The Tupelo journal., 1904-10-14
ART OF LIVING TOGETHER.
Members Of Family Who Love and
Believe in One Another
Often Lack It.

| "A young WOLudu 10 SpcuuluE utI Ill0
n a 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 a letter to a friend.
Good, sincere and true as they are"
she wrote. cit is hard for our work.
ers to maintain a 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-
stituted 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
full and thoughtful of the touch of our
lives upon the lives of others? 1t is a
terrible thing to have a day ruined and
u 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. do not want to give you the inn
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
a 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 it discloses is far from being
isolated. If the person addressed in
this letter could answer it wisely and
make the answer effective. the answe.
would be worthy of a place in many
home. school and Office. and in every
place where people of varied training
n attainments must associate for
mutual ends.
No man liveth to himself" Even
the narrow circle of the home life has
its sevenfold tie. binding it to other lives
"a tie that unites him to father. mother.
brother and sister, and later. TO wife.
son and daughter. No one of these
seven is precisely like n other. and
this ~sevenfold cord is but one strand
in the interviewer thread that binds us
to our fellow men. 1t is lot enough to
learn how one shall keep himself un-
spotted from the world: the art of liv-
ing together is equally important.
Whatever answer may be given to
this letter. the letter itself will prove
as good an answer as can well be made
to many people who experience the same
failure. but who have thought less deep
ly n 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
and those We love and respect are re-
moved too far to be helped by our
thoughtfuineSs or comforted BY our
penltence. We often begin to learn a les
son which should have been considered
long before.
1t is the matchless charm of the re-
hsion OF Christ that He lived His life
not only in purity and obedience to the
Will OF God. but in sympathy. gentle
ness and patience displayed while He
lived and labored among men. 1t was
he Who said of kindness or of cruelty
toward the humbless of the children of
men among whom we must live and
work on earth: 'Inasmuch as We have
Gone 1t unto one of the least of these
my brethren. We have done it unto Me-