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Show FABLE DEALING WITH ADVICE Will Be Interesting Alike to Those Who Offer and Those Who Seek Guidance. Once, on a day when many problems rose up and encompassed mo about as high walls my friend came to me with admonition in his eyes and advice on his tongue. And, because of the love that was between us, I hearkened unto the words of my friend and did as he advised. ad-vised. But his advice brought me no, good thing. Nay, rather It led me deep er Into my prison of questionings. And when I saw that my troubles wero multiplied upon mo I sought out my friend again to ask him why this should be. And I said: "Lo! All that hou badest mo do I have done, yet am I not released from my difficulty rather is trouble multiplied multi-plied upon mo!" And my friend lost patlenco with me and laughed mo to scorn and said: "If thou knewest that what I said would bring thee to no good end, why wast thou obedient to my voice? I advised for thy good but thy life I cannot make for thee." And nt first I was wroth with my friend, but later, when I had lain still a long time with my thought, I was thankful unto'hlm. For I said, "Henceforth I wlll.jiot ask advice only of my own mind, nnd the soul within me shall bo a counselor." coun-selor." And when I had sought the advice of my mind nnd taken counsel with mine own soul, I saw a path between tho walls and knew where my feet should tread. And by thnt path I began to climb from my prison. Then came other friends with advice ad-vice on their tongues and cried unto me. - ' "Not this way! Not this way!" But I hearkened not unto them, for I felt that I was destined to be mtno own deliverer. And at last there came a day when the walls of my prison lay below me and when I could smile upon my friends and say. "Lo, it was the right path!" But my friends only smiled back at mo with right good will and said: "You have had good luck. We are glad." Marguerite Wilkinson. |