hope, but I will not give a dollar to help perpetuate the memory and influence of those who live to make us despair."—John E. Adams.
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Hope was the one thing that remained in Pandora's box. While it remains men may courageously face life and the future.
When Alexander the Great crossed into
Asia, he gave away almost all his belongings
to his friends. One of his captains asked
him, "Sire, what do you keep for yourself?"
"I keep hope," was the answer of the king.
(Text.)
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HOPE DEFERRED
Once there was a woman whose harmless
madness was to believe herself to be a bride,
and on the eve of her wedding. Waking up
in the morning, she asked for a white dress,
and a bride's crown; smiling, she adorned
herself. "To-day he will come," she said.
In the evening sadness overmastered her,
after the idle waiting; she then took off her
white dress. But the following morning,
with the dawn, her confidence returned. "It
is for to-day," she said. And her life passed
in this tenacious, altho ever-deceiving, certitude—taking
off her gown of hope, only to
put it on again." (Text.)
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HOPE ENERGIZES
Hope is energy. The provisions have
failed; the boat leaks, the seas rise, strength
is gone, and intolerable thirst alone remains.
But, upon the horizon there rise the masts
and then the hull of the liner. Hope at once
energizes. With the vestige of remaining
strength, the distress signal is hoisted, it is
seen; it is answered, the steamer's course is
changed, and rescue is at hand.—John E.
Adams.
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Hope, Imparting—See Sick, Mirror an Aid to the.
Hope Revived—See Extremity not
Final.
HOPELESS FEAR
Is there not an Eastern apologue which
tells how the Angel of Pestilence was questioned
as to the ten thousand victims he had
slain? And did he not answer, "Nay, Lord,
I took but a thousand; the rest were slain
by my friend Panic." How many, too, have
sunk into the deep waters of the black river
and been floated on to the ocean of eternity,
for very paralysis of hope when the evil
hour was upon them and they had just
wetted their feet on the brink! They could,
and they would have stept back to the solid
shore; but they had no courage for the attempt,
no energy to strike out to the land.
The waters closed over their bowed head,
and they sobbed away their breath in the
very supineness of terror, the very lethargy
of hopeless fear. Death is like everything
else—a foe to be fought, a wild beast to be
kept at bay. They who contend with most
spirit live the greater number of days. The
will to live and the determination not to die
make the most efficacious antidote against
the poison of the "lethal dart." The hopelessness
of fear is that poison itself.—E.
Lynn Linton—The Forum.
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Horizons, Short—See Average Life.
Horoscopy—See Birth Ceremonies.
HOSPITALITY, ABUSE OF
The writer, when a boy, was invited with
all the other members of his class to a picnic
at the home of one of his companions, who
was very poor, and whose widowed mother
supported herself and her son from a small
apple orchard. After spending the afternoon
in boyish sports, the class was invited
into the orchard to have some apples. With
generous hospitality the host invited the boys
to help themselves; but to his amazement, the
boys, who were all from homes of refinement
and supposed to be well brought up,
began an orgy of unrestrained apple-eating,
and after gorging themselves with all they
could possibly eat, stript the trees in wanton
waste, just taking a bite here and there and
destroyed barrels of apples. The poor boy
host could not conceal that this waste was
an unlooked-for financial loss. It was an
intemperate indulgence and abuse of hospitality
that was contemptible.—James T.
White, "Character Lessons."
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HOSPITALITY IN CHURCH
Some years ago a young man came from
the West to Pittsburg as a student. He did
not know a solitary human being in either
of the "Twin Cities." At his boarding-house
he was asked where he thought of going to
church. He mentioned the place he had
chosen, not because he knew anybody there,
but because it was near at hand. "Well,"
the questioner replied, "they will soon freeze
you out from that congregation." "I'll give
