The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-06

purpose. On the contrary, if the steam
 is not properly harnessed there is sure
 to be disaster sooner or later.
 The way a man thinks decides the
 way he lives. It is as impossible for
 pure thoughts to produce an impure
 life as for vinegar to resemble honey
 to the taste. 4 thief can't enjoy reli-
 zion any more than an honest man can enjoy burglary.
 Ia the long run man will live as he
 thinks. Give me the thoughts which you cherish most kindly, and it is like
 giving me the minor and major pre-
 mises of proposition-the conclusion
 Is logically inevitable. Those thoughts
 are as certain to make or unmake you
 before your sun goes down as an effect Is certain to follow a cause.
 Give me the power to sow what
 thoughts l please in your mind, and
 you put into my hands your destiny
 here and hereafter. Examine yourself
 critically and you will discover that your moral altitude exactly accorGs with the kind of thoughts you enter
 tain. This is an appalling fact Of psy- chol0gicaI science, and the action of the law is as memorable as the law of gravitation. No man can think high and live low, or think low and live high.
 A strong emotion-sudden fear, for example--wiIl send the blood through the body like the water in millrace. It controls the body as perfectly as a giant handles a child. Even the phys ical features take on a new expression, and the fact of inward terror is made visible in the face. The body is a mere puppet which the inner man governs at will, and it is more obedient than a slave.
 If a man cherishes the vice of av- arice, or dissipation, or unhealthy stim- illus, CT selfshness, to such extent that the habit becomes chronic, chemical change takes place in his molecules, and the expression of his countenance advertises what is going on within. In the galleries of Florence are two busts of Nero. The first is of a sweet child, and the face is beautiful. It bears the stamp Of innocency. It is pleasure 10 look at it. The second is that of a youth who has abandoned himself to his passions, and the lines which indi- cate it. are as plain to the observer as the furrows in a plowed field. The face is repulsive. and you turn from it with something like disgust.
 You can be happy and useful under any circumstances if you fll them with purposes. Greed, and envy, and selhshness are the bane Of cur hu- man life. We long for what ve have not, and are thus united to do the best with what we have. We live iD a dream of what we hope 10 acquire, and are always restless, uncomfortable and If we could persuade ourselves that we can be happy with what surrounds us, that cur mission is to get as much out of life as is pOSsi- I ble. instead of worrying because oth- CTS have more than we, and so finding fault with Providence and our i'll luck and reaping the misery which such thoughts always bring, we should change tEe color Of our environment i and the quality cf our character. You l nay be pretty sure that if you cannot ] oe happy where you are you cannot | DC happy anywhere. Neither wealth | nor fame can give you what you want, { Or ycu l1ust find it in your soul or not | iEd it at ali.
 This is Christianity rightly under 'toCd-to do all you can in whatever position you occupy and to make your title life great with great thoughts. ioG IS the guest Of poverty IS well as wealth, and poverty with God is bet CT than wealth without Him. The pirit Of Christ is he spirit Of love and and though you have arGships and bercavements they melt way in the presence of the Divine ord. You bear them with patience. nd patience is another word for tryngth. Perfect peace will come at ast to him who endUres. and peace un- ocks the doors of Hcaven.-George H. IepwOrth, in \. I. Herald.