Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-16

habitual. Members of one family often live
along together with more or less appearance
which gives them drawn faces and tired
bodies or else throws them back upon them
selves in the enjoyment of their own selfsh-
ness. And sometimes there is not even the
appearance of good-fellowship, but chronic
resistance and disagreement, all for the want
of good-fellowship, but with an inner strain
of a little sympathy and common sense.
Nature
Has repose. teaches Annie Payson Call, the
great exponent of physical culture. Man
is left free to take it or not, as he chooses.
But before he is able to receive it he has
personal tendencies to restlessness to over
come. And. more than that, there are the
inherited nervous habits of generations of
ancestors to be recognized and Stunned.
But repose after all, is-an inmost law Of
our being and the quiet of nature is at our
command much sooner than we realize. if
we want it enough to work for it steadily
day by day.
Nothing will increase our realization of the
need more than ii little daily thought of the
quiet in the workings of nature and the con-
sequent appreciation of our own lack.
Ruskin tells the story with his own re-
pcessive power when he says: Are not the
elements of ease on the face of all the great
est works of creation? Do they not say, not
d
has been a great power here?
If we have once trained ourselves into nat
ural ways. so akin are the laws of nature
and spirit. both must be obeyed; and to rise
to our greatest power means always to rise
to our greatest power for use.
"A mans life is Gods love for the use for
which he was made. A mans power lies
in the best direction of that use. This is a
truth as practical as the necessity for walk
ing on the feet with the head up.
It is With Life
AS it is with art, that what we do must
be done with love- or it will have no force.
Without the living spark of love we may
have the appearance but never the spirit of
useful work or quiet content. Stagnation
is not peace without happy relations with
those about US.
The more we realize the practical strength
of the law which bids US love our neighbor
as ourselves, and the more act upon it.,
the more quickly we gain the habit of pleas
ant. patient friendliness, which sooner or
later may beget the same friendlineSS in re-
turn In this sort of friendly relations there
is SAVIOR which so surpasses the unhealthy
snap of disagreement that any one who truly
finds it soon will feel the fallacy of the belief
that between friends there must be d little
quarreling to give spice to friendship.
ITO be willing that every one should be
himself andWork out his salvation in his own
working plan drawn from the law of loving
your neighbor as yourself. says good little
book. If We drop all selfish resistance to the
ways of others, however wrong or ignorant
they may be, we are more free to help them
to better ways when they turn to us for
help. 1t is in pushing and being pushed
that we feel most strain in all human re-
lations.
Many of Us Know
us where. having held in for some time,
some spring is touched which makes silence
impossible. and the, sense of relief which
follows a volley of indignant words.
To say that we can get far greater and
more lasting relief without word. but SIM
ply through relaxing our muscles and free
ing our excited muscles seems tame; but
it is true, and Is indeed the only way from
a physical standpoint that one may be GER
tain of controlling high temper
In that way also we keep the spirit. the
power, the strength from which the temper
comes. and so far from being tame. life has
more for us. We do not tire ourselves and
lose nervous force through the wear and
tear of losing our temper.
To speak expressively, 'let 60" and let
the temper slip over your nerves and off.
and you keep all the nervous force that
would have been used in suppression or ex-
preston for better work.
While we cannot expect immediate sue
cess, steady practice will bring startling re-
suits sooner than we realize. There must
be a clear intelligent understanding Of what
we are aiming at and how to gain it.
But that is not difficult, and once recog-
nized. grows steadily as we gain practical
results.
Petty irritability can be met in the same
way. AS with nervous pain, it seems at
first impossible to relax it, but the Rubcon
once crossed, We cannot long be irritable;
1t Is so much simpler not to be than to be,
and so much more comfortable.