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Title: Every life a delight
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Potts, James Henry, 1848-1942
Subjects: Conduct of life
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati, The Abingdon Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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erelovely and pleasant in their lives, and they were strongerthan lions. Love can brave any danger and overcome anyobstacle. It is energy on fire and nerve in extreme tension. Trust is also stronger than a lion. The trusting Danielfound himself delivered from a den full of the mighty beasts, andthousands of the worthies of old through trust shut the mouthsof lions. Human nature loves to be trusted. God insists upon beingtrusted. It is sweeter to be trusted than to be loved, thoughboth usually go together. It is duty to trust God though you can not trace Him. Lookto the bow in the cloud when you can not discover His face inthe blackness of the cloud itself. How calmly, says Richter, may we commit ourselvesto the hands of Him who bears up the world. Though He slay me, said Job, yet will I trust in Him.It is better to be slain while trusting than to withhold ourtrust and be slain. On His promise I rely. Trust in an Almighty Lord;Sure to win the victory, For He hath spoke the word, 84 -*:
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INNOCENCE AND PROWESS Lifes Morning Glee KINDNESS Be kind to thy father! Be kind to thy mother! Be kind tothy neighbor, thy sister and brother! Kindness is more than poetry. It is the heart of humanity,the very life-blood of society, a spirit akin to heaven. For the unkind there is no heaven, no love, no tenderness,and little respect. Kindness is friendship in action, love in demonstration,grace in practice, and pure sympathy enshrined. Kindness implies natural good will and acquired good habit;it is sunshine in the disposition and melting warmth in theconduct. Kindness is benignity on fire, compassion in normal tone, andtenderness in rightful solution. Kindness is the language which the blind can read, the deafcan hear, the dumb can speak, the lame can walk in, the poorcan rejoice in, the rich can find pleasure in, and which evenfools can master. No dying man was ever known to lament a kindness, butmany have expressed regret for their severities. Kindness is the errand upon which ang

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