Article November 1, 1900 Issue

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The Outlook says, in an article on "Learning from Life:" "One often hears the remark made that life goes hard with a certain person; when that person's life is analyzed it will almost always appear that it is characterized more by stubbornness or by sheer resistance than by acceptance and willingness to be taught. To those who are not willing to learn, life is almost intolerably hard. They bear the brunt of the terrible onslaught of events as they sometimes come rolling in like the waves of the sea, but they are not lifted by them and when the flood is passed they are stripped of their possessions."

A short time prior to the convention of the Railroad Department of the Young Men's Christian Association, held in Philadelphia, October 11 to 14, the Congregationalist said: "The Emperor of Russia is to send two delegates. These men, Messrs. Reitlinger and Shidlovski, are connected with the administration of Russia's railways. They come, not as a part of the bureaucracy of the empire, but because the Czar is interested personally in religious and relief work, and has sent these representatives here to find out all about Association methods."

The (Methodist) Christian Advocate quotes F. B. Meyer as follows: "Do not try to do a great thing; you may waste all your life waiting for the opportunity which may never come. But since little things are always claiming your attention, do them as they come, from a great motive, for the glory of God, to win His smile of approval, and to do good to men. It is harder to plod on in obscurity, acting thus, than to stand on the high places of the field, within the view of all, and do deeds of valor at which rival armies stand still to gaze."

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