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Show LET GC0D RESOLUTIONS. FADE Eut Fugitive Impulse to Lead Better Livcb Can't Help But Have an Ennobling Effect. Tn on.' of bN puiiii-iu-'l M-nnoiH Hi-nry Ward I WmIh-c pk-tun-; a roia-pany roia-pany of sijiai ivi-..iv i'rin. hnn-si hnn-si J t' ii m on i tn- nuinlit'r, I ra vl i i y i -:i iiu-r liuwn th.' whiu river. Sabtiaili morning (.lawns ami Ilu- pa.--'iiL.'-i'S al; the cb-r.L'yiii;: ii to c-.nitiu.-t a religious relig-ious si-rviee and vve ili.-ia an ini'or-nial ini'or-nial talk. He pi.-a'-lu-s on Paul's u i in Is "In honor niv.Vrrin:; mie an-nllnT." an-nllnT." .As tin. preacher unfolds the nobilMy and Ijeaufy of ihe iineltili life, not a few of his li -teners are deeply moved. Here a head H bowed in serious t hoiiL'ht, I here a teardrop glistens in ihe e. . and frequently a hearer nods eniplniiic agrueinetiL with the preache-'rt words. Put as Ihe notes of the closing hymn die, the Kontf sounds for dinner, and the congregation rnles away in lint haste to p't the best places at table and the lir.-U serving of food. At the first opportunity to put into practice tin; truth of the morning's sennon, the hearers forget the generous emotions it had excited, and let the sellish, self-seeking self-seeking habits of life resume their sway. And yet, Mr. Koerhor adds, these people were not hypocrites. The emotion emo-tion was genuine. While the impulse lingered they really meant to live more for others and less for themselves. Hut tin? impulse was fugitive. They never seized hold of it and molded it into a linn purpose. What splendid biographies almost nny of us niiht bequeath to the world if we could honestly express them in (he terms of lleetiny aspirations and impulses toward jrood and noble things! And what a melancholy chapter chap-ter in even the best life is made up of its defeated ambitions, its nu-urought nu-urought deeds of kindness, its manly resolves that never came to anything, its heaven-sent visions that faded out in the lilit of the common day! The fugitive impulse is too weak to be trusted, but it has in it the making of I hat which curbs unruly passions, subdues sub-dues deep-seated habits, and shapes ,he whole life on the broad lines of Christ's perfect manhood. Youth's t 'ompunion. |