essential in his
own
place,
large or small.
It
means that he
is
will
never
anything that
est
matter
may
If a
his lever, or if
tell
is
One who
is
on the way to
Economy
is
making
[201]
CfnngS
of success.
tfmt Cnirore
of poverty
it is
is
The cause
not
al-
ofttimes
leakage in
The
There
is
no disgrace in
liv-
"The way a
is
a sure
index to his future." One of the papers contained a good commentary on this wise say-
ing:
"Two men
same trade.
Having an hour
it
at noon, each
undertook to use
purpose.
leisure in
to accomplish a definite
One
of the
men employed
wood
in
his daily
any depatent
for a large
The
other
man
his
noon hour
and imto
dog how
[202
<n
tfje
ifootpatfj to Jnitce&s
He
suc-
and
Courtesy
is
lead to success.
qualities
is
which
rude, uncivil,
ment of others
life.
never
make much
will
of his
true
gentleman
never inten-
He
is
and
in rank.
The mere commercial value of civility is almost incalculable. But true courtesy is not
a superficial quality.
It
is
manners.
inter-
not assumed
interest.
It
by him, but to
serve him.
is
With
this spirit
affectedly courteous,
[203]
way
is
cannot
fail in his
work.
all
the
life
not
Mr.
only
that,
up
to the
One
of
SilPs
poems asks:
take into that vast Forever?
What may we
Admits no
No No
faun-wreathed crown
garnered
lore.
we
wore,
What can we bear beyond the unknown No gold, no gains Of all our toiling; in the life immortal No hoarded wealth remains.
portal?
We
entered here.
Naked we
glide.
life
which we
may
[204]
Cause*
of Jpatlure
CHAPTER XXV
Causfeg of ifatlure
OMETIMES,
word "Wreck,"
above the water.
The
flag
lies
is
there.
Over
float.
many men's
lives
What
life?
Yet the
sea
is
not so
full of
wrecked
down
in storms or
upon
and
possibilities
and
immortalities.
We
that
talk
of
the
treasures
lie
buried beneath
waves.
But who
shall tell
darker sea of
life,
times of defeat
and
[207]
Cfring*
The
following
tfjat
<nbure
was
:
question
sent,
with
others, to a
number of gentlemen
"So far as
you have observed, what are some of the principal causes of the failure of
young men
career?"
meaning
acter
and
also
in
business
The
life.
merchant writes:
"I and
my
brother
commenced
or thirteen.
in the house in
which I
am now
the boys
senior partner,
With one
who were then in the house have made shipwreck of life, by bad company, wine, etc. The
same story, almost, could be written of nearly
all
business
two or
since I
began
three
"The
causes
life,
no
Lack of appreciation
be in the swim
of the
many
in
ment
youth;
[208]
Cause*
of fashion
of failure
rich;
selfishness."
replies
"Indirec-
thorough-
As a
fail to
rule,
men do
pur-
definite
also,
because they
make a proper
I
filling
days of opportunity they neglected to prepare themselves for what the future might
bring them." Napoleon once told some schoolboys that every missed lesson
for
left
an opening
future disaster.
a school-boy; that
is,
the preparation
was made
So
it is
are doing
future.
now
will
"The common things of the common day Are ringing bells in the far away."
[209]
firings!
tfjat
Cntmre
young men
is,
That
when they
do not con-
many
opportunities
that
offer,
making a
business success."
selfish
In other
indulgence
Blessed
fellow
life
That young
to be pitied
who
He
is
fortu-
and
his
mother thinks he
is
fortunate;
but in truth he
idea of
life,
not.
He
is
getting a false
amount to much
He
is
leaving
devil will
sow tares
is this:
"Lack
a cause of failure.
[210]
Cautfe* oi failure
careless habit, not
his
It has wrecked
many a young
man's prospects.
Nothing
inspires confidence
reliability in
a boy.
He may
if
assured.
The
we sometimes
reason
is
call
him."
The fourth
purpose.
given.
"Lack of a
Lack of self-control and self-denial. They (young men) have not a proper conception of the divineness of
willing to
life,
pay the
and
price of success.
They
really live
Another says
ness
"Lack of thorough
and a
it is
failure to
grasp opportunities.
intelli-
Usually
[211]
many get
position.
So they
fill."
fail to
place they
There
is
portant suggestion.
