Show divine lesson in in the garnering of the goldan grain the summler brommer la Is over and the bar vest is im past the sad skies the bleak fields the bare trees the raw winds that whistle and groan and anel sob and sigh their dirges mournfully remind an a that the season of fruitage has cone zone by and the time has come when vie e can only turn away each to himself and measure up our gameT tarL nature gives us on a seed sed time uwe and a harvest time but these would be meaningless to os as did she not also alio send a season when at the warning touch of winter chill we must measure our coins gains and consider our losses but for the lessons of this season no 00 man would abor labor we would know caught naught of temperance or thrift we would go through the bright spring only singing and idle away the sum gum mer in dreams so it is part of the divine plan that each of dt us should now go apart and carefully separate the wheat from the chaff the flowers from the weeds weed sand end that which as s good and land sound and en to daring from all that perishes and faints it Is in nob noir that each must hon catly 0 the tha pr product of his own works lt it were useless now to try to deceive even ourselves 1 now it if at no ther other time we see the vast difference in value between the picked fruit and the windfalls wind falls the one heap beal we proudly stord awa knowing it will keep sweet and whole to the winters depths and the other we cast aalde aside that it may not contaminate as it tobx 1 if la to a sad sweet task egweet for the counted gains sad for the opportunities f tuni tunIt ties les lost and to 0 o come no m more 0 6 r and as we garner carner the gains wo we also also almer wisdom As an we separate the wheat ff from om the cam chaff and the sound cruft from the wind windfall falls so whether we will or br not we wow mu mut t in tn V the bowness separate the true from the falso in principles of labor and living no roan even of threescore aye fourscore four score and ten has everk ever known iown this law 16 fall in season it knows mows no In all au the cycles of 0 time 0 e 0 a 0 0 0 W but grains and tim its are not all that wy are re garnering gar a chaff and weeds weed sare are not all we ongie to td nepa ate rate and cast away there are more important still in the store storey M houpo of the heart and mind pd and soul i Is it not weir welt to seek just as cd care i r e fully th though bugh sometimes in id vain to keep only the better batter the arf bricher safe r the more enduring ahinga wien when the bleak november of life comes 0 o e ahall shall have need of them A dreary hlll be the win winter jell to in whose granaries are empty tat but drearier and aud morao desolate still till must bb the winter of ald ae age to the inan roan or woman whose mind and heart and soul buve have brought from the babest harvest only the joys djs that are chaff and the virtues that are mere windfalls wind falls attained and aro adhered to copti through easy convenience when thai that winter inter u comes asat as jt must to many of us ux we ahall shall have 64 only ourselves to turn 19 and nad we shall tind only that whick we ha have av e sown and harvested in the bright spring and golden ummer tie te good gralli ibe UA sound fruit the flowers the high impulses the sacrifices the loves yes and the cheat a the weeds the windfalls wind falls i the bates hates the jeg jealousies toUsles the low pa passions nil 01 these and nothing more to sustain us or to render us desolate we mey may if we will make each day a cycle of all till the seasons we sow each morning and reap each noon and garner each ench evening the fruits of our living in this little day day by day if f we strive on in right and hope and courage mu stour knowledge and our strength and our store increase day a by day dv through many failings and fallings do we come nearer to the aru manhood and tab true hood charles grant miller in the herald |