valor and devotion could count for only little.
This consideration enters largely into England's determination to keep her navy stronger than those of any other two powers. So much of her food-supply comes from abroad that she must maintain control of the ocean routes of trade.
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RESOURCES, GOD'S
Disposed somewhat to gloomy thoughts,
especially at such times as her husband was
maligned or persecuted by his enemies,
Luther's wife was on one occasion given a
lesson by the great reformer in this wise:
"Indeed, you torment yourself as if God
were not Almighty and could not produce
new Doctor Martins by the score if the old
doctor should happen to drown himself in
the Saal."
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Resources, Inner—See Water of Life.
RESOURCES, MAKING THE BEST OF
In the Tate Gallery in London there is a
picture entitled "Hope." Seated on a globe
representing the earth is a woman blind-*folded.
The water which encloses the globe
reaches to her feet. In her hands is a lyre
with all the strings broken excepting one.
She does not mend the broken chords, she
does not wring her hands in helpless remorse
over opportunities that are gone forever,
but continues playing on the single
string that is left unbroken.
It is the part of a brave man to do his
best with what material is still at his disposal,
instead of wasting time in vainly
regretting what might have been.
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RESOURCES, SMALL
A general who rose from the ranks in our
army told me, not boastingly, that all he inherited
from his father, in Vermont, was
a pair of second-hand trousers, a sealskin
cap, and a tendency to rheumatism. The
Spartans gave their cooks only vinegar and
salt and commanded them to look for the
rest of their sauce in the meats they were to
serve.—James T. Fields.
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RESPECT FOR TEACHER
In Morley's "Gladstone" there is a passage
from the pen of the great premier,
telling how, years after his Eton career, he
sat down to a dinner in honor of the severe
old head-master who had flogged every boy
in the school, most of them many times.
They had all hated him, they said. But
when he rose to speak at that dinner, such a
storm of applause never greeted a triumphant
parliamentarian; and tears of affection
actually overflowed all eyes.—Burris A.
Jenkins, "Proceedings of the Religious Education
Association," 1904.
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Respect for the Dead—See Sympathy by Pleasure-goers.
RESPECT, NO, OF PERSONS
When King George the V was in the navy, he associated on terms of perfect equality with his messmates, among whom he was known. As an illustration of the indifference of his messmates to his royal birth, and of the spirit of equality with which he was treated by them while at sea, an incident may be related.
One night he declined to turn out, as he
should have done, to go on watch. His fellow
middy, whom he was designated to relieve,
and who wanted to turn in, endeavored
to arouse the prince. The latter, on receiving
two or three shakings, opened his
eyes, swore picturesquely, but refused to
turn out. He hit the man who had called
him one blow on the eye and went to sleep
again.
The young fellow made no response, but returned to his post, resumed his watch, and thus did duty for the prince. Now, if there is one offense that is heinous, according to midshipman ethics, it is the shirking of a watch.
On the following day, the lad who had done double duty, reported the case to his comrades. It was immediately decided to hold a drumhead court-martial in the gun-room. Prince George was brought before it, found guilty by unanimous count, and sentenced to be spanked by the middy who had done his work.
The royal culprit was seized by four of the seniors and held face downward, while the middy with the disfigured eye, his sleeves rolled up to his elbows, carried out the sentence of the gun-room court. When the prince was released he was furious with rage and mortification, and threatened all sorts of things. But a few hours after he thought
