The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-06

There never was, my boy. such phil osophy making for victory as that held by our Vikings. It taught that who- ever was never wounded was never happy. It was not enough to be vic- torious The fighter should contend against such odds that complete im- munity was impossible. Look at the result. A handful of them from the bays and creeks of the far northern seas would conquer cities and whole lines of coast Why, their strength. and endurance. and resolution, per fected by their life of constant hardt- hood and stress, became so ingrained in their race, that to this day, thou- sand years after they themselves have passed away, their descendants have some of their fine qualities. Go where you will throughout this country, or any seaboard of Europe. and you will ind that where the old type remains they dominated their fellows Ay, even where the passing of centuries has diluted their blood with that of weaker races. Fight, my boy, fight! Look at that hetacomb of skulls In the crypt at Hythe and see the wounds all in front; better still, see the cicatures of the old wounds. Clean cuts they are, each of which looks as If made with a pick axe. You will get some idea there of the strength and endurance and reso- lution of this mighty race. Let your cause be ever just one; and you need never lacq such whilst sin and crime and wickedness and weakness and shame are in the world. Then fight. light against any odds. If you go down. you go down in truth and hon- ouri And the battle of truth and ho:ss our is Gods battlew
 Naturally the normal playtime of stephen became somewhat different af- ter the coming of Harold The com pensation to the little girl, who stud jed more assiduously under his assls- tance, was that she was to play more vigorously under 1t also. Together they rode distances long for her. They had walks through the woods and dyer the wolds; and when now and again she was overtired. the boys strong back was available for her help. The crick- ct field took new and more definite or ganization. And the many pets. fish, flesh. and fowl, were inspected from headquarters with a regularity hither- to unknown. stephen was beginning to learn s~ lesson of her life: and her father a ratched with secret delight to see growing in her mind more and more of that constant regularity or intention which makes the mental at- titude of man. 1t really seemed to him that his old hope regarding son was now taking practical shape. To Harold 1t was all pleasure work and play alike; when once the shock of his great sorrow began to lift, and the natural residence of youth to man fest itself. His blind adoration ot the beautiful child became in reality intensified; but inasmuch as it was now brought into daily use, and as the human iittleness began to point out to him that his divinity was after all but clay. there sprung up a new feeling of friendship. But far back in his mind, and lifted high to those re- gions which are sacred places of a boys soul, the figure of the child as he had first seen her. and now g1orifed by his memories and dreams. was en- shrined beside the mother of whom his memory was SO dim, and the fath- CT of whom to think was anguish min gied with joy.
 Childhood builds its own shrines; and these live untarnished and unim- paired to the end. It may be that as middle age creeps on us their size seems to diminish by the proportions of other things that loom larger into our lives. But when old age begins to sallop towards us the things Of earth began to dwindie; and so the old shrines take on again their ancient grandeur. Thus the circle of humanity is. completed. And then the pristine dust. that has for d time been g1orified by the touch of the Creator. and suIl- fed by the touch of life. and purified by pain, goes back to dust again.
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 A Visit to oxford.
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