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Show others, that we know their .resourrfts are in themselves, that they are simply wins the good things of the world to develop the be-autiful and divine in others and themselves, Every soul is a mine of infinite value. How many souls are mines that are undeveloped, whose resources are unknown'. We have a certain admiration for those who find their resources in their : ' friends. Friendship is a beautiful word, which means more and more to us as the years advance. Yet we have 'to learn that friendship is not a crutch i upon which we are to lean. It is a spirit which is to inspire and beautify the life. We know the weakness and cowardice of the one whose dependence is upon friends. This is a blighting: i, curse of political and social life today. i No one is truly strong and brave until i he is ready to stand by his own convictions convic-tions of right, though deserted, con-deenned, con-deenned, cursed by every friend that he ever had. No one can do that who not learned to find his resources in himself. Such a soul is as strong and free in solitude as in society. His wealth is where rust cannot corrupt, ? where thieves cannot break through and steal. Ills happiness and peace have not been entrusted to any person or anything. We see men using and abusing friendship just ?s they use and abuse their other possessions. What has been pa hi of riches and poverty pov-erty in material things may be said 1 with equal force of riches and poverty in thr love nf friends. Friendship is a good thing; use it as your chartered i vessel to carry the choicest blessings !that flow from the sacred heart io those j who are in mod and bring them to him, and thry will find therein their resources. re-sources. To find our resources in its brightness and cheer we have to lead t I lives that are acceptable to his sacred Joy is a flower by the roadside that i we are glad to pluck as we pursue the ' i ' journey of life. We are cheered by its j w perfume and its beauty; but it it? not, j an 1 can never be the roal which we j are seeking, by which we may sit down I ; an 1 rest in perpetual peace. Juy is a beautiful flower, but it is a liower that fail-- and dies. In it we can never j find our resources. How many souls ' ! there are that are trying to find their I j resources in some great sorrow that j hus darkened their lives! Their veils of mourning are hiding the sun from their - ' j , and hiding their faces from thx' 1 I who ought to be inspired by Viyfm. Iii'n that sorrow they have tXrown . l themselves, and in its sad jriemories they are seeking to find a U; their re- ' , sources. They di not seethat sorrow i" only a dark cloud thf, passes over j us as we journev tre home; thev j I forget that it will b tinged wiln g-o!i by the light of theeUing, n, and will j add :o the landspe a featUre essential I to its perfect y&eauty. The joys and! the sorrows y life have taught many j . to find theif resources in themselves. . We thinkthat jf we c.OU!d exchange j -r povc.ty for wealth, our sorrow for , I gladnrst our hardships for ease, then we cpd .chine with the Saints of God. y; t the church teaches us to find our mrcos. not in these externals, not j 'fi thrVe transient experiences of life, j f "nut- in ourselves. |