The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
CHARACTER BUILDING.
How to Achieve Success--Thc Power Of
Positive Qualities.

HOW to Achieve Sucoess--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 i'll luck as they go along.
don't care if the word is four or five
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 to be
found that will surprise us if we live to
see it. l believe there are greater pos
abilities for men and women than most
men and women now dream of-,that
life and all lives can be made infinitely
happier, and that the millennium is no
idle dream. You ask where this power
lies. think it lies in ourselves. There's
a great deal more of us, and of us all,
than most of us realize. We were not
made in day, year, or even cent
ury. Our bodies are not all there is of
us. We have all within us q power, a
force, which moves the body and is SUI
perior to it. This power, this force
call it by what name you please-is the
result of ages on ages of accretion. 1t
was made, and goes on being made, of
the elements about us-of these ele-
ments in many forms of combination.
1t came into us when we were born it
will 90 out of us when we die. 1t con-
tains moro 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 as my opinion and as
suggestion. The idea won't hurt you
d to take home, and, if you like, ponder
over. Or, rather, it may ponder you,
because thought may move a mans
brain Gf there be in that brain life
enough to be moved) more than his
brain may move the thought. A new
idea is as seed planted in the mind. 1t
takes root there, grows expands, bears
ilulU uhu III ullO PlOfCo pOWOl tilo
shoves the man or woman along in
some entirely new direction or path in
life. l 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 it
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: "Well, if 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 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 a perpetu-
al circus out of it." There's no such
thing as "luck" or "chance." If a
brick tumbles from chimney it is be-
cause of the operation of the forces in
nature causing it to tumble, and it is
no more an accident than is the
daily revolution of the earth an acct
dent.
Now if you plant yourself on that
brick and the cause of its tumbling you
may get a leverage on all the rest of
creation. The mortar about the brick
was poor, the mason was cheap con-
tractor and 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 be
prevented in the future. But YOU are
made up of the same elements that
made the brick, and probably q good
many more You are a much more
complicated piece of machinery than is
the brick, and consequently more diff.
cult to manage. But you are subie
to the same laws that affect the brick
and probably more. You can, to ;
certain extent, manage yourself. TIL,
stance the Lord knows what, ha!
placed mind, thought, intelligence il
your composition. | assume and be
lieve that what's inside of you, call i
mind, SOUL sense, spirit, any nam
you please, has been growing up t,
its present stature for countless ages
1t must at last reach point of intelli
gence where it sees it has the power o
making more and more of itself, addin!
to all its powers and increasing all it
qualities infinitely as courage
patience, decision, exactncss, method
order, etc. Herein probably lies tn
point of difference between you ant
me. You say you are an accident; yo
came into this miserable world withou
being asked as to your willingness t
come; you are here to be poor, or sick
or to suffer in some way, and seeing n
way out of this you conclude that al
this pain is inevitable. If you see a la,
in the matter at all, it is only law tina
must push you on and on, despite a
your endeavor, to its own goal. l sa
and believe, as said at the commence
ment of this epistle to Timothy an
everybody else, that the gist of the la,
lies in the words: "Make the most {
yourself and yourself will make tn
most of you. "-Prentice Milford, i
San Francisco Chronicle.
People with very large noses ma
be interested to learn that an EngIis
doctor claims to have discovered