Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-24
LIVE QUESTIONS.
A Series of Articles Contributed by
Advanced Thinkers.
SUCCESS.

SOSSGSOs
would not be a quoenl
Verify,
IT'S better to be lowly born
And range in humble lives in content
Than to be penk' up in glistuning grief
And wear golden sorrow.
There are many crude ideas of success.
For convenience, let us inquire what is
not success?
The careers of such men as labor for
wealth, notoriety, fame, ease, position,
power, are not commendable nor success
ful. Our material progress, railroads,
telegraph lines cities, industries, inven-
tions, ETC., are not success, but may be
its outer indications. Success really
means to seek-to go after. Its prime
conditions are intelligent action or
work. We must measure success, then,
by mental, moral and spiritual stand
ards. In other words what one is and
does marks one as success or failure.
just now when we measure everything
by money standard, it is difficult to
believe that success is altogether a mat
ter Of the soul. Soul success is inclusive.
What is success? 1t is to succeed.
Some one said, Nothing succeeds like
success" Equally true is it that moth
ing fails like failure" " The real mean
ing of success is to go after, and of
course to get what you seek.
want to emphasize two root ideas
(a) to go and (b) the purpose. Success
then is action, intelligent action, or ac-
tion with purpose and especially the
results of moral conduct. But all real
success is measured by what a man is
mentally and morally. What does a man
know and how does he live? are the
fundamental questions i'll testing sue
cess.
According to this view, then, Socrates
Plato, Aristotle, Isaiah, Galilci, Bruno
Spinoza, Paul and Tschernuitscheosli
were all successful. For instance, fischer
nuitscheoski was imprisoned for writ
ing book-viz, "What Is to Be Done?'
1t appeared on the occasion Of an at
tempted assassination of the czar. 1t
was wild plea for universal human
liberty and equality. The author, a
brilliant scholar, was banished to the
hard frontiers of Siberia, where he has
been confined in a cold, wooden prison,
with barely enough clothing and food
to sustain him. He was so earnest in
the advocacy of his plea that he tore a
splinter from the wall of his prison,
dipped it i'll his own blood and wrote
upon the walls. For humanity, liberty
and progress he is successful i'll high
degree.
Success is to form pure, refined char
acter. 1t is to be noble, to be tender, to
be enlightened, to be free, useful, earnest
just and peaceful.
Freedom from tradition, hobbies, opin-
ions, prejudices, vanities and conceits,
to be allowed to think and act in har-
mony with the eternal nature of things,
to live to learn and to learn to live.
My angel-his name is Freedom
Choose him to be your king
He shall cut pathways east and west
And fend you with his wing
Emerson.
Nations are "lifting their right hands
up to swear the oath Of freedom. "
Yes, over all the western world, yea,
over all the east, shall palpitate the
warm, free heart of liberty. The god
dess shall wave her wand, and flowers
shall bloom in souls now barren and
waste. Success will result in such noble
types Of men and women as we dream
of, described by Tennsyon in I'm Me
moriam. "
This freedom to think, inquire and
act is the highest gift Of God to men.
1t is the nature air of the soul. Ii is the
salvation brought by him who is the
master teacher and who broke the glad
message to men which fell like distant
music on their ears, like refreshing dews
on their dropping hearts, that message
which said, II came to bear testimony
to the truth, and if the truth shall make
you free, you shall be free indeed. "
J. W. CALDWELL