Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-10
IIFE Is WHAT WE MAKE IT.

LEE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT.
Ono of the most prolific sources Of
ppeu complaint and secret discomfort Is
tho apparent inequality of the human
lot in life. Ia proof Of this, We are
pointed to the outward differences so
palpable to all. Wealth and poverty,
health and sickness, education and ig-
.norauce, ability and feebleness, success
and failure, certainly present very oppo-
site appearances; but that they are
either tho fixed and inevitable lot Of
those who now possess them, or that
they are themselves the true elements
of lifc's happiness or misery, nre er-
~roueous, though very prevalent ideas.
Tho truth that ought to be impressed
on every mind, and especially upon the
young, both to prevent repining, and to
animate the energies to their fullest
capacity, is that life is what we make it.
Two men stand side by side, gazing on
tho same scene in nature. To one, who
has q bright and cheerful disposition,
it reveals only beauty and gladness F.;
while to the other, gloomy and sad,
the whole scene is spread over with a
leaden pail. 1t is our W state OF
mind that creates for US, even nature
herself, and paints the same scene in
beauty or in gloom.
Still more is our social world what
we make it ourselves. The selfish and
cold-hearted will ever find GOODNESS and
selfshness in others the proud will be
treated haughtily ; the angry and pas
sionate will receive rudeness and vic.
lence ; and those who dishonor them
selves will be dishonored by others.
But society, to the good, the generous,
and the benevolent, is different. Their
example wins others to similar virtues
and developes the germs Of good, which,
though they may be hidden, yet exist
in every heart. From n mans estimate
Of society as a whole, we may gain a
very fair knowledge Of hi, own char
acter, for as he is, so will others appear
to him. To the pure, all things are
pure, because their purity like the mag
net attracts the lame quality in others ;
while the heart that is itself estrauged
from virtue, can find hone elsewhere.
Equally true is it that our world Of
circumstances and events is what We
ourselves make it. Tho luxuries Of
wealth, the triumphs Of success, the
scintillations Of genius, and even the
blessings of health, may be converted
into bitter evils if the well-spriugs Of
nature are corrupt; while the severest
trials and temptations can, to q pure and
noble heart, be changed into blessings.
The power Of trial to harm US does not
reside in itself, but in our own feeble
moss to resist or to endure it. Every
temptation resisted purifes and ~elerates
the heart, and every suffering rightly
borne strengthens u nature. Business
life seems to dry up some natures and
lead them away from higher things;
while in others it creates virtuous in
dependence, manliness and integrity.
Pleasure to ono proves a poisonous
draught, while to another it is o health
full refreshment. Thus life is what we
make it. It is not made up, in its in
trinsic nature, Of the material world,
o Of the society in which we move,
nor Of the external circumstances which
surround Us. II is our own internal
character that molds and fashions all
these outward things, and extracts from
them the bitter or the swee. that hes,
assimilates with itself. These outward
circumstances contain the essence OF
both happiness and misery-both good
and evil. Happy is the person who can
extract the sweet and leave the bitter
who can develope the good and extin-
guish the evil. As the chemis. works
up the elements into the desired condi-
ton, and obtains fresh knowledge from
all the difficulties they exhibit, so in the
moral, everything external may be Ec-
solved into good by the patien. effor, of
man, and all that seems most adverse
may DO so overcome or endured as to
provo a greater blessing than the most
apparently favorable events.
This view Of life will lead US to pu. a
juster estimate upon the complaints
which are so rife among all. II life is
what VIC make it, we must look within
and not without for the sources Of dis.
content. We complain Of society, Of
circumstances, of everything external,
but in a most liberal sense they aro what
we make them. In proportion as we
are industrious and virtuous shall we be
honored and rewarded; in proportion
as we are lovely, We shall be beloved f;
and even in the most trying situations,
and the sorest trials, the main point as
to their severity i, the spirit in which
they are received. Patient, faithful en-
deavor never results in continued un-
happiness, and is never ultimately
unsuccessful. Misery chiefly arises from
insufficient effort and consequentill-suc-
cess. II then we would find life good,
We must fill our hearts with goodness ;
if we would have the world shine bright.
ly upon us, we must kindle n light in our
own souls and cause it to shed q radiance
on all around.
SESrER's majority for Governor in
is now estimated at $4,000.
The Legislature stands 10 the Senate
conservatives, &c; Conservative Re-
p%ublicans, 4 with FIVE districts to hear
from. In the House-ConserYatives,
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