Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-10-01
GOODNESS OF HEART.
1t Is Worth The Cultivation: It is
AS The Password To Heaven.

Brave heart, that faces sorrow DER
Swallowing the day,
"A toller and a dreamer along the
lonely way,
Yet striving in Life's winter TO rear
the blooms of Mayi
And the mad world, unheeding,
leaves thorns for thee to tread;
Enough for thee the liberty to toll
where Hope falls dead
On the barren highways leading up
to a crust of bread!
Yet, of Despair forever ONE I'M
dreamed Hope is born;
And Faith shall sandal still the feet
red-Wounded of the thorn;
And the darkness melt in music of
the hills that meet the morn!
Since days of old it has been held
that manners make the man. That
IS truth everywhere accepted; good
come mainly from good
hearts. And whilst it be fatally true
that there is total human depravity,
which comes Of heredity, Of child
moods surroundingsan and associations.
and Of the general environments of
SIN misfortune, humanity is,
more widely speaking, born with
goodness Of heart; and the retention
q tllat saving grace is easily within
reach of human endeavor. The child
born in squalor, -wretchedness, ig-
lorance and vice is wofully burdened
at the outset of life's career. About
lis feet there are leaden weights; in
is soul there is evil; before its eyes
there is darkness. The immeasur-
able consequences of w~ickedness and
the battling mysteries of sin encom-
pass the child which weeps in moral
and physical darkness and laughs
not at all.
That is the saddest, mournfulest.
most pitiable of all the mere human
conditions: the chi!d-life of sin and
degraded poverty. The little chill
dren SO circumstanced, first open
their feeble eyes upon vice, and their
first cry is lost in bIasplle1ny. Their
first plaything, their first COY. sumo
cup emptied of its curse 20 !zu.t
deeper damnation to pa asl,s,i lie
pravity. For them the condition /,
kicking and cutting, and unspeak-
able terrors. Coming into the world
IN moral darkness, they grow up in
the ways Of sinfulness, untaught of
prayer, unacquainttd with purity. /.
But with the You and me of the
world goodness Of heart is easier than
perverseness to attain, beloved. 1t ;
Is better to believe that with most
us was born that quality, and its
-ender teachings we received bv
hose blessed sources from which :
lowed the clear streams of unselfsh q
owe, by the softly murmuring music G
u mothers voice, of which we learn 1
"a likewise to pray. But if not so. =
r we have forgotten the tender !
eachings of childhood's days Of Joy !
nd nights Of sWeetIy dreamful sleep. I
hen shall it be with US to- come in y
his day to realize something of the
ruth that OF all the treasures of this "
World the most precious and the =
blissful is goodness of heart. y
he possession of that is as the pass "
ord to heaven. Lack of it is the
lrse of selfishness. ~
Selfishness! That has caused every TX
t.,
eartache ever felt since man came to pi
habit the earth. Every wrong, 81
very outrage, every sin of every =
all the wars and all the woes, {
| the vices and all the wretched- =;
ess; the heart-burnings, the shames, ei
grets, despairs and desperate deeds II
:. Wickedness-all this, with more =
at is beyond naming, has come and
'ntinues to come Of selfishness. w,
Tunah burr Tom SAINT Ok