The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-03-05

cy for great things. We must not
feel that way.
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II we go ont. under the skies at
night aud gaze up to the heavens
and reflect upon the huge bodies
that there are moveing with re-
sistless force, and yet rhythmical
order, through space, bodies on
which our own>rUuud earth would
scarcely be more than a bloch; If
then we reflect further that this
earth is SO vastly greater than we,
that we are no more to the whole
than a grain of sand is to the out
put of q quarry, we shrink within
ourselves and recognize our puny
insignificance. A good dose OF this
eevsre medicine takes the boastful-
ness and growing out of most of Us;
and we can spare them, for If ever
there We're a rooster with a throat
of brass and larynx of platinum,
he could hardly keep up with some
peoples self-satisfied noise and
clatter. This kind of belittlement
is wholesome as corrective, but
no one lives and thrives on quiz
nine, nor can we live and thrive
morally If we are in II constant
state of neutrality-suspicious.
curl-up.
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No! follwers of Il trembling pen!
This universe may be Indefinitely
great; the Infinitely Great made
it. 1t is also infinitely small in its
details; the Infinitely Microscopic
Almighty made it. The detail of
an oyster is as wonderful in its
adaptability, its evidence OF fore
thought, it's completeness, as the
detail Of the planetary system
Nothing is wasted around you,
nothing too small for attention.
Then just az necessary as food is to
us, so necessary may we be to til
whole body polite. Your physician
can demonstrate to you the effect
upon the system of your various
foods, some going to teed the brain,
other to strengthen the bones, other
to make the finger nails, other to
lengthen the hair, and ether to
weaken and degenerate the body:
just so positively can the philoso-
pher tell if the civilization of to-
day is beng strengthened or weak
ened by YOUR existencei whether
twere liter that you had never
been born, or whether the longer
your life is prolonged the better for
your living is the world that you
tread as q moral monarch. No food
can be entirely without influence
on the body that absorbs it; no in
dividual can be nil in his influence.
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Let us think no more of ourselves
than we ought to think; but Tor
Heavens sake, don't let us think
nothing of ourselves. Stop crying
to your heart that you are nobody,
and be somebody. Nobody is every
body, but.everybody may be some
body, flung some niche, carrying
on some work; justifying the care
and wisdom that framed us and
the Almighty Intelligence of whom
we are u part. Naturally we cannot
all do the same thing. Old Paul
knew that. The toe cannot fix a
collar button, the heel cannot hold
a book; some of US are the down
trodden, the heels and toes of civil
lization, yet we are essential to The
whole as steam is to the engine.
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Let us then stop star-gazing and
shell-shrinking and get into gear
In the physical werld it is demon.
strated beyond peradventure that
matter is ipdestructible. Why not
equally true that action and
thought are indestructible: The
little coral insect gathers around
him his caicareous cyst; he dies, but
his work remains; others build on it
he Is literally buried out of sight
Ages roll on and coral island
clothed with verdure, gem of the
Pacific, stands ready for Nature.
conquering man. Poor little insect
away down below the surface, no.
body remebers you now, and yet in
your way you were essential to the
superstructurs!!
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SO it is worth while to repeat enc
individual can be nil in his influ.
ence." Whether we wish it or not
we are welding an influence on
those about us, molding for good
work or perverting toward evil
Young man, tell smutty story to
an innocent boy, and. it may blight q
life by the subsequent accumula'