The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-03-01

this out In the study of two great crea-
tions of action; the character OF Jean
Vatican in Victor Hugo's Les Miser-
ablcs' and Tito in Geo. Eliot's Rom
alo.' With Jean Vatican the climax
is where he is seen standing at the bar
OF the court in the place of the prison
er, q self confessed criminal doomed
to the galleys for life, where con-
science has triumphed at last over ir-
resolution and fear. just at that time
we are told the Judge and the lawy er
saw 9 strange light shining upon their
own hearts, t
''Washington's work in life seems
to have been higher than ours. but he
could have been no more than faithful.
as, each of us can be. To have.
made waste OF our life may not seem
to be 80 serious in its consequences as
for him to have made waste of his
life, but our life is as real part of
Gods plan for the world as his life
was. The smallest wheel or bearing in
the movement of chronometer has to
do in the keeping of perfect time. We
do not know into how great movement
God may be fitting our seemingly un.
important lives. There is doubtless
many a man in this community winning
and genial, and kindly in disposition,
wise and tactful, who might have been
great in Gods service and in humani-
ties service, who is devoting a life
time to adding up columns of figures:
a slave to the pen, the Office desk, aud
the bargain counter. He may live
through a lif. time a kind of self act
ing, automatic, calculating machine
until he falls into his grave; the world
may call this successful life, but his
memory will die away with the echoes
of the ritual service read over his
grave. 1t is the law of God and the
testimony of human experience that
the entirely self-centered man has no
Immortality, and the more successful
he is in his way the greater is he as a
monumental failure. ss-
1.-THE nation cannot live on the mer-
its of It's past nor on the fame of its
great men. No more can a,human life.
There are those who are ever re-
peating to>us the story of their deeds
of yesterday. However great, they
were they do not answer for today.
we need to enter into the Joy OF SER
vice in all our Christian work by get
ting great love into it. Washington
was willing to suffer for his country
because he loved his country; for it he
could endure cold and hunger.
Washington did not need the
thanks Of Congress when he knew he
had the approval of his own heart.
He did not ask for sympathy, he had
sympathy to give. Who of US realize
that great happiness in this world
consist in giving not in receiving.
A writer in tie last October Cosmol-
poitan Magazine speaks finely of this
in her appeal to actual life: The
| highest pleasure of Lying is not in
receiving sensations. There is much
more pleasure in executing the music
than in hearing it. A human being
soon exhausts the pleasure of having
things but never of doing things.
The greatest cure for all complaining
hearts and sad hearts is for them to
get interested in some service for
mankind. This truth is powerfully
told in, the story of 'Silas Manner
and it is true to life: he was saved
from despair in service for a little
child. When we begin to serve others
and to live for others we will begin to
believe in them. And SO, likewise. we
nay clear doubt away. The unbeliev-
ing are they who would know God with
out serving him. If we will begin to
serve Christ and do His will we will be-
gin to believe. Lost faith in God and
man will come back through SER
vice. The sunbeams once more will
begin to fall around the heart, the
| stars will shine out clear and beautiful
overhead; and the dark expressionless
earth will become TRANSPORTED and
glorified in the wealth Of verdure and
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