No man
can succeed in
tries to
do merely
He
must take
ness
and make the responsibility his own. Again a writer a man whose life has reached rare nobleness in character and rare
success
in
business,
says:
"The
principal
ability is sufficient
situation.
I have in
if
have succeeded
Most
of the quotations
[212]
Cautfe* of ipailure
to the causes of business failure primarily.
But
had a place
:
in
many
One names
"Moral
drink or to
repute;
the
houses
of
vile
questionable
literature;
perusal of
accepting
and
unworthy persons."
consequence,
bad company.
learn to dislike
When
home and
any place
first
am
glad of an opportunity
and the
sin of
impurity in
I do not be-
ruinous work
among men.
lieve
gambling
in the
our present-day
life.
It begins
extends up to the
railroads
and
millions of
margin for
and
stakes.
You
find it in parlors
and on
And
the
who
he
first
entertains
that
without
skill
has
moral ruin.
is
wise
man
smallest
gambling passion."
Life
is
possibilities
thrown away.
life,
God has
to keep, to
up
Let us
be faithful.
of ourselves.
God
will
help us.
Let us put
our hands
in Christ's.
CHAPTER XXVI
^ticking to <ne'* Calling
HE wandering habit
one.
is
not a good
restless-
It
is
apt to breed
which
is
ness
of
mind,
not
wholesome
sides,
spirit in
any
life.
Be-
nomad.
gives
no
At
however long
little left
it
may have
is
but
to
tell
the story.
is
himself.
He
does
not grow
He
He
and persistent
effort.
He
never becomes
man
to
whom
ment.
He
influence.
[217]
He
is like
a tree planted.
He takes
may not
He becomes
is
place in which he
rooted.
in the
same house.
men
St.
requires
He
and
would preach a
little
He
was
restless
filling his
journeying by
in like
land and by
travel
sea.
Other men,
manner,
their eyes
But there are some men who never settle down to anything. They begin one thing
and are enthusiastic
in it for
little
time,
[218]
more promising.
They then
from
it
by something
on,
else
Thus year
moving
life is
reached
have been in
this world.
settled
It enables a
man
to
put
all his
energies
sow
one
That
is
all
the average
enough
to brighten one
world.
If
we try to
more
dim and
diffuse
to be a benediction to anybody.
lives in
man who
dur-
cities
however good a
man he may
be.
On the other
life
in one
it
the best of
[219]
Cfjmg*
tfjat
Cnbure
bly into
all
the
of the place.
and into
persistent
Such a
habit has
who
so scatter
and thus
of being
any
them what
flowers
are to bees.
They
fly
dis-
upon
again.
it,
Of
course, one
must
Christian sense
all,
to
ships
Jesus himself
life,
poured out
on every
the lowliest,
[220]
and to
whom
bread for his heart's hunger. If we would know the meaning and the blessedness of friendship, we must choose our few friends
wisely
until death us
do
part.
The same principle applies to church life. The best and most fruitful Christian life is
the one that takes root in one place
there, unless uprooted
and grows
by Providence, unto
class of people,
the end.
There
is
a large
anywhere.
They
are gadders-about.
W.
"Go
church "Of
:
all
who never
any church,
This gypsy
treating
a casual ward.
[221
<3Tf)mg* tfjat
spirit proves in the
Cnbure
is
who
love their
its
own
work
away.
faithful
members
[222]
Cfje
Itefettfife
of
tije
<&iit of <peeri)
CHAPTER XXVII
Cfje jptettfe of
tfje
<tft of ^peetf)
PEECH
l
is
dowments of humanity.
We
are
we
It
is
is
capable of measthen,
ureless development.
Now and
we
see
or hear a person
who has
attained something
in
marvellous
in
the
power of expression
But
hints of
what
is
least, in every
human voice. No doubt there have been countless men and women who never attained any special power, who never became famous as speakers or singers, yet who had
and training to make them as remarkable
countless hearts.
as
There
[225
]
is
a serious misuse
Cfnng*
make the most
There
is
tfiat
OEnbure
The
faculty of
we
shall
help
others,
cheer, imparting
We
stand the
full
may
have saved
souls.
By
man
to
destinies
life.
The power
of speech
is
simply incalculable.
from their
influence.
[226]
I&feutfe of
tfje
<$ilt of ^peecfj
its
waters.
