Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-08-21
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1t used 10 he said of a 1lan in the mines
when hc became discouraged, ,lowncast and
tiiSinclined TO labor, plan or project and very
much inclined 10 get drunk Whenever be had
chance 'he's lost his grip
There seems 10 be n great deal IF hidden
meaning and force in many of these phrases
which are evolved not out of the dictionaries
or the closets Of pedants, but from the situa-
tions, necessities, emergencies and results Of
everyday life.
Because a hopeful and energetic man or
"oni.n, fun of enterprise and plan, takes a
fii1iier hold or grip on life You may see it
IN their resolute walk and carriage, by the
manner in which each footstep is planted and
when they shake hands with you they take
your hand as if they meant something by it,
ii seems to me that getting this grip" on
HE Is rs yet an untaught science; that there
Is "A quality of the mind born of resolution
ana decision, whereby this grip is MAIN
tanned; that it is Of vast importance it
should be better understood and compre-
hcnd'ti; that disease and weakness, first
mental, next physical, comes of losing this
grip and that il is n matter to be considered,
both with reference to the here" aud the
hereafter
think good grip on life will help TO
cure almost any failing and any disease.
Doctors will tell you and many of us know
OF people who ought 10 have died, according
10 all the rules of medical science, long ago,
but who wouldn't die because they said they
wouldn't and they didn't. They never let
So their grip ON life
GETTING A GOOD GRIP.
II is wonderful what a strengthening effect
"A word may have ON Il persons mind as re-
CARDS holding his grip" You say to your
self in time OF difficulty, doubt and discour
agement Il Will, ;" Il viii. y Il willn do thus
ana so, and keep ON from time to time re-
peating these words, and you seem TO call
INTO yourself at last a power-a power of viii
which helps remove the trouble. You hugh.
OF course, at this and say, That's all imag-
nation" OF course. Laugh away 1t VIII
do You good. But try the recipe the next
time you want 10 climb out of the DUMPS.
Say Il will climb ont of this mire" Keep on
saying 1t. Sec il il does not help you to
climb.
You need so 10 climb perhaps, for yom
heart is heavy, your body weak, your win |
ditto, your appetite gone, the world Il vale |
of tears and life a burden 4 heavy heart" |
ihe;his literally and physically "A heavy and |
cast-down heart, for if you could examine |
that useful organ at such times YOU might /
IND IT was below its proper place; that it |
was not pumping, blood with its accustomed |
energy and that the blood about il was more
or less con;s,.stei and Of sluggish motion. all |
o; which causes gave that peculiar pain and |
heaN incSs known rs -'heariachen Of course
If the heart does not work properly neither
viii the stomach, and if the stomach does not
work what viii work well inside of us. Our
organs are much like row of bricIss-u,rse.
ga and the rest follow suit.
II is very important that things do work
properly INSIDE Of us, ia order that we may
properly work things outside
WHAT Is GRIP.
What is grips Call it will What is wilt
do not know, II is a quality of which each
'crson mas more or less. IL Is "a very de
arabic quality. person having it in plenty
mi knowing it, and knowing the necessity
or is use, can do great deal in the world.
ne will is put in rs a power, and there is
.ood reason to believe that it may be in
leased by cultivation, or by willing to have |
more will There is reason to believe that its |
alacity for increase is iilimiable. Whether |
! SO grows inside Of us or whether it is an |
cement we draw to us from the outside, I |
annot say and never found anybody who | !
ouid. But if it can he cultivated and in
n aSed by SO easy and simple a process as
fishing for more of it, asking for it, praying
N it, demanding it ami saying II will, y it is
very important thing for people to know
SMALL THINGS.
Please DO not be too ready to "despise the !
ay of small things" We know really very =
tile of these thinking mysteries we call our v
'inds If yoa declared to another your he
IF that thought was thing--an invisible
iing, to he sure, but none the less a thing :,
a element or combination Of clements com | o
IG out Of your brain maybe you would be !
et by howl of derision. The idea that | !,
loughts are thingS-arc anything, Thought, q
~ mind pictures plans, opinions, wishes, II
es. half lies, and all the products of our
indS are only myths-nothings-of course
'c can't see thcm-beuce they arc nothing. | u
next to H. SO we reason in this matter
Yet it's tire thought that does it all You
think out your undertaking first, u
nj then put it in practice afterwards You
an, first, every physical act, even to each
ep made in walking. Wher you say II
ill.," or "A won't and put your mental foot IL
,wn with energy and decision on this SAY
:" you do create something about YOU
hich seems TO make more energy, decision K
ii resolution-moro power To perform the
will" or Il won't"
THE LACK OF GRIP ,,
Why, the lack of grip will write itself all
err peoples forms aud faces. You know
e man who has lost his grip by the parted $,
's. the dropping lower jaw, the downcast
=, the bent form. the slouching shoulders.
c irrcsolute, hating, stumbling gait-no ii.
ipose. no aim, no end in view-only 10 live -
and endure from day 10 day and growi
d grumble Surely thought, or the lack Of No
has been here an active agent in accomp- Il,
hing sad results. 81
shall now become more or less visionary,
my opinion, and then stop. believe that
,ughts are thingS-intangible and invisible W
ngs, hut none the less things-the finest and PIE
,shly the most powerful product OF what ..
call matter"
THE STATE OF FLOP.
Hor the sake of making an amusing theory liz
ill assume that person builds up "A sort
thought structure all about tbem--an in ,
ible envelop or garment of their IDEAS. of
II this thought enyelop affects Others COM 49,
near them, pleasantly or otherwise, ac-
ding to its character; that the finer your
,anization. the more sensitive Your brain
'eads. called nerves, the easier do YOU feel
5 thought coming from another. and this Sti
v account for your first impressions" Of -
pie which tine 50 often vcrfes as correct
You build up the Il will' structure YOU "a;
w the more will power TO You and become ="
stronger continually. Ii you will even
Ia up the II can't" and ITS no use try. {
y and What's the use Of living anyway p''
Inent. You drive OF the VIII element aud
ome the weaker ard worse. you drive Oft I
mutually the people of will who might helm str
!. iut who are repolied by ANY one in 6