Article August 21, 1909 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Frederick A. Bisbee, L. C. Littell, Herbert A. Jump, J. G. Townsend

[Christian World, London.]

We can only keep good by the incessant effort to be better. There is no standing still. You go on or you go down. Note, too,—and it is a glorious fact to note,—that, however meager a moral and spiritual nature you start with, it can be indefinitely developed by an honest daily endeavor. You can, for instance, cultivate your heart, cultivate the love of your fellow-man. You can do it by a steady inward striving; by a determined extrusion of thoughts and feelings that are contrary to love. You can resolve not to speak ill or to think ill of your brother; to pay him as much respect when he is absent as when he is present. You can develop the habit of putting yourself mentally into his place, of realizing his difficulties, his sorrows. And it is amazing to find how this industry, honestly followed, develops in us; how it opens up branch industries which offer similar products.

[Rev. Frederick A. Bisbee, D.D., in Universalist Leader.]

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