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REFLECTION.
Do not look for wrong and evil—
You will And them if you do:
As you measure for your neighbor,
He will meaaure back to you.
Ix>ok for goodness, look for gladness—
You will meet them all the while;
If you bring a smiling visage
To the glass, you meet a smile,
—Alice Cary.
For the Index.
Simple Faith.
Marcia, my little five-year-old
sister, had been quietly waiting
in the carriage for mamma and
papa to take her to ride. The
servant thoughtlessly ran in the
house, leaving the little one alone
in the carriage with no one to
manage the horses. She play
fully hit the horses, when, find
ing themselves free, they bound
ed down the street, threatening
life and destruction. In vain
were attempts made to stop them,
which only served to increase
their fright and heighten the dan
ger. It seemed that all was lost
and the little gir. would surely
be dashed to death, till in God’s
providence one wheel came in
contact with a tree, throwing
Marcia from the carriage un" iurt.
A few hours later, stopping in
her play she ran to mamma say
ing, “Mamma, here’s what I said
while I was riding—l said, ‘God,
please don’t let me get hurt,’ and
he didn’t, did he mamma?”
It would be unbecoming to take
the space it would require to ex
press how sweet it sounded to a
mother, a father or a bi other.
However, there is a lesson con
veyed worthy of universal con
sideration. The young soul, by
its very constitution, as yet
untainted and uncorrupted by
worldly things, acknowledged
its creator’s preserving care.
The morning freshness and
simplicity of youth, uncontam
inated by the numerous activ
ities, desires and thoughts of the
full grown day, enabled the soul
to look to its creator, scarcely
forming any well defined thought.
“Except ye become as little chil
dren,ye shall not enter the King
dom of Heaven.” Our blessed
Savior knew human nature too
well to think that it could assume
the necessary humility and sim
plicity with all the vanities ac
quired in the complex relations
of life, and so gave us the above
injunction. Cast aside the man
tle of bigotry and selfishness and
let the soul be revealed in all its
pristine simplicity and innocence,
as God intended. Ther,and only
then, can it bow the humble knee
before its Lord and Master, rest
ing in simple faith. 'Would that
we could ever be lititle children
in simplicity,faith and innocence;
for then the soul would always
find its home and resting place in
the ever open arms of the crea
tor that gave it birth.
C. H. H.
Crawfordville, Ga., July 6, ’96.
Sketch of Clara Barton, of Red
Cross Fame.
The Red Cross workers are
still administering relief to the
suffering Armenians, in co-oper
ation with the missionaries. It
will be months yet before the
work can be suspended. The
Christian Herald gives the follow
ing biographical sketch of Miss
Clara Barton, president of the
American Red Cross Society,
who is in charge of the expedi
tion:
“Clara Barton’s name and the
story of her life long devotion to
the cause of humanity are known
throughout the Union. Miss
Barton was born in Oxford,
Mass., in 1838. She had a thor
ough education in the public
schools of that city, supplement
ed by a course of study at Clin
ton, N. Y. For some time she
was a teacher in the public
schools of Oxford, and subse
quently was principal of the first
public school at Bordentown,
N. J. She was engaged in the
Patent Office at Washington in
1861, when the war introduced
her to the work that has made
her name famous in all lands.
Resigning, her position in the
Patent Office, she devoted her
self exclusively to hospital work.
As the need increased she hired
a vehicle and went to the scene
of the slaughter, Culpepper Court
House being her first destination.
“Miss Barton was on the bat
tle fields of Cedar Mountain, An
tietam, Fredericksburg, Fal
mouth, and at the siege of Charles
ton. How many lives were sav
ed in those scenes of slaughter
through her prompt ministra
tions, none can estimate. With
her band of trained nurses, she
did noble service, and continued
in it to the end of the war.
