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Show aro ' m . .-- hi almost never right to leave a task j unfinished. This day, this hour, this j minute, nuts a task into our hands. 'Because of the nail the shoe was lost; because of the shoe the horse was lost; because of the horse the rider was lost; because of the rider the battle was lost." So it was the blacksmith, after all, who lost the battle. bat-tle. If he had done his work well, the cause might have triumphed. Christian Chris-tian Herald. DISCONTENT NOT ALL GOOD True That It Has Its Uses, but There Are Other Things to Be Considered. It is perhaps true that some writers and teachers have ovc-r-emphasbed the gospel of contentment with our lot. It is not always well to he contented with our lot. Avancement in every line has been made by people who were discontented dis-contented with their present opportunities oppor-tunities and broke through to something some-thing higher. But, even allowing this, it is undeniably true that there is a vast amount of unholy and wasteful discontent. We are apt to think pretty pret-ty constantly how much more and how much better we would do if circumstances circum-stances were different. While history presents many caBes of people who broke away from humble task to force their way to something higher, it Is fuller of instances in which a man or woman,' by doing with patient faithfulness faith-fulness an Insignificant task, has been celled to greater things. The answer to the problem is the old rule of living by the minute. It Is |