OCR Text |
Show TRUE VALUE OF OUR LIFE iH Somo Great Emergency Furnishes the M Teat Which Makoe Clear the H Real Valuation. I There Is so much for us to do, so fl many wrongs to be made right and so H many evils to be remedied that a con- M sidcratlon of the petty bickerings of IH life is far beneath our notice. So iH long as Ilfo runs smoothly in its usual H channel we are inclined to attach IH great Importance .to tho minor dctalla of existence and In tlmo yield largely IH to their Influence. IH The terrible test of aome great H emergency, however, makes clear H life's true values. The greatest buc- H cess that can bo attained, the largest H fortunes that can be attained, the H highest station that can be acbioved H are as nothing in the closing hours H of a man's life. Then it is that he H scrutinizes hiB part for tho least ves- H tigo of personal good which he ba.fi H wrought, and It Is that memory alone t M which Is worth anything at all to him. '1 He cannot dorive much comfort from 'll tho wealth he hae accumulated, or tho il social distinction he has attained, but H he can and does rely for his eternal il reward upon the unselfish and simple sorvlce he has rendered for tho wel- jjl fare of others. The life upon which M we place bo high a value must end ,H some time, Booner perhaps than we H Imagine. We mnBt build for the fu- M tare, indeed, not blindly, not selfishly. J not brutally, but In that spirit of IH bravo fellowship which measures np M to every emergency. H |