The Monitor., 1891-09-18
GIeanins-s From life. Pathway
eouracts onr angels are


Have you ever sat III public place
and noted the different faces that came
before you, noticed how some eounten-
anees attract, some interest, some amuse,
some repel? If you had wished for infor-
nation, do you remember how readily you
singled out one individual whom you felt
YOU could rely on for correctness more than
another? If yoa wished for assistance do
you remember how you turned TO another
of whom you would not have asked infor-
nation, but whose every action told how
willingly that person would assist you as
far as was in theil power? If you were in
an unpleasant state of mind and felt that 8
dose Of scolding would do you good could
you not easily select from tho throng one
whose actions bespoke their proficiency
in that direction? If a feeling of loneliness
enyeloped you was it not an easy matter
TO select one whose good fellowship and
good nature were as inseparable from their
actions as The sunlight from the day?
If you were dwelling in that strata of
complaceney where you felt that it were
necessary for your own individual improve
mcnt to have some one give your egotisti-
cal feeling of satisfaction thorough har-
rowing over-could you not have selected
without much hesitaney one whose tongue
could have shelled out the direst, tartest
and most bitter sarcasm, with epicHrian
delight, sufficient 70 have set yen down in
the very ditch Of humiliation and defeat9
Again. from another standpoint, suppose
your soul was filed with that which is
begotten only by the power of the inward
light and started forth with the desire to
help all those with whom you come in con-
tact; eiferias your assistance in this light,
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and rejected these offerings were OF a very
pervcrse nature wouldn't you, for it is very
rare that an act Of kindness is rejected by
man. however loath he may be to extend
it to another.
Still, kindness begets kindness, as like
usually begets like, therefore it rests
largely with each individual whether they
lead happy or an unhappy life, whether
they are trusted or mistrusted, whether
they are loved or unloved. For ssour acts
our angels are'' and If we desire to be ae-
companied through life's pathway with
the angel Of Truth we must be true to the
headings OF truth If BY the angel of Charity.
do good to those that despitefully use you;
if by the angel Of Peace, love thy neigbbor
as thyself; If by the angel of Love-"mind
the light from whatever source it comes,
and those who arc obedient viii be accom-
panied in their pathways by troop OF
bright angels that W i'll make them welcome
guests into whichever Aome they may enter,
into whatever life with which they may
come in contact, with whatever assemblage
they may gather.
II is not always the smartest, the most
highly gifted from an educational point of
view, who are accompanied with this host
OF angels, but more often, perhaps, it is
those who walk in the ioxlier, moro hum
BILE paths Of life who arc thus blessed.
''Man Is his own star. and the soul that can
Render an honest an d a perfect man
Commands all light, all influence, ali fate
Nothing to him tails early or TOO late,
ouracts our angels are, or good or ill.,
our fatal shadows that walk by us stii.
QUARTERLY MEETING DAY.
tNote-In the account below, quotations
from the poem Edith" Lavinia r. Yeat-
man. will be freely used.
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