Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-10

policies. Such reasoning would have been
valid had he been certain that his family
| was provided for in such manner as would
| enable them to live in the style he desired
them to live. but while this was in doubt it
| was his duty to secure for them the pro-
| lection afforded by life assurance. This is
\ positive and absolute method for creating
an estate for the support Of loved ones
| when the bread winner is taken away, and
| nothing else except an actual income pro-
| ducing property can do II so well Had
Mr.. Window had an adequate amount of
assurance upon his life, his friends would
have been spared the hum iliation Of ap-
| pealing to benevolent persons in behalf Of
fund for the proper maintenance Of his
widow and children.
Analysis Of the problem of life reveals no
more interesting nor curious study than
that involved in the question presented 20
all men by its very conditions: How to
Live2'' BY this is meant not merely the
physical struggle for existence on our
planet, but rather those provisional habits
which tend to make life successful both
individually and in social connections.
IL has been said that until a man is forty
he exists for himself, and that after that
age he lives for others. With increasing
knowledge he recognizes the fact that what
ever good can be done, or whatever salts
faction realized, must come from benefits
conferred, rather than from advantages OBJ
tanned.
The best deserved monuments arc not
built to those whose lives have been
spent In getting, but to those who have
lived for the sake OF giving. They are for
the brave, the unselfish. the devoted. 1t is
such as these whose memories gratitude
keeps green.
Undoubtedly the greatest weakness that
besets many an otherwise estimable man is
representation, that underlined idea Of
something, he knows not what, which
makes him inertly believe that his advance
ment or enrichment, the needed provision
come in the not distant future and
without his own present effort to
promote that wished-for end. He has
visionary impalpable feeling that success
awaits him at some yet undiscovered turn
in his career, and that he has but as hereto
fore to continue his indefinite path to come
up with it. Or he fatters his fancy with
the idea that some special opportunity will
present itself TO enable him to seize with
sudden grasp the prize for which others
throughout lifetime must contend.
Such men mean well in lives which never
theless are too often barren of good. They
are not so narrow as they are improvident.
They are emphatically of the sort which
never are but always TO be blessed.
Again, the open-handed, generous way of
living which marks the course Of many
men who are esteemed by their fellows and
ofttimes admired is likewise to be con-
demned, as not only unphilosophical but al
most carelessly criminal A sad instance
of the weakness and folly of such a reck-
less life was Illustrated but few days ago
in the daily press. 4 man well and kindly
known, died, leaving-and it was all he did
leave-to his widow fearful farewell in
which this passage occurs:
Life has been struggle with me. I am |
near its end. You have been a true and |
noble woman and have borne with me pa !
tiently. l have been a busy man-gener- |
Gus to fault: my heart has been bigger |
than my purse; no one has ever been |
turned away from me in hunger, and many |
of those have been aided who had no claim |
on my charity. / leave my dear wife in
the hands of her good and precious God"
Now this mans economy began when, life |
ending, he turned the care of his wife over
to the Lord. Generosity is always admir- |
able, but that reckless liberality of life
which leaves 4 starving family to the care
of the Lord, " may well make the judicious
grieve, and should cause its previous par
Elephants to shudder.