TRY PLAYING ON HEARTSTRINGS YOURSELF
to hear the music you make! Let us then pray for the day when the "drop
too much" with the bottle will be as nefarious as a cut too much with
the razor or a blaze too much with the torch.
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A GOOD NAME.
Virtue maketh men on the earth famous, in their graves illustrious,
in the heavens immortal.--Chilo.
Perhaps there is no man so well known and yet so little
thought about in any one community as he who, in the universal opinion,
bears a good name. Upon his brow he wears the modern laurel, the highest
emblem of his worth, yet the simplest tribute of his fellow citizens.
There are certain exigencies in the histories of all groups of people
when the ordinary machinery of life will not operate. The citizens
require the utmost letter of the bond; they look with suspicion on all
who have usually given satisfaction by their services. A great man is
needed. It is then that the people, with one voice, cry out for succor
from him of of whom, in days of greater prosperity, they had no
imploring need; and it is then astonishing to what a degree the voice
of the people at once becomes the voice of God.
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