West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1885-08-07
CHARACTER BUILDING.
How To Achieve Succcss--Thc Power
Positive Qualities.

How to Achieve SucccSs--Thc Power OF
Positive Qualities.
Make the most of yourself and YOUR
self will make the most of YOU. Take
care OF your brain and your brain will
coin You money People really mako
their good or ill luck as they 90 along
| don't care if the world is four or five
thousand years old according to ono
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 think much is vet To bc
found that will surprise us il we live To
see H. l believe there are greater pos
sibilities for men and women than most
men and women now dream of that
ME and all lives can he made infinitely
happier, and that tho millennium is no
idle dream. You ask whore this power
lies. think il lies i'm ourselves There
great deal more of us, and of us all
than most of us realize We were not
made In a dav, year. 0r even a cent
ury. Our bodies are not ull there is of
us. We have all within us a power. a
force, which moves the body and is SUI
pcrlor To IT, This power this force
call IT 10y what name YOU ploaSc-is the
result OF ages on ages of aCcrpiion. IL
was made. and goes on being mado. of
the elements about us-of these Gle
ments in many forms of combination
1t came into us when we were born il
will 90 out of us when we die. Ii con
talns moro powers for doing than we
are aware of
Oi 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. The idea won't hurt YOU
To take homo. and, if YOU like, ponder
over. Or, rather, il may ponder YOU,
because thought may move "a man S
brain Of there he i'm that brain life
enough - 5e movcd) moro than his
brain may move the thought A now
idea Is as seed planted i'm the mind II
takes root there, grows expands. bears
fruit and m time proves power that
ShovcS the man or woman along i'm
some entirely new direction or path i'm
life. | don wonder that so many are
discouraged; that So many regard life
as hopeless piece Of business; that So
many are saying: whats the use of il
alp 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: "Wcll. il this is
all, I'm disappointed Because no one
comes along and says: Life can be-
made not only happy, but infinitely
happy Life need not bc vale OF
tears or season of perpetual sacri-
nee. Life has "A law. and TO know that
law is TO know how TO make pcrpctu-
al circus out of it, There's no such
thing as luck or "chancc." # a
brick tumblcs from a chimney il is be-
cause of the operation of The forces in
nature causing il TO tumble, and il is
no more an "accidcni' than is the
daily revolution of the earth an acci-
dent
Now if you plant yourself on that
brick and the cause Of its tumbling YOU
may get leverage on all the rest Of
creation, Tho mortar about the brick
was poor, the mason was q cheap CON
tractor and a bad man, and the earth s
attraction drew at last the brick down
to itself All these are things that
might have been prevented or can bc
prevented in the future But YOU are
made up OF the same elements that
made the brick, and probably good
many more. You arc much more
complicated piece of machinery than is
the brick, and consequently more diff
cult 10 manage. But YOU are subject
to the same laws that affect the brick
and probably more. You can, 10 a
certain extent, manage yourself The
brick could not Matter. element, sub
stance, the Lord knows what, has
placed mind, thought. Intelligence i'm
your composition ! assume and be-
llcye that what's inside of you. call il
mind, soul, sense. spirit any name
you please. has been growing up 10
its present stature for countless ages.
IL must at last reach a point Of intclli-
Pcnce where il sees IL has the power Of
making more and more of itself. addiuU
TO all lis powers and increasing all it.
qualities infinitely such ~ courage.
patience, decision. cxactncss, method.
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 tD your willingness 10
come you arc here 10 be poor, or sick,
or to suffer n some way. and sccinv mo-
way out of this you conclude that alI
this pain is inevitable. If you see law
in the matter at aIl it is only n law chat
must push you ON and ON, despite an
your endcavor, 90 its own goal say
and believe, as ] said az the commence
ment OF this epistle to Timothy and
everybody else, that the gist Of the law
lies IN the words "Makc the most of
yourself and yourself win make the
most Of you -PrcHH,. HIJord. fl
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