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 the wealth of joy and service that has been laid up for him in the purpose of God. (Text.)

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Riddles of Life—See.

RIDICULE, APT

A very self-respecting and self-asserting bon vivant showed his desire to cut down the fees of waiters to a minimum and at the same time to ridicule the whole system. As the waiter held out his itching palm for the gratuity the epicure dropt a cent into it. "Oh, sir, you've made a mistake!" blurted out the waiter. "No," replied the donor, with an air of dignified benevolence; "I never give less."—, Boston Post.

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Ridicule Rebuked—See.

Right and Wrong—See.

RIGHT LIVING

What is right living? Just to do your best When worst seems easiest. To bear the ills Of daily life with patient cheerfulness, Nor waste dear time recounting them. To talk Of hopeful things when doubt is in the air. To count your blessings often, giving thanks, And to accept your sorrows silently, Nor question why you suffer. To accept The whole of life as one perfected plan, And welcome each event as part of it. To work, and love your work; to trust, to pray For larger usefulness and clearer sight, This is right living, pleasing in God's eyes.

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RIGHT, TRIUMPH OF

Too apt are we to forget the need of patience and to lose sight of the promise of a sure reward to those who are not weary in well-doing.

For two generations in the Turkish Empire, during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth, the world at large took little notice of the obscure party known as the Young Turks, seeing that its representatives for a long period consisted mainly of exiles whose lot seemed to be hopeless. But one day it was reported to the amazement of the whole world that six hundred young officers of the Turkish army had gone up to the mountains at Monastir, and had startled the Sultan by sending a telegram to Constantinople demanding the convocation of the Parliament which he had supprest long before. Rigid orders were immediately sent from the capital to shoot them to the very last man. Now these officers formed the flower and hope of the country. They were brave, cultured, and patriotic, and the rest of the army well-knew their quality. The regiment from Anatolia sent to shoot them not only refused to raise arms against their brethren, but immediately joined them, and regiment after regiment followed suit. Then came the revolution and the reward of those who had waited so long. (Text.)

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RIGHT VERSUS EXPEDIENCY

During the unparalleled excitement caused by Wilkes' outlawry in 1768, Lord Mansfield, on pronouncing the judgment of the King's Bench reversing the outlawry, discoursed on the terrors held out against judges, and the attempts at intimidating them. He said: "I honor the king and respect the people, but many things acquired by the favor of either are in my account objects not worth ambition. I wish popularity; but it is that popularity which follows not that which is run after; it is that popularity which sooner or later never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means. I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong upon this occasion to gain the huzzas of thousands, or the daily praise of all the papers which come from the press. I will not avoid doing what I think is right tho it should draw on me the whole artillery of libels—all that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity of a deluded populace can swallow." (Text.)—, "Curiosities of Law and Lawyers."

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Righteousness—See.

Rights Preferred to Privilege—See.

RISK

It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.—

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RISK SHIFTED

A young lady, in giving her reasons for preferring a particular church, remarked that she "liked it best because it allowed its