The Prophesied Completeness

1915

We rejoice in life because it seems to be carrying us somewhere; because its darkness seems to be rolling on toward light, and even its pain to be moving onward to a hidden joy. We bear with incompleteness because of the completion which is prophesied and hoped for. — Phillips Brooks.


Merit In Overcoming Obstacles

To seek to do only the easy things of life a foolish and suicidal choice, for anybody, even a nonentity, can do these things. Let us care, rather, to do things, the overcoming of which will bring to us moral strength, a tested fortitude, and a wider experience of the deeper meanings of human life. — Christian Register.


Daily Thoughts

People who are nobly happy constitute the power, the beauty and the foundation of the state. — Jean Finot.

To travel hopefully is a better than to arrive. — Robert Louis Stevenson.

The one enemy we have in this universe is stupidity, darkness of mind, of which darkness there are many sources, every sin a source and probably self-conceit the chief source. — Carlyle.


Our Faults

Our worst fault, says a great writer, is not seeing that we have any. There can be no repentance over wrongs and ill condition when we are sure that the blame rests entirely with some one else, and the spirit that is satisfied with its own goodness and attainments ceases to grow. The struggle to overcome faults and weaknesses is hard, but to feel no need for such struggle is death.


Giant Mummy In Japan

One of the most interesting exhibits at the aisho exposition held at Tokyo was a giant mummy enclosed in a large, square coffin. The figure measured about eight feet in height. This relic was obtained by a Japanese explorer at a Buddhist temple in the province of Kiangsi. Experts support the claim that the mummy is that of a famous monk who lived at the beginning of the Christian era.