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Show I BLESSEDNESS OF DUTY Wa may overcome depression by duty. It Is a blessed thing to have something to do. Some dissstor over, cornea us or a great sorrow swoops down on our spirit, and It seems aa though llfo ran have nothing In store that la desirable. Hut lira still has Its wants, I still has Its humble duties, and wa take them up. almost mechanically mechan-ically at first, but before long wa Bnd that they are medicinal. Tbunk Ood for something to do! The depression of an active spirit frequently s Tines from enforced Idleness. Idle-ness. It wus after John the Daptlst was shut up In prison that he sent his disciples to say to Jesus: "Art tbou ha that should come, or do we look for another?" Jetua did not reproach tha prophet of tho wilderness for asking such a question. Ilia forerunner bad not lovt his fultb, but his active spirit was depressed by confinement within tba black walls of the mountain fortress for-tress of Macbuoms, |