Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-04-29

What more worthy aim can lead mel
and women of wealth than tina
through their help the poor may catcL
visions of the highest and hottest life:
If we have the gift of prophecy, we
must use it for the instruction of the
ignorant, if we retain it. To hesitate
is ingloriously to fail; selfishly to
keep for ourselves what God has in
tended shall serve His children, is to
lose life with all its opportunities OF
good HoDab's knowledge and lnt1u-
ence never were more precious to him
than when, having refused the appeal
to enrich himself, he accepted the op,
portunity to assist others. AS the
new dangers arose, and he helped
Moses meet them and conquer them.
his own mind and soul grew imperial.
BY the number, magnitude, and stress
of the responsibilities which he &C
cepted in his service of others, he was
developed into his own worthiest life.
When a great Italian commander was
defeated he issued his immortal ap-
peal: Soldiers, / am without money
and without reward. l have nothing
to offer you but cold and hunger, rags
and hardship. Let him who loves his
country follow me-" But with that
summons to self-denial and patriotism
he gathered to his side the choicest
souls of his generation. The men who
followed in response to that appeal be-
came courageous heroes themselves.
When our Lord turned and said to the
multitude, THE Son of man hath not
where to lay His head and invited
them to follow Him, He was calling
to men and women who had counted
the cost, and were ready to surrender
themselves to the cause Of purity,
truth, and human helpfulness. The
way of life is narrow; the gate to it
is narrow; but the narrOWness OF the
way and the gate are its glory. Mar
rowness of the way demands energy,
high purpose, and noble perseverance.
There is no other way of success in
life but the narrow way. To invite
great soul to a broad path is to invite
him to smallness, to the cessation OF
N~N~N
been heard in every age. Would
God it were easier to be good!" And
would God it were easier to redeem
the earth!" But that is a mistaken
cry. When the ten spies returned
from Canaan murmuring because OF
the obstacles to their conquest, their
murmuring was an evidence of weak
ek,n oa%o hut hn 0ru of
leb and Joshua was, up, let us con-
quer these giants, and take their
walled cities" That was the token OF
the greatness of the two.
Jesus Christ did not come prima-
rily to change the circumstances that
should make life easy, but to give
new incentive and lofty inspiration
that would enable men to meet life's
circumstances as they are. He never
promised His friends that the path of
duty should be free from danger. In
the spirit of the Spartan mother who
charged her soldier son, Come home
with your shield or on it," Christ
says to His disciples, Take the field
and save humanity, cost what it may
1t is always true that the choice of
the broad path of personal ease and
comfort, instead of the narrow path of
duty, leads to the loss of self-respect,
the worlds esteem, and true success.
Sir Henry Stanley describes bravery
as a requisite for those who push into
the African forest, and says: The
bigger the work the greater the joy
of doing it. The whole-hearted striv-
ing and wrestling with difficulty to
lay hold with a firm grip and level
head, and the calm resolution of the
| master, and Juggling and toiling and
| wrestling at it to-day tomorrow, and
| the next, until it is done-is the SOL
| dier's creed of forward, ever forward;
| it is a mans faith that for this task
he was born" When Mckay wrote
| from Uganda in Africa to the home
| Church, he said: For our work at
| this station we want the best men in
| England; not q man who can be cas-
lily spared, but the man who cannot
| be spared" Christianity from the be-
ginning has grown upon tasks that
were so great as to require the con
| secration of all it's power, 20, pray
not for easy lives, pray to be stronger
| men; do not pray for tasks equal to
your power, pray for power equal to
your tasks; then the doing of your
work shall be no miracle, but you
| shall be a miracle; every day you
shall wonder at yourselffi at the rich
ness of the life which has come to you
by the grace of God"