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Show Everybody takes pleasure in returning return-ing small obligations; many go so far as to acknowledge moderate ones; but there is hardly anyone who does not repay great obligations with ingratitude. ingrati-tude. ; We must get at the motive of doing do-ing anything before we can rightly understand and fulfill the method 'of doing it. It is only for soulless, machines ma-chines to 'work with method and without with-out motive. , V " B . Tq. suffer well, we must suffer in weakness and feel our weakness; we must see ourselves without any resources re-sources within ourselves; we. must' be on the cross with Jesus Christ, and say as He said: "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" To be, cheerful,' to be happy, to make one's self, a stimulating, gladdening in-fluencein in-fluencein the world is the supreme duty of every human being. Whoever fails to achieve this f aits short of true success in this VlifcV Not Vonly this, but, he neglects a moral- obligation; ' - , k; ;;.' -' ' 1 v - ' "; . ' '-"- "- .'.J?--8iiiCi.4i-,ifJi.i VlVfT There are four sorts of readers hour-glass readers, whose reading runs in and out and leaves nothing; sponge readers, who imbibe all, but only give it out again as they got it, and perhaps per-haps not so clean; jelly-bag readers, who keep the dregs and refuse, and let the pure run through; diamond readers, who cast aside all that is worthless, and hold only the gems. , |