The Circuit Rider a Tale of the Heroic Age of American Methodism
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" The lad hain't got a wakeniss, " he said disconsolately. " Not a wakeniss, " he repeated, as he walked gloomily into the schoolhouse, took down a switch and proceeded to punish Pete Sniger, who, as the worst boy in the school, and a sort of evil genius, often suffered on general principles when the master was out of humour. Was Kike unhappy when he made his way to the distant Pottawottomie Creek Circuit? Do you think the Jesuit missionaries, who traversed the wilds of America at the call of d...uty as they heard it, were unhappy men 1 The highest happiness comes not from the 166 THE CIRCUIT RIDER satisfaction of our desires, but from the denial of them for the sake of a high purpose. I doubt not the happiest man that ever sailed through Levantine seas, or climbed Cappa- docian mountains, was Paul of Tarsus. Do you think that he envied the voluptuaries of Cyprus, or the rich merchants of Corinth ? Can you believe that one of the idlers in the Epicurean gardens, or one of the Stoic loafers in the covered sidewalks of Athens, could imagine the joy that tided the soul of Paul over all tribulations r \ For there is a sort of awful delight in self-sacrifice, and Kike defied the storms of a Northern winter, and all the difficulties and dangers of the wilderness, and all the hardships of his lonely lot, with one saying often on his lips : " Lord, I have kept back nothing !
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