The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-03-29
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A tired mother, who had been oc-
cupied all day with an active and very
troublesome oy, as she sat down in the
evening and thought of the numberless
details into which her strength had
gone, sa d; .'After all, it is a day
toward the making of man. There
was q world of truth in this brief and
pointed summing up of a DAYS work.
Nothing is so hard to overcome as the
illusion OF time and distance; thousands
of lives are wasted because they are
never freed from it, and thousands of
other and faithful YES are sad
dened because they, too, are under its
spell. The woman under the pressure
OF daily and nightly cares who feels no
inspiration from them, but continually
dreams OF greater services and nobler
occupations in some other pla and at
some other time, is surely missing
the secret of the deepest liv-
in@ and is thrst'ng With the
water of life flowing freshingly about
her. The man who ehafes under his
present burden, and scorns his place
and work as small and mean compared
with the thing be would do, is evey day
widening the breach between his ideal
i
masters of life-women of rich,
ample nature. ripening in all strengths
and graces with the years, men full of
simple, tea liable spirit, gathering
sweetness and power as they advance
have learned to reverence tie
present moment and the present
duty and are convinced to the very
bottom OF their souls that the only road
fn nahi .. Al.
faithful doing of the thing that lies ne 1t
them. There /; n magic or enchant-
ment in life, no luck or fortune in its
final p sessions, it is simple sequence
OF eau and effect, simple and undeviat-
ing working out OF the law that what
soeyer man soweth that shall he also
reap lie can not plan great career,
and hew his opportunities into its
solid structure, ex ept by striking with
full force the blow thai the present mo-
ment makes room for. Men and women
who are full of this spirit expand their
lives by sheer force of faithful living,
and are able, by and by, to look back
and see their little duties rounding into
grand completeness, their little oppor-
tun les W nding out into the highest
possibilities. Every great work grows
out OF endless and toi some details.
The historian is years in the dim Sc lu-
s on of libraries before he gives the
world new chapter in its Ii @; the
great orator works far into sleepless
nights before he stands on the platform
W tn his fingers on the keys of human
passion and sentiment; the writer de-
mics himself even rational pleasures
through laborious years that he may Gu
rich his thought BY contact with he
worlds thought and put the eloquence
OF simplicity into his style. Graphing
with small difficulties is the only train
ing viii, h fits one for dealing with great
problems; faithful performance of small
duties the only preparat on for grand
services; patience, fidelity, and stead
iastness to-day the only seed that will
make tomorrow golden with harvests
OF fame or usefulness. The oy who is
to day doing his ''chores" well and
cheeMully is in ira ming for the cares of
empire the mother who is to day Civ
ing strength, time and wealth OF alec
ton to her children in the seclusion of
her home is making the whole world
richer by her obscure ministry is very
possibly shaping the char ctefs that are
to shape the destiny of the age, Il d is
surely building in the only ma erial
which deiies decay, survives cath, and
declares its ar htectIlre in the fadeless
ii ht OF eternity. After all has been
said about the work OF the artist. the
poet, and the thinker, il is the mother
who stands nearest cd in creative
power CIR stan LnioR.