Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-08-06


The race is run, the goal is won,
And when thou takest thy last rest,
He still is near; thou shalt be blessed.
When mists athwart thy eyellds creep,
-Jno. j. Marks
How Character Is Made and Shown.
He was known TO them I'm the break
Ing of bread-Luke XIV. 80
There are manN wonderful and
glorious passages ih the New Tesla
ment, but few more pathetic to my APP
preheRsjon than that little story of the
walk q >Emmaus, the disciples not re-
cognizing the Master, while yet their
hearts burned within them as they
talked with Him by the way. And
the story reaches it's climax of beauty,
unfolds the sweetest flower of it's sig
nificance where the disciples, rehears-
ing the details of the event, tell how
Jesus was known to them in the
breaking OF bread"
How interesting and suggestive that
He was not known to them by any
sign that marked Him as the Messiah
or in any way pre-eminent, but by one
of the simplest things He had ever
done in their presence. One likes to
think of their recalling something
pleasant in His manner, some happy,
grateful look upon His face, as If He
were Gods minister in answering the
prayer. Give us this day our daily
bread" which He had taught them
when they asked Him how to pray.
Perhaps the time when He sat at table
hn
consciokS burden of His ministry was
least oppressive and He unbent Him
self in the most intimate and friendly
manner.
1t is very lovely TO be thought of
when alive and remembered when
dead as doing kind and pleasant
things Among the thousands of exag-
gerated and pretentious epitaphs in
Mount Auburn there is one which
reads:
She was so pleasant.
think Il one Of the most enviable
And there are many women and as
many men who earn it perfectly. They
do not strive nor cry, but wherever
they go and whatever they do they
diffuse an atmosphere of comfort and
content. They make sick people well
and sad people merry. They dispel
the gloom from anxious hearts and the
fevered pulse is quieted at the cool
fountain of their unfailing cheer.
A great many persons are known to
their>G lilies and friends in the same
way as Jesus was known in the New
Testament story-by their behavior
at the morning, MONDAY, or evening
meal. Joy of the street." says the
Provencal proverb Course of the
home" 1t is proverb which fits
many people like glove. These are
men who spend all their pleasantness
and gayety on their companions in
business and at the club and have only
sour looks and cross words at home.
There are women who can smile and
smile" at the afternoon reception and
the evening party, and be anything but
agreeable in the uneventful round of
their domestic cares But what men
and women are in this uneventful
round goes far not only to show their
true character but to make it what it
is for better or worse.
Francis Bacon said God hangs the
greatest weight upon the smallest
wires" That would be dangerous me-
Chanil were not the wires so many
that in their aggregate they are of as
great strength as that of the cables on
which our great suspension bridges
swing in air. The atomic theory may
be true or false in physics; it is GER
tainly true upon tn spiritual plane.
All great actions characters and
events are prepared for in silence and
obscurity by innumerable little seem
ingly unimportant actions, refusals,
acceptance, disposition The roots
Of great character spread out like the
roots Of q great tree, ten thousand
filaments drawing their virtue from
the dark earths and secret springs, and
Welding each its proper increment to
that great strength with which the
tree or character filings wide its
branches and defies the storm. Men
and women are best known as they are
most surely fashioned by such little
seemingly petty actions as the break
ing of bread or the making of 1t, or
the casks necessary for the honest
earning of it, because the whole char
acter rushes into expression in every
part. because every part reports the
Ioundness or unsoundness of the whole
10 which it has contributed its due pro-
portion of those elements which in
heir aggregation and coordination
make up a human life.-Jown White
Chadwick.
The Constant Christian.
Consistency. stability among Chris