“With a frame exhausted by
continuous labor, she went, by
the advice of her physician, to
Europe to recuperate. She was
there when the Franco-Prussian
war broke out, and she immedi
ately offered her services. At
Metz, in Paris, and in other
scenes of the conflict, she minis
tered to the wounded and com
forted the dying. The Emperor
of Germany acknowledged her
services by the presentation of
the Order of the Iron Cross, and
other distinguished personages
gave her tangible proofs of grate
ful esteem. Since then, as pres-
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY. JULY ?3, 1898.
ident of the American Red Cross
Society, she has rendered bane fl
cent services in the Ohio floods,
the Michigan fires, the Charles
ton earthquake, the Johnstown
flood, and other calamities of na
tional import.”
■ Workers and Drones.
It is always the busy people—the very
busiest and most energetic—who take
up new work, and find time for it. This,
though a paradox, is a truism, as any
observer knows. If a new company is
formed, who are the men who go upon
its board of directors? Why, the busy,
successful ones, who are already deep
in affairs If a new charity is needed,
who must be relied upon to organize
and manage it? Why, those who areal
ready working with all their strength
in the field, and who have the reeponsi
bilities of half a-dozen other organize
tions on their shoulders. And these
hard workers do not ♦only lend their
names—they do their share, they make
time for their new duties, and fulfil
them with exactness and promptitude.
Yet when the same invitation to lend a
hand to any new enterprise comes th a
man or woman of comparative leisure,
how ready is the response I really have
no time!’’ An able bodied woman, who
had absolutely no duties except to at
tend to the wants of her canary bird,
and go shopping—for she lived in a
boarding-house, and had all her sewing
done—has been known to make that ex
cuse with a perfectly sincere air, evi
dently believing it herself. Another,
with three servants and no children,
was obliged to decline any church work.
“I have so much to attend to, really,
that I can not find the time!” she said,
to the busy little woman who had come
to ask her co operation in some tempo
rary work for the Aid Society. And
the busy woman, who had four children,
and whose one servant had just given
warning, smiled to herself, hut pru
dently refrained from saying .vhat she
thought. For the people who have
nothing to do, and yet ’’have no time”
are not to be argued with. They will
go on unconvinced to the end of the
chapter, believing that their days are
fully employed, and declining to con
eider the self evident fact that others
ars accomplishing twenty times as
much in the twenty-four hours Per
haps it is just as well; for we all of us
know what sort of workers they are apt
to make when they happen, by occa
sional chance, to get into the harness.
Os all exasperating, inaccurate, unpunc
tual, incompetent persons, commend us
to one or two of this class whom we
have known. When one thinks of it,
after all, perhaps they may help in the
work of the world, to a large extent, by
simply keeping out of it!— lnterior.
Obedience in the Home.
The first and fundamental thing tiut
the home has to do for the child in the
way of education is to help to make of
him a little moral vertebrate. There
needs to be developed an osseous shaft
running up and down him, that shall
form the axis around which his growing
personality shall gather itself in com
pactness and fixity. That will make
the boy mean something, and make him
mean more and more till the end of
time, and clear on into eternity. It is
the only thing that will make him
worth calling a personal integer. To
learn to obey is the hardest, even as it
is the most valuable, lesson a child can
ever acquire. It is mt only valuab e
for what it is in itself, it is also valuable
for what it serves as the basis of. One
of the first things told usof Jesus has to
do with this same matter. It is related
to us that he was subject to his parents;
and the narrative immediately goes on
to remark that he grew in wisdom and
in favor with God and men. The close
juxtaposition of the two seems calcula
ted to teach that obedience was the seed
kernel out of which his intelligence and
holiness waxed.— C. 11. Parkhurst.
To the question, ‘' To what do you
attribute your remarkable vigor at such
an advanced age ?” Dr. Newman Hall,
the eminent English Congregational
minister, replied:
“ Sober habits, attention to the laws
of health, going to bed in a decent time,
and not working hard late at night. I
have never been a diner-out, nor in
dulged in heavy suppers. I take a cold
bath all the year round, and have al
ways been a walker; lean now do ten
miles at a stretch without fatigue. My
sight and hearing are perfect. Teeto
talism has had a great deal to do with
my good health. My father and mother
were total abstainers, and I have been
one for sixty years. Statistics show
that people who from early life are total
abstainers live on an average seven years
longer than other people. I have never
smoked.”
