Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1880 — Be Warm Hearted. [ARTICLE]

Be Warm Hearted.

Don’t let us get soured with life. It does not mend matters with us, and it makes us very disagreeable to others. If we have had misfortunes, we are not alone. The world is not all sunshine to anybody. We love the fresh, light-hearted laugh of a child, Why pof keep it ourselves Tin after years? We love the hope and faith of children. Are we any better off if we have allowed them to shp from us? We love the ardor and natural enthusiasm of children Are we any wiser if we have covored up all the jnpnlse and warm feeling of our natures, so thaf |he world knows pnly a cold, We fc uo ' Y .* Foman who has lost all her property, though once very rich, has her hands so cramped by rhentnatism that she has been unable to use them for years, and yet she is fall of sunshine and thanksgiving to God everyday for the great enjoymmtahefiofifl jp Ijfe. fre know another, who, in the midst of luxury, wishes .be had not been born, and there are some beside herself who almost wish she had not Not least of all shall we have to give account in the judgment as to what manner °Crt Plnt We ha ' e P oßß * B ** l —ConffreffationA Glance at America —“I (was not astonished that America wg? big; I bad heard as much at home, and I knew that ia my three months’ visit T should be able to overrun only half of it. lam as one who has gone only to the margin of wonder-land What I am astopished at is the people. Nature made the country j |t is freedom which has made the people. I havealwaysbelonged to and worked for a class pf people whq cannot afford to have prejudices. I W l * something I jsxpected, but r** WfJ W»Efo»ee—jr&t panner or people bestrode thesp mighty territories amfhow they did MfiTO in what 80mt, in what hope, and with what proapecte. I never saw the human mind at large before, and acting on its own account, and I have seen it with a glad surprise. Every error and every virtue strive here for mastery, but humanity has the best of the conflict, and program is umiermost”—/. fj. \ j