Interesting Stories

Interesting Stories.

ARRANGED BY GEO. D. KIRBY

Life. —Would it be like God to create such beautiful, unselfish loves, most like the love of heaven, of any type we know, just for our three score years and ten? Would it be like him to let two souls grow together here, so that the separating of the day is pain, and then wrench them apart for eternity? What is meant by such expressions as "risen together, sitting together in heavenly places?" If they mean anything,

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they mean recognition, friendship, enjoyment. Our friends are not dead, nor asleep; they go on living; they are near us always, and God has said, "We should know each other there." — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Life alone can give out his true bearings. Advice, education, sympathy, encouragement and all else can not give to one his friends, own bearings on the journey through the days. Patience must have her perfect work, and patience results alone from hard facts. Disappointment must play its part. There may be moments and days of black darkness. Things contrary may prevail on every hand. Out of it all may come the greatest good; the pathway before one may be cleared; the cloud by day and a pillar of fire my night may become a reality. The greatest discovery is to find one's bearings in life, and the greatest gift, strength and resolution to follow those bearings to. the end.

Equality. — Equality of rank there can never be; equality of wealth there can never be; equality of intellect there can never be; equality of influence there can never be. Such is the ordinance of God's providence. must al- In the will of man, as in the world of nature, there ways be the mole hills as well as the mountains, and the thistles as well as the forest trees. But equality of essential happiness, equality of pure and true thoughts, there may be; and equality of common destiny there is.

Francis Bacon. —^Francis Bacon, eminent scholar and statesman, was born. in London, England, Jan. 22, 1561. He was the youngest son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, a lawyer and statesman, and was endowed with much natural talent. He was a great master of the English language and many have ascribed to him the authorship of the plays of Shakespeare. It has been said of him that if men ever forgot his emi-

nence as a statesman and as an expounder of the law, he would still be remembered by the curious faculty which enabled him to pack away into a few sentences, a wealth of meaning. While his life in public office is clouded with dishonor and meanness, his scientific and literary work is illuminated with his intellect, which towered far above that of other men of his time. His essays are the best examples of this gift, the most popular among them being "Essays," "History of the Reign of Henry VII," "Advancement of Learning," etc. His works relate to all subjects from jurisprudence to morality and medicine, but his poem which he entitled "The World," affords another striking example, especially as he seldom wrote in verse. He died on April 9, 1626, deeply in debt, although for many years he had been a high-salaried court official.

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