Show if you think you are beaten you are if you think you dare not you dont if like to win but you think you cant it s almost a cinch you wont Sc scarcely arcel as conscious of the sorrow of having lost her as of the joy of having possessed her these were the words beneath the portrait in the living room of a french pastor the picture was that of his wife for forty years she had bad worked by his side in his field of s service e r v I 1 c e and then had passed on while others W ware e mourning the fact that he haa hacy her he lifted his voice to god for the memory of the forty years he had possessed her it is a case of seeing what we have or of seeing what we have not some dwell only on what they have lost others glory in what they have remaining this is n nearer e a r e r the christian way both in life and in the sorrow of death great and populous cities have always been the graveyards of civilizations and who can doubt today that the festering overpopulated health heal th destroying and crime breeding cities of america are hurrying our nation to an unhappy doom if you are a with uncertain employment your wisest move is to tle the city behind get a small tio 1 of productive land and prepare to live in security and freedom from the products of your own toil and if you are a farmer already on the land stick with it as longas the banker and sheriff will permit you morton alexander the greatest victories of history are not the battles won by sword or cannon nor yet the stupendous deeds of adventurers lifes greatest conquest is in the human heart when an individual learns to rule his hi own spirit learns to overcome malice and e envy n v y and retaliatory tact cs learns to be calm under fire and gives forth sweetness and charity and sympathy and kindness no matter how the world or the people in it may treat him he that ruleth his own spirit is mightier than he be who a eity city roy clyde weidler let us abolish the profit system and save civilization civilisation morton alexander |