It may be just so with two Pansies. One is good, true, active, the other one isn’t; how one will go up and the other down; how one will increase and the other decrease until one seems to have all the good, even the little the other started out with.
You borrow from a bank one hundred dollars and pay it back with interest when your note is due, and quite likely the bank will loan you two hundred dollars then, if you want it, and so on, increasing it just as you are faithful. But if you don’t pay as you promised, because you were lazy, your one hundred dollars will be taken from you and loaned to one who may have ten thousand dollars, because he makes good use of it. We are all on trial. How happy we should be to be trusted by the Lord! It’s a fearful thing when he will not loan us any more.
L.
Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds brightness over everything. It is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude.
INASMUCH.
“IF I had dwelt”—so mused a tender woman,
All fine emotions stirred
Through pondering o’er that Life, divine yet human,