The words
world's bitterness,
No
not
and scatter
blessings
through
lips,
the
words
of us fail to
How many
instead
giving
and help,
The
With
all its
how
often
is it
is
de-
The
wisest
teachers said,
mouth speaketh."
is
whether good or
[227]
Cijittg* tfjat
bad.
Cntmre
we only look at
their
illusion
their
features.
mouths
van-
enough
or denunciatory.
objectionable,
Or
the tone
may
be un-
may
tory.
"Thy
We
a brief
conversation, from
he comes
from
man
New Eng-
sea.
So we discover in a
manner
he
is,
refined or unrefined,
modest or
There
versation
bors.
If
is
is
.pfettfe of
other
tfje
<$tft of ^peecfj
the subject.
It
is
human being
is
not
good and
In ninety-nine
some fault-finding
unsavory
gossip
which involves
the
good
name
of the one
is
who
is
There
versation.
we hear
ear-
Even
of their
to
likely
shall
we say
of
the sincerity
friendship
is
which, the
is
moment
turned,
him, and
is
many
day!
How empty
much
229
]
of the staple of
Cfnnga
tfmt <ttimre
Then
there
empty
Is
bitterness,
New Testament
his neighbor."
"Let
may
be, that it
may
hear."
230
.pud)
CHAPTER XXVIII
Cfje danger of Calkins too
|ANY
whom
it
were
All
talk
this class.
We
angrily,
when we
way.
Some people
this
They
word
of
any
Their speech
is
full
of un-
really
good
of
silent
much
We
talk too
much whenever we
[233
Cfnttga
Lord when he
ful
tgjat
Cnbure
said that
word
if it is
only
lips.
to fall
from a Christian's
words of no value.
words spoken.
and
uselessness al-
They
give no
Too much
of this vapid
How
it
way
We
talk too
much
when we use
idle words.
We
words.
talk too
It
clerk of
he said to them:
"Ye ought
[234]
to be quiet, and
Calking
to do nothing rash."
too Iteuci)
No
lesson needs to be
this.
Inconceiv-
rash talking.
Many
Many
and condemning
explanations.
In
some
families, the
home
life is
greatly marred
Sometimes
it is
a habit
it
wrangled over
are of no importance.
The
was a
it
was two
two
when a
There are
[235]
Cfjmgs
speech
is
tfjat <ttfrore
the exception
the
staple talk
is ill-
Outside,
guage.
But
they
remove the
restraint,
and
their
words too
Though
and
bleed.
We
talk too
hastily
and
rashly.
We
talk too
ourselves.
The
men
scarcely
ever
speak of themselves.
Certainly those
in
who
are
any community do
his doings declares
and
The
better
man
who,
if
great,
is
is
not aware of
unconscious
own
greatness;
if
a saint,
of his
own
saintliness.
One
is
of the finest
that when he
in
[236]
CaUung
shone."
If he
too
Mwb
But
too
many seem
to
may
man who
But who
people
if
we
do not?
that.
It
ourselves about
There
is
know
we
do.
On
the other
attention to themselves.
Suppose we do our
it is
work
to do.
well;
it is
no more than
our duty
And
who have
because
self is perilous
[237]
it
we are sure
is
to
go on from
lures us on.
There
a strange fascination
It intoxicates us
and
It
We
may
rob us
would
like to say,
but
it is
better
we should
self-
danger into
[238]
Sfroote
Wovfy Wtylt
CHAPTER XXIX
2foofea
Wovtb
is
WW
reads.
UCH
there
said in commendation of
books.
is
tion in
what one
Not
all
good or worthy.
tinually all one's
no
better.
life.
This
true of
many
novels.
They may
excite a
in the life
no trace of beauty, no
in-
spiration,
no
visions of loveliness,
no impulses
The
that
They
[241
]
Cfjmga
dieted for
tf)at
aSnfcure
They
leave no
effect
Yet the
of such reading
is
really harmful.
It vitiates
power of
the
attention, thought,
is
memory,
so that
mind
less able to
portant subjects.
Then
There are
all
Some
in their atmos-
who
shall
We
Any
corrupt thought,
told
how a
effect of it in
the
If
we
rigid
watch
Sfoofcsi !orrt)
Wfyk
writer says
pleasure
of
little
excitement.
book
is
dust which
like a river
leaves in the
its
mind
as
it
sweeps
through
channel.
You may
of the
is full
of a lifetime, borne
to you
by the
a word
often
Here
is
falls
learn noth-
may
When we
we
At
Manifestly
all
this
one book
the thousand.
