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MORAL COURAGE.
By Peter Spen, Houston.

For fear of what another one night think,
Many a rash and shameful thing was done.
Through such a fear the gambler begun,
The drunkard swallowed his initial drink.
Here is the starting point, and the first link
In a long chain of vices;  one by one
New faults are added until there are none
From which the conscience, deadened now, will shrink.

It shows in childish play and stratagem,
The boy that breaks a window on a bet;
The girl, some form or rule of etiquette,
Because designing comrades challenged them.
It is the coward who accepts a dare –
The truly brave laughs, for he doesn't care.


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SUCCESS
It's doing your job the best you can,
And being just to your fellow man;
It's making money, but holding friends,
And staying true to your aims and ends;
It's figuring how and learning why
And looking forward and thinking high,
And dreaming little and doing much;
It's keeping always in closest touch
With what is finest in worth and deed;
It's being thorough, yet making speed;
It's daring blithely the field of chance,
While making labor a brave romance;
It's going onward despite defeat,
And fighting staunchly, yet keeping sweet;
It's looking up at the stars above,
And drinking deeply of life and love;
It's struggling on with the will to win,
But taking loss with a cheerful grin;
It's sharing sorrow, work and mirth,
And making better this good old earth;
It's serving, striving, through strain and stress,
And doing your noblest – that's success.
– Mrs. Waudie Atherton.


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SENTENCE SERMONS
BY REV. ROY L. SMITH.

A Girl's Honor –
– Is more precious than much popularity.
– Is never violated by a man who truly loves her.
– Is never laid open to suspicion by her ability to say "no."
– Is too precious a treasure to gamble with lightly.
– Is worth no more to the world than the value she places on it.
– Is too big a price to pay for keeping up with the crowd.
– Is God's mark of admiration for woman kind.


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"Friends," by Edgar A. Guest:

Ain't it fine when things are going
Topsy-turvy and askew
Too discover someone showing
Good old-fashioned faith in you?

Ain't it good when life seems dreary
And your hopes about to end,
Just to feel the handclasps cheery
Of a true, devoted friend?
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3/4 They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea,
He wields a mighty sceptre
O'er lesser powers than he;
But mightier power and stronger
Man from his throne has hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.


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