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6 The Philosophy of Living. A Striking Article by Dr. E. F. Rice, of Kershaw, Pastor of Sand Hill and Beaver Dam Churches. From the Biblical Recorder. Life is your easel and today your canvas; opportunity is your paint and your character is tne resultant painting. It you were an infallible artist your character each day would be a true copy of the great Master's But the Almighty has not seen fit to endow us with infallibility, llouce the mistakes, t lie rebukes, and tears But He has given us the power of recovery. Lift thou, therefore, thyself above the accidents of today and keep the mistakes of yes terday out of the painting of tomorrow. Thus day by day t ry vision will grow clearer, thy hand steadier, thy touch surer, and thy work nearer "the pattern that was showed thee in the mount' Then some day the Master Painter's words of praise, ''Well done," shall be thine. But these things are costly.? Their price is submission, saciifice, and service. In the divine economy their reward is self con. trol. This is the greatest attain ment in the College of I) scipline and the highest degree conferred - *1 TT ?; :* fT II?,I<11> in iue uuivoish) 01 u ic, uo k,j forth failure and succes-, hard ship and happiness must be viewed in a new light as a means oi self control. To the theologian pains and pleasures are a scheme of rewards and punishments, bul to the true philosopher they art a system of training in God'j school-house?a method of spiritual control. The onejfirst seesir Guf jo^-s aiiu sorrows the hand u God, the righteous Judge meting out to each his hire; the othei sees in them the hand of Got also, bnt it is the hand ot the lov ing Father training lJischildrei to be like Himself, leading their onward and upward to highei ground, fitting them for largei usefulness in the realm of loy< and for greater glorv in the Eter nal City. From this higher ground tl < few elect souls get a broader viev of God's plan and purpose ii dealing with the children of men They see each individual form ing a part of the great web of lif and the ahultle of time filling ii the divine pattern. Misfortune affliction and all human ills hav amission. Sickness is to give man time to think on his ways The loss of properly is to loosei the tendrils of his affection fron things earthly. Death is the por tal of life?the transplanting o tender plants and shoots ere the; begin to bloom and young tree ere they begin to bear. This re moval of friends and relatives our dearest treasure?is design? to lift our hearts heavenward.For where our treasure is ther will our hearts he also. Win and storm dispel many noxion germs and gases. While thorai is God's way of giving nature he much-needed bath. "I don't se these things as the elect do, says one. Don't you wish yo could ? In his conflict with evil ma has lost much of his original he itage. Those who have lost moi lean toward pessimism, and thoi TJL who have lost least lean toward t optimism ; while those who have 8 regained most are philosophers. 8 ' They are like a house having t windows opening heavenward and t earthward. These see the good t above and the bad below, and t know that things could be worse f below and are better higher up. c I I ItPnma nrt I 1IIUU Villi lid uo in, X/V1A1U M higher. Get above the low-lands , of evil desire, malice, hatred, envy, and wrong thinking and i acting. View God's world as G< d'9 children should view it.? , Climb to higher grounds.'* To reach I lie heights of life i we must "lay every weight," "j)ut away childish things," and . the "smoked glass." For our interpretation of lite depends upon . our view point. It that t>e false or narrow so will our iuterpreta. tion be. John tells us that one day in Jerusalem there "came a voice from heaven." Som? "said that it thundered ; others said, ; "An angel spake to him." One ? sound, but three interpretations. To some, thunder; to others, an | angel's voice; to Jesus Himselt, the voice of His Father. Where lay the difference? Find that and you have discovered how ( different philosophies are based upon the same tacts, and different conclusions reached fiom the same premises. Cicero says : "The eye sees only that which it, brings with it, the power ot seeing." And Fichte says: "What system of philosophy you hold depends wholly ou what manner ^ ( ot man you are." If this be true j ? philosophy means, in effect, | I your poiut of view of life?the j way you view things. But Kant j speaks of the ''Ding an sich"? ^ the thing in itself. But what is } 4 the thing in itself? Here is a rare | . flower An art.iat its wonder- . i - - I t ful form aud coloring; a florist ( ' sees its commercial value; and a r 7 I naturalist the skill of tho great