Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-10-20

mite words or deeds: by 1t our influence
upon others is chiefly determined. The
power of personal influences is, after all.
simply the power of personal character.
BE noble and the nobleness that les
In other men, sleeping but never dead,
VIII rise in majesty TO meet thine own.
Lowell.
Everyone Influences some one.
10 your best for Christs sake and Christ
viii make that best count for the worlds
sake.
Little brother initiates big brother: big
brother initiates father: father, conscious
Is or unconsciousiy. initiates someone else.
who in turn is affected by the example OF
stin another. AID so the stream of .nflu-
cnce goes on widening cndlessly. Truly,
no man livoth to himself and no man
dicth to himself"
The surest way to lose ones influence is
10 be ever thinking about it. That state
Of mind results in self consciousness in
posing. in cant and in hyprocr.cy. Tn
men whose faces shine do not know it
themselves. The most potent influence is
always unconscious. The person who sets
out to be "A good example generally sue
cecds in being a prig. The springs of con-
auct must lie deeper than this if they are
10 become streams of refreshing for the
thirsty.
The common deeds of the common day
Arc ringing bells IN the far away.
Buxton.
The lofty life lifts.
II humblcsi person may influence an
other who could not be touched by the
wisdom OF the greatest thinker. the elo-
qilcncc Of the finest preacher or the force
OF the strongest personality. Everybody
can move somebody VINO is responsive to
nobody else.
Every r~CrSlnglttv is "a mpccapn
Your life makes so much noise that |
cannot hear what you say" was the apt
re1oinder to Il hypocrite who was canting
piousiy. Character always outsounds pro-
iession. No ones influence rises superior
to his life. Eloquence without genuine
ness is but sounding brass. and brilliance
without sincerity but a changing cymbal.
~ smile or n frown may influence some
ones day for hropiness or misery.
We cannot travel very far along the
hlsn"ay or life without having occasion
TO revise our estimate of what is trivial
ana what is important. A. single uncon-
sclotis word may make or mar a human
life. A trifling suggestion may wreck Il
soul, as a misplaced spike may wreck an
express train. LIES determining factors
are not its great events, but its unpremed-
ltated. unseen and unteckoned influences.
The commonplace mothers. and the little
country schooiEouses, bulk larger in his
tory thar the statesmen or the palaces.
NEWS AND NOTES.
1t is said that even the socialists in
rance are advocating a Sunday rest law.
In Tr%avancore. India. the missionary
church has a bell which was made by
melting up the idols of native converts.
The original Christian Endeavor society
IN winston Congre g%ational church in
Portland. Nc. has pledged 81 LOCO toward
a new parish house
AT the recent British military camps
forty-six y. NJ. c. A.. tents, IN charge of
l26 secretaries, Were maintained for the
ION, $50 soldiers.
Minister Barrett's appeal for a Y. NJ. C.
n. secretary on the Isthumus of Panama
Tor the American men who have gone
there has resulted in the sending of a
ileld secretary. others will follow later.
British Congregationafists, under the
lead of Rev. r. j. Campbell. are building
a me church on Beacon Hill, a suburb of
brighton, as a memorial to the late Rev.
DIR. Joseph Parker.
considerable interest has been awakened
by the suspension of the leading free
thought paper, the Investigator. It is
taken as a sign of the decline of agrees
sive atheistic propaganda in America.
The British Young Peoples union has
adopted a fourth study course in its Chris
tan culture course series. the additional
subject being evangelism. with the Rev.
DR.. A. c. Dixon of Boston in charge.
At Seoul. Korea. the Y. NJ. c.. A. main
weekly entertainments for tho
and British soldiers of the Legal
ton guards. There is also an association
Japanese soldiers in this city. 500 Of
whom attended it's first meeting.
The brotherhood of ST. Andrew, the
mems organization in the Protestant
Episcopal church. has long excelled in the
work of inviting hotel guests and other
strangers to church. 1t is now developing
a college branch and pushing the estab-
lishment of parish missions maintained by
A curious form of missionary work is
in central Chanting, China.
Is nothing less than a science and nat
ural history museum, the underlying pur-
pose being. on the one hand, to educate
the people, and on the other. the over
throw of superstition n bigotry. A map
of the world. showing the relative size
and position of China was viewed at first
witt considerable ~incrcdulity, for 1t was
u telling blow to Chinese pride.
The London Times contains an interest
Ing article by Lord Radstock, concerning
his recent fifth visit to Indian. In it he
tells the story of a famous Hindu ascetic.
Dharmanadg. who formerly held
so high a position among the leaders of
iliiiuuiSm tHdt even Branm1nS took q
low place before him. The common peo-
pie looked upon him as most holy" since
he had visited 230 sacred shr.nes. Now
after seventeen years of investigation. in
the course of which he studied Greek and
that he might read the scriptures.
he has openly avowed his acceptance of
Christianity. This action has created a
considerable stir among the natives.
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS,
Moderation is the silken string running
through the pearl chain of all virtues
We can help make people bright by our
keenness. but we can never accomplish
anything toward making people good ex-
cept by our tenderness.-Parkhurt.
Tread all LIES ways wed, expectant feet:
Men Jostie heaven In every common street.
-Langbridge.
In-taking and notwithstanding good
and giving good; that is our main busi-
ness.-C. G. Ames.
He who will never do anything that he
is not paid for will soon reach the place
no n will pay for anything that
does.-Christian Register.
Self reverence. self knowledge. self con-
These three alone lead life to sovereign
power. -Tennyson.
1t does not take a great man to be a
Christian. but 1t take all there is Of him.
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