Show GIVING ADVICE AND TAKING IT by THOMAS ARKLE CLARK emeritus Emerl tu dean of men university Univ enily of illinois Illi parson adams was giving very sage and phan per hn advice to joseph andrews joseph vas in love as loung men are wont to be even today find and like most men in thas was as impatient patient for t the h e marriage ceremony the good parson was urging restraint of desire and n d e emotions emolion r n s aad and I 1 a y 1 no g I 1 down the principle that one should never be so intact tinted with ath anything human thit flint hp he could not easily bring himself without too much disturbing tits his mental and emotional equilibrium to give up joseph did not fall for the principle you are too inclined to pas slon alon child the parson advised and have set your affections so absolutely on this young woman that if god required her tit dour our hands I 1 fear that you ou would reluctantly part with her now lop believe lieve me no christian ought so to set his heart on any person or thing in this world but that whenever it shall be required or taken from him in any manner by divine providence he may be able quietly and contentedly to resign it the theory sounded nil right but the preacher had scarcely tely uttered hla his advice until a messenger brought him the and and startling news that his youngest child had just been drowned the news was too much for him and lie he burst into an agony of grief and lamentation joseph tried in vain to comfort him with his own philosophy but to no avail child child he said do not go about impossibilities had it been any other of my children I 1 could have borne it with p patience at lence 11 very likely but it la is usually a io good od deal easier to give some one else jl a dose of bitter medicine than it Is to take it oneself if i I 1 had infected tonsils ton sils watson tells me id have them out right away I 1 wonder it if he would I 1 no 1931 western newspaper union |