An illustration of the wisdom of the
Boer authorities at Johannesburg is
furnished by their action during the
raid last fall. One of the first move
ments of the officials was to close every
saloon, compensate the owners for their
stock and then destroy the liquor by
pouring it on the ground. Had this
fine beginning been followed by com
plete prohibition of the stuff the Boers’
history would chronicle a victory over a
greater and more insiduous enemy than
any by which they are attacked, and an
ideal republic would be formed upon
the rich mineral lands of the Transvaal.
“ Can there be a more abjectly pitia
ble spectacle, can there be a more fear
fully dismantled hulk on the rolling
waters, or a more ghastly wreck upon
life’s lonely shore—than the habitual
drunkard ? He cannot resist a chemical
product; he has made himself the negro
slave of a dead thing; he has impawned
that which is divine within him to the
meanest and loathliest of all the fiends.
What is this but demoniacal posses
sions ? What is this but the undying
worm and the quenchless flame, self-in
troduced, self-kindled in the heart.” —
Canon Farrar.
Private Lee.
BY JULIA B. REED—EATONTON,
*
“Rah ! rah ! Hur-rah-rah ! Rah ! Rah !
Georgia ! ” rang through the “ Summey
House” mess hall as Randolph Lee, the
new student, appeared in the door.
“Salute!” was the command from
Captain Anderson of Company B.
Instantly, the private, smiling and
bowing in the doorway, was pelted with
the dry biscuit the boys had been car
rying a day in their pockets, in antici
pation of this initiation.
The ammunition exhausted, Private
Lee gave the salute of a subaltern; and,
amid the University yell, again raised,
was escorted to the table.
He had made a fine impression; his
military bearing, broad smile, and good
temper were pronounced capital.
And in evidence of their appreciation
of these qualities, the students served
him (along with his supper) the richest
dormitory jokes, the witticisms hoarded
for rare events, and an occasional spon
taneous ebullition.
The chairs were pushed back from
the table; the real fun of the initiation
was now to begin.
Captain Anderson laid bls hand on
Private Lee's shoulder and spoke with
the assumption of much martial hau
teur, "Young man, the desire of the
herd is to ’ paddle and turn’ you. ’
“ Captain, a reprieve, a reprieve for a
week ! 15 cried Lee with a fine show of
the actor. “ And, upon my honor, I
will be on the spot, at the very hour
named.”
“ Fie upon his honor ! Sneak ! Sneak!
'Paddle and turn I’ 'Paddle and turn!' ”
was the deafening shjut from a hun
dred or more.
“ Young gentlemen,” began Lee.
His voice was drowned in, ‘' Paddle
and turn I ’
He essayed the third time to
speak, but. with no better success.
Captain Anderson sprang on the table
and commanded silence.
And, with military promptness, there
was silence.
“Attention!" was the second com
mand; a pin falling could have been
heard.
“No, gentlemen,” said Lee quietly,
“ I am neither a sneak nor a crawfish.
I have come to the * Summey' to stay,
and to submit to any ordeal the august
authorities here may impose. But,
boys [the broad smile joined the eyes
in entreaty], lam painfully sick to
night. In a few days I hope to be my
self again, and you may then ‘ paddle
and turn' me to your fullest satisfac
tion. Not to-night—please.”
Henry Ashton with several others of
like stamp, had decided the University’s
mild “paddle and turn” was quite too
tame a hazing, and that he would in
troduce more exciting measures.
In accord with this ambition, he
stood at Lee’s back with a cup of hot
grease. Now.was his opportunity—for
degradation.
“ What a pretty lie!” he shrieked,
throwing the fiery oil over Lee’s head
and neck, and then dashed for the door.
But Anderson was equally quick, and
seizing him in the collar, dragged him
in front ot Lee.
“Now, Lee," he said excitedly, “give
him what the deserves! I'll see that
you have fair play.”
The students waited in breathless ex
pectancy for Lee’s powerful blow.
