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Show It Is only after having tried to eorve the publio, and please everybody that a person bocomes fully consalous of the wisdom of the scrlptual otatament "That no man can serve two masters." The Boripturo in fallowing tho matter up says In effeat that the unfortunate mau will cither hate, the ono or tho other of his masters, this Is not exactly the way It effects us, tho hating, (perhaps (per-haps that Is too strong language) corao in on tho other side of the proposition, In our caso it Is the mrstors who get out of sorts with tho servant, when he tries to serve them all. Wo long since learned that It was an Impossibility to please everybody, but like the perpetual perpet-ual motion crnuk, w,e aro every now and again fascinated by tho thought of what a flno thing It It would be If It could be done, and find ourselves trying again at the old task, It Is tho aim of Thp. Record to treat all pcoplo right as far as we are able, and when we fall In this it is owing to our inability, inabil-ity, and not to our lack of Inclination. It must bo understood howovor that we do not profess to be running tho paper on tho prinolplo of "Turning the other cheek," we only claim to be mortal, and subject to mortal weakness and wo naturally feel more Interest In those who help us by their patronage, than we do In those who do not. And we must confess that the more our friends do for us the nioro we feel like doing for them, and tho more wo will do If wo can On the other hand we do not consider that thoso who do not help us aro our enemies, and it we had help to spare after helping our friends all thoy required, we should be qnlto willing to help those who do not help us, but we consider that our duty Is first to our friends. |