Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1877 — An Earnest Life. [ARTICLE]

An Earnest Life.

Earnestness does not always ihove with a clatter. There are other things in this world vfhich are quite as pleasant and edifying as foe rub-a-dub-dub of a snare drum. In fact this kind of melody is not generally the highest style of. music. Have you never known a man 'bustling and' officious, and cl&moroaa and loud, but who did not weigh heavy, after all—a thing veiy well understood by everyone except just foe man who might have profited by that piece of infonpstion. And have you never known a. man quiet and unostentatious and faithful, and who was a perpetual blessing, a golden man, deep-souled and true, whose memory lingered long after he was gone, like- light upon the hill after a gorgeous sunset? The shallow stream rattles along ita course, but when Kis met and "drowned by the majestic tides rolling in .Jftan the seas, there is silence on foe hills. In foe great tide there is the power of more than a hundred rivulets, yet its coming is almost as quiet as the celestial forces that bring it. The tide fldws down ami shallow grows the stream, and again foe empty clattering goes on. And this is what we wish to say: that things most potent, although demonstrative, as indeed they most be from their effects, are not necessarily noisy. A strong and earnest life need not make what people are in the habit of calling “ a foss.” It is better to be known by foe lead that strikes than b the bang of the gun that sends \t.—Ex thongs. --—.‘ i ' - ■ V