Instead of striking out, he drew back
his clinched hands and put them behind
him. His voice was deep and hoarse
with suppressed emotion as he said,
“ Boys* six months ago, this insult
would not have gone unredressed. Since
then I have enlisted in a company
whose commander orders, * * * *
‘ Avenge not yourselves. ’ * * * *
•Vengeance is mine; I will repay.’ It is
my practice to obey my Commander's
orders. Thank God ! I did not forget
them to-night.” Then turning to Ander
son, “ lam suffering ! Will you find the
nearest doctor ? ”
And slipping his hand through the
proffered arm, the two left the room
amid a silence that could be felt
Private Lee did not appear at chapel,
the following morning—the doctor and
good, motherly old Mrs. Summey said
“no” very positively.
The white-haired chancellor read the
morning lesson from Proverbs, “ A fool
ish son is the calamity of his father. ”
The Holy Book fell together ; he stood
with his arms leaning upon it, as his
quick eye traveled down each row of
students. It rested upon Elton Ander
son.
"Captain Anderson of Company B!”
Captain Anderson stepped into the
" How is Private Lee ?” vas the in
terested inquiry.
“ I left him sleeping. “ ,
“ Bear to your |^m tender
regard ” ' '
The chancellor waved Anderson to
his seat amid a tremendous applause.
“Young gentlemen,” he resumed as
soon as there was silence, “ since early
boyhood, my her ) has been Martin Lu
ther —the man who stood undaunted
with the world against him, and de
clared himself, in the name of God,
against the world. Such courage is su
pernatural —born of the Spirit of God !
This morning let us bow before the Cre
ator in humble gratitude that there is a
Luther in our midst; a stripling who,
while looking like a racer in the Olym
pic games, can proclaim himself to his
fellows, in the face of their preconceived
opinions (from the Christian world —
alas !) of manliness and bravery, a fol
lower of the Meek and Lowly who
'spake as never man spake ’ * * *
‘ Whosoever shall smite thee on thy
right cheek, turn to him the other also.’
“Young men, your comrade is a con
queror whose victory will sound through
the eternal ages, and set all heaven to
ringing with hallelujahs. He has tamed
his own spirit, and is greater than he
that taketh a city—yes. a walled city.”
Then he prayed, and never in the old
chapel, shrouded in deep mystic shad
ows and hoary memories, had been ut
tered such a prayer.
The students went out with many
new, strange thoughts; and, as the
hours passed, the thoughts deepened;
for, through each lecture, they caught
the echo of that prayer.
There were fifteen minutes between
“ prayers ” and the lecture on physics
time enough, Anderson thought, to tell
Lee “ all about it.”
Springing up the dormitory steps—
three at a time—he burst into Lee’s
room.
“Lee,” he exclaimed breathlessly,
throwing himself on the bed, “you
ought to have heard ‘old Zep!’ He
talked about you like you had been an
angel. And, old fellow, it’s pretty near
all true. I never in all my life—”
Lee laid his hand on Anderson’s and
checked his enthusiasm with a quiet,
“Don’t, Captain. I don’t deserve this. I
only obeyed orders.”
Then he added with a sad smile:
“You can't understand it now, old
fellow; but you will some day.”
Anderson thought he looked at him
through his mother’s eyes, and he held
Lee's hand tight, and looked across the
campus.
For the first time he realized that his
friend had something he had not: that
he stood in a kingdom above and, look
ing up, discerned heights he could not
see, or, seeing, could not comprehend.
He leaned toward the private who
was also looking across the campus.
“Lee,"he said almost timidly, “I wish
I were a private under your Comman
der. Do you think, old fellow, he
would let me stand next to you in the
ranks ? It would help me to remember
orders.”
The physics’bell rang—
“ Good by, old fellow!”
Anderson went down as he came up
three at a time, and his whistle from
the campus came up to Lee, through
the open window.
Grist For Other Mills.
The man who laughs amid his care,
And lifts the ca.e of others,
Is richer than the millionaire.
And all men are his brothers.
• —The Lookout.
St. Augustine says of one who
was spiritually stronger than
himself: “Let us love one anoth
er, and so it shall be, that I will
love thy strength and thou shalt
bear my weakness.” In such love
weakness is strong.—7. Williams.
©htldrnfe
A BOY THAT LAUGHS.
