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Show TAKING BROAD VIEW OF LIFE Possibly It Vould Ee Better for AU of Us If We Followed the Advice Ad-vice Given Here. We laugh at the man who frets and vexes himself over transient conditions condi-tions as though they were permanent ones. The most ridiculous people you meet with ia traveling, the people you estimate at the lowest figure for good sense or good breeding are the fussy ones who are always grumbling about the food, or the waiters, or the beds, or the hot weather, professiug to find nothing as anticipated, or as Uiey have been accustomed to having it. But do we recognize the larger application of this principle? Suppose we simply enlarge en-large the spaces a little, rid set this life of CO, 70, fourscore years ovef against the eternal life of the future. As the vestibule is to the hall, as the half-hour of transit on the car is to the day's business, so is this life to that. Do we realize it? Do we really real-ly look upon this life as only the antechamber, ante-chamber, or the few minutes of travel to the place of full occupation? Can we bring ourselves to regard our real life as beginning only when this life of trnnsitoriness shall be over, to look for our permanent interests in the life beyond, ami to treat the affairs of this life accordingly? Let's try! Christian Herul;!. |