Worth the While

100 IMPROVEMEN1 ERA. the elder says, is also to be met with, disappears when our view of the purpose of the sacrament is explained. We administer it in the simple, primitive way in which Christ instituted it, and partake of it often as did the early Saints, instead of surrounding the ordinance with form, pomp and show, and with a solemnity the genuineness of which, from my observation, may^often bejloubted* WORTH THE WHILE. It is easy enough to be pleasant While life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the man who will smile When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, And it always comes with the years, And the smile that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears. It is easy enough to be prudent When nothing tempts you to stray, When without or within no voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue Until it is tried by fire, And the life that is worth the honor of earth Is the one that resists desire. By the cynic, the sad, the fallen, Who had no strength for the strife, The world's highway is cumbered today; They make up the items of life. But the virtue that conquers passion, And the sorrow that hides in a smile, It is these that are worth the homage of earth, For we find them but once in a while. Ella Wheeler Wilcox.