Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1891 — Kismet. [ARTICLE]

Kismet.

“Do you see that pale young man calling out ‘Cash’ at the ribbon counter?” “Yes.”“Fate’s awful funny sometimes. Ten years ago when we were boys together his one ambition was to be a mighty hunter and catch mountain lions with a lasso.”—[New York Recorder.

If we have any virtue in us, did it spring up in an hour or a day? If we have any wisdom, did we pick it up in a lump at some particular turn of our experience? No; these signs and fruits of inward life qre the outcome of long, slow-working causes, running back through all our years, including all that we have dreaded and bewailed, as well as all that we welcomed and enjoyed; including also the outward and life of our struggling ancestors, and the long and broad evolution of humanity. We must follow the hint; we must make each step an onward one. We must not interrupt our own progress.