The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-12-04

is a vitality in such ringing sentences
as these:
Weakness never need be falseness;
Truth is truth in each degree.
Thunder peaIed by God to nature,
Whispers in my soul to me.
There shall never be one lost good! What was
shall live as before;
The evil is null, is naught, is silence imply
ing sound;
What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so
much good more;
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a
perfect round.
All. we have wilTed or hoped or dreamed of
good shall exist;
Not it's semblance, but itself; not beauty, nor
good, nor power
Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives
When eternity affirms the conception of an
hour.
The high that proved too high, the heroic for
earth too hard,
The passion that left the ground to lose itself
in the sky,
Are music sent up to God by the lover and the
Enough that he heard it once; we shall hear
it by and by.
No, when the fight begins within himself,
I A mans worth something. God stoOps O'erh his
head,
Satan looks up between his feet-bOth tug
He's left, himself, i the middle: the soul wakes
And grows. Prolonging that battle through
his life!
Never leave growing till the life to come!
The sum of all is,-yes, my doubts is great,
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It's wiser being good than bad;
It's safer being meek than fierce;
It's filter being sane than mad.
My own hope is, a sun will pierce
The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;
That, after Last, returns the First,
Though a wide compass round be Fetched;
That what began best can't end worst,
Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.
Let him wait Gods instant men call years.
Meantime hold hard by truth and his great
soul,
Do out the duty Though such souls alone
God STOPPING shows sufficient of his light
For us in the dark to rise by. And l rise.
Why comes temptation but for man to meet
And master and make crouch beneath his foot.
And so be pedestaled in triumph?
And Browning is full of such glO-
rious thought. He was the great
spiritual prohet of our age, and his
life was the noblest commentary on
his teachings. No truer description
of the poet can be found than that
embraced in these lines penned by
himself just before his death:
One who never turned his back, but marched
breast forward,
Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, though right were wOrsted,
wrong would triumph,
Held, we fall to rise, or baftied to fight better,
Sleep to wake.
It is vitality essential for the me
who has newly broken with the
lower life to be fortified against the
hours of temptation and depression,
and nothing will give strength like
feeding the imagination on the no.
blest and purest thought, or in other
words changing the moral atmOs-
phere, and thereby placing the soul
in accord with the highest influences
ohu OAOOSHU A14o Will 4CIA-
der victory comparatively easy in
moments of weakness, and each such
victory won will add greatly to the
spiritual strength, until soon the
soul will find itself the master of it's
own, and what were once well-nigh
Overmastering temptations will no
longer have influence over the i'm,
agination The word I would give
to every one struggling to break from
the lower ideals which prevail so
generally in society in all it's rami-
fications to-day, is, hope, courage,
resolution,-v;ctory! Every one
can triumph. Every triumph means
a victory for self, for eternity, and a
help to every child ON earth.
Aspire, break bounds! l say
EndeavOr to be good, and better still,
And best!
B. o. Flower, in The Coming Age.
THE GOOD MOTHER" OFTEN BAD.
The 90 oo11odH UrOod noO+bor'1 &c