The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-17

plans Of the commander are nevertheless
being carried out. The struggling OF
strength against strength is decided by
calmnees and cooperation. There we
learn to stand shoulder to shoulder with
those who think as we do. There also
We learn that all who fight on one side
are not OF necessity agreed on all things.
We give blows and take them under the
eyes OF our watchful leader, content to
know that il we perish IN the doing, he
has others in reserve TO carry out his
work in our place. 1t is in life when
lived that we learn to stay freed from
"sins that so easily beset Us" with the
thought OF doing better service for our
side. Those who fight for good throw
aside the hindrances OF life that their
hands may be free for the weapons that
slay evil and put down the enemies OF
progress.
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TO LIVE is, as it were, to burrow in
the mine, cooped up and cramped, II only
the precious thing sought may be found;
content to undergo hardship and to be-
come begrimed with mud and water and
soil il one gem may be brought to light.
The patient Flooding in darkened ways
that some OF us do, ever urged on by in
ner impulse to further effort, is mining IN
every sense. We see no light OF heaven
and yet on we go, we hear no sounds oil
Joyous nature, yet onward ever, the
things we conquer are hidden far from
the ewes OF men and beyond the point
where their praise would be audible,
yet sustained by the motive OF our quest,
our patient work is there and is known
by the few who sympathize with us, and
to One from whom no secret is hid.
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TO LIVE ia. as it were, to traverse a
swamp whose quaking mire offers no
lasting footing. Its foul gases endaDger
us, and in our hours OF gloom it's fitiul
lights, arising from decay, vet appearing
to pro- mise comfort, only lead US away
from our direct course. Without step
ping stones, we CROWN experience to fear
the bampering, clinging, engulfing mass,
until we learn that the solid supports Tor
our trembling steps. are made up only OF
the things we throw away. He who
casts aside selfishness, he who trampies
passions into the mire, he who denies
himself daily OF the things that enervate,
be who keeps bis eye fixed on one noble
purpose and controls bis wandering
chances tawards things more glirtering
but less noble, treads fearlessly onward,
safe amid dangers and undiyerted amid
gloom.
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TO LIVE is to be all you can wherever
or whatever you are. The quiet "shut
in" on bed OF sickness or couch OF pam
may live and influence by being just all
she may. The crippled man. weak by in
heritance and robbed of his best by the
sins ofhis ancestors, may be too incapable
to climb and yet may prepare to set
others on the way. He may be too
stiffened for seamanship, and yet attend
the lights along the shore, too feeble for
battle and yet the comforter of those
who are wounded and would return, too
slghtless to traverse swamp, and yet
able to show how stepping-stones may
be made of discarded self.
TO LIVE is to recognize that the world
has a right to the best that is in us: that
we owe it a service. To live is to re-
oice in every good work and wish it
''God-speed" whether our hands have any
thing to do with it or not. To live is to
step out of sell narrowness into the
breadth of interest in our fellows that is
worthy our divine nature; to breathe the
air OF world-citlzenship no matter how
narrow the confines OF our physical
sphere; to glory in world progress and feel
our kinship to all who are good and
great. This is to ITO Live" and this is
to give proper scope to our natures that
are little lower than the angels in as
lar as we are narrower than the Eternal.