I know a funny little boy—
The happiest ever born;
His face li like a beam of Joy,
Although hl* clothe* are torn,
I law him tumble on bl* note,
And waited for a groan—
But how he laughed I Do you suppose
He struck hl* funny bone?
There's sunshine in each word he speaks,
Hl* laugh Is something grand;
It* ripple* overrun his cheek*
Like waves on snowy sand.
No matter how the day may go,
You cannot make him cry;
He'* worth a dozen boys 1 know
Who pout and mope and sigh
—Wide Awake.
As we have read the letters
that our little friends have been
sending for these weeks, we have
been interested in noticing that
all of them speak well of the pas
tors of the churches. That is
very pleasant. We hope the
pastors will all try to realize
what good friends they have in
the boys and girls, and that they
will take advantage of this
friendship to try to win these to
Jesus. A little attention from a
pastor to a child is worth much.
A word spoken in love makes a
deep impression for good. May
the pastors be wise and take
Jesus with them into the chil
dren’s hearts. And will not our
young readers open their ears
and listen as the pastors talk
about Jesus and remember as
they speak that they are speak
ing to them, just as if there was
no one else being talked to? And
will they not open their hearts
too, or ask God to help them
open them, and take Jesus in?
He will be the best of friends to
them —in childhood, in youth, in
middle age, in old age, and on
into eternity.
Greshamville. Ga., July 11.1896.
Dear Index:—l do think it is such a
nice thing for the children to have a
Corner to themselves, and I am glad to
see so many of them writing We have
two good churches and two good Sun
day schools in our town. We have
preaching at the Baptist church the
first Sunday in each month, Rev. W.
D. Winburn is our pastor, and Mr. W.
M. Armstrong is our superintendent. I
am a member of the Baptist church and
try to do as near right as I can We
have a temperance lodge at the acad
emy. It meets every third Saturday
night.
A great good is being done by the
good women of this community. The
little boys and girls are taking a great
deal of interest in this great cause. I
love to see others write good letters, if I
cannot do it myself. I hope to see my
piece in print. I love to read the Index.
1 our friend,
L. K Freeman.
Damascus. Ga., July 13,1896.
Dear Index :—I see you have given
a corner to the children in your paper.
I thought I would write, hoping I
would be let in the Corner. My father
takes the Index He is a Baptist min
ister, and preaches to four churches, one
at Natchwa, one at Milford, one at Lea
ry, and a church out in the country
named Hill Side. But his membei ship
is at Mt. Hebron. Rev. Jno. Martin is
the pastor. He is a good preacher. Our
protracted meeting begins the 3d Sun
day in this month We wish to have a
good meeting. We hope the Lord will
be there and we will have a revival
meeting. We have Sunday school
every Sunday. Mr. C. C. Miller is the
superintendent, and we have a nice
school. I like to go and learn some
thing of the Bible, and about Jesus who
loves the children. This is my first let
ter, so I will close for fear it will find its
way to the waste basket.
Your unknown friend.
J. W. Pool.
Thomson, Ga., July 14, 1896.
Dear Index :—I have been reading
the letters in the Index and been think
ing of writing myself, a long time.
I am a member of the B aptist church.
Bro. G. W. Garner is our pastor. He is
a splendid one. We are well pleased
with him.
Our protracted meeting has closed,
with thirteen additions,
Rev. J. A. Wray, of Milledgeville,
ably assisted Bro. Garner.
Our Sabbath-school is large. Mr.
Pearce is our superintendent.
lam ten years old. I will close, hop
ing the waste basket will not get this,
lam,
Your little friend,
Edgar Burnley.
Bowman, Ga., June 29, 1896.
Dear Index —lgo to Sunday-school
at Rehoboth church Mr. E. R Goss is
the pastor, R. B. Sanders is the superin
tendent, and G. L. Seymore clerk I
like Sunday, very much, and Mr. Goss
is such a good preacher. I will now tell
that the Sunday School Convention
meets with Rehoboth church the 13th
of July, and we hope “Uncle Jimmie”
will be there. I will close by saying
that I love to read Field Notes and the
Children’s Corner very much
Yours with respect,
John A. Smith.
