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Show KEEPINQ IDEALS. That was a wise old clergyman who arged hla brethren not to admit young men to the ministry unless they were evidently more broad-minded and enthusiastic en-thusiastic In their faith than their elders. "We must allow," be ssld. "for the Inevitable shrinkage." The same allowance Is necessary in evory .lire for the sure closing In of the real upon the Ideals of youth, and the unavoidable un-avoidable narrowing of hope and aim that must come with middle age. The .more Idealism we start wllh, the more stoutly we defend It against the ahoeks It Is certain to reeclve, the more Joyous life will turn out to bo las we go on living. Tho dreariness Kf the middle-sued view of lire springs largely from the fact that Its Ideals are so shrunken as (o be no loiiKHr M source of vitality, of renewal, says Harper's Hszar. Aa long as we believe be-lieve In life, and in love, and in friend ship, and In heroism, and In other ideal possibilities, life Is worth living and we are strong to lake our part In It. Living for Ideals Is bsppy and courageous living. Living without them Is "the dull gray life and ops-thetle ops-thetle end." |