Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1898-04-27
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOQ.
PRAYER MEETING.

ing the WOrld.-Phil. 2: 1916. Matt
s: 1915.
A great many people are III lied tt
regard cheerfulnlss as purely person.
al matter Our own comfort SO largely
depends on our habitualy looking at
the bright side of things, that frequent
ly we forget how this attitude of mind
affects others beside ourselves. Yet in
making list of the little ways of bet
tering the world, we shall not err by
placing first the possession # that
cheerful heart which necessitates
bright face and CHEEKY inspiring
speech.
Nothing good or great was ever ac
complisbed by discouraged people. If
hope is lost, all is lost. The hardest
man to help is not always the most
abandoned criminal, but the one who
settles down to the belief that he has
lost his chance f. + anything better. A
cheerful face, with sunshine In lis
frequent smiles,i is an inspiration even as
IL asses along a crowded thorough
fare. A cheerful voice which does not
dis dam to break at times into LAUGH
ter, is like bugle call 10 jaded hopes
and exhausted faith. To attact diff
culties courageously, as if they were
but temporary things and success
necessarily lay beyond, is as much a
Christians duty as watchfulness or
prayer.
THE WORK OF MAKING PEACE.
The blessing that Jesus pronounced q
on the peace-maker is the highest bl
which can be imagined, and there are pi
occasions when we properly magnify i'm
the office. But the world is unspeak- Al
ably blessed by the efforts of peace in(
makers who act so unobtrusively that mi
the majority Of US never realize what wis
they are doing. In the home life they go'
furnish the oil which keeps the domes- full
tic machinery running without friction. dee
Ihey ; make the gentle suggestions to S
which intercept harsh judgments. They end
turn the conversation away FROM carr
hemes in connection with which some the
hing is likely to arise to wound the us 6
eeIlngs OF some one present, and per- cost
APPS stir up strife and anger.
LII has been suggested often that
bis world would be vastly improved if s So'
len were as ready to live for their re-
gion as to fight for it. There is
yer any difficulty in arrousing en- COW
usiasm on the subjects which seper-
Christian workers, and under SUCH He
element, the ties which bind them be tol
u common brotherhood are often tempe
lored, If not dissolved. He is help distur
10 make the world better who if it d
rms to take advantage of this weak milk.
s OF human nature, and who, how. by kic
r unobtrusively be may work, is fore OF
ping to unite in one resistless force lessen
energies too often scattered and is calle
'eo ior the lack of such unity, really
STEADY AS WELL AS BRIGHT. and Il
we are satisfactorily to fill tie come d
OF lights TO darkened world our hlndne
ng must be steady as well as returns
1T. A can Of gun POWDER ignited NJ H. ID
hillside, will light up the face of -
lidnight sky, but the flash is as Don't
as it is brilliant. Too many Chris treating
ives are characterized by this ex- nts 20
e quality. There are lines of ;ouan "en
oilen'ness' indeed, but these are order.
ed by darkness all the more in See W
ecause of the contrast. stomach
must not expect to better the DICK st
by periodic outbursts of fiery dol on . ~
The task. hard at lest, can only That's tn
emphasized by steady, persistent Shaker
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over few things will make us -
over greater things, and vel ANEW
to his joy.