The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-10-11

But they could never come to this
state if they have ambitious re-
venges to carry out. The worst
that anybody's malice can do for
US is to make us malicious; and
the great thing to fear, in any en-
counter, is That we may be the au-
thors of hatred rather than the
victims Of it. Emerson said of
Lincoln that he had a heart as
large as the world, but there was
not room in it for the memoirs.of a
wrong. There is a common-sense
side as we'll is a divine side to for
giveness; the divine side is that we
ought to forgive, and the common
sense side that it is too much both
er not to. A sense of humor
would wonderfully improve the
religion off, great many people,
and the irreligion of a great many
more. To be soured by the shor:-
comings Of every one who processes
religion is too tense an experience
to have continuously. Ii there is
some one who is noted for judging
very strictly of the lacks Of others,
and who has more serious ones
of his own, anger is not the only
proper emotion with which to re-
gard him. He is amusing, and we
have a right to think of the Won
derful waking up which he is al
ways JUS on the verge Of if God is
dealing with him. We are also
helped out by the realization that
we are very much Ike him our
selves, and that in our strict at
tcntlon to the narration of his de-
tects we have been delightfully."-
photographed to others. We
are too serious about the wrong
things. There Is a point where
seriousness ceases to do work.
Lowell felt it, and continually
broke up his seriousness over the
untruth Of the slave days by turn.
ing to and laughing at it.
The world Will never look sweet
or Beautiful to us so long as it
seems overcrowded with our own
little affairs. Resisting the temp
tation to see everything only IN
the way in which it affects us, we
come to look out upon larger
world with more beautiful per-
spectives; but the man who sees
things only as they affect himself,
sees very little of them. The
world to such a one looks a good
deal like 4 Chinese picture the
distances are all the same, and
things two miles away are the same
as if they were right at hand. The
hurt we all labor under is the hurt
within Of thinking all our harm is
without. Our worst burden is our
own bad quality of heart.
Being imposed upon is not the
worst thing in the world. People
who are willing to be imposed up.
on little, broaden their highway,
and have more leisurely walk
through the world than the one
who is narrowing his path down
into a skillful and precarions avoid
ance of all imposition. Such peo-
pie the world is swift to take into
the best places Of its heart, and
very often of its material concerns.
1t cannot find enough Of them. It
shows its gratitude to them in
awkward ways by not being able
to- do without them, and by lean
ing on them very heavily, and
treating them as if they never
could be taken away. The world
is as awkward and backward about
expressing its best affections as
school-boy; and it is one of the
amusing things of life to see it
gradually and blushingly and
stammeringly avow its affections
for those it loves the most.
A fine spirit does not mean mere
placidity, it does not take us out
of the lists where men grow warm.
hearted and eloquent tor good and
against wrong; but only that a man
who has good spirit; higher than
personality, can finally have part
in the victories over evil. They
were ''si their own disposal :" and
not the puppets of their own pride
or jealousies or .grudges. A fine
spirit is not mere passivlty in
the presence of wrong, hut 1t ia
the only thing that can finally con.
vince anybody against wrong. 1t