Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1911 — Meekness. [ARTICLE]

Meekness.

You should make a special point of asking God every morning to give you, before all else,-that true spirit of meekness which he would have hla children possess. You must also make a firm resolution to practice yourself, in this virtue, especially in your intercourse with those persons to whom you chiefly owe it. r You must make it your main object to conquer yourself In this matter; call it to mind a hundred times during the day, commending your efforts to God. It seems to me that no more than this is needed in order to subject your soul entirely to his will, and then you will become more gentle day by day, trusting wholly In his goodness. You will be very ham. my dearest child, If you can do this, for God will dwell In your heart; and where he reigns in Is pease. But if you should toll and commit some at your old faults, do not bo disheartened, but rise up and go on again as though you had