Identifier: ancientapostles00mcka (find matches)
Title: Ancient apostles
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: McKay, David O. (David Oman), 1873-1970 Deseret Sunday School Union
Subjects: Apostles
Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Sunday School Union
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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irls, too, for that matter, choose bad men for theirideals. This happens when young folks read trashybooks or associate with trashy or evil-minded men.How unfortunate that little boy is who happens toread or to hear about some highwayman or robber,and has awakened in his young mind a desire to belike that bad man! How unfortunate for the boy whochooses for his ideal a man who smokes^ and drinksand swaggers through life in idleness! Thus we see that the lives of men become sign poststo us, pointing the way along roads that lead either toSign Posts ^^^^^ usefulness and happiness or to livesof selfishness and misery. It is important,then, that we seek, both in life and in books, the com-panionship of the best and noblest men and women.Carlyle, a great English writer, says that Great mentaken up in any way are profitable company. We can-not look, however imperfectly, upon a great man,without gaining something by him. He is the livinglight-fountain, which it is good and pleasant to benear.
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Light-Fountains^^ 3 If you will study the lives of these great light-fountains of the world, you will learn of at least one thinff that has made their names en-Secret of Greatness i t • i • i i dure. It IS this: bach one has given something of his life to make the world better. They did not spend all their time seeking only pleasure and ease, and a good time for themselves alone, but found their greatest joy in making others happy and more comfortable. All such good deeds live forever, even though the world may never hear of them. There is an old, old story that a man from anotherplanet was permitted to visit this earth. From a highmountain peak, he looked down upon the^m)eFdXed ^usy towns and cities of the world. Millions of men, like ants, were busy building pal-aces of pleasure, and other things that would not last.As he left to go back, he said, All these people arespending their time in building just birds nests. Nowonder they fail and are ashamed. All the truly great men of t

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