The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-06

Steele Anderson has put into verse
a Prayer OF the Weak" that rings
true.
Lord of all straightforward, am
but frail, |,
Lord of all harvest-few the grapes
and pale
Allotted for my wine-press; Thou.
O Lord.
Who holdest in Thy gift the tenn
pered sword.
Hast armed me with a sailing,
Then hear my prayer, make answer
to my cry:
Grant me. l pray. to tread my grapes
as one
Who hath full vineyards, eminc in
the sun;
Let me dream v%aliaatly; and un-
disrnayed
Let me lift up my sapling like a
blade:
Then. Lord. Thy cup for mine album
d2nt wine.
Then, Lord, Thy foeman for that
steel Of minet'
Life is most worth While when all
its detectives are outside of self.
One of the three times that the
Greek word ambition" is used in the
wv ID "a lit AppStiC
Paul cries. w are ambitious,
whether at home or absent. to be
Well-pleasing unto Him" Oh Cor.
$50. That is a great purpose which
redeems life from smaIlness and
s~taleness. DR.. Charles Sheldon mir
rored it in his book. I'm His Steps"
which sold by millions of copies
around the world. Christian En-
deavor glimpsed h same vision in
its pledge wherein an Endeavorer
promises that "TruSting in the Lord
Jesus Christ for strength 1 promise
Him that I will strive to do whatever
He would like to nave me do" There
Of he wildn eSS of poor and petty
living. Seek to do the things that
Jesus would like. and life becomes
r beautiful and noble and altogether
1 worth while.
Edward Everett Hale once told
! me of an incident OF a pompous man
who kept repeating the tale of his
Y own grandeur. 1.-The fact is, DR..
Hale, I simply must have fifteen
: thousand dollars q year to live.
Whereupon DIR. Hale dryiy remarked
1T isn't worth it, Many a man de-
serves DR.. Hale's puncturing com
mont. His life does not justify his
expenditures. He is maintaining &
e pauper's spirit with princely trap
pings. Cynical humorists have otter
e pictured the apparel of such an ont
o -" a five dollar nat on a ten-cen
e man; "a thirty-cent dude in a tive
thousand dollar automobile and 81
forth. All of which is but a moder1
putting Of the teaching Of Jesus tina
ID q mans life does not consist of foo
and raiment and outward circum
s. stances. LAS a mar thinketh in hi
heart, so is he"
IS Every deed of service to other
er makes life worth living.
is Life is always worth while for PEG
ct pie tina are worth while. Life is
III failure only for hose who have faile
in their own spirits. Those person
D. who give themselves to great an
IA noble goals, who spend themselve
freely in behalf of causes, never fin
ill existence stale or jaded. Their CON
plant against life is that the day
are scarcely long enough fer the az
complishment of the tasks they hay
set themselves.
No man can become good mere
by trying. A deepening character
generally the unconscious result
he consciously chosen influences. Fir
II a Friend, believe in him and love hin
be see a great Cause and give yourse
ii to it's work; feel the power Of a Boo
lily and sa%turate yourself with it's spiri
m, find a Brotherhood OF spirits Ill
yours in aspiration and join it.; ar
loving your Friend, serving yo'
zee Cause. absorbing your Book, and C
ID: operating with your Brotherhood, {
&c, not hin too much about your ov
L." character, for your character will tai
care of itself. You cannot choose
pie be Christ-like and attain your choi
lie by trying; but o can choose Chr
we for your Friend. His Kingdom I
St your Cause, h Bible for your BOO
as the Church for your Brotherhood, al
OF these consciously chosen inf1uenc
will unconsciOusly transform 20
zen fife.-Harry Emerson Fosdick.
his Life is often a discarded toy, b
- AIT toni Thou U