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eautiful than considerateness for others when we ourselves
are unhappy?
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G
o BE subject to low spirits is a sad liability.
to a vigorous, manly heart, it may be a very com-
Yet,
plete sanctification. What can be more unkind than
to communicate our low spirits to others, to go about
the world like demons, poisoning the fountains of joy?
Have I more light because I have managed to involve
those I love in the same gloom as myself? Is it not
pleasant to see the sun shining on the mountains, ever1
though we have none of it down in our valley? Oh,
the littleness and the meanness of that sickly appetite
for sympathy which will not let us keep our tiny Lilliputian
sorrows to ourselves1 Why must we go sneaking
about, like some dishonorable insect, and feed our
darkness on other people's light? We hardly know
in all this whether to be more disgusted with the meanness,
or more indignant at the selfishness, or more sorrowful
at the sin. The thoughts of the dying mother
are all concentrated on her new-born child. It is a
beautiful emblem of unselfish holiness. So also let us
hide our pains and sorrows. But while we hide them,
let them also be spurs within us to urge us on to all
manner of overflowing kindness and sunny humor
to those around us. When the very darkness within
us creates a sunshine around us, then has the spirit of
Jesus taken possession of our souls.
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INDNESS is the turf of the spiritual world whereon
the sheep of Christ feed qilietly beneath the Shepherd's
eye.
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