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Show There is a difference between living for the present and living in the present. pres-ent. The former signi flees self-gratification, yielding to temptation. The latter implies embracing opportunities of well-doing, and an appreciation of the relative values of times and eternity. eter-nity. The, reward of being gentle is to become be-come more gentle. The reward of being be-ing liberal vis to become more liberal; of controlling temper is to become more sweet-tempered. The penalty of being hard is to become hardened, of being unforgiving is to become fcruel. . m - . Man's faults will always be better known that their virtue's: because their defects will find more persons capable of forming a judgment of them than their noble qualities persons fit to comprehend com-prehend and appreciate them. Payson was once asked, when under great bodily affliction, if he could see any particular reason for this dispensation. dispen-sation. "No," replied he; "but I am as well satisfied as if I could see ten thousand reasons; God's will is the ery perfection of all reason." There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost. The man who stands above his fellows fel-lows must expect to be the target for the envious arrows of their inferiority. It is part of the price he must pay for his advance. Seek to mingle gentleness In all your1 rebukes; bear with the. infirmities of others: make allowances for constitutional constitu-tional frailitles; never say harsh things 1 kind things will' do a3 well. |