it's making our lives less noble, less beautiful, and less satisfactory than they should be. Better be suspicious that a man has too much heart, than that he has not enough. When you are down, make the most of it; but life is not a teeter-board-you can go up without causing anyone to go down. To be constantly accusing people of irregularities, is to bring reproach upon ourselves. Neither is it a good practice for one to assume that people won't trust him. In making a practice of assuming the motives of others to be selfish, we imply a lack of generosity in ourselves.

Don't jump to the conclusion that people are trying to beat you. It is all right to be businesslike; you must be. It is all wrong to be unbusinesslike. It is all wrong to tie your business up in such a way that you have to depend either upon the honesty or the judgment of someone else to enable you to succeed in fulfilling your promises. Suspicion is an entirely different thing. The very first symptom of dishonesty in yourself is to begin to think that someone else is trying to take advantage of you. The man may have made a mistake. It is always wise to make the best of it, and assume that he

did make a mistake if he doesn't do what you expect him to do. There are exceptions, but I would rather guess wrong once in a while than to be suspicious of everyone. If you do business with a man by mail, for instance, and he doesn't send you what you order, if there is a shortage or some defect, write and tell him that you presume his shipping clerk overlooked something or sent you someone else's order, but don't accuse him of trying to beat you. It may not do him any harm, but it hurts you. Wait until the matter is cleared up, and you will nearly always find that the man was perfectly honest. I believe if there is one thing worse than another it is believing the worst of people. A disinterested person who tries to "look wise" and says, "I don't know whether he is all right or not," deserves censure. If he doesn't know anything about it, why doesn't he do like the courts— assume that a man is innocent until he is proven guilty. We call a man a hypocrite because we don't believe he lives as well as he preaches, when if we knew how hard and faithfully that man is striving to live up to his ideals, he would have our support and admiration, and his life would very likely be an inspiration to us.

Suspicion is not something that is confined to business only; there is sometimes a domestic suspicion that is more deadly. Love that has to be proven two or three times Our life is just what we make it.

a

day is cheap.

The only way

have it. The

to have our own way, is not to only way to keep some things is to give them away. Man doesn't live unto himself alone. The way to be useful and happy is to forget self-do something for others. "Let your light shine." When people begin to demand things and rebel when they don't get just what they want, they are making for themselves a life of torture. "It would be better for all of us if we would devote less time to worrying about getting into the hell of the next world, and devote more time to keeping hell out of our lives in this."

The worst kind of suspicion is to think that people are down on you; that they don't like you. The worst thing about suspicion of that kind is that it comes true. The way to make people dislike you is to accuse them of disliking you. If you want to drive love out of a man's heart, tell him it is gone. I am satisfied that if we aren't tolerant here, the hereafter won't have

much relief. Would you go to heaven when you die? You can, by getting in on this side. The main entrance is here. To have a happy, beautiful life in the hereafter, a noble and unselfish life in the present is necessary. have trouble is to think you have.

make things unendurable is to unendurable.

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One way to

think them

It is a great mistake to bemoan one's fate. Turning our minds and our imaginations wrong side out in order to dwell upon our own pitiable condition is what makes it pitiable. "All the sympathy one needs will come from withoutthat from within should be suppressed by the greater virtues, self-reliance and moral courage. More persons than one have actually died from self-pity, because of lack of moral stamina sufficient to enable them to rise above 'the slings and shots of outrageous fortune.""

There is no use telling a person that their troubles are not real, there is no use telling them not to think of themselves, but there is a use a great use at such times in thinking of other people's troubles. Let a person who has troubles of his own take an interest in those less fortunate-those who are really suffering, and

his own troubles will take to themselves the

wings of the morning and fly to the uttermost parts of the earth.

“Look out, not in;

Look up, not down;
Look forward, not back;

And lend a hand.

We forget the thorn when we behold the beauty and fragrance of the rose.

Would you like to be admired and loved? Then radiate love. Quit accusing; swear off on finding fault and asking for explanations. Don't demand love, but radiate it. Love and esteem are not things that go where they are sent. You can't compel them.

I know a young married couple, splendid people both of them, who each have the idea that the other's love is growing cold, etc., and every time there is a dispute the fact is made known with renewed emphasis, and yet that is not a very appropriate time for such unpleasant and usually unexpected information. Who would think of taking a beautiful flower out of doors every time there was a blighting frost or chilling blast? What the frost would do for the flower, accusations will do for love. A woman