———=FAINT NOT——
Mary B. Willey
“If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy
strength is small.”
Faint not though the battle be raging,
And to right and to left of thee fall
Friends and comrades in whom thou hast
trusted,
Till alone thou must heed duty's call.
THE WATCHMAN
Faint not though the winds blow adversely,
And the billows sweep oer thy frail bark:
Grasp thy oar with invin¢ible firmness;
Look for light, but be brave in the dark.
The faint-hearted win not the battle,
And to falter is to court defeat;
Tis the brave hearts which conquer in those
things
Which make life sublime and complete.
PPP UN NNN NNN BL Bal 0 T0 TA aa ata ate a a a a a a didi
mid-Atlantic contained six
The same quantity taken in a
taken in
germs.
city park, 450; in a city street, 4,000; and
in a house, 10,000. Fancy 10,000 germs
in a square yard of the air that we breathe
in our rooms. By practicing cleanliness
this number can be greatly reduced, and
by observing health reform, and living
on the pure foods that God ordained for
man’s use, we shall have power over the
enemy ; for no deadly germ can take root
in a pure and healthful body. The only
soil in which germs can thrive is a pol-
luted one. Keep the soldiers of the body
healthy, and they will exterminate all
germs that try to gain an entrance.—C.
Hallum.
EE
“COME YE YOURSELVES APART”
OST of us, from one cause
or another, are physically
5 weary when summer comes,
d
A)
A
“go away,” in the fullest
and best sense of the term at all. * Go-
ing away” should, if possible, mean cut-
ting ourselves entirely free from every-
thing that has formed our lives during
the year, away from worrying troubles,
away from depressing
away from one’s daily self to seek for
one’s best self, and.away from familiar
places and people.
Most of us need this going away badly,
and because so many of the world’s
workers have so little time for rest and
recreation during the working months,
the holiday should be made as much a
real change as possible.
The Saviour advised his disciples to go
“into a desert place” for the rest they
needed, that, so getting nearer to nature,
they might gain a little more of the spirit
which comes from communion with God
in quiet hours amid the beauty and glory
of the world which he created.
and look forward longingly
to holiday time and the go-
ing away it brings. But
many of us do not really
”
surroundings,
The Timely Holiday
Many a weary worker is helped to do
and to bear by the timely holiday. Bur-
dens which seem too heavy can be car-
ried more easily after rest. To seek for
health is a duty. We cannot do our
work as it ought to be done if we are ill
and weary; and unless we try to keep
ourselves as far as possible in a fit state
to do it, we are neglecting an obvious
duty.
Only a day's rest and change is better
than nothing, and even a variety in our
surroundings does good. I know one
busy woman, who, when she gets very
tired and weary of home, re-arranges her
rooms, changes the pictures and furni-
She says
it refreshes her, and no doubt it does.
Anything is better than to accustom our
ture, and so makes a change.
eves to the same thing year in and year
out, till we get heartily sick of it all.
And there are very few of us, who, if
we make the effort, cannot do something
to break the weary round of monotony.
The wise question is not '* What might
I do if things were different?” but,
“What can I do situated as I am with
things as they are?”
A Rest al Home
A rest at home is often as much
needed, and does nearly as much good,
as a long journey in search of health.
Even our limitations are sometimes of
immense good if they teach us to make
the best of what we have. It is well, of
course, if we can have change of scenery ;
but if we stay at home, and yet “go
away” in the sense of making things
different in some way, no matter how
small, from the ordinary routine, we
shall probably be surprised to find how
it refreshes and rests us. The very act
of changing even minor things leads our
thoughts into new channels, gives us new
work to do. The interest in it is fresh-
ened, the sense of change has come into
our life.
As He Would
If we use our holiday aright, we shall
gain from it not only the strength we
need to fight our daily worries and cares,
but, if we remember Christ’s injunction,
295
* Come ye apart,” and try to spend the
holiday in a way that we feel he would
approve, we shall also find strength to
help us to fight onward and upward on
the heavenly road, which will lead us at
last to his side. M. H. T.
SE 8 SF
HOME INFLUENCES
Liv us take time to enjoy home and
one another. ** We pass this way but
once.”
Vasari says of the painter Raphael that
ill-humor could not live in his atmos-
phere. Nothing is more contagious than
temper — good and bad. Be non-con-
ductors of this moral electricity. Pass
on only the pleasant things, harmonize
all discords, and try to radiate cheerful-
ness. Cultivate a certain impassiveness
and imperviousness. When others are
cross, turn a deaf ear or pretend not to
see, and earn the gratitude of the cul-
prits afterward. Praise when possible,
and such opportunities will appear with
increasing frequency; for we all love
praise, and turn our most attractive side
toward those likely to appreciate it.
Some families seem positively bashful
about expressing their affection. Tak-
ing love on trust, because it has been ex-
pressed long ago, and never officially re-
tracted, is like trying to warm one’s
self with the memory of last year’s sun-
shine.
I believe in frequent repetition of the
bliss-laden words, © I love you,” coming
as readily to the lips as to the heart, sup-
plemented by watchful little attentions
and tones that enforce the words.
What we are wins more affection than
what we do for people. Unselfishness,
kindliness, tolerance, courtesy, cheerful-
ness, sympathy — these are the graces
none can resist. Love does not depend
upon the will. Do we not all know
persons to whom we owe affection, but,
little by little, our love dies out in spite
of all our arguments with ourselves to
prove that it should not? ‘Those who
are love-worthy will be loved. We reap
what we sow, and it is a bad sign when
others seem to enjoy themselves better
in our absence.
The ideal home is a restful place, where
our small virtues are magnified, our
wrongs espoused, our faults condoned,
where we are believed in and most be-
guilingly persuaded that we are that
which we hope to become.— Ladies’
Home Journal.