Dear Index: —As I have just been
reading the “Corner” in the Index, atd
see that they would like to have some
one else to write, I will write a short
piece to let you know that I am interest
ed in the Corner, and would like to have
it filled out. I go to Sunday-school every
Sunday. We have a nice school at
Chestnut Street church. We have ser
vices twice a njonth, the Ist and 3d
Sundays. The pastor is Bro. Wooten.
He is a splendid preacher.
Your little friend,
Mabel Gardner.
Athens, Ga., July 13,1896.
Dear Index: —I will try to write
you a letter to put in the Children’s
Corner. We have a nice Sunday-school
and we hold it in the opera house.
Mr. McMahon is superintendent of
our school. We have torn down the old
church and are going to build a new
one, costing 118.000, and Dr. Young, our
pastor, is going to build a $6,000 organ
for our new church.
Your little friend,
C. H. M. W.
Harmony Grove, Ga., July 4, 1896.
Dear Index: —As our Corner had
but few letters in it last week, I thought
I would write. lam a little boy eleven
years old. I read the Index and enjoy
the Children’s Corner very much. We
have a good Sunday-school. Dr. Will
Hardman is our superintendent. We
like him very much. Dr. Riley is our
pastor. We think hp is the best pastor
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we ever saw. We are building a 110.000
church at our little town. I will close
for this time.
Your little friend,
Eugene Hudson.
Washington. Ga., July 4, 1896.
Dear Index Here 1 come again to
talk a little while. Our Corner is just
the place for us to chat. The beloved
pastor of Washington church, Mr.
Gross, is expected home this week. Mr.
Carter, who has been filling hie pulpit,
left on Monday last for Greenville S. C.
Mr. Carter won many friends during
his stay who regretted to see him leave.
“Gray-haired Mother,” your letter was
so nice. You must come again. I will
tell you of some of the books I have
read. “Mary Bunyan,” for one. This
beautiful volume was printed years ago,
but the older it gets the better I love it.
It is the story of a blind girl and one or
two more nice stories in connection
with it. “Cornelia's Jewels” is another
one which I have read. It is also very
nice. Come boys, don’t let the girls get
ahead of you. More of you must write
Our Corner is just the place for us, and
it is bright and sunshiny enough for
any one; so come ahead.
Oh, you are getting tired of me, and
yonder sits that horrid waste basket;
but, if you please, don’t come this way,
Mr Basket.
1 love to read the Index. It has been
in my home for ten years. I have often
heard my grandmother say she learned
to read reading the Index. Success
follow you, dear old paper.
Good bye until next time.
D. P. J.
Dear Index I have come in to tell
you what books I have read, though it
is not much to tell. lam only twelve
years old. When I was nine, I read the
Bible and got a nice Bible for a present
and have read it once since. Then I
read “Mother, Home and Heaven,”
“Bible Story Land,” “Little Curly
Locks,” “Black Beauty,” “Chatter,”
"Book of Tales,” “Mother’s Stories,”
“Little Women,” “Character Sketches.”
‘ Earnest Willie. ” Os course all of you
have read the latter. Mamma says it
has been ‘‘a glorious addition to her
spiritual life.” I am reading “Swiss
Family Robinson ’ now lam keeping
a record of the books I read, title and
date of reading, and do not expect to
read one that I shall be ashamed to add
to the list. I like "Mother-, Home and
Heaven,” beet of all ye*. “Old Arm
Chair,” “My Mother’s Bible” (in verse)
and “How Mamma Plays,” are my
favorite pieces. “Chatter" is a prize
from my Sunday school teacher. It
contains one of the sweetest stories I
ever read, called “Little Hinges ’’
“Mother's Stories "is the best book I ever
saw for children.
I hope I will find the very way to
“Womanhood Town” you told us of last
week. L. E. Morris.
Attention, Sharp !
A friend of mine was in the office of a
gentleman in Philadelphia, when a
young man came in for instructions
with regard to some business he was to
transact. The merchant stated the dif
ferent points distinctly; but in rapid
succession, repeating nothing. There
were quite a number of item o , and the
youth took no notes, but gave the sharp
est attention, and then put on his hat
and walked out.
