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Show ly have not realized it, turn for a ' moment to contemplation of happier i ! thinrs. Turn your tired eyes from I J the day's record of evil to the day's J golden roll cf honor. There is mors ' of good news than of bad news today, every day. There is more to see on the sunny side and it is more worth fleeing. There are only two reasons for gazing at ugly things; either that we may more fully know evil when we meet, even in gilded robes; or that we may grapple with it and blot it out. Broad highroads cf honor lead to every worthy goal of 1 fe. The mud roads are in the lowland, leading only to dissolution and corruption. If we travel the mud road it is to our own volition. Sin is not the hardest life. It is the chaff threshed from the wholesome whole-some grain and will bo swept from the threshing floor. Why look upon the chaff when the grain is there ? If some days the volume of chaff seems greater than others, know that the thrashing has been more thorough. thor-ough. This is a wide , wide world, and full of sweetness for those who would find it. TIIE WIDE, WIDE WORLD. Do not be distressed overmuch by news of evil. This is a wide, wide world. It contains much that is bad, but move that is good. Righteousness is slowly, but surely, triumphing over sin. If you do not believe that, or mere- |
