Show w FROM THE PAST a f i LEARN R f There is a tinge of sadness in every J 1 ev-ery picture of the past From the first to the last of those sketches t which we often call up before us fi i not one is free from that pleasant i i sorrowful tint for what sorrows r should not be pleasant or profitable profita-ble to us when past Every scene every incident which impresses itself upon the mind trilling as it J stands as a sentinel may appear r to challenge our judgment in years to come when that splendid attribute might be at fault Thus armed against itself the mind is cautious and becomes more so when as the years pass on each brings its impressions and makes higher that which men are not slow to honor a noble mind Every opportunity to add to the strength and purity of thought should be gladly embraced r Let no man say that be never had opportunities They come each day as regularly as the light There are those who the past and sorrow is I look upon F the chief color of the picture which i they see They drift carelessly on t nor care to retouch those scenes by making the present more bright or i that the future determination I by a t shall witness a change 11 Who would not gladly return to l his youth that he might profit by the experience he has won through 1 a would j life to do those things which give a lustre to scenes that now look dark through the long since past undone those which add to I to leave the tinga of sorrow which is so easily recognized in those lifelong 1 h life-long views of what we are 4 l n r And yet how few of us are willing q our actions that the l to admit by future can be colored as we will All IIij j the pages of life need not be writ i that ten in one color Throw away 1 i which leaves no brightness in its F r wake and with another pen make read such strokes as will be easily and prove profitable to the reader qs Young men and aged too become i wedded to the thought that fate has placed their hands a dummy pen V which as they perform the act of t 1 1 writing leaves no mark They deplore s I plore the fact as it seems to them forgetting to dp the all the time t pen into the ink of honorable ambition a f ambi-tion and by their neglect and inaction f inac-tion establish in their mind a whim i which unless overthrown leaves 4 them where they are while others gradually approach and rapidly pass them on the road tD honor and wealth Honest effort cannot remain x re-main in obscurity It will win t ticte Af sition is bet f V every time A false position 3 V ter lost than retained for by losing it we may discover the signs of deception ti de-ception and learn to discriminate discrimi-nate between the true and false d the finished look upon i When we I pages of lifes book with each his r own biographer and note the contents 1 con-tents of each line trying to Ignore the darker portions and linger over i the brighter then we find that all l must be read We would but we cannot escape from that which seemed too far inthe past to be recalled f re-called Then every picture of the past will have its tinge of sorrow while many will be all too Eorrow will hope for the seem J ful and we of death that we forgetfulness ing j that which no more on f may gaze I 1 gives back every action of ours 1 small whether it be great or Take this proverb to your heart Take and hold it fast The mill can never grind J With the water that has passed |