[243
string*
tfjat
Cntrore
They take
character.
its
Many
sell.
They are
written, set
up
in type, electro-
all
for money.
in the writer,
joy.
to
sell.
So
it
poured over
the country.
trivial
Young
books.
Many who
classics.
in a
thousand has
[244]
2toofes
Wovfy Wtylt
of
Homer's
Iliad.
With all our glorifying of Shakespeare, how many really read even his great masterpieces ? The Pilgrim's Progress is known to the
masses of the people only from being referred
to so often.
it.
We
should
mass of ephemeral books than to miss reading the great masters in poetry, science,
tory, religion,
his-
and
fiction.
No
book
is
really
The
Noble
embalmed
in printed
"A good
efficacy
book holds as in a
that bred
Cfjmg*
to
tfmt <irtmre
all
occupy us during
If
years.
all
we are
wise,
we
avoid
best.
"We
need to be
writes one,
approachable
which,
with
all
our
our hand.
It will astonish
find
how much
of our industry
given to the
how we
rake in
and rubies
is
offered us in vain."
[246]
&
Calk
about
temper
CHAPTER XXX
Calk
about
Cemper
You say
Christ
is
the
dearest
You
say he
is
spirit,
the gentlest
of
all
things
in
the
universe.
But the
of his
They have not seen him as you And you want them to see him as
Now
have
in
your own
let
life?
When
astrono-
mers want to
you
see
[249]
Cijingsf
tfjat
O&tbure
down
close to
you.
mirror in which
shines in
beauty
is
reflected.
He
your
heart,
and
see his
astronomer
sees the
image
glass.
Surely
bad-tempered
Christians
do
not
would spare no
in-
souls, so as to learn
evil
nature to show
itself in fits
Surely
we
we
will
not
him dishonor
unworthy of
his
dear name.
We
life
false representa-
and
[
to strive in all
our
250]
Calk
about
Cemper
Whatever we may
his cause or
work
life
we
fail
we
fail in
an
essential
Now we
ter.
How
Or
is
Bad temper
which we
may weep
bitter tears
It
we cannot
help.
must
be regarded in
sin,
its
new
life,
that
to
become honest.
So
if
[251]
Here
also
is
what
all
St.
Paul says
about
it
"Put ye
mouth.
away
these : anger,
Put on
as
God's
elect,
if
Bad temper
is
just as
we are
it.
No
in a
set
if
is
day
nevertheless it
is
ourselves
to
learn
at
whatever
cost,
we would be worthy
disciples of
our Lord,
is
It
lesson,
can be learned.
"Many mighty
or
discordant,
dumb
their
but
that
God knew
stops."
This
lives
is
very true.
human
[252]
M
music at
in
Calk
about
temper
made any
ever have
on them.
My
my
temper
quick and
my
tongue
is
control either
my
temper or
tongue.
want
to be always kindly
and loving
but I
cannot."
concerned, but
member that
restoreth
sweet
word
in the
my
;
soul."
it is
"re-
store" means
ment,
all
discords
when any
it
and putting
made to yield. "He restoreth my soul." That is, the worst tempered people may be made genyields the sweet
music
it
was
first
tle
and loving
and
disposi-
253]
<Cfnnga
tion,
tijat
Cnbure
of divine grace.
God can
we
will
but put
them
But we have something to do ourselves in this work. God does not take out the old nature and put in a new one, as a watchmaker
might replace the worn-out works
watch with new works.
in
your
He
works in us and
through
us.
He
he wants us to reach.
Then he puts
like
it,
into our
we
strive to
become
he helps
we must
We
it
back.
positions.
We must keep down the ugly disWe must learn to control ourselves,
We
a
You have
house.
little
of
soil in
Just
let it
alone and
soon be
filled
with rank
[254]
&
will
Calk
about
unless
will
Cemper
you are a very
let it alone.
noxious weeds.
But
in-
not
You
with
you
have your
little
garden
is
filled
lovely flowers.
den-soil.
Your
heart
a patch of garit
weeds,
to
growths ?
your business to
Do
will
not blame
you
do yours.
But
religion
is
effort,
from
striving,
from struggle.
Religion
binds us to
God and
;
We must fight
against
we must put on
own
the beau-
and kind-
ness
of
Christ's
life.
