The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-02
[For the HI1AlD
MEN WHO WIN SUCCESS.
BY GAsKELL.

virtuous and praissworthy achieve
ments than the proudest tyiumphs o
powerful and ambitious men. Tn,
man OF wealth and station has tn,
eyes of sycophantic, wondering ant
oftentimes applauding multitude
upon him; the humble and lowly on.
naught to cheer him but the voicelesi
echoes and yearning desires of BIZ
own heart. sanotified by trial, suffer
ing and the approving smiles of E
gracious Deity. II the former wins
the prize OF worldly success, the gor
geous, glittering fame OF contem-
porary applause is his-if the latter
wins obscurity is often still his,
though peaceful conscience is ever
az a perennial spring of JOY in the
knowledge of we'll. doing. How
heroic then the heart that, battling
| braveIy with adversity-with neglect,
poverty and wsnt-ol!en with de5ti-
tuition and crime. fram inward light
gains strength of purpose and perse-
verence OF effort; ana who, though
other courses promise greater tri-
umphs end BRIGHTER prospa ots of sue
CESS, adheres. for itself alone, stead-
tasty to the right.
Thousands there are now and have
been whose msritorious actions are
unrecorded; whom, had the bright
glare of publicity been THERE, would
rank with the proudest and highest
examples of human virtue and hero
ism. Work is worship in that it is
Q true elevator OF mankind. Activity
in some form or other is universal
law of nature-there is no cessation
to motion, and quietude would be
but the prelude to stagnatiou and
death. Goethe has said: "Our de-
s;res are the presentimsnts of the
faculties which lie within u.s." and as
such may be supposed to give vigor
and certainty OF direction to our ef-
forts for obtaining intelligence and
cur labors for distinction. Did not
desire have some reasonable grounds
for hope there would be but little
done either to advance oneself or to
elevate mankind.
Memory plays an important part in
the drama of life. There can be no
great accumulation of facts without
the exercise of the faculty of memoir
izipg. Had it not the power 10 retain
the mind would be but az q seive, al
ways receiving but never increasing
in power. knowledge would also
flow out as easily as it flowed in,
gaining nothing In complexion or
strength, by transmutation through
intellectual contact, thus doing good
to none. The celebrated French
Button. who is said to have
known ali his own works by heart,
wrote: Patience is genius" But
il would not do to suppose that by
patience he meant insction. Il is
rather the patience that accepts
hastily and without due in
and proof; it is the patience
10 seek, to compare, to classify and
arrange, without which there can be
no certain and true knowledge. Al
too hssty investigation, q too ready
acceptance OF theory. has many
Iimes retarded advancement, and
caused sorrowful and trying labor to |
unlearn that which is untrue. To
uplearn lie task mere difficult to do |
than to 60 onward, for be the ad-
vance ever 90 slow, there ia o sensible
exh laratis n in the knowledge of pro.
gress made. A calm spirit of inquiry
is desirable possession-a epirit as
far removed from an obstinate re,
fusal to accept q change, rs from the
crsdulous faulty that accepts any,
thing that is new. simply because it
is novel and untrisd. That patience !
Of Investigation may, by circum-
stances, have but q small, confined !
area to work in. yet may be thor
ough and the results bs great, as
leading to something above and be-
You'd.
1t is the pl dders, the toilers and
moilers who do the work OF life, not
only in physical walks, but in mental
walks as well. Poets may 'Iisp in
number" get it 10 the diligent study
Of years, wide range of reading and |
observation that gives their poems
polish and permanently. Milton,
long years before its execution, had
planned his great work, and had de-
clared his intention OF writing some
thing thai "the world would not will
ingly let die" yet he was past fifty
years of age before he wrote it. Nor
in his day did it bring him much
honor, and gave him even less pecu-
mary profit. Yet he wrote as be felt,
grardly, nor did he let the i'll success
destroy the equable temperament of
his soul; leaving as all others have to
10, willingly or unwillingly, to pos
.erity the final decision as to appro-
val or disapproyal of his labors. And
where are many who were famous in
heir own day? They are compare
lively unknOwn-known only to the
antiquarian. Many. far the most
numerous portion of them, sleep the
ong sleep OF forgetfulness; or, if they
i've, it is only as having opposed, or