This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...you will find yourself in a new world, breathing clearer air, and with a cloudless heaven above you. If it is incessant thought about your own personal affairs, escape from the contracted limits of your personal life by care for the wants of others. Determine, too, to think more of what is fair and generous and noble ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...you will find yourself in a new world, breathing clearer air, and with a cloudless heaven above you. If it is incessant thought about your own personal affairs, escape from the contracted limits of your personal life by care for the wants of others. Determine, too, to think more of what is fair and generous and noble in human nature than of what is contemptible and selfish. Those who distrust the world and think meanly of it can never be happy. There is sin enough, no doubt, both in ourselves and others; but there is more of heroic goodness, more of saintly sell-sacnfice, more of geniality and kindness than some of us seem to suppose. It makes my heart "merry" to think of the patience and courage with which many whom I know are bearing heavy troubles; the generosity with which some of the poor relieve the distresses of those who are more wretched than themselves; the firmness which some are showing in the presence of great temptations to wrongdoing; the energetic devotion of others to the highest welfare of all whom their influence can reach; and I believe that a hearty faith in the real goodness which adorns and ennobles mankind, is one of the best aids to that cheerfulness of spirit which will enable us to add to the general sum, at once of the happiness and virtue of our race. Christ has not come into the world lor nothing. His work has not been a failure. We may jecognize in multitudes the bright image of His own perfections. The invisible Spirit is reyealed in the visible excellences of innumerable Christian people, who "add" to their "faith, virtue... knowledge... temperance... patience... godliness... brotherly kindness... charity." The morbid anatomy of human souls is not a pleasant study; I doubt whether it is very pro...
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