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Show Two Good Rules. It is a good thing to have some rules or maxims for the government of one's life. Here are two that are worth adopting. adopt-ing. 1. Never be discouraged. Pretty hard rule, is it not? Resolve to obey it. Discouragements are of the devil. She who trusts God and does right, has no business to listen to the divel. no matter what happens. God is supreme, and will win in the end: and His vic-torv vic-torv will be the victory of all who stand with Him. 2. Never be a discourager. What can be meaner than to tempt another an-other to defeat and failure in the contest con-test of life? That is too much like the devil's work for any sensible, self-re-spectina- person to engage in it. Every temptation to wrong-doing has some element of discouragement in it. The old serpent discouraged Eve with her limitation and knr.wldcc. Stand aloof from such santanic-like work. |