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the suggestion, and the result is that ingoing and outgoing liners may follow well-defined lanes of traffic. Separate paths are laid out for vessels of high power. Slow vessels, freighters and the like, have their special steaming zones. Since that time no collision on the high seas between two liners has occurred.

If every man would be equally careful to keep in his own territory moral collisions and many of life's catastrophes would be avoided.

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PATIENCE

Edward Collins Downing bids us to wait through earth's night for the coming day of God's accomplishments:

To those who sit and watch at night And look to God alone for strength, There will arise, I know, at length, A foregleam of eternal light.

The morning does not hesitate; The glory of its hour is fixt, Tho sorrow has been strangely mixt In all our lives, there is no fate

That can retard the coming day. Be patient. In His perfect time God's purpose will unfold, sublime, And light and joy shall have their way. (Text.)

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Lady Henry Somerset has told how her attention was first called to the work of relieving the sufferings of poor city children.

"I was moved in that direction by the rare patience and imagination of one little boy. His example convinced me that patience was one of the qualities I needed most, and in seeking it I grew into that work. I was in a hospital on visiting day while the doctors were changing a plaster-cast which held the crippled boy's limb. The operation was exceedingly painful, I was told. To my surprize the little sufferer neither stirred nor winced, but made a curious buzzing sound with his mouth. After the doctors left him, I said:

"'How could you possibly stand it?'

"'That's nothin',' he answered; 'why, I just made believe that a bee was stingin' me. Bees don't hurt very much, you know. And I kept buzzin' because I was afraid I'd forget about its being a bee if I didn't.'"

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When the quality most needed in a prime minister, who should be fully master of the situation, was the subject of conversation in the presence of Mr. Pitt, one of the speakers said it was eloquence, another said it was knowledge, a third said it was toil. "No," said Pitt, "it is patience." And patience is undoubtedly a prime quality of mastery in any situation."—

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PATRIOTISM

The spirit of Lincoln, who struck hard blows at the Southern cause but always spoke charitably of the Southern people, is embodied in this poem:

The foe that strikes thee, For thy country's sake Strike him with all thy might; But while thou strikest, Forget not still to love him. (Text.)

—His Majesty the Emperor of Japan. Translated by.

(2317)

A Japanese mother had given her three sons to the war. The first was reported slain. She smiled and said, "It is well. I am happy." The second lay dead upon the field. She smiled again and said, "I am still happy." The third gave up his life and they said to her, "At last you weep!" "Yes," she said, "but it is because I have no more sons to give to my beloved country!"—, "Smiling 'Round the World."

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PATRIOTISM, DISINTERESTED

A rather refreshing sight for this year of our Lord would be a repetition of the office seeking the man as in "Saul's" case, where it was said, "They sought him (to make him king) but he could not be found."

It is said of Abraham Lincoln that, fully expecting, owing to the meager success of the Union armies up to that time, that he would fail of reelection as President, he