Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20

winter. and ice and cold for the summer.
Anything less than this is lapsing into UNI
civilization. So with emotions. The soul Is
primitive. unciviliZed, primitive in proper
ton as it permits itself to sink under their
savage spell Let him be the steamboat
which rides on regardless of wind and
weather, whose motor power lies within IT
self. The rocking salboat scarce be
compared with the steamers speed and eff
REGENCY. Yet even this great difference falls
short in our analogy.
His shall be a constant mind. unswayed
by the passionate gusts IF emotion. AS
Hindu scriptures have it, Alike to friend
and foe. and also in fame and ignominy,
alike in cold and heat, pleasures and pains,
taking equally praise and reproach, wholly
content with whatever cofneth, firm in
mind" In whom there is no variableness,
neither shadow of turning" is a biblical
Characterization of God setting forth the
Christian ideal.
By Daily
Cultivating an attitude of love, the love
emotions will become a part of our nature
just as light is the nature of the sun. To
whatever the sun turns it turns with ray
of light. So we shall turn with love to all
whom We meet. Love in all it's myriad
phases will be so intrinsic a part of us that
we cannot but speak. think, act in its terms.
AS this love assumes an active. positive
aspect we shall find ourselves fortified
against many grefs The great remedy for
sorrow is occupation The mother bereft of
her child, the widowed wife. have long been
counseled to seek soace in some work, to
get an orphan child to love- to espouse e
benevolence. to forget their own distresses
by occupying themselves with some one else.
The heart that is at leisure from itself to
soothe and sympathize with others is far
less likely to be subject to moods than is
the heart that tries to live to itself alone.
that turns its attention constantly inward
upon itself.
Be absorbed in a work of moment to
others, to the world, and own small,
petty pygmy concerns lose their overween-
ing Importance.
a young newspaper man home from a
night with metropolitan daily found his
mother upset over some domestic cataStro-
phe. He sympathZed with her distress, but
could not take her tragedy to heart why,
down at the office" said he, .'if We made
mistakes. 100000 people would be without
their morning paper There are only half a
dozen of us at home here to suffer by this.
Come. you make too much of trif1es." SO,
when we take the larger viewpoint, our own
tiny private personal pains will pale away
by contrast.
A Good Way
To cultivate the virtues is to think of one
in the morning part of our days prepara-
ton, to bear it in mind week in and week
out, the one that we feel we need most, and
after some weeks of work on it, to take an
other, and so on.
The simple keeping it in thought is a
constant leaven to the heart. Perhaps we
have all heard the beautiful story from
India of the oysters that open each to re-
ceive a rain drop, and how they pray fer
vently to heaven that that raindrop may be-
come a pearl. And at last in due season the
miracle is accomplished. So it is with all
of us who brood in our minds over the viz
tues of love and kindness. praying that
they may grow in our hearts.
II we do think of them, and do cherish
them, and do work with chem, in due sea-
son they snail be developed. In due season
those virtues will pervade the materials of
our characterize oursel Tes
1t all is matter of choosing what we will
have and of abiding by our choice and of
daily bearing it in mind. The boy in the
Great Stone Face" HawthOrne's story
looked every day at the beauties of the
great stone face. At last its beauties were
carved in his own features
We Begin
BY entertaining an emotion We have it
again and again; it becomes a habit Our
emotion clings round US like cloud. Under
its influence it becomes easier and easier to
yield TO that emotion and to remain under
its sway q long time. After a while it be-
does not 90 away. 1t builds into our emo
tional body, is part of ourselves part of
what we think with, and feel with, and see
with, and experience with.
Take man who is given to anger BY re-
peatedly yielding to the angry impulse he
the more readily yields to it. His friends
perhaps speak of him as being more irri-
table than hitherto. There is all the diff
ference in the world between the queruIous.
peevish old man he grows into and the ordi-
nary irritable man he was in his prime. He
has acquired a definitely irascible tempera-
ment.