Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-26
They Say

They Say
That our most Illuminating experiences are
the aftermaths of pain and sacrifice. In the
night time all our world is dark but the
armament of myriad other worlds is in
view. We see the light of other worlds in
the night of our pain.
Is not that joy enough to the herdsmen
watching their fiocks by night on the Ara
bian plains-to see the stars and study
them-to learn about the greater stars when
the lesser sun has faded?
In the night time of earthly pains the
heavenly stars always are overhead. We
only need look up to- them. We only
need search their Jare lights to reveal
sciences of the soul even more wonderful
and more grandly great than the astrologies
and ASTRONOMERS founded by the ancient
shepherds.
The real distresses and darkness are alone
with those that wilt their eyes on the
shadowy earth. Do not look there when 1t
Is night Look out to the shining skies for
our light. 1t Is bright all around and above
US. We need only look.
We need only know there is brightness,
and cease our weeping. We need only know
there is opportunity here, and magnlfied
vistas, a mysteriously big sweep o. life
and thought
When the pain is upon us it is the time
really 10 rejoice. Our expended spirit dares
rejoice. 1t is freed from some onhnement.
1t breathes larger space.
Let us know this Let US val''e 1t { t the
time that our pain is upon The sting it
self of the suffering is then ended. The pain
of the world man dissoives in the refined
rejoicings of the man in our higher selves.
Friendships
OF any sort and every sort are pictures of
the eternal compensations We find every
where. Every friendship means something
much. And the more We lend ourselves to
the immediate exigencies of each the more
We enter into the spirit. 10 say. of each
friendship to which we are party: the more
We put into 1t the more we get from it.
Even the most unpromsing situations be-
come fruitful of profit and joy when imbued
with spirit of frendiness. Perhaps we are
thrown with some one who impresses as
excessively selfish. And we, well knowing
the seltishness lurking within our own
hearts, repine at fate for the unkindly
destinies she has decreed and wish she had
given US one of the sweet tempered. lovable,
charming, generous creatures for play
mate
Hold your horses" said the man in the
play Mr.. HOpkinsOn" 10 his impulsve
sweetheart. And so say We all to ourselves
about one distressing companion ere we be-
wall our fortunes. She is blessing in dis
guise. She is going to teach US that glori-
Gus virtue of magnanimity. She is going
to give us opportunities for practicing 1t
and for developing our latent powers of
self-denial and self-sacrifice. And until We
have these powers developed We grievously
are defective and grievously vulnerable.
open to every manner of unhappiness from
even the most model of friends.
They Say
That in every pair of sweethearts the one
loves the other is loved. Maybe so. In
many pairs of friends one gives. the other
takes. not only of love. but of counsel help,
service. One often is more advanced than
the other.
Pythagoras in his golden verses puts him.
self to great pains to instruct regarding the
choice Of friend Make him thy friend
who distinguishes himself for his virtue"
Take example from his virtuous action"
heed his counsel, and SO on. This il the