Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-14


men shall know Thee. and show me
what can do to spread the Gospel
among the heatnen. Above all else
hold me. Christ. loyal to Thee and
Thy truth. so that may have a mes
sage whenever Thou dost call me to
deliver 1t. and loving Thee myself. with
my whole heart. may teach others to
love Thee. For thine own dear sake.
Amen.
SERMONS IN PARAGRAPHS.
LINES AND SENTENCES
When people object to routine
which commercial friend of mine
calls tho ritual Of busincss"-thcy arc
really making themselves unnecessary
work. lf YOU are striving to achieve
character for perpetual motion. you
are bound to waste motion. The man
who is bent on making every moment
"originaf loses the comfort Of the
contrasting commonplace. Play the
game Of life very moment by 4 brand
new rule. and il ceases to be game.
Great artists have always welcomed
their limitations. The highest type Of
renius--like that OF the French classic
school Of dramatists-had had this
kinship with the Divine nature-that
II chose to be selflimited. The harder
inc fOHultlOnS you impose on SOurSelI
in solving a puzzle. the greater the zest
ri mastering il. There is more fun
in winning freedom against tho
shackles Of tyranny than in lazily en-
joyinG freedom which we have not
won. That is why suffering Belgium
Is more cheerful than America, and
that is why we keep the Fourth OF
July and Washington's birthday
Wallace Herbert Blake.
The seven laws Of friendship are:
l. Moral sincerity. .. Likeness of per
Eonality. that is. much overlapping Of
tastes. ;. Complementary personality.
sufficient unIikencss to give a zest and
flavor Ia friendship g. Community OF
through together is bond that holds
tight ;. Growth. Friendship is not
static. II must be wooed afresh every
day. s. Loyalty. Not only a faithful
recognition OF the bonds already estab-
lishcd. hut also a sincerity and an alb
scncc of pretensc. There must needs
be succession Of growing comradcships
for every growing life II is folly to
blow the ashes Of a dead fire and pre-
tend TO be warmed. = independence
of personality. To be worthy OF a
great friendship YOU must be able to
d" without it.--Edward Howard Griggs
on may assure your soul. when YOU
arc marching forward into tho dark
ness OF some valley Of the shadow Of
death. that Cod would never have sent
YOU TO face that trial unless He had
known that YOU could master II. Life
is often difficult: IL is never impossible
for the man who has to live H. II
, the trial he very sore. If il shake YOUR
strength and strain your patience al
most to tho breaking point il the
agony Of conflict surprises YOU then
that only shows that YOU are stronger
, than YOU took yourself to be. Had you
! been u"6; :or il. this post Of danger
would never have been assigned To YOU
John keiman
on" may and viii understand more
about human nature Ivy the study or
christ: hut one cannot understand
christ hy the study Of human nature
christ is more than man. more than
human. more than tho theories and
thoughts about men and events Men
c"n only understand Christ by and
through the exercise Of faith And un-
loss ~" accept Him in faith we never
com" =" understand Him. -Christian
sun.
The course of life is thousand
tribes. then some crisis: nothing hut
green leaves under common sun and
shadow. ard then storm OF a rare
June day. .tnd far more than the
storm or the perfect day tho common
sun aud common shadow do 10 make
the autumn rich 1t is the every days"
that count. They must be made To
tell. or the years have failcd.-william
G. Gannctt.
Guide me. tea II me, strengthen me,
till I become such a person as Thou
wouldst have me he: pure and gentle.
tyit h ft.l RI IL til
able. courteous and generous. dutitul
and useful-Charles Kingsley
Ry failure and discomfort man is
driven ever onward. II we ask our
selves. to what goal? Can we not we'll
ward to this: to accept loving sacrifice
as his cood.--James Hinton.
We talk of mems reaching through
nature up to natures God. II is moth
ing TO the way in which they reach
and learn the divine love by tho
buman.-Phillips Brooks.
Thy Maker will not leave thee in the
grave,
But His own lineaments shall bear
in mind
And shall recall the image which He
gave.
Isaac williams.
To he faithlcss is to fail. whatever
the apparent success OF earth; to be
faithful is to succeed, whatever the an
patent failure OF earth.-Maltbe Fab
cock
What are Christians put into the
world for except TO do the impossibles
in the strength OF C;od.-General 6. C.
Armstrong.
God gives to each one Of us sufI;-
cicnt grace ever to know His holy will
and to do it fully.-St. IEnatius.
There are times when I do well to
he angry. but I have mistaken the
times.-George Matheson.
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