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Show UP8 THE 10Y OF RKATITUOE. 'When thine heart bath warmed toward some dear friend who hath cast a Jagged stone from thy pathway, and In lis stead hath placed a rose; and When that warmth doth glow anew and ever at his sight; then thou hast known the Joy of gratitude 1 there aught like It In dlylnlty Of emotions, except In the gentle mind of him who gave it birth In thee? It Is more to be i un pa i cd v. It h hca venl Joy than most of the poor delights of earth. "Withal It seems but little known 1 1 1 1 1 1 t human creatures who might be lifted to the skies by yielding to Its gentle power. Measuring the literary liter-ary work from ancient days until the splendid writers of our blessed time of printing, this Joy lialh had all praise wherever spoken, and yet moot Infrequent Infre-quent weak essay. Have they found such sad few instances that gratitudes great happiness is not worth the labor to portray of three, or at most but four, great writers of the world; to give the riches of their thought to adorn, so that all might know, and Is not worth the work of many artists to give the magic of their touch In stone and In our great cathedral lights that kings and commoners alike might be reminded that there doth exist such Joy as this? "What hath descended upon mankind, man-kind, to make the receiver of a gracious gift unhappy in Its coming? When ho receives, he knows that some noble soul on earth hath been Inspired to wondrous good; and this alone Is Joy enough for sweet communion in each hour of trial Merely to remember that one who owed thee naught hath bended down and gently stroked thw foer from thy vein, or blnded up the wound that villains made, to know that gentleness like this abides within the world; that men will give It to each other without price, and ralher for the pleasure of the gift; assuredly this will m ike Joy that all the world can not degrade, de-grade, that tlmo can not wipe out, that dwelleth In thy soul's most sacred place fore er more. "Some Italian author of our time hath said that nothing hath a shorter existence exist-ence than the remembrance of kind at ts "Well might he claim companionship with Machlavelll. He can not have heard of that noble Roman who hav ing been rescued from an Injury b a peasant on one of his farm, rai-e.l that peasanl to be a freeman, and gave to him and his children the luxury lux-ury of education and when a beauteous daughter of the house had grown to glorious womanhood, and he would have wedded her. she begged him nay, and he answered, 'Let It be as thou wilt; choose thine own. and let him be as a son of mine houv "But I would not recite from the meager records of gratitude; f(ir it does seem that n,i n have averted their eyes, lest th.;. should see and might record the many Joys which spring In the rc-celver's rc-celver's heart becuuse of many boun-teous boun-teous things done without price and to bless the glowing union of mankind together In common lot of life I would rather step beyond and ask you, by your thought are you not o'erthrown with joy when some great flood of gratitude grati-tude comes upon you because of the unsought un-sought gift of another to place a pleas ure In your life through all jour days? ' ome hour of reflection by the c,-, shoie, some even time of leisure midst the pines, think thou, of all the Joys thy soul hath felt Is not gratitude the greatest0 "And when thou dost s. r-k to picture to thys'li' tii,. coming of supernal light to eaith, heralding the making of joy and Justice as the lot of man wilt thou not think that gratitude for generous gen-erous deeds fills all the measure 0f a god's request?" |