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the human heart. Go back through all the cycles of life, 

 through every epoch, and the same light is there, everlast- 

 ing, abiding forever. If the proof of the eternity of a thing 

 is the trial of ages, we must accept this verity now and for- 

 ever. It is life we are dealing with, and all our training, 

 be it ethical or religious, is only helpful and of the right 

 sort when it helps us to have a power, first over ourselves, 

 and through ourselves over others. 



As country people, let us keep in mind that some of the 

 most enduring work the world has known has been done in 

 the quiet of rural life or in retirement. It was in the silence 

 of a prison that Bunyan did his best work ; it was in exile 

 and alone that Dante and others did theirs. So in the 

 silence of isolated places we may do our best work. It may 

 not be the writing or making of books, but what Provi- 

 dence assigns to us will be our best work, and we may do 

 that thoroughly and well, at the same time reaching a depth 

 of things enabling us, with God's help, to rise above, or 

 equal to, all conditions and circumstances. 



