The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-10-05
DON'T LET THE DUST GATHER.

feel like saying to every woman-to
the busy, hard worked, restricted wo-
men. to those full of hope and charm
who are just setting out on the journey,
to the apathetic ones who are nearing
the end of til feel like saying, Don't
let the dust gather.
Don't let the dust gather.
Don't let the dust gather on your
ideals. They are the best part of your
mental furniture.
Don't let the dust gather on your en-
thusiasms. An enthusiastic desire is ia
itself kind of fulfilment.
Don't let the dust gather on your vows
your church VOWS, your marriage vows.
They are as real, as binding, as when
the good pastor laid his hand on your
head; as when you stood at the altar
with the man that you loved.
Don't let the dust gather on your
blessings. A diamond covered with
dust seems no more than stone.
Don't let the dust gather on your ia
vorite study. Get down the Latin or al
gebra-above all, the history.
Don't let the dust gather on your &C
complishments-if you can help it.
Don't let the dust, the imperceptible
dust, gather day by day. to clog and
smother the things that you value. Ac-
tivity is youth, health, life itself; disuse
means stagnation and death. Enthusi-
asm is contagious-it is like fire, and
will communicate itself. whether or no;
love quickens the vital current; some
sort of love-it may be the love of lepid
optera or the Eocene periods what
always makes us young
And always keeps us so.''
1.-THE more you do the more you may
dor" Of course! the more you do the
more you must do. and the more you are
able to do. The busiest people have the
most time; and to state the other side
Of the paradox, the people who do the
least are the busiest" One of the de-
lightful, refreshing. inspiring, glorious
things about nature is its power of ex-
pansion-that power which we some
times doubt, which frequently startes
us, and which makes it impossible to set
limit to the capacity of the meanest
soul. We don't know what we might do
with our bodies. "Our bodies are our
gardens" says Shakespeare, ito which
our wills are gardeners" but what very
indifferent gardeners! The bank clerks
discrimination of touch, the tea-taster's
discrimination of palate, the musicians
refinement of ear, the sailors or Indians
eyesight, the sinews and joints Of the
gymnast these things are marvels to
us; it seems hardly possible that men,
bers and organs very like ours are sus
ceptible to such development. And as
we are physically. even 80 much more
are we spiritually. When we feel and be
lieve what treasury we have in our
own hearts. minds and wills, when we
cultivate and cherish them, we shall
then know better how to arouse ambi-
ton and strengthen faith in those about
US.
AS we grow older. think we care less
for work for works sake-that is, for it's
immediate results, SO small part of
Gods plan and care more for it for its
reactive effect on ourselves and others.
To be working. to be alive, is a good
apart from what we can do. Man excels
in concentration and force; grant woman
her peculiar exceIlence A gracious wo
man is beloved as the sun; and, like the
sun, she shines by reason of what she is
Dora r. Gooddle, IN Advocate and
Guardian.