Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — The Quiet Hour. [ARTICLE]

The Quiet Hour.

There are times when we need to be thrust back upon ourselves, to go “apart into a desert place." Isolation bids us find ourselves, and finding ourselves we grow sufficient within ourselves. We may have allowed people to crowd upon us, have given to them too much place and time, while we have forgotten or avoided our own imperative concerns by a fictitious interest* in others. Alone In the desert Christ confronted the struggle. Thus we must all do; and the sooner we fight that crucial battle with self and the powers of darkness, the sooner are we ready to do our life work, to enter upon a career of service for God and man.—lda Ahlborn Weeks.