“NATURE NEVER GIVES UP.”

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 26, 29 March 1907, Page 6

“NATURE NEVER GIVES UP.”

A Fhxoiie That Is Full of Moaning fof tLo Sick In Either Body; or Mind. A phrase from a recent magazine article is so suggestive and so full of encouragement that it seems worth while to make it the text for one of our small sermons, says Woman’s Home Companion. The phrase is: “Nature never gives up.” You may with profit say this over carefully and thoughtfully and let its full meaning come to you: “Nature never gives up.” Nature is on the side of health, and sanity, and consequent happiness. Hard as your case may be, the great Mother is fighting the battle with you. Has disease got into your bones ? Nature has marshaled her forces to combat it, and with marvelous strategy has set engines to work which are endeavoring to circumvent the enemy. Nature is working in conjunction with the physician and yourself. That is a thought which ought to cheer you. You have been imprudent, possibly—have done and left undone. You have taken such ill-care of your God-given body that your friends have set you down as hopeless or worse. You have told yourself that there is no hope for you. Nature has not given you up. She wants you to live and work and be healthy and happy and in the event of your neglect of yourself, she is still fighting for you. She has no moral idea in doing this. She just does it. Perhaps you deserve to be given up. Many of us do, it sometimes seems. But Nature is blind to that. Of course, she is not all-powerful. She can be overcome. She fails often. But you will do well to remember that in every case while there is a spark of life left, she is trying. Let that thought brace you. Buck up, and give Nature some help. I should like to think that we Could carry the analogy into the moral world as well. Do you not believe that there are forces as yet unvalued which are fighting the fight for good in the souls of men? Bad a man or woman may be—there is exterior pressure to make him or her better. There is law; there is education; there are all the societies and institutions whose object is to help the down fallen and the unfortunate. But are there not other forces, too? Does not the great Mother of Souls fight continually for the spiritual health and sanity of all people? The thought is comforting, stimulating, encouraging. It is the business of every individual to add all his personal strength to all encounters with evil, physical or spiritual. He can do so more heartily and with better faith for fluccess if he remembers that “nature never gives up.” INTERESTING CHILDREN. iTotmgßteru of Oriental Ministers at Washlngton Mover Heard of Christinas Before Coming Here. There are in the foreign colony In Washington quite a number of children who never heard of Christmas until they came to the land of the free, says the Washington Times. Among them are the two sons and the daughter of the Chinese minister, the youugeters of the Korean legation, and Osman Bureya and Ali Baidas,the black-eyed little sons of Cliekib Bey, the Turkish minister. When Wu Ting-Fang was Chinese minis ter he adopted the American Christmas to the extent that his young son wms allowed to go to the white house each Christmas morning with a bouquet almost as large as himself designed as a token for the first lady of the land. In the Chinese colony are several children who have been enjoying an American Christmas for some years past. These fortunate youngsters are the children of Yung Kwai, the secretaryinterpreter, whose wife is a New England woman. j Magnificent Distances. The diocese of Kiawatiu, in Rupert’s Land, is one of magnificent distances. Bishop Lofthouseonce walked 200 miles to fetch a doctor for his wife. Many of the Indians walk 25 miles to church, and the bishop has baptized scores of babies which had been carried 150 miles on their mothers’ backs over hard-frozen snow. At night the familf sleep, wrapped in the deer skins, on branches laid upon the snow.