Article September 25, 1902 Issue

"Look Up, not Down."

W. B. T.

Never give up in the cloud; look up through it. Keep your gaze where the light must break.

A good way to come to the light is this: do the next little thing which lies at hand and do it willingly. Be thankful withal that there is something to do, and do it well. All this will serve to turn you from self, and with your heart aright, it will never be long before your thought will find its way to God,—to harmony, to quiet. The more unselfish in motive we become, the more is our peace insured; and in the sunlight of peace, as each heart knows, the shadows disappear. "Seek peace and pursue it" is the exhortation of David. He knew it to be the vestibule through which the reflection of Love enters the heart, bringing in the light.

Let us do the things before us with a view to helping others, never losing sight of the fact that it is the doing of one little good upon another, with faith in the Love that prompts us, that brings fuller, deeper insight into this Love; reveals it as the Principle of all true endeavor and consequent right action; and demonstrates to us, in the peace and harmony it brings, that God is Love. The dominion which thus comes to man, over himself and over his environment, becomes more and more patent to every struggling heart which sets itself faithfully to follow out the rule. Lost to self in the joy of doing good, the sense of struggle ceases. We find our "own in another's good" and rejoice in the sweet discovery that evil disappears before a selfless purpose and an understanding trust in Good.

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