The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-04-25
It Can't be Helped.

cept the inevitable with the best grace we
can. Some things cannot be escaped and
it does not help the matter to fight against
them and makes it much worse to be over
come by them.
1t is often that the grumblers of this
world are those who have the least to COM
, plain of, while those who are really un.
, fortunate beaf their trials without murmur.
, 1t is human nature to submit to what we
It is what we feel that we can help that
as race we battle against and worry over
Ii We live long enough we must become
old; our personal charms, if We have any,
must fade; our strength must depart. Yet
We do not pass sleepless nights and unhappy
days because of it. We know that soon
or late We all must die. Yet this does not
trouble us much. In fact we think very
little about it. It is our common lot and
We accept it as SUCH But did half the
human race escape either old age or death
what COZ tinual worry there would be.
Given the possibility of escape from any
thing and discomfort is inevitable.
| Although we generally submit patiently
to what cannot be helped yet there are
some Affections that leave their impress for
u ~ time. In the case OF death, although
we know our grief is of no avail, we con-
tinue to mourn our dead, and life is robbed
of half its happiness and success, half its
triumph by knowing that they may not
share it With us.
| We all possess the f. Guilty to a greater or
less extent of making the best of things.
While the crisi is impending and every
thing is trembling in the balance, sleep may
depart from the eyelids; but after the
| fortune or the competency, as the case may
be, is-5one, the.l the individual manages to
conform himself to the situation. 1t is
always q comfort in any calamity to feel
that it really could not be helped. If on
the contrary We know that we might have
helped it the trial is greatly increased. If
the pilot is asleep when he ought to have
been awake and his vessel is wrecked and
scores of human hives lost, ii the farmer is
dilatory, and loses his crop when it might
have been saved, if the wife is eXtravagant,
and ruins iIer. husband, when she might
sting TO the calamity.
1T can't be helped is often an excuse
for lack of energy. People often say when
d thing has gone wrong, 1T can't be
helped, when, if they would only go to
work in the right way it might soon be rec
titled. Because we have made great
blunder is no reason for making another by
giving mp entirely. IF we make mp our
minds that we are foreordained tol fail, we
are very ely to do so, while if We have
the will to conquer We are apt to succeed.
1t has been .nIy said ''Heavel clips those
who help themselves" God has given us
our energies and there is nothing that is i'm
possible for the ma jestic worker to accomp-
Alisb.As The fact. is plainly evident that God
never requires anything OF US that We
cannot do; and it is -4na ~ certain that he
will never do for US what we can do
ourselves.
We should never become discouraged
Like the spider spinning his web, if the
work of our life lies in ruins before us we
should resoutely go to work and build
again. The most prosperous men in the
world have met with failures. If Samuel
f. Morse had become discouraged at his
first failure, he would never have given the
telegraph to the world. After failing in his
own country, he crossed the ocean to seek
assistance in Europe. aiIing both in
France and England he returned home and
when he had at last succeeded in getting
an appropriation of thirty thousan dollars
fro. congress, he spent nearly all of it in
trying to inclose the Wire in buried tubes.
Finding at length that this plan would not
work, he resorted to the system of wires
suspended from poles, and on the first of
May 1874 the electric telegraph was all
accomplished fact. When the true man
meets with failure he does not say: 'It
can't be helped" but he perseveres until at
length he succeeds
The picture comes before Inc of u little
| boy sitting 1t his desk in the country school
house, his book before him, his cheeks rest
upon his brown hands and his eyes swim
with tears. Outside he hears the boys at
play. There is a choaklng sensation in his
throat as he thinks cit can't be helped,
must give it up" But after while he
takes courage. Others have succeeded and
he must or take the consequences, so after
a struggle or two, he goes diligently to work,
until he has mastered the hard lesson, and
TiS-&eadv to 90 ont to his play with a lioht
heart and good conscience.
A young man is entering upon his ifes
career, who has wasted his early oppor-
tunities and acquired evil habits. If he
goes on as he has begun he is sure to prove
a failure. But glimpse of purer light
creeps through the narrow crannies of his
poor dark soul. He is not quite content
with himself; he sees others prospering and
doing well. and the question comes to him