The Progress., 1893-01-07
Her duty eluded her at first. She grew


morbid over it.
At last it came to her in a simple way.
A ragged, dirty woman jostled against
her in the street She shrank from her.
The repulsed woman put out her hand
to stop her. The girl answered with
fright, What do you want! 81 want
money" said the woman. The girl was
plucky and said to her 1t was against her
principles to give money on the street.
The woman followed and said almost
fercely: If | cannot have money. J
want friend. | am hungry; my fire is
ont; my daughter is sick-She is just
your age; the children are starving, and
| | am at my wits end. tell YOU | want
! a friend She spoke as one IN despair.
The girl determined 10 Ue her friend
and take this rs the duty God had sent.
/ She followed her through the dark
| streets into the tenement home, low and
! foul Poverty was there. and sickness
/ and sin and dirt in abundance. She took
! TINS family for her shlre # work that
/ the little cross demanded. She made
| herself Jhcir friend in the best sense and
/ with much success. Bat one thing haf-
+ fed her. il was the dirt. in vain she
/ showed them how to be clean. She uS'd
/ every art Of persuasion and bribery. TIE
| family would have done almost any
/ thing ont of gratitude, but keep clean
/ they cogld Hoi or would not
At last cuo day au "yp"dient ocCrrrr!
to her. She took large looking gla-a
/ into the disOrdered house and hung IT on
the wall 1t did the work. a dirty If
/ tie urcl.in looked at himself, and for the
/ FIRST time saw himself as hewaS. 1t Wa
u revelation that revolutiOniZcd the
household and brought order out of dis
! order. cleanliness out of filth. So, in the
/ development of character, we need more
than the kindly friend, with cheering
word. W. need rev 'lat.on Of self, ami
this is necessary as the basis of the high
est success.
SC1U OSS EIRCHE.
Fourth Our enemy gives us the slim
illus tnat often develops the highest oi
which our characters are capable. Temp
tation Is tho wrpstle of the soul for pow
or. The oak is endowed with strength
/ because it has wre-ticl with the storm.
/ and come out ViclorIogs. Temptation
/ ras its divine uses, and the devil in one
+ sense is the friend Of man. The dew, as
tamptcr auj enemy has his ro,e to play
an the development OF character. jesus
! said to Peter, Satan hath desired thar
( that he might silt thee as wheat, and
I have decided that he may take YOU Tor q
seasou."
- ne gave Peter over that be might
he cleansed OF chatf aud at last through
the fiery trial the Gross was consumed
and the pure gold flashed forth unal-
loyed. Hatred and persecution are the
foundations of success. They recently
restored the schloss ldrche at Wurtem-
! berg Three hundred and seventy-iivc
yesrs ago Martin Luther nailed TO She
door of that church his immortal thesis
! He did not leave the Church Of Rome,
not for months and years. He was driven
ont by enemies. 1t was the enemy Of
the reformation who with torch and
sword, thumbscrew. rack and burning
! plOwshare made the reformation resist
less and caused it 10 girt the earth with
a triumphant army.
JAY GOULD.
Our enemies are the sources Of insIira-
ton whence thousand successes i'll hfs
are achieved. If it were possible 10 ana
| I'VE the secrets that are the foundations
Of the success of many man of brilliant
| genius, it would be found somewhere in
| the hatred or malignity of some enemy.
This enmity has been the gOad that has
| spurred them on to the highest endeav0T
| e. -,
have been word tauntingly spolcA
that cut to the heart like dagger thrusj
and ranked there for all time Men
! who have achieved in the commercial
world the most marvellous successes have
undoubtedly owed much of then success
! to these who have opposed them and
! sought 10 destroy them. Part of nc IL
| spiration of the life of such man as
! Gould We know was the stimulus % Tins
bitter antagonism. lie dreamed ofE-ak-
ing his enemies cry for mercy. AZ! thy
did cry foI mercy agGln AID SIN u-...l'
! got none.
Cardinal Manning, we know. over
heard the remark of the old irish woman
at his coronation as cardinal when she
said: whats the use! Hes rs good rs
dead now. He's got one foot in the
grave" He turned 90 q friend who
stood near. and in answer to this re-
mark said with determiratiOn. IL think
| am good for twenty years yet" In
! fact he lived about thirty years. The rec.
objection of that taunt W.. ~ Ucsjion.-
bly, a power in the Ire. ryr'ilB of h.s.
health and in the direction OF that en-
ergy which made his life so prolonged
success. Your enemy is divine gift
after all. Accept his revelation and use
it; it is Gods gift.
Weowe to George Eliot the production
of some of the most marvellous books
ever written. The develoriaent of her
extraordinary genius was Jmquestionably
due not to advantageous circumstances
in her life, bat due to the fact that she
was painfully homely and felt to the
heart the neglect and antagonism which