Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1885-07-23
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How 70 Achieve success--The Power
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How 20 Achieve success-The Power Of
Positive Qualities.
Make the most Of yourself and yout.
self will make the most Of you. Take
care of your brain and your brain will
coin you money. People really make
their good or i'll luck as they go along
| don't care II the world is four or iivs
thousand years old according TO one
authority and forty or fifty millions or
billions according to another. ] don't
believe that everything that's new to
us in the universe has been found out
yet, and l think much Is yet 10 be
found that will surprise us II we live to
see L. l believe there are greater pos
sibilities for men and women than most
men and women now dream Of-thal
life and all lives can bo made infinitely
happier, and that the millennium Is no
idle dream. You ask where this power
lies. | think Il lies in ourselves. There's
a great deal more Of us, and Of us all.
than most of us realize. We we're not
made in day, a year, or even cent
ury. Our bodies are not all there Is OF
us. We have all within us power, =
force. which moves the body and is SUI
perior to t. This power, this force
call II by what name you please-is the
result OF ages on ages of accretion. IL
was made, and goes on being made, of
the elements about us-of these ele-
ments in many forms of combination.
II came into us when we were born II
will go cut of us when we die. IL con-
tains more powers for doing than we
are aware Of
OF course, my bare assertion on this
point won't prove anything. don't
expect to prove anything-don't try to.
but put this out rs my opinion and as
a suggestion. Tire idea won't hurt you
to take home. and. II you like, ponder
over. Or, rather, II may ponder You,
because thought may move n mans
brain Of there be In that brain life
enough t. be moved) more than his
brain may move the thought A new
idea is as a seed planted in the mind. 1t
takes root there, grows expands, bears
fruit and in time proves power that
shovcs the man or woman along in
some entirely now direction or path in
life. don't wonder that so many are
discouraged; that so many regard life
as a hopeless piece of business; that so
many are saying: whats the use OF il
all?h that so many deem life not worth
the living; that so many, having tried
about all the amusing games in life they
can find, are saying; "Well, II this is
all. I'm disappointed. Because no one
comes along and says: Life can DO
made not only happy, but infinitely
happy. Lifo need not be vale of
tears or a season of perpetual sacri-
flee. Life has law, and to know that
law is to know how to make perpetu-
al circus out Of IT," There's no such
thing as "luck" or ''chance." II a
brick tumbles from a chimney II Is be-
cause of the operation of the forces in
nature causing it to tumble, and il is
no more an accident than Is the
daily revolution of the earth an acci-
dent
Now II you plant yourself on that
brick and the cause Of its tumbling you
may get leverage on all the rest OF
creation. The mortar about the brick
was poor, the mason was n cheap con-
tractor aud bad man. and the eaith's
attraction drew at last the brick down
W AA0IAAs hAA Aut1t hAt AAlHEN NudA
might have been prevented or can be
| prevented in the future. But you are
made up of the same elements that
made the brick, and probably good
many more. You are much more
complicated piece Of machinery ,han is
the brick, and consequently moro diff
cult to manage. But you are sub .eci
TO the same laws that affect the brick,
aud probably more. You can, to a
certain extent, manage yourself The
brick could not Matter, element, sub.
stance, the Lord knows what, has
placed mind. thought, intelligence in
your composition. J assume and be.
| lieve that what's inside of you, call il
mind, soul, sense, spirit, any name
| you please, has been growing up "a
| its present stature for countless ages
| II must at last reach a point of intelli.
gence where il sees il has the power oi
making more aud more OF itself, adding
TO all is powers and increasing all is
qualities intinitely-such as courage,
order, etc. Herein probably lies the
| point Of difference between YOU and
me. You say you are an accident; you
came into this miserable world without
being asked as to your willingness tC
come; you are here to be poor, or sick,
or to suffer in some way, and seeing nc
way out OF this YOU conclu le that all
this pain is inevitable. II you see law
in the matter at all. II is only law thai
must push you on and on. despite al
your endeayor TO It's own goal say
and believe, as | said at the commence
ment of this epistle to Timothy ant
everybody else. that the gist OF the las
lies in the words: make the most o.
yourself and yourself will make tn,
most OF you. "-PreHticc Mh0ord, u
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