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Show SOME TRUTHS TO REMEMBER. j Make the most of your best. j There is no real love without suf- i fering. j No queen is greater than a good j mother. It is more polite to admire than to praise. The idlest controversies are always the hottest. The best thing is to do well whatever God gives us to do. Of all brave men there is none so brave as he who is afraid. Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. No good work is done by men who do not put their heart in the work. Fiction has no right to exist unless it is more beautiful than reality. Wait! All great alterations' in human hu-man affairs are produced by compromise. compro-mise. All are not called to a state of perfection per-fection of their state. To thank God for the smallest gift an entire lifetime on one's knees would not be long enough. The darkest shadows of life are those which a man himself makes when he stands in his own light. If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would have to wear his hat well down over his eyes. There are . hot springs in the human heart that never leap to the surface till they are bored through by sorrow and remorse. I think that sometimes a man's failures fail-ures do more good to the world and his own cause than his best successes. We give the forces of evil too much credit for Intelligence. The devil is clever, but he has many tools in his service. It is much harder and more meritorious meritor-ious to ask another to do a charitable thing than to do it ourselves when it is in our power. One must be severe. Life is severe. God is severe. The Foolish Virgins were only a little careless and lazy, but they were shut out. Good men are of all countries, races, times and classes; but you find more of them tilling the soil than manufacturing manufac-turing its products. Best work is possible only to those who take more delight in doing the thing well, thoroughly well, than in any reward they may receive. An irregular life is one in which one breakfasts when he gets up, and gets ur when one likes. An energetic man is a man who gets up the moment he is awake. A peasant girl who has lived for years in daily association wTith nuns at a convent school is a long way on the road to being a lady if she is pure and refined. Every man must give the world the best that is in him, without fear or hope of reward. The reward of genius is labor, and none other has it a right to seek after. Happily the world will be judged by an All-wise and All-knowing God, and not by a select committee of the ungodly. un-godly. To God alone all hearts are open, all secrets ars known. The desultory reading of inane newspapers news-papers is deplorable. Its object is to kill time, and as time is life meted out to us on the instalment plan, the aim and end of it is suicide in fractions. In this life that "begins with a scream and ends with a moan," deep comprehension is sometimes given to dumb souls those souls that can but bow the head in mute thankfulness or silent resignation. Good is never, done except at the expense ex-pense of those who do it; truth is never enforced except at the sacrifice of its propounders. At least, they expose their inherent imperfections: for nothing noth-ing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. Our hard entrance into this world, our miserable going out of it, our sicknesses, disturbances, and sad encounters en-counters in it, do clamorously tell us we came not into the vorld to run a race- of delights, but to perform the sober acts and purposes of man; which to omit were foully to miscarry in the advantage of humanity, to play away an uniterable life, and to have lived in vain. N. Y. Freeman's Journal. |