Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-21
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thinking away from them. and what are
real will be none the worse by deter
mined effort to overcome them. A
bright. hopeful, grateful use of the
means to health any physician will tell
you is half the battle with disease.
Many man stays sick because in his
gloomy thought about himself he per-
sists in accepting of his condition AZ
Inevitable and irretrlevable. And so
with adverse circumstances, They may
frown very menacingly upon us and
seem to admit of no ameiioration, and
yet probably they might be worse and
in no case are they certainly perma-
nent.
The conquest of adversely is that
striking quality which is sometimes
sailed Yankee grit. To cultivate this
quality at all times is to make ourselves
too tall TO be Swallowed by the walls OF
adverse circumstance and too mighty
to be long held captive with In them;
and so, too, with the sense of failure
lHhL OlLlUltS I erSndupWS uSs
In our old copy books we used TO
read this sentence II the bright lexicon
of youth there is no such word as fail!'
would change the sentence little and
read IL this way: In the bright lexicon
of right and holy endeavor there IL no
such words as fail, and there isn't. To
steadily think It out upon this line and
to reach the conclusion that after all 1t
is not the plaudits OF the multitude or
the congratulations of our friends, but
the approval of 1t.
Good and Conscience
that satisfies the heart is the standing
and effectual remedy for the discour-
aging sense of apparent failure. and SD
again with the drudgery of daily duty.
Thought away from the drudgery to
the great fact that The homliest beauty
holds high relation-that there Is no
duty well performed but that counts
in the great eternal forces that God
has put into the world Leave the
! drudgery betimes and take vacation.
tramp the hills and thrash the streams
and do it that you may do your duty
better and so again and lastly with
sin, that prolific cause of discourage
ment and every evil mood. Nobody
need be discouraged by sin II he will
| only repent of it. He that covereth his
sin shall not but he that confesseth
IA L. 10 a,,I
With thee then is forgiveness that
thou mayest be feared So much for
one remedy for encouragement 1t IS
the remedy proposed by sanctified
common sense. | have still another
one. and a better one-it Is the remedy
of this book. 1t is the application TO
the moods and lenses of the discour-
aged life of the law OF faith.
Two boys we're once wandering and
got lost in the maze at Hampton
Court. They wandered about, tired
and discouraged, but they felt sure
they would find their way out present
ly and boy like thought it would be
foolish to ask directions when they
saw an old man working in the dis
lance. Failing at every point, how
ever, they came at last to ask the old
man If he could possibly show them
the way out. Why said he, that Is
just what | am here for. why didn't
you ask me before God lives and
reigns and knows. TO believe that
and to avail ourselves of the wonder
full facts and the grace that comes
with it by faith is to be brought into
Gods effectual remedy for discourage
ment. Look out or look in and we see
abundant reason for disbursement
save as we get to know and believe
that God reigns and rules. To know
this and to know that we are on Gods
side is to have the tranquil spirit that
is secure under provocation and al
ways expects the best"