QUIT
L°afing.
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Fidgeting.
Grumbling.
Hairsplitting.
Saying that fate is against you.
Finding fault with the weather.
Anticipating evils in the future.
Pretending, and be your real self.
Going around with a gloomy face.
Fault finding, nagging and worrying.
Taking offense where none is intended.
Dwelling on fancied slights and wrongs.
Talking big things and doing small ones.
Scolding and flying into a passion over trifles.
Thinking that life is a grind, and not worth living.
Exaggerating, and making mountains out of mole
hills.
Lamenting the past, holding on to disagreeable ex
periences.
Pitying yourself, and bemoaning your lack of op
portunities.
Thinking that all the good chances and opportuni
ties are gone by.
Thinking of yourself to the exclusion of everything
and every one else.
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WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER?
I mean the answer to the question, “What use
are you making of the life with which God has en
trusted you?| He gave you life for a distinct and
definite purpose. He said to you when He bestowed
that priceless gift upon you, “Occupy till I come.”
Whatever gifts and talents He bestows upon you are
His property. They were created by Him. He gave
you the strength by which your qualities of brain and
heart, of hand and tongue, received development year
by year. A touch from His hand would have arrested
all growth of body and all development of mind. For
that clearness of intellect, that sanity of judgment,
that retentiveness of memory, that keenness of con
science for which you are noted, you are indebted to
the Giver of all good. That fine sense of proprieties,
that keen perception of the fitness of things, which
Bmake you a ready critic of the character and conduct
of others, is an endowment which if rightly cultivated
and exercised would lead you to discern between right
and wrong, between the good and the evil, between
that which makes life useful and helpful and that
which destroys and degrades. The gifts of speech
and song with which you may be endowed are also a
part of your Maker’s endowment. The opportunities
which come to fou to minister to the comfort, the well
being, the uplift of your fellowmen—all these and
countless other gifts and qualities are the Lord’s en
dowment.
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Christianity is a religion of being and doing, and
not merely of saying and seeming. It has a joy for
the heart, a song for the tongue, a walk for the feet,
and a work for the hands. The Christian has one
Lord and one Master, who is the foundation of the
hope, the object of his love and the subject of his
conversation.
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A good conscience is always fearful and unquiet.
MY CREED
EO LIVE each day as though I may never
see the morrow come; to be strict with my
self, but patient and lenient with others; to
give the advantage, but never to ask for it;
to be kindly to all, but kindlier to the less for
tunate; to respect all honest employment? to re
member always that my life is made easier and
better by the service of others, and to be grateful.
To be tolerant and never arrogant; to treat all
men with equal courtesy; to be true to my own in
all things; to make as much as I can of my
strength and day's opportunity, and to meet disap
pointment without resentment.
To be friendly and helpful wherever possible;
to do, without display of temper or of bitterness,
all that fair conduct demands; to keep my money
free from cunning or the shame of a hard bargain;
to govern my actions so that I may fear neither re
proach nor misunderstanding nor words of malice
or envy, and to maintain, at whatever temporary
cost, my own self-respect.
my country.
This is my creed and my philosophy. I have
failed it often, and shall fail it many times again;
but by these teachings of my mother and my
father I have lived to the best of my ability;
fzughed often, loved, suffered, grieved, found con
solation, and have prospered. By friendships I
have been enriched, and the home I have builded
has been happy.—Edgar A. Guest.
fellow men, and
BIBLE FACTS.
It took a man three years to figure out the follow
ing:
There are 39 books in the Old Testament, 929 chap
ters, 590,439 words, and 2,728,109 letters.
The middle book is Proverbs.
The middle chapter is Job 29.
The middle verse would be 2 Chronicles 20:18, if
there were a verse more, and verse 17 if there were
a verse less.
The word “and” occurs 6,855 times.
The shortest verse in the Old Testament is Chron
icles 1:25.
Ezra 6 contains all the letters of the alphabet.
The 19th chapter of 2 Kings and the 37th chapter
of Isaiah are practically the same.
In the New Testament there are 27 books,
260
chapters, 7,959 verses, 181,258 words, and 838,380 let
ters.
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The middle is Thessalonians.
The middle chapter would be Romans 1, if there
were a chapter more, and Romans 14, if a chapter less.
The middle verse is Acts 17:17.
The shortest verse is John 11:35.
The middle chapter of the entire Bible is also the
shortest—Psalm 117.
The middle verse is Psalm 118:8.
Social regeneration can never come en masse; it
must come through the individual.
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Anxiety and worry are the parents of temper and
disease.
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