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Show Welcome its responsibilities. Heavy though they may be, they but strengthen mind and muscles for the coming fray. They are the skirmishes in the battles,- the campaigns that make soldiers of us, and teach us how to buckle on our armor and gird ourselves our-selves for the fight. , Welcome Its trials. For out of them we come purified and refined, as the gold that is freed from the dross and impurities that belong to its crude and natural condition and cling to it until they are purged away. Welcome its crosses and losses. For they but emphasize and punctuate the' ' story of regeneration and the heroic careers of those who kept straight on in! th path of duty, never hesitating, never turning aside, never holding back their hands from doing that "next thing" that the faithful look: upon as the point gained in the daily warfare of life. Welcome its sorrows and bereave-, ments. They teach us to look upon this world as not our permanent abiding abid-ing place, but that we have a house not made with hands eternal in the Heavens, whither our loved ones have gone before, and from the windows of which they are beckoning to us to come up higher. Rev. John Hall. |