Barton County democrat., 1904-12-02
ART OF LIVING TOGETHER.
Members of Family Who Love and
Believe in One Another
Often Lack It.

a young woman is spending her life
in work which requires intimate asso-
citation of many people who have high
ideals, but who also have wide variety OF
experience and temperament.
This variety, says Youths Compan-
ion, naturally leads to frequent differ
ences Of opinion, and causes different
standards to be set up. The young
woman recently put the matter plainly
in letter to friend.
Good, sincere and true as they are"
she wrote, sit is hard for our work.
ers to maintain right spirit toward
each other. We do not show for each
other the reverence that we feel, and
we do not feel enough reverence. Itsome-
times seems as though we were so con-
sututed as to develop in each other
Just those qualities which compel the
opposite OF reverence. We suffer for
it deeply, but it grows in spite of US.
Can you not help US to be more care
ful and thoughtful Of the touch OF our
lives upon the lives Of others? It II q
terrible thing to have a day ruined and
our souls shriveled because in coming
In contact with some one we allow that
person to put us out Of sorts, or we put
that other person out of harmony, or
both. I do not want to give you the irn-
preston that we are wranglers, for this
Is not true. We believe in each other
and love each other, and love our work:
but we are differently constituted and
have different methods and tastes. and
we are often unjust to each other with
out intending to be so The fact that
we suffer for it, and that we try to find
remedy, proves our desire for a more
consistent life. Please send us some
message, if you can, that shall be a help
to u.s."
Surely very many people will be
touched by this appeal, for the case
which 1t discloses is far from being
isolated. If the person addressed in
this letter could answer it wisely and
make the answer effective, the answer
would be worthy Of a place in many a
nome, school and Office, and In every
place where people of varied training
and attainments must associate for
mutual ends.
"No man liveth to himself" Even
the narrow circle Of the home life has
its sevenfold tie, binding 1t to other lives
"a tie that unites him to father, mother.
-~N 0ASSOAS cl1u IdlOE, 10 W1IO,
| son and daughter. No one of these
seven is precisely like any other, and
this sevenfold cord is but one strand
IN the interviewer thread that binds us
to our fellow men. It is not enough to
learn how one shall keep himself un-
spotted from the world; the art of Iiy.
ing together is equally important.
Whatever answer may be given to
| this letter, the letter itself will prove
| as good an answer as can we'll be made
to many people who experience the same
failure. but who have thought less deep
~ into the causes and have prayed less
| earnestly for help to overcome a sin
that so easily besets those whom God has
placed together in the most intimate of
earthly relations. When death comes.
| and those we love and respect are re-
moved too far to be helped by our
| thoughtfulness or comforted by our
pen1tence, we often begin to learn a les
son which should have been considered
long before.
1t is the matchless charm of the re-
| Hgion Of Christ that He lived His life
not only in purity and obedience to the
will OF God, but in sympathy. sentie-
ness and patience displayed while He
lived and labored among men. It was
He Who said Of Kindness or Of cruelty
toward the humbles* Of the children OF
men among whom we must live and
work on earth: Tnasmuch as ye have
done It unto one oe the least of these
my brethren, ye have done it unto Me-
| n Eoeer.
4"It Il getting to be q problem with
me-" said the noisy politician. 's'how
Eto keep the wolf from the door,"
'Stand ON the steps and make one
Of yeur stump speeches when you see
him comihg. Detroit Free Pres.