through against his own colleagues in government. No man at the head of affairs can have his way in all things; but he closed his public career by resigning office rather than associate himself with an increase of armaments which he judged unnecessary, and therefore injurious to the cause with which his name is indelibly associated.
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STATIC PROGRESS
Life is not always by motion; sometimes
it is improved by waiting. The boat in the
lock stands still in order to be lifted higher.
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Stationary Lives—See Marking Time.
Stationary, The Effect of Things—See
Influence.
Statistics, Divorce—See Divorce.
Statistics of Churches—See Church
Statistics.
Statistics of Sunday-schools—See Sunday-school
Statistics.
Statues, The Value of—See Beautiful,
Influence of the.
Stature and Situation—See Disproportion.
Stature not Greatness—See Greatness.
STEADINESS OF PROVIDENCE
In a poem, "The World Runs On," Edmund Vance Cook, in The Independent, thus expresses the calm steadiness of God's providences:
So many good people find fault with God,
Tho admitting He's doing the best He can,
But still they consider it somewhat odd
That He doesn't consult them concerning His plan.
But the sun sinks down and the sun climbs back,
And the world runs round and round its track.
Or they say God doesn't precisely steer
This world in the way they think it best,
And if He would listen to them, He'd veer
A hair to the sou' sou'west by west.
But the world sails on and it never turns back
And the Mariner makes never a tack.
So many good people are quite inclined
To favor God with their best advices,
And consider they're something more than kind
In helping Him out of critical crises.
But the world runs on, as it ran before,
And eternally shall run evermore.
So many good people, like you and me,
Are deeply concerned for the sins of others,
And conceive it their duty that God should be
Apprised of the lack in erring brothers.
And the myriad sun-stars seed the skies
And look at us out of their calm, clear eyes.
(Text.)
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STEADY WORKING
Among the country boys who pick berries
there are two kinds: one keeps steadily
picking through thick and thin, moving only
when there are no berries in sight; and the
other one runs about looking for the places
where berries are thick. But the boy of the
first kind is the first one to fill his pail.
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STEDFASTNESS
It was the standing of Jackson's brigade
so firmly as to attract the attention of a
Confederate officer at Bull Run that led the
soubriquet to be applied to him of "Stonewall"
Jackson. (Text.)
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Be firm! One constant element in luck
Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck;
See yon tall shaft; it felt the earthquake's thrill,
Clung to its base, and greets the sunrise still.
—O. W. Holmes.
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STEPS UPWARD
When one is climbing a mountain whose
lofty peak he has long admired from a distance
there is an arduous ascent and one
with many steps to be made; but how good
and wholesome is the way. The path which
winds through grassy meadows, the bridge
which crosses the rushing stream pouring
down from the heights, the slow and toilful
ascent, repaid by the purer air and the rarer
flowers and the wider vision, over obstacles,
and then, at last, the height itself, different
