The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-06
g: Better Life

1As Better Life (
A DREAMER.
I'd rather sing OF Liberty,
Than fawn to prosper, and the knee
Than fown to prosper, and the knee
TO Mammon bend.
I'd rather stand for human rights,
Though TO the world unknown,
Than walk on Fame's alluring heights
For self alone.
I'd rather in a cabin dwell.
unmentioned all my days,
Than to desert my principle
For wealth or praise.
I'd rather feel some work I'd wrought
That would my brother bless,
Than prostitute my honest thought
For mere success.
I'd rather ever hold in view
The white Christ as my goal,
/ d rather know had been true
To my own soul.
Than be required to sacrifice
My spirits inner light,
And give my manhood as the price
- 6HitA ehS hNAbhNs
dreamer? So to YOU he seems
Who can such notions hold.
! am content 70 keep my dreams,
Keep you your gold.
y. A. Edgerton. in RAMS Horn.
HELPFUL SAYINGS FROM NEAR
AND FAR.
The power of piety does not depend on
its being painful.
People who ride the high horse will wear
the big bandage,
The man who displays his doubts doesn't
want them dissolved.
The richest life is the one that has been
willing to lose all.
The church is not an auctioneer for the
box seats in glory.
Satan is too old to be scared by stage
thunder in the pulpit.
The devil is never afraid of the Bible
until the gilt is worn off.
The world may do for a hotel. but 1t
can never make home.-Ram's Horn.
Opportunity, sooner or later. comes to
all who work and wish.-Lord Stanley
No nation can be destroyed while it
possesses good home life.-J. G. Hol-
land.
He who would be great soul in the
future must be a great soul now.-R. w.
Emerson.
Never fear to bring the greatest com
fort to the least trouble and the largest
inspiration to the smallest duty,-Phillips
Brooks.
Duty be It a small matter or great,
Is duty still; the eommond Of heaven; the
eldest voice of God And II is only they
who are faithful in few things who will
be faithful over many things; only they
who do their duty in every day and triv-
ial matters who will fulfill them on great
occasions-Kingsley.
There are times when even the most
patient OF us feel rather glad that we
do not live forever Respect our moral
tabernacle as we may, and treat 1t ten
derly as we ought to do. we may one day
be- not so very sorry to lay it down. not
only with all its sins but with its often
infirmities.-Din Mulock Craik.
You never get to the end Of Christ s
words. There is something in them al
WAYS behind They pass into proverbs,
trines, they pass into consolatlons. but
they never pass away, and, after all the
use that is made of them, they are still
not e1hansted.-Dean Stanley
I venture to say the hardest place for
those disciples to begin to preach was in
their own city JerusSiem Then Judea
was the next hardest place, and Samaria
70 begin is at home. in your own church,
your own familyi but that is what God
wants us to do.-D. L. Moody
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we had only the record Of his sermons
without the record Of his going about do
ing good? | think the everyday life Of
Jesus touches the heart more than the
great truths which he uttered-Bishop
Simpson.
JOY is for all men. 1t does not depend
on circumstances or condition; If 1t did,
i could only. be for the few. Ii is not the
fruit OF good luck, or of fortune, or even
of outward success. which all men cannot
have. II is of the soul, or the souls char
acter; ii Is the wealth Of the souls own
being when it is filled with the spirit Of
Jesus, which is the spirit of eternal love
Horace Bushnell
The farmer who would undertake to de-
stroy sweet clover by sowing his fields
with Canadian thistles. might succeed In
his purpose: but what about the sanity Of
the man who would do a thing of that
sort2 Those who are trying to break
down the SaDDath are sowing worse than
thistles. They are sowing dragons teeth
which will spring up as armed men to de-
stroy their civil and religious liberties.
The characteristic of heroism Is its per
All men have wandering i'm
pulses. fits and starts Of generosity. BUT
when you have resolved to be great, abide
by yourself, and do not weakly try 10
reconcile yourself with the world. The
heroic cannot be the common nor the
common heroic. Yet we have the weak
ness to expect the sympathy Of people
in those actions whose excellence Is that
they outrun sympathy and appeal to
tardy justice.-Emerson.
The Fruit of the Elm.
Lifes best fruit often appears In other
lives. In the ancient book of the Sfnili-
tudes of Hermas the angel speaks to the
disciples a parable. He points to the
vineyards where the dwarfed and pruned
elm trees were planted between the rows
that on their branches might grow the
uxuriant vines, and he says: See. there
fore, how the elm gives more
fruit than the vine" How. sir,r said The
disciple, does 1t bear more fruit than the
vine?" Because said the angel. 'the
vine. being supported upon the elm. gives
both much and good fruit. whereas. If II
lay along the ground. 1t would bear bnt
little. and that very III too" That was a
good lesson for the disciple of that dav
and of this. often the best part of the
fruit we can bear is in supporting and
and serving others IN their
and often the best part OF
the most notable fruit which the world
praises Is due to the unseen quiet minis