Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1887 — Life. [ARTICLE]

Life.

Lite consists not in the abundance of things that we possess, but in the good and honest work that we do. Let us vow that we will live, not to lade our souls with the thick clay of earthly riches—not to daub our lives with the untempered mortar of human praise—not to waste our labors on those gains of the wilderness which can neither satisfy the soul’s hunger nor quench its thirst, but for what is best and greatest. “Well,” said an old gentleman,” who stumbled as he was trying to make his way around a group of waltzers, “well, th s is really working one’* passage round the whirled.”