We
must very
[255
Cfnng*
in others that vex
tfmt o&ttmre
and try us so
will
seem
our
coffins of
memory
of our surly
irritable feelings
and our
all
will give us
we have
left of
new-made graves.
our Master.
Let us
off
our
like
I 256]
die Bobantage
of Cteepmg <ne'$
temper
CHAPTER XXXI
Cfje Hbbantage of toping 0ne'*
Cemper
|OME
call it
sinful.
They
on the
an
infirmity,
and apologize
it
for
it
or seek to excuse
it.
This, how-
Bad
tem-
per
is
It
is
charity
Or
if
in others
in ourselves.
one
us
tells
may
practical side.
in
[259]
Cfrmg*
who
tfmt tribute
it
to
For example,
one's fellows.
there
is
one's standing
among
that
we are
One has
when he
really cares
who
in external ways,
It cer-
tainly
is
a quality
know
of
would
seem, therefore, to be
worth
good temper,
if
for
nothing
else, in
may
be well
[260]
Cteepmg 0ne's
Cemper
in the
comfort
it
gives to one's
self.
We are
way
to anger
an unseemly
fashion.
bit of
bad tem-
We
do not
feel like
and lovely
things.
we have
God and
who
self-
happiness.
It brings too
much
hours.
well
reproach.
takes too
It darkens too
many
It
is
It
much out
of
life.
worth
only
if
[261]
Good temper
part in friendship.
A bad-tempered man
Love
is
can-
very patient.
It covereth
a multitude
of sins.
sweetest
But even
and best
love cannot
grow to
its
if it is
subjected continually
and to harsh-
and
bitterness of speech.
Not many
peo-
The home
equal to
man
is
whom
he
must at
least refrain
We must be prereceive.
Only
262
Itteepmg <nt *
gentleness will
Cemper
gentleness.
draw out
Only
can
and honor
in return.
No man
know much
able
who
Good temper
true manliness.
is
No
who
think that to be a
man
up
is
for
But
that
the meek."
beatitude.
viled
his
own
(he)
(he) re-
not
when he
suffered,
threatened not."
Christlike
He
is
manhood
but
it
pleases heaven.
The
thirteenth chapter
of First Corinthians
certainly sets
a copy
which
it is
has mastered
one
is
[263]
Cfjmga
Is it not
tfjat
Cnbure
"whatsoever
spirit
lovely"
in
manly
and character?
It
may
not be easy to
do
it.
may
be easier to
let
our natural
feelings
We
own
city.
spirit is
The
it
victory
With
we may win
it,
and
in
winning
[264]
die
CHAPTER XXXII
Cfje <$race of 2freutg Obliging
HERE
is
a great
difference in peo-
to
do a
be
service, to
go out
of their
way
Obligingness
is
a Christian grace.
It
is
one
It belongs,
among
life.
beautiful
tian
Perhaps one
may
be a Chris-
We may
not
say at how
many
points one
may
be wanting
in beauty of character
tian.
his followers,
but he
[
is
267
Cfjmg*
tfjat
Cnbure
disciple
is
may
enter
They are
it
pupils
when they
first enter,
though
may
be years
tian
life,
but this
first.
Love
Love
cannot be disobliging.
seeketh not
in love
is
Love
is
kind.
its
own.
The very
central quality
If
we have
will
we
wish
or see
this will be
will
This feeling
when large
called for.
service
may
be re-
simple, com-
therefore,
It
culture.
is
[268]
"Every man
and
it is
ing of one's
and
one's
own
affairs,
that
grow
But
selfishness is
most un-Christlike.
is
The
only beautiful
life
The
Christian rule
to his
own
things of others."
we
shall
is
There
and the
evil-doer.
One of the
last
is
a busybody.
The way
in interest,
sym-
Obligingness
is
a good word.
When we
say that a
man
is
of an obliging disposition,
[269]
Cfnns*
we mean that he
he can to
is
tfmt Ofrtimre
always ready to do what
If
assist others.
we are
in
some
If
load, he offers to
If
we need
it.
assistance, in
any way,
he
is
eager to give
is
There
among
the poor.
The
rich are
more
inde-
is
among
the poor.
Consequently, even
when the
is
less
opportunity
among
But the
poor,
In
many instances, the relations between neighbors among the poor are very beautiful indeed.
When
The
sickness in a
home
all
the families
[270]
When
community
If disaster comes
We
all
have
it
in our
power to do a great
It usually
much
self-denial
what
nor involve
is
wanted
is
only the
warmth
make us
to
It
may
be to
when
leisure
and he
is
little
The ways
less.
