Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-12-21
HOW TO BE HAPPY.
A, Interesting Bit Of Advice Impaired BY
Professor Blackie.

Never whip your brain. All high
pressure Is dangerous. Study to think
MS easily and as quietly as you breathe.
Never fopce yourself to learn what you
have no talent for. knowledge without
love will remain a lifeless manufacture
mot a living growth. Be content to
be ignorant Of many things, that you
may know one thing we'll. and that the
thing which God specially endowed you
to know. 1t requires fire to fuse the
materials Of thinking, no less than to
molt the iron In the foundry.
But remember this--however strong
you may be. physically, to strike a
blow, and however sharp, intellectual
ly, to recognize a fact and discern a
difference, your success In the game OF
life depends on the serious culture
which you give to the third formative
force in human character--your moral
nature; and Of the rightful supremacy OF
this element the comprehensive ex-
preston is found in the single word.
love. On this all prophets, poets and
philosophers are agreed. St. Paul says;
"Loye is the fulfilling OF the law"
Burns says:
The hearts aye, the part aye,
N That makes us RIGHT or wrang.
And Goethe more largely
The bazaar on splendid trash,
Tempts the buyer to spend his cash.
He who goes TO learned college
Comes home crammed with empty knowledge;
But true bliss you wish to brook.
Learn to live In quiet nook;
II your every vein you strain,
To All the mind with various lore.
IT'S WE'LL but how to use your lore. -.
The better wisdom--this to gain,
You must knock at another door, 4
Nor have you far to search and seek;
Let the God within you speak; 49,
Love all things that lovely be,
And God will show his best TO thee.
How is thisp For two plain reasons
--U) because 1t is only by loving or
alphabetically laying hold Of that
which is good in others, that we car
enlarge the narrowness and enrich the
meagerness OF our individual selves;
| (2) because without love a man is q
self-contined mortal and can not stand
In any cooperative relation to social
whole. composed OF mutually depend
ent parts. Therefore, let every man
measure his value as social unit NOT
so much by his power OF knowing, as
by his capacity OF loving. Love, no
doubt In reasonable world, must al
ways be accompanied with knowledge,
love with knowI1lge Is wisdom; but |,
Is better for all parties in the social sy s.
| Tor To r.yit l.,
knowledge than to have much knowl.
edge with little love.
But how Is love to manifest itselff
In the simplest way possible. By car.
rylng out In practice what, as an ethi.
cal thinker and a Christian. you must
believe In theory; by treating every
man as brother-as good as yourself,
and perhaps little better. Stamp out
that bias OF mind, so natural to all
finite creatures, which leads them tc
overestlmate their own good quail
ties--real or imaginary-and under
estimate those OF their neighbor
Avoid criticism, especially that species
Of 1t which delights in finding faults.
Seek in all things to enjoy what
is good. and let the evil drop; and. II
you will judge, begin with yourself
following Sohiller's rule: Judge your
self severely; your neighbor leniently.'
Further. seize every opportunity o.
performing acts OF kindness, however
small. to your fellow-beings, especially
TO your interiors (Rom. xii, 16). BIZ
like the sun. Everything and ever
dispensing, witching blossoms out O
the buds, by the light and warmth o
fits rays, and even, us Shakespeare ha.
1t, kissing carr.ion without offense.
Love. in It's common form, exhibiti
itself In an Interchange OF kindred
sentiments and kindly deeds among
equals; when directed towards inferi
ors. 1t is elevated into reverence, ant
eliminates In worship. There may b,
much amiability, but no true greatness
OF character without reverence. Al
we gain notion OF the grandeur of tn,
physical world by looking from tn,
low ground up to the skv-cleavins
chains OF the Alps or the Andes, so ou
measure of moral greatness grows b.
the admiring contemplation OF what Il
above MS. This is what Plato mean
when he called wonder philosophi,
affection. Though any fool may gap'
at an air balloon, the man who doe
not cherish habitual wonder for tn,
grandeur of the universe is like dea
man who does not hear the thunder, o
blind man who can not see the sum-
Young Man.