the wealth of joy and service that has been laid up for him in the purpose of God. (Text.)
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Riddles of Life—See Sphinx, The.
RIDICULE, APT
A very self-respecting and self-asserting
bon vivant showed his desire to cut down
the fees of waiters to a minimum and at
the same time to ridicule the whole system.
As the waiter held out his itching palm for
the gratuity the epicure dropt a cent into it.
"Oh, sir, you've made a mistake!" blurted
out the waiter. "No," replied the donor,
with an air of dignified benevolence; "I
never give less."—Taverner, Boston Post.
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Ridicule Rebuked—See Kindness.
Right and Wrong—See Ethical Principle.
RIGHT LIVING
What is right living? Just to do your best
When worst seems easiest. To bear the ills
Of daily life with patient cheerfulness,
Nor waste dear time recounting them. To talk
Of hopeful things when doubt is in the air.
To count your blessings often, giving thanks,
And to accept your sorrows silently,
Nor question why you suffer. To accept
The whole of life as one perfected plan,
And welcome each event as part of it.
To work, and love your work; to trust, to pray
For larger usefulness and clearer sight,
This is right living, pleasing in God's eyes.
—Anonymous.
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RIGHT, TRIUMPH OF
Too apt are we to forget the need of patience and to lose sight of the promise of a sure reward to those who are not weary in well-doing.
For two generations in the Turkish Empire,
during the latter half of the nineteenth
century and the early years of the twentieth,
the world at large took little notice of the
obscure party known as the Young Turks,
seeing that its representatives for a long
period consisted mainly of exiles whose lot
seemed to be hopeless. But one day it was
reported to the amazement of the whole
world that six hundred young officers of the
Turkish army had gone up to the mountains
at Monastir, and had startled the Sultan by
sending a telegram to Constantinople demanding
the convocation of the Parliament
which he had supprest long before. Rigid
orders were immediately sent from the
capital to shoot them to the very last man.
Now these officers formed the flower and
hope of the country. They were brave, cultured,
and patriotic, and the rest of the army
well-knew their quality. The regiment from
Anatolia sent to shoot them not only refused
to raise arms against their brethren, but immediately
joined them, and regiment after
regiment followed suit. Then came the revolution
and the reward of those who had
waited so long. (Text.)
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RIGHT VERSUS EXPEDIENCY
During the unparalleled excitement caused
by Wilkes' outlawry in 1768, Lord Mansfield,
on pronouncing the judgment of the
King's Bench reversing the outlawry, discoursed
on the terrors held out against
judges, and the attempts at intimidating
them. He said: "I honor the king and
respect the people, but many things acquired
by the favor of either are in my account objects
not worth ambition. I wish popularity;
but it is that popularity which follows not
that which is run after; it is that popularity
which sooner or later never fails to do justice
to the pursuit of noble ends by noble
means. I will not do that which my conscience
tells me is wrong upon this occasion
to gain the huzzas of thousands, or the daily
praise of all the papers which come from the
press. I will not avoid doing what I think
is right tho it should draw on me the whole
artillery of libels—all that falsehood and
malice can invent, or the credulity of a deluded
populace can swallow." (Text.)—Croake
James, "Curiosities of Law and
Lawyers."
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Righteousness—See Convictions, Strong.
Rights Preferred to Privilege—See Politeness.
RISK
It is better to go down on the great seas
which human hearts were made to sail than
to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.—Hamilton
W. Mabie.
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RISK SHIFTED
A young lady, in giving her reasons for
preferring a particular church, remarked
that she "liked it best because it allowed its
