The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-07-28

Earth has no higher blissi
j Father " Jesus loves Rewardi
What rapture will 80 Doe
PROSTATE before Thy throne tolic,
And gaze and gazc on Ihcci
-Fab,r.
TIE COMPETITIVE ELEMENT IN
MODERN LIFE.
Nothing Is clearer than that rivalry
and competition are not merely actual
but inevitable elements Of human life.
Lot M understand then. that competi-
tlon-a strife to excel. nay. if you
choose, downright rivalry-has a Just
and rightful place in the plan Of any
human life. When we turn to the
most august and cventful conflict
which human history records, we find
it described as tine winning Of prize.
the reaching of goal. the conquest Of
an adversary OF course it is possible
60 suppose such thing az life with
out rivalries and competitions, and to
look forward to time, when,
amid other conditions. they will be at
once needless and incongruous, but in
such q life as ours is now-in life.
that is 10 say. which so plainly has dis
cipine and education for its cnd-to
take an rivalry and competition out Of
il would be to robit Of one of the might
lest and most wholesome agencies for
cnnobliug of human character Butte be
that the rivalries and competitions Of
our daily life must derivatives exercised
under manly and generous sanctions.
Let mo- one Of us be afraid 10 say to his
fellows. IL ann your rivals in this race
and mean 90 beat you. if | can. But
having said This, let IA see to il that no
eageruess for victory persuades Us for
one moment to forget that greater
than any other triumph is the triumph
of iDilCxibie principle. 1t is Just here
that we touch what may be called the
heroic side II human rivalriss. There
are some of NJ who. in there tanner days
would fain the old heroic ages back
and yet our ago affords as fine a field
FOR hsroism-of kind far higher, too.
than the hcroism of the camp and the
fray as human heart can possibly
desire. To see TO it that in the hottest
competition and amid the fcrcest ri
valry the worst defeat is not oxpe-
rerced by cur own integrity. this is
some times the hardest strain Of all.
And whether it be success or failure
tha, awaits Us. what fine school for
virtues that grow weak and ilacid in
retirement is To- be found amid the
fierce heats of our daily competitions.
Granted That no rivalry is possible
W hat i7 tntie ln liic from WbIcn We Ia4i
as yet wholly exclude that ino,Itobiv
Ingredient. To be intensely in earnest
in the race-tO summon all our powers
for the contest. and yet never TO bend
them To mean use, this certainly is a
victory ou the eide of righteousness
more priceless than any prize. And
then when defeat comcs-when the
student has burnt the midnight oil and
paled his check i'm Intellectual stud
|ies-when the artist has miXed hi
colors almost literally with bis own
brains aud put upon his canvass the
loltiest conceptions and most cons
.cientous and patient endeayor OF
DAYS AID months-to see cur best
ace mph-hmeuts oxtinguished by an
other'- better and more dazzling per
formauces, and still amid IL all, to pre-
serve temper unsecured by defeat, and
a Judgment uncorrupted by our own
failure. this is victory nob.er than all
besides. and still more. l think. when
there comes that harder strain upon tho
nobility If our nature which comes
with our successes. uoN few men and
women there are who can bear mcekly
and generously the intoxication
Of their prosperity Very Of
ten the most deteriorating result
OF human competition Is success
Ito win am advantage over another
and then meanly 70 cxult in ito take,
even for an instant. delight in the
thought of another 5 baillsd aspirations
ami 10 cloat over the spectacle Of biz
failures. this is often a more degrading
consequence Of our human rivalries
than ala others pat together. AMI this
il is lhat makes victory 80 much
more dangerous to most Of Us
than defeat. .Alilman h.s told us
how Pope John XXI., bursting into ex-
infant laughter as he entered for the
first time that noble chamber which he
mad bullt FOR himself at NIterb0. is
crushed 10y its avcnging roof, which
that instant comes down on his head.
And thus il is true. IN deeper sense,
that many triumph brushes and eN-
tineuishe- all that is uoblest in him who
has won it Doubtless failure and de-
leat are bitter. but hardest OF all to
bear are not our losses, but our vic
tories Bidop Potter, in ScriDner g
Magazine.
JESUS 1T C.ESIRE1 PHILRPL
py n. B. rmsTRAM. ID. d., IL. d., l.. X. g,
CANON or DURHAM
We may be very sure that there is no
statement ever introduced in Scripture,
however trivial IL may at fist sight
appear. which has not been placed there
for a purpose and with meaning.
Jesus asks His disciples, ss He Is walk