Show The Real Value of Life Life obtains a real value only when we regard its transient experiences as the perishable forms through which we receive re-ceive enduring benefits The things which happen to us leave their mark upon us They resemble the type of the printing press which is disarranged and scattered scat-tered when it has performed its office The important question is not how long did the type remain in form but was the spiritual copy worth the printing It is thus that I look upon all human occupation occu-pation and all domestic and social relationship re-lationship Let us heartily enjoy them while we may but let us also remember that they are chiefly important as < < < means toward an end which survives their departure de-parture God ills that just as the plant rooted in the maternal soil Stores iup carbon So the human soul having its roots inithis soil of everchanging circumstances cir-cumstances shall store up virtue Every sorrow which adds a single virtue to our character is worth enduring and I I every pleasure which fails to do this is 1 I wasted UniversalisL |