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money?” asked the man as he insist
ed on settling for twenty-five cents.
“I’m going to get mother a shawl
for Christmas. She’s wearing one you
can see through, and it ain t right.”
On he went with glowing cheeks and
his cherry whistle. But they had his
name and address. It was the wife
who took a shawl to the mother, and
it was the husband who installed the
sturdy little snow-shoveler as office
boy in a bright new uniform, and with
permission to whistle when he felt
like it. —Evangelical Messenger.
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THE CHALLENGE OF THE INCI
DENTAL.
THE most important results of our
lives are often those which we
think of as merely incidental, if
indeed we notice them at all. Men
have slaved on, year after year, per
fecting a piece of machinery which
they dreamed would revolutionize the
factories of the world. One day
stumbled, seemingly, on a simple con
trivance that they thought quite uninM
portant; but that trivial
later been counted by the
main of their,
Men are nearly always
the relative estimates they
ferent parts of their work. This®g
often seen in reading the lives of lin
erary workers. The volume or poem
which they held to be then* master
-piece not infrequently, received
scant attention at he hands of compe
tent judges, while verses they wrote,
perhaps, in some moment of leisure
have spoken to men’s hearts and can
never die. George Matheson wrote
many devotional and theological books
«ach of which required hard toil to
perfect. One evening, after a time
<of great mental suffering, he produc
ed in five minutes a little poem that
is in the hymn-books of the world just
as he wrote it, save for the subsequent
change of one word. If, when he wrote
these verses, he had been asked what
he considered his most important con
tribution to the religious thought of his
time, he would probably have pointed
to one of his many valuable volumes;
but, while his “Portraits of Christ”
may be forgotten, wherever men and
women have suffered and found com
panionship and strength in Christ,
there will they sing, “O Love that wilt
not let me go.”
Cardinal Newman was one of the
Sratfreat religious controversialists of his
Oftime, and wrote many learned vol
umes. Who reads these now? He
wrote one little hymn, “Lead, Kindly
Light,” and, though it was one of the
smallest in compass of any of his
work, it will live to inspire and cheer
men wherever the soul longs for God.
Thomas Ken was a prominent writer
of the seven century. Few to
day even he ever published
a book. He wrote four lines, beginning,
"Praise God from whom all blessings
flow,” and millions of hearts each
week come near to God in those famil
iar lines.
The great work of our lives, that
which will bear fruit long after we
have been forgotten, will more than
likely be one of the things that we do
almost, if not quite, unconsciously.
The task wfleaensider the ory center
of our lives may seem to accomplish
no particular good, but some little for
gotten kindness will live in another
life forever.
In this fact, that it is the incidental
acts of life that are most likely to
abide, there is comfort for us all. Not
many of us can ever hope to make
much of an impression on the needs of
the world by the work to which we
give ourselves. We must spend all
our days in quiet, obscure labor. Most
of us are driven, partly by necessity,
but mainly, let us hope, by choice, to
do hard, prosaic work for our daily
bread; and we scarce see how such
vocations can have much effect in ad
vancing the Kingdom of God. In this,
of course, we are blind; but even
though our God-given daily toil did
not directly help to bring nearer the
complete victory of the King, yet some
word of cheer or hearty appreciation
of a kindness shown us may bear fruit
throughout all eternity. This thought
should hearten us when the way is
rough and steep, and the work of our
hands seems to avail so little.
But while it is true that it will prob'
abily be our unconscious, or what at
best consider our secondary, achieve
ments which will bear the most fruit,
we must nevertheless give ourselves
with restless energy to what we believe
to be the main task of our lives. That
the enduring results of our life will
probably be what we consider its by
products is no salve for the conscience
of the lazy man who says, “What use,
then, for me to keep on in my partic
ular line? If I ever accomplish any
thing it will more than likely be some'
thing! never aimed to do.” On the
very fact should call
■e of us to honest, hearty toil;
■only in the pathway of duty
■ that anything worth while
■omplished. Matheson wrote
■i a few minutes; but if he
■ned his mind and heart by
■of hard, painstaking toil,
Kuld have given the world
flortai Ijiies. Perhaps the ma
perfect through man' 7
may never
what we confidently expect of
if we are bidden to build it, let us do
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