y superintendent, who, finding himself unequal to his
position, should choose to work at the bench where he could succeed
perfectly.

The habit of uncertainty in thought and action, bred, as it sometimes
is, from a lack of faith in man and in God, is, nevertheless, a thing to
be dealt with sometimes by itself. Not infrequently it is a petty habit
that can be corrected by the exercise of a little will power. I believe
it is better to decide wrong a great many times--doing it quickly--than
to come to a right decision after weakly vacillating. As a matter of
fact, we may trust our decisions to be fair and true if our life's
ideals are beautiful and true.

We may improve our indecisions a great deal by mastering their unhappy
details, but we shall not finally overcome them until life rings true
and until all our acts and thoughts become the solid and inevitable
expression of a healthy growing regard for the best in life, a call to
right living that is no mean dictum of policy, but which is renewed
every morning as the sun comes out of the sea. However inconsequential
the habit of indecision may seem, it is really one of the most disabling
of bad habits. Its continuance contributes largely to the sum of nervous
exhaustion. Whatever its origin, whether it stands in the relation of
cause or effect, it is an indulgence that insidiously takes the snap and
sparkle out of life and leaves us for the time being colorless and weak.

Next to uncertainty, an uninspired certainty is wrecking to the best of
human prospects. The man whose one idea is of making himself and his
family materially comfortable, or even rich, may not be coming to
nervous prostration, but he is courting a moral prostration that will
deny him all the real riches of life and that will in the end reward
him with a troubled mind, a great, unsatisfied longing, unless, to be
sure, he is too smug and satisfied to long for anything.

The larger life leads us inevitably away from ourselves, away from the
super-requirements of our families. It demands of them and of ourselves
an unselfishness that is born of a love that finds its expression in the
service of God. And what is the service of God if it is not such an
entering into the divine purposes and spirit that we become with God
re-creators in the world--working factors in the higher evolution of
humanity? While we live we shall get and save, we shall use and spend,
we shall serve the needs of those dependent upon u