Workman. Here, again, is a brier , ( patch. To one it is the promise , j of 1 uscious berries, fresli with r the dew of the morning; to anr other it is the fulfilment of the a curse prououuced that day in Eden. 4kDing an sich" is to each one as it appears colored by his powers ol perception and interpreted by his personality. One * hears thunder and another hears an angel's voice. We all make run* nurn u.T?t*l/l liriirlit KKicL- r?r U 9 slate-colored. Wordsworth is 0 rigth when he speaks of? 1 The mighty world eye and ear, " liolh what they half create, and half per? ceive." Why is it that we see only the ' dark side of the life cloud while 11 others see its silver lining? Why 1 do we cross bridges before we j get to I hem and others never cro<-s them till they find them? y Why are we over anxious about fl to-morrow, taking its burdens on today's strength, while others ~ leave to-morrow's burdens forto' morrow's strength? The explana tion of difference is inside, not I i nta./la W ?MVO<Ug. (1 "('an a leopard change his iR spots?" No, But God can. "Inn stead of the thorn shall corne up sr the fir tree, and instead of the >e brier shall come up the myrtle " tree : and it shall be to the Lord u for a name, for an everlasting sign." A sign of what? That God ,n can change your heart, your nar ture, and make you a new creast tion in Christ Jesus. That those se who are thus changed shall "eat E LAN'J ASlEEt NEWS, JULY 8 he true bread Irom heaven,1' ind drink i4liviog water." You ire not responsible for the naure you are born with, but for he nature you die with. Christ v .aught this truth again and again: hat a man must be born anew? rom above?and that the chil Iren of God must be like their father. He came that men may ive the life He lived, see life as rle saw it, serve God as He ierved Him. and lay up their reasure in heaven. And this is he high calling of God. Power to pass from the world >f darkness to the world of light a bestowed upon every oue that ielieyeth. This is your talent, rour pound. Use it and you jain, neglect it and you suffer ess. It thirst tor gold is greater hau thirst for God, and the aninal desires are stronger than he spiritual, and clamor louder or gratification, Jordan is a hard oad to travel. Seek God first and hings that give us place, power, nid preferment among our felows become incidental and leaveu looms large and clear: nek the world first and heaven ind God bee me vague and re note. Then you will miss the ingel's voice and hear only the bunder. But resolve to look to iod and listen lor the angels, md some day you will catch :limpses of God and hear heaveny music. Make the resolve and lift up jour eyes to the hills whence jour strength cometh until you 3e endowed with power Irom on nigh. Then you will know the right, and have the will to do ^ die right because it is right Hopkins in his psychology rep- f< resents the will as the man on a V bridge, who, by turning aside or b taking out the drift, keeps the it ream of his thoughts pure. Bad thoughts will come, you are not human if they don't. They are the "traveler" and the "way- ? faring man" that you are not jj obliged to entertain; you are j not guilt h as it you do. Turn 9 them aside as you value your * own soul. If a "traveler" from ^ the unclean world come unto ^ you remember that your heart is ^ your castle, and no "way-faring ^ man" can lodge there without 2 your consent. I In equipping you f?>r the strug- ^ gle with evil God has armed you L with freedom of will?the power ^ of contrary choice. You can $ choose to look to the right, and " to the left ; up, and not down ; s on the bright, side, not 011 the t dark side. You may see wine c red in the cup, but you can look another way. You may hear the tempter's voice, but choose 1 to listen to the voice of God. c Thoughts of unpleasant and de- * pressing things may come, but ! you can resolve to think 011 pleas- y ant and encouraging things. f Right choosing is necessary to a * right lite, and right thinking is 1 the very foundation of right act- ' ing. For a man never goes as- 1 trnv in >iis hpn.rfc till he has cone astray in his head, tie never returns to an abandoned appetite till he has been thinking about it. David committed adultry in thought before be did in act. Wrong thinking sooner or later will lead a right man wrong and right thinking will sooner or later lead a wrong man right. I''As a manthinketh in hia heart, . 1#?7. M0(0)RE LU? 0(0)RE SHI1 0(0)RE DOC BLINDS, 3V UL1 200,000 feet finished lumber, $17.5( 150,000 feet rough lumber, $13.50 I 200,000 shingles, $3.00 to $4.00 per X V^rtl lUrtU UUUXS, ocloll cllUi UHI1US. If you anticipate buildir time. Building mater: ually advancing. 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