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(By e. E. Lewis, Sioux City. Ia.)

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(By E. E. Lewis, Sioux City. Ia.)
In every situation Of life there are
certain duties which, IL we shirk, re-
main like goads in the minds and heart.
often pricking more deeply as the
years go on.
well remember many things which
might have done. to say nothing of
others which I should have done, for
those who hive long gone beyond
reach OF all human help or sympathy;
and the remembrance rankles.
During the early part OF the war of
1851 men were enlisted for short terms
The mess to which was assigned en-
braced five of US young fellows from
ID to 20 years old, and one man about
40. He was quiet. good fellow, but
managed to avoid all guard duty dur
Ing the whole term. On the day be-
fore we were to be mustered out, 1
was drawn for guard duty. Tamblin
came to me in the morning Just before.
time Tor guard mounting and said,
Lewis. have not stood guard once.
do not want to go home with that
record. Let me stand in your place."
The most irksome service to me was
keeping awake during the night watch
on guard, 80 I gladly relinquished the
privilege.
Several years ago Governor Flower
met an old friend on the street. Taking
him by the lapel of his coat. the gov
life about on the same plane. When
the war broke out you enlisted and
fought it all through. studied law,
Went into politics, made money-lots
of It: I would give 1t, every dollar, to
pc able honorably to wear that army
button"
The conscientious discharge Of duty
Ia NOT tn,
ance-often indeed 'grievous. neverthe-
less, afterward it yieldeth the peace
able fruit of righteousness We are
usually told that the Lords expression,
He that loseth his life for my sake
shall f1nd," relates to the reward Of a
who even In this world lose their lives
and find them again-lay them down
upon lower plane and take them
again upon a higher.
Two travellers, accompanied by
guides. We're crossing the Swiss Alps
One guide preceded with rope about
him; next came the two tourists also
fastened to the rope, while the other
guide. with the rope about his waist
brought up the rear. Suddenly the
front guide broke through the treach-
erous crust over an awful chasm and
disappeared. followed by the next man.
The two remaining We're barely able
to maintain their position upon the
precarious footing--wholly unable to
draw Up their companions. The lower
8uloc reailzing the situation, passed
up his watch to be given to his wife,
and facing death in hope that the
Stranger would be saved. he deliber-
ateiy cut the rope and fell into the
darkness. Long and tedious work
finally brought up the other man but
he was dead from the cold, and the
survivors sorrowfully making their
way into Neufchatel reported the
a oeantns Oh tn their comrades. Late in the
mad fallen upon soft bed of snow
ana at last worked his way out of the
crevfce lower down the mountain.
In 1876 when the plague broke out
in Milan all the doctors. all the priests.
all the people who could, fed and left
thousands Of poor people. The bishop
Justly considering that the place for a
cure of souls at such time was with
his flock, at once set his house in order
and went out to devote himself to the
temporal and spiritual alienation of
amity deepened he was overwhelmed
with labors of all kinds. facing death
In ten thosaud forms, until when the
relief came. more from lack of mater
ial than abatement Of the scourEe's
virulence. the bishop worn to shad-
one from the very gates of death. -
Borromeo's tomb is today the chief
glory of the grand Milan cathedral
and few saints in the calendar are as
worthy of canonization
Surely, after that great experience
in fields of such suffering and Attic
ton. he took his life upon a higher
plane. and during his remaining years
might say with Paul. "Henceforth let
no man trouble me for bear in my
body the marks of the Lord Jesus
The full dinner PAIL" is a very de-
slrable thing to possess but it is not
the ultimate of life. There are many
things to be preferred even by q
hungry man. We have a sense Of per-
sonal exaltation of nobility in which
we all wish to share-as we think of
the continental soldiers at Valley
Forge. walking with bare and bleeding
feet over stony ground, lying with ILL
clad limbs and "unfed sides" upon the
frozen earth, when a bit of a walk and
the oath of allegiance to England's
king would at any moment give them
food and shoes, and clothes and
warmth; of Bishop Hooker calmly en-
during the tortures of death at the
stake when he might at any moment
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