If only
we have the
spirit
little
or to give
up some
[271]
Clung*
tfmt
Cnbure
The
lesson
is
worth learning,
useful.
too.
It
for
many
An obliging person brightens the way others. He makes life easier for
It is
a great thing to
When we
Master.
we have begun to be
like the
[272]
lfcat to
Po
tmtfj
<ur
H&mep
CHAPTER XXXIII
Wfyat
to Jo
tottf)
0ur
jfl&onep
BUR
us.
The
all
love of
evil.
23
is
the root of
There
way
of using
money which makes it a curse. But there is a way of using money which makes it a blessing. Christ told of this when he said, "Make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that
faileth
not,
where no
thief
draweth near,
is,
neither
moth destroyeth."
That
there
is
way
lay
of using our
it
money by which we
This
is
shall
up
in heaven.
a wonderful
riches with
revelation
we
go through
in advance, so that
shall find all
for us.
that
of
[275]
Cfjmgg
the rich
tfjat Ofrtirore
man and Lazarus we are told of a man who had not learned the secret.. On earth the rich man lived in luxury and splendor.
He
fine linen.
He
That was
Wealth
sends for
one scene.
But the
rich
man
died.
No
rich
God
died
a man's
buried.
veil is
soul.
The
man
him
and was
end.
The
and we
see
in the other
world
rich?
He
is
beggared now.
quets.
He
He
wears no
He
has no
to
honor.
We
Abraham
send Lazarus
helped, at his
the
This
man had
missed
up
treasure in heaven.
up only sorrow for himself. This man teaches us how not to use our money on the earth. He lived only for himhas treasured
self,
He
to accumulate
and to spend
in enjoy-
[276]
U^fjat to 2o
toitf)
0ur
own
ffitonep
selfish grati-
his
many men
in these
We
money
dishonestly.
There
So far as we knew,
it
The man's
made
it
of his money.
And
any kind.
He spent money
city.
people.
He was
popular in the
He
his charac-
He
his business
and
he
just in
all his
with Dives?
Why
all
is
So far
we know
[277]
it
was
because
he used
it
He
did
not use
it
for God.
He
it
to bless
his fellow-men.
gratification.
He used He spent
own
it
for luxuries in
beggar lay by
The Hu-
any
pity.
in every
what
is
for,
from that of
may
be so used
its
possessor.
it
Nor
that
it
enough that
self
and for
selfish gratifica-
tion.
It
is
even
little
to
It
is
a talent entrusted
[278]
Wfat
to jo
tottf)
0ur Mont?
other talents,
for.
it
all
Then the practical question for us is, "How How shall we use Christ's trust- f unds ?" would he use the money himself, if he were
in
it
it?
Part of
wants.
raiment.
He
no
sin in
it
growing
rich,
provided a
man
does
as Christ's trustee
his
and
for Christ.
off
it.
own name
He
"my
fruits ,"
"my
store,"
We must learn to leave "I" out of our speech. We must learn lesson of self-effacement. We must do for Christ. We are only trustees for
"my
gains."
is
Christ.
It
money as a
heaven.
lay
we have we
we
up
wax
old.
The
[279]
Cfjmg*
tgjat
Cttimre
is
is
always getting
also
Giving
is
living.
The
The stream
pure and
is
keeps
sweet.
Giving
is
living;
hoarding
dying.
tell
In India they
palace.
Sultan
Ahmed was a
great king.
He
the place,
and
many
them dying.
He
took
own
it
and gave
to
Ahmed came
he saw none.
his story,
into prison.
said, "for
But
from
that night
to
Ahmed had
said
:
There came
"Follow me."
Up
[280]
tUat
to jo
toitf)
0ur
ffitoMV
heaven's gate.
They
entered,
and
lo! there
"What
palace
is
this?" asked
Ahmed, and
"This
is
the palace of
Yakoob the wise. Its glory shall endure when all earth's things have passed away." Then the king understood that Yakoob had done most wisely
merciful deeds, built for thee, by
The story has its lesson of truth. The money spent in doing Christ's work in this world is laid up in heaven. It may seem to be thrown away, but while it piles up no
temple, no monument, on the earth,
its
it
builds
[281]
WW
to Jo
tottt)
Our
Hf ante
CHAPTER XXXIV
Wf>at
to JDo
tottfj
<ttr Mantis;
young people
there
who never learn what to do with their hands. They may overcome their awkwardness and grow out of their selfare a great
many
people
consciousness
sibilities
up
in their hands.
