Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-10-01
TIIE PRESENT AND TANGIBLE.


Eagerness TO anticipate the future often
prevents the realization Of excellence and
the acquisition of permanent good.-
Thus tritles arc chosen to day, when by
waiting while. with the same means
one could secure lasting and serviceable
possessions.
Whyado you buy this /. You do not
need it,and the money spent on it would,
next year, do you much service.
"Oh, poh | may not live till next
year, and Iwant to enjoy now" So it
is bought hut being really unnecessary
to comfort, it is soon disregarded. and
become useless. SO things merely fan
eiedl are bought to please the eye for
the moment, or to crafty pala'e made
f,stidious by oyer-in- diligence, TIL some
emergency puts on the rack for resources
all the energies of the individual. The
trial might have been met with no sacri-
fee Of comfort but for this habit of want
ing this, that and the other triiie, and
of spending for it as long as means were
found. Now, dr.ar privation must be
endured or character suffer perhaps
both.
So it is in reference to aspirations of
any kind, with such as do not rely on
the tendency of principles and calculate
the elements of success. They are I'M
patient. For them the future must be
condensed into the present; the result OF
lifetime Of preparation and effort must
be seen and felt now, when only the ru-
dments of their art or business are mas
tered. SO they offer their services to
the world, aud commence Their business
ignorant vi Its details ,unsKilled in adapt
ing parts and stumbling abashed or
brazen-contradictirg themselves al each
renewed effort, they lose faith in the ex-
cellence Of their business or the prince
pies lof their art, which they can not
apply because they left their pupilage
too soon. People wanting the services
Of the well.ins tructed turn from them
disguised. They have proved themselves
unworthy OF their business. They deserv-
ed failure. No aid, either human or
divine, ought to have sustained them,
false as they are to themselves and to the
cause they pretended to represent
Others wait till familiar with the prin-
eiples on which their profession rests
They study the elements of success, be-
coming thoroughly skilled in taeir usi-
ness, enjoying it as they slowly weigh and
deliberately apply its principles, till their
breath is not more their own. In the now.
they qualify themselves for success in
the future; and thus succ ess awaits them.
Their life is not series Of disappoint-
ments, nor their reward chagrin. They
waited; the fruit matured; and now they
eat it. fully ripened, with satisfac ion.-
The life of these is not an ABORTION
They took time to grow and they are
strong. They disested perfectly the
food given TO the mind, and it nourishcd
them.
What ever is valuable and enduring.
mentally as we'll as physically, is of slow
growth In this matter, neither space
can be annihilated nor time anticipated.
Field, here, can devise no magic to sup
ersede slow. development. All normal
mental growth must be interstitial so
the nutriment must be assimilated as
we'll as carefully elaborated and the
process will be imperfect if hurried.
Work with faith and patience in the
present, and the future will bring, In It's
NOW, the desire tangible realities.