In answer to an amused smile on my
friend’s face, the other remarked:
“ You think that is rattling off busi
ness pretty fast, don't you?”
“ Yes, and the only wonder to me is
that the boy can remember a single
thing you said.”
“ It is all in training. A boy may just
as well learn to attend to what you say
the first time and remember it. as to
look to have it repeated over and over
again, and then quite likely forget
half his directions.”
There was a great deal of truth in the
remark, and it is well worthy the at
tention of every young person. It is a
great disadvantage to any one to ac
quire the habit of half listening, when
he is told anything of importance. "At
tention, sharp !” should be the motto of
every wide-awake boy and girl when
taking in instructions. It will save
many mortifying blunders, and help to
win for them a name for ability, which
is capital better than bank stock with
which to begin life.
The same peculiarities are apt to run
all through a person’s character. The
inattentive listener is pretty sure to be
the inattentive observer. It is an old
saying that there are people who “ can
go all through a whole forest and see
no firewood.” People of this stamp
lose a great deal that might be turned
to account byway of personal
improvement, and they miss many
wayside springs of happiness. Mr.
Edgeworth claims that the dif
ference 'in intellect among men
depends more upon the early cultiva
tion of this habit of attention, than upon
any marked difference in their original
powers.
Any boy of average ability may learn
to attend closely to what goes on about
him, 'Or the business he has in hand,
It may be necessary to go from one
thing to another in rapid succession, but
for the moment we should give concen
trated thought to whatever we are do
ing. It is by this close attention and
sharp following up of facts that Watt
made his great discoveries in steam, and
that Edison has made for himself such
a name in our day. There are more
fields yet to be won and the brave boys
are now plodding on their way who are
to win them. They are not the boys of
lazy minds, nor the boys who are always
forgetting, and saying, "I don’t care.’
What Makes a Boy Popular,—A
popular tioy is a lover of sports, of out
door exercise. That is right He looks
upon the playground as a place for the
pleasure of his fellows, and he goes there
to the end that he may help them en
joy themselves. A kind boy is always
popular. Affection is a manner of ex-
pressing sympathy with others. A
generous boy is popular, while a spend
thrift proves himself in time to be very
unpopular. Manliness in all its true
meaning makes a boy popular The
boy who is careful of his sister is popu
lar. The boy who will never violate his
word, and who will pledge his honor to
his own hurt and change not, will have
the confidence of his fellows.
Self Examination.—Self-examina
tion is profitable. It is easy to examine
others. I, myself, am good to see the
faults of others, but every little while I
have to stop and examine myself and
say: "Moody, what are your faults?”
It is self, but it is hard to give yourself
a thorough examination.
But I tell you to examine yourselves.
You will find the best way to do it is
mapped out in the Bible. I would not
give a snap of my finger for you, even
if you lead in your examinations, if yon
are not truthful and cannot be trust
ed.
I once had a terribly hard thing to do
in Chicago. I found myself jealous of a
certain minister, and I determined to
cure myself. I invited him to preach,
and then I advertised and filled the
church. I took a back seat and made
my human nature squirm Pretty soon
I oegan to like the man. and have liked
him ever since. No man can ever get a
grip on the conscien e if he is possesse
with jealousy — D L. Moody.
Reading and Observing —The
man who reads learns a great deal. But
it has often only a vague and far off re
lation to the life among whose condi
tions he stands. And as no man can
serve two masters, he is very apt to lose
his hold upon actual life in the propor
tion in which he absorbs himself in
books. He becomes what the world,
with its keen insight, recognizes as
“bookish” “Those who read know
much, but those who observe sometimes
know more," says Dumas, and it is
partly true. The unread but thought
ful observer, who uses ,his own brains
and eyes to perceive and classify the
facts about him, is often narrow, but al
ways wise and racy within the limited
arena of his experience. It is an es
pecially good thing for the two classes
to meet and learn each from the other.
Experience corrects theory, and theory,
on its side, organizes what experience
collects. And when they are, occa
sionally, united in the same person, the
world hath need of that man.— Interior
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