Man
With
With
his
hands
cities,
ma-
and
reality to the
[285]
<&f)tng*
brain and soul.
tfjat
Cnfcmre
hand the thinker
With
his
With
his
his
hand
With
hand the
With
his
hand
The
life.
story of a hand
is
image of an
ought
had grown to
ring; until
it
them; until
earth's
it
by the
thorns; until
had wrought
it
its
part in the
old, wrin-
had grown
[286]
Wi)at
kled,
to
Bo
toitf)
ur Cfante
bosom
other cast of
in marble
by
side,
would
life.
It
hand
sleep-
prophecy.
there
Perhaps
is
little fingers
music which
;
some day
may
thrill
men's souls
or pictures
which by and by
will
many
lives.
At
least,
up
of
in the baby's
chubby
countless
beautiful
to be trained.
The
skill
No
It
[287]
Cfnng*
is
tfjat
Cnbure
possibilities
in our
We
all their
Even the
insignifi-
we should do as
works.
we
can.
Thus
God
animalculae,
millions of
We
do
is
is
great in
Little things
may
be seeds of
We
all their
work
fault-
It
is
a shame to do anything in a
work negligently, to
hurry through
what we are
set to do, to
carefully,
though
building of a cathedral.
[288]
^anb*
be that sublime,
is
Not
failure,
crime."
Our hands should also be ready always for their tasks. For a time the child does not
find
Soon, how-
Youth
is
of bright dreams.
We
But soon we
and
find that
every
moment has
its
task.
It has burdens
and
fail to
it;
do their part.
a burden: bear
a duty: do
it;
:
Life is a thorn-crown wear it. Though it break your heart in twain, Though the burden crush you down,
Close your lips and hide your pain:
First the cross, and then the crown."
life
may
When
an
is
victorious war, it
[289]
ranks of un-
men
battle.
Hands
life's
up
be-
and
soft, covered
[290]
ome
Stobtrect ffiap* of
Uj>mg
CHAPTER XXXV
<ome
31nturect
Wa$&
of
Uptng
of un-
HERE
tone
are
many forms
or
truthfulness.
One may He by a
by an em-
of
voice,
if
written or printed.
lie,
It
but figures
lie
a sort of
classification
lies
white
lie
is
black
lies,
and
statistics.
The
essence of a
in the intention
what he says or
does.
He may
juggle with
is
per-
whom
[293]
of lying
is
exaggeratells
The narrator
tells
He clothes
commonPlain
it flows
from
It
is
ple with
way
Men
have been
slaves to the
power of
will report it as
having
happened ten
in
times.
If three
an
become a dozen
when
these exaggerators
tell it.
that in
He
sees
everything as re-
of his
own importance.
The
result
is
that
all
[294]
g>omt
are seen
while
all
anfctrect
Wav*
of
Hping
lenses,
looked at
through magnifying
The
The
writer
knew a
men
experience, in
genius.
He
it
was
filled
by
its pres-
ent incumbent.
Another peculiarity of
ceit
this
man's self-con-
ex-
any
any
you would
in
saw
would
listen
while and
[295]
Cfnng*
would then
tell
tfmt <nbure
his visit to
you of
Bombay
seeinti-
you referred
let
Egypt, he would
you
tell
permitted to see
many
you
told of seeing
Mr. Gladstone
in the
House of
Hawarden.
The
by
young
man had
seen either
Bom-
[296]
<ome
31nbtrect
Vap&
led this
of
Hping
so
what others
as
case
For example, he
laid before
day on
when he
him a scheme
in
At
least he
He
him
interestedly, asking
him many
that
questions
concerning
the
enterprise,
as wise
backing
it
up, no doubt
actually subscribed,
by a Urge
amount
of
money.
When
this
[297]
Cfnngs!
his interviewer
tfjat OEnfcrore
He rememoffice,
Then
ended
it is
difficult
to
The charitable view is that he thought he had made a profound impression upon the
gentleman's mind, and that he really believed
that the statements he had
his attention
made regarding
in the en-
scarcely to be suplied.
