The age-herald., 1901-01-27
THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.

the joy-wishers, plentifulness in the earth's stores distinctions and places of trust amongst men, the frank confidence of hu- manitys brotherhood, seats in charity's noble parliament of virtue; and, above all these, shall come to us some measure Of sustained self-respect, and sufficient of self fidence to save from stumbling and mumbling and falling, that will spare us from unquetness in our slumbers and ena- ble us to meet each new day with the con- fidence of stout hearts, conscious that we are attempting to deceive none other and are not deceiving ourselves.
 Then 1t is when human knighthood is in it's fullest foweri
 When our willing has brought us to that stage where we are conscious, when we know, that we are guilty of neither self deception nor attempting to deceive others we are far on the way to true worth, and have overcome the worst obsta cles in the way to honest womanhood and manhood.
 In the weaving of the tangled web of deception, those who will to deceive others walk ever in the shadow of a curse that must in the end bring the bitterness Of hell, the which to darkened minds has no spiritual significance, but is no less real because blasphemous babblers make of themselves objects of evil influences to be summed.
 And every hurtful lie, the skull and cross- ed bones on the black flag of the worlds devilish forces of deception, is and must be answered for here upon this earth.
 Abomination of abominations-the liar! The wretched shambling, shifting, shuffing mountebank of spiritual deformity-the baleful wretch who wills to destroy good names, honest reputations
 O well for him whose will is strong But i'll for him who corrupts the strength of heaven-descended will
 Are you willing, my beloved-willing to be happiest happy? Willing to rise this morning smiling and glad to greet a world of smiles and of gladness? Willing to give your hand in good greeting, as to an hon. ored and loved guest, to the first one you meet, and the second, the third and the fourth and on with all whom you may hail whilst the glad morn makes for a glad noon, and all the after hours till it be glad even-tme and all be gladness? Willing to live the long day through without crosses or crossness, rudeness, incivility, wrang- ling, pickering or bitterness the wounding of others by others wounded, and so come to the hour of sleep worthier and bet ter and gladder than before?
 Are you wiling my beloved-wilng to receive the kind words and kind good wishes of every one, the friendly hail or friendly farewell, the smile, the word of good cheer? Willing to win friends, com rades, companions, fellow-travelers of glad ness along the worlds glad ways?
 Are you willing to win love with all it's unspeakable gladness and unsearchable riches, your own of your own for your own for ever-the one supreme joy of this life all other joys to adorn, leaving nothing happier to remember and fashion in sor- rows crown of sorrow?
 Are you willing, my beloved-willing 10 have a pure and tender sense of rejoicing such as thrills and enthralls in bursts of the divine laughter of little children, rising and falling and ripping if angel hands were striking melody from sunbeams spun to harps of heaven?
 Then will it SO, my beloved. well for him whose will is strong!
 THE MURMURER.