Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-09-08
A NEW BEGINNING

A NEW BEGINNING.
panied by some wrenching and creak-
ing of the wheels. To make Il new
path is harder than tn follow the old.
Young peoples societies.. churches and
individuals are facing another season
Of service. Tha ii should be fresh
service, larger and better done. goes
without saying. Yet many will fall
back into the smooth. old ruts. instead
of entering untried ways. his I"
speak with utmost Guinness. is COW
ardice. New courage Is needed for new
work, of course, bat the supply of cour-
age is ut hand. and the work waits for
the doing.
Necessity is IL good spun to the steed
of e%ndeavor. Because the new work
must be done. many will undertake 1T
and grow by the task. Pity those who
never try to q new worlds of ser
vice. They miss the workers keenest
joy and oftentimes. the reward, We'll
done" for nothing is we'll done that Is
not done ut ones best.
When courage is gone, all is gone.
Pity the person who fears 10 undertake
new duties, because they are new and
because they are large. At the founda-
ton of every achieving life is to be
found Il goodly stock of courage.
Il will sing a new song unto thee"
cried the psalmist. He had something
new to sing about. He was not among
those diciples who travel Il life time
on II little stale experience. There
is something wrong with the develop
ment of the Christian who is always
repeating in prayer meeting the same
story of the Lords dealings with him.
Gods mercies are new every morning
and fresh every evening: SO should be
the disciples experience of them. The
living God demands Il living faith.
Courage for work is better than APP
titude for work. 1t attacks the uncon-
genial task as we'll as the congenial.
the difficult as we'll as the easy. More
over. it drives from the field laSSitude,
Indifference, incidence, and all the 9TH
or evils that assail the worker. The
grace of grit is Il sure secret of sue
cess.
There is much that may be done
While the glittering life sands run.
III ye be but earnest minded,
Ii We so not weakly blinded
by gay fashions heartless folly.
Or d selfish melancholy,
BY a momenraiy pleasure.
Or Il love of ease or leisure.
Lured not by a fitting beauty,
From the narrow path of duty:
Much there is that may be done
BY an earnest minded one.
Anon
The church is behind the times. Re-
ligion is not so versatile and modern
as business. She doesn't show the same
adaptibility to new conditions. nor the
same appreciation of the living present.
Because of her reverence for the past,
and her conservatism, it requires cOur-
age to undertake new work in her
name. Yet is anything more greatly
needed? There are countless proper
fields of Christian service yet to- be
pioneered. The twentieth century ma
i nh N nrNy To- 6Ny tNn ~ AL nc n~nyn oVvn<y tn thA
full in, the work of the old but ever
new gospel. All honor to the brave
men n women who find new work to
do in the name of the great Pioneer and
who have the courage to do it.
The good is the enemy of the best"
avs the proverb. Some worthless will
need most at this season a clear vision
of their short comings and possibilities.
an infusion of the spirit of divine dis
content"
Even old work is bettercd by being
done In a new spirit.
The Lords work has been one work
from the beginning. and all his ser
wants in heaven and on earth have been
cooperating in 1t. Nevertheless. there
are always new and better ways Of
doing the old work. Light is light.
but he shows little appreciation OF 1t,
who sticks to the tallow candle instead
OF using the electric light.
Ambition is born of either courage
or ignorance. TIL former is the secret
of a consuming Christian ambition. To
be sufficiently courageous. to ever
strive after and attempt new and larger
service for Christ is to be ambitious
as Paul was. They who are brave
enough to be and DO their best are the
ones who daily grow better.
The men who ave been entering
wedges of the kingdom, the first to or
cupy new realms for God. have all been
men. witt a holy passion for greater
work. Needless of precedent or OF
difficulties. they have pressed on and
on and whole nations have risen up to
call them blessed.
give work to the willing and courage
to the daring.
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
The man in weakness who cries out
for Gods strength. the man in sin who
prays for holiness, has in the very
hope-the spirit and anticipated pow
sr OF the thing he prayed for.-Phil-
lips Brooks.
Tasks In hours of insight Swilled. i
Can be through hours OF gloom full
filled.
Matthew Arnold.
The most wasted of all days il that
on which one a not laughed.-Cham-
fort.
fame ana notortety can avail little:
love u the essential thing, out
living time and change and goine with
- into the unguessed possibilities OF
To face every opportunity OF life.
tnoughtfuliy I'M ask its meaning
Dravely and earnestly Is the only wav
to meet the supreme o~pportunities
Wnen they come. whether ,open-faced.
or disguised:--Maltbie D. Babcook.
Great may he be who can command
Yet Is dtviner wisdom taught
Better by him who can obey.
Reputation is the outward robe. but
A c~haracter Is the priestiy vestmeit 81
SIR George Williams. the founder OF.
the .. Nc A. maintains the upstairs.
room Of the London dry 9oods house,
IN Wnicn the association wa organised
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