His
self-
had played a
trick
on
his
own
con-
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Cfrilbtef)
Cfjutgs
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Putting atuap Cfnlbfef) Cfringg
HERE
ness.
is
commended
and
dis-
position.
his disciples
until
they would do
things in charhumility,
sim-
are
childlike
things,
scheming
and ambition,
guilelessness.
is
But
possible
childishness
something altogether
different.
It
is
away from, and not something to cultivate. It is one of the things we are to put off and leave behind as we grow into the
strength and beauty of mature manhood.
stead of being noble, the
In-
mark
of rank
and
greatness in spiritual
life, it is
the sign of
weakness, of puerility.
[
301
^fnngs
"He
tijat
<ntmre
may
be endured.
Childishness in a child
is
But when
find
man-
hood in years, we
When we
we
feel as children,
we
ways
not
young
children.
Something disappoints
any one or
to take part in It
is
what
their
com-
epithets.
The
of
good-
by
experience,
and
302
Putting atoap
the lesson
therefore,
is
Cfjtlbtel)
CfungS
at,
long;
it
if
we
and not
so rarely,
who have
They
happy
in their relations
upon
But the moment any one seems to slight them, or when one appears to treat them unkindly, or when some scheme
their self-esteem.
or proposal of theirs
is
fit
of babyish
This spectacle
is
not
uncommon among
young people
other.
and
exclusive
monopoly
in their friendships.
They are ardent in their devotion to the young person on whom they fasten their
affection,
[303]
scarcely treating
certainly
re-
spectfully,
showing no cordiality
ment
fails
friend pouts
me any more."
same
Not
infrequently
is
this
childish
spirit
official
places or ap-
in the best
kind of mood
filling
who cannot come down gracefully from the official rostrum. The descent from any elevated position to the level of com-
they
felt
that
office indefinitely,
is
chosen in turn to
[304]
Putting atoap
term, they take
feel
it
Cfnttrisif)
Cfringg
and
as a personal matter
aggrieved.
a wrong or injury. In either case, they probably do not take an active part thereafter in
the
work
illustrations of
a most un-
happy
world.
spirit that is
We
all
a bet-
the
human
beatitude than
is
we are wont to
Commendation
sweet, but
we show a
able weakness if
come.
sels
There
is
[305]
Cfjtng*
tfjat
<nbure
officer
or
a committee chairman
in his society, he
ought
best of cheerfulness, to
If
you
in yourself to
baby
in
Will you do
it?
[306]
Utememter
tfie
Wap
CHAPTER XXXVn
Utememfcer
tfje
Way
all
HERE
is
a Scriptural exhortation
the
led
This exhortation
is
always
it
has spe-
Memory
is
a wonderful faculty.
If
we did
mean nothing to us. All the beautiful things we see, the noble or inspiring words we hear, the gentle
not remember, our past would
emotions we experience, would pass and leave
no trace behind.
as
We
life.
we go through
But memory
enriches us in
life like
it
holds
and treasures up
brings to us.
day
Thus
mind
river,
flows.
exhorted to remember
has led us.
Has God
[309]
Cfnngg
It
is
tfjat
<nbure
we have
selves.
it
upon our-
God
his
upon us
own, and
own
received
him
not.
We may
wish, If trou-
upon going as we
wilfulness
it
upon God.
But
quietly
if
we
we
ac-
cept his
will,
go
we
shall have
our
life.
This means
God
will order
our steps
day by day,
as
in little
sections
is
we go
on.
Sometimes, however,
it is
hard and
we would have
the
gone.
Still
we know that
led us
is
all
way
the
[310]
tonemfoer
tfje
Way
and
trials the
been to us.
McKinley
God's
all in
hands when
lay
is
it
down
his
work and
His
"It
God's way.
will
Thus always
God's
it
way with
is best.
confidence
When we
all the
is in-
way by which
Lord hath
led us, it
all
that
God
We
Many
of us have an unfailing
memory
for the
losses,
the sorrows,
we are most
Murmuring seems more natural and more easy to many people than gratitude. They will take blessings, common and uncommon, from God as they come in continustep.
[311]
Cfnnga
njat <nfcrore
there
is
a break in
They walk
in
garden
and
field
and
So there are
those
who
live
and ten
And
every
But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries."
God has
been in
all this
year's
life.
We
now at the close to find the tokens of his love. As we fold up the volume to lay it away among the books to be opened on the judgment day we should
should look over the story
write upon
it
"Laus
Deo"
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