are headed the wrong way." (Text.)—Chicago
News.
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The following verses from an unidentified source carry their own lesson:
One ship drives east and another drives west, While the selfsame breezes blow; It's the set of the sails and not the gales That bids them where to go. Like the winds of the seas are the ways of the fates, As we voyage along through life; It's the set of the soul that decides the goal, And not the storm or strife.
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See Destiny; Facing Right; Tendency. DIRECTION, SENSE OF No one would suppose that a calf possest any extraordinary amount of intelligence, but that one of these animals had a well-developed bump of location is proven by the facility with which this particular animal found its way home after it had been taken away. A college professor writes of this incident which came under his personal observation: "I spent my vacation the past summer at my mother's, three miles from Siler City, N. C. My brother, who lived at Siler City, had a three-months-old calf which he wanted to pasture at my mother's farm. Accordingly the calf was brought along the road from the town. The next day the animal got out of the open gate and returned home. I followed its trail; it had recently rained. The calf first took almost a bee-line for its home; crossed a small ditch, then came to a large ditch, which it wandered down some distance, but returned and crossed near its direct line. This was at a distance of a quarter of a mile from the road by which it had been delivered, and all the space is covered by thick forest. "When the calf struck the main road it proceeded along this to its home. This animal never had been out of its lot until it was brought to my mother's, and yet its sense of direction was so accurate that it took a straight line for home until it reached the road by which it had been brought. Then it depended upon its memory of the road, altho it might have followed a path in a much more direct line."—Harper's Weekly.
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DIRECTIONS
Cora S. Day, in The Interior, illustrates in the following paragraphs the value of the Bible as a book of directions:
They were looking through the medicine-chest
in search of a needed remedy when
there came to light a half-filled vial, whose
torn label held but a part of the directions
for use.
"Might as well throw this away. I have forgotten what it is, what it is for and how to take it," said the finder.
"Yes, take it out. It is no good without the directions," agreed the other. So the medicine was set aside.
There are a good many things that are no good to us with out the directions. Without the knowledge of how to use it, the most useful tool or machine is of no more value to a man than so much junk. With the directions, it becomes his assistant, his servant, and does good work for him.
If you buy a sewing-machine, or a typewriter, for instance, you are given a book of instructions which tells how to use it. In addition, the agent usually gives you personal instructions in its operation, making its ordinary workings plain to you. But some day, when you are trying to run it alone, there comes a hitch perhaps—something you do not understand, some new development or complication. Then you are glad to turn to the book of directions for help.
How about the book which gives directions for right living? Preachers and teachers and parents can tell you many good things when they are at hand; but the book can help you at all times. Full of directions for every difficulty and sure to point the way and lead you aright, it can be always near, ready to help in all perplexities. (Text.)
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DIRECTIONS, CONTRASTED
Russell Sage, it is said, directed by his
will that his body should be placed in a steel
casket, weighing three tons, made burglar-proof,
locked and sealed. He made this bequest
to himself through fear that his
physical remains might be stolen for the sake
of getting a ransom. During his long life
he accumulated a vast fortune and kept it.
He probably spent no more, fared no better,
did no more service to his fellow men than
many a business man or employee of modest
income.
