The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-04-30

nave Ndihcd up ahu uoNh ehos P"eh
in the woods.
While we need doctors, lawyers,
preachers, Hawthorne expressed al
great truth. A man should so order
his life that through it it will be
easier for other men to live. Ihavel
no right to live off the ignorance,
or misfortunes of others.
That man has truly earned his liv-
ing who has in the language OF the
poet, "made two blades of grass to
grow where but one grew before. ~
But the man who creates false
values for the necessities of life is a
robber, and must, some day answer
for his conduct to a higher power
than corporations or laws.
We wish our young friends here
success in a business way, but Il
hope they may never earn home
whose pleasures are marred by the
thought, that it has been built upon
the sorrows and misfortunes of 9TH
ers. How a man can like luxury
when that luxury means starvation,
bodily, mentally and spiritually, to
his less fortunate neighbor, | do
not see. do not want to live III
such a way that | must feel apollo
getic toward those about me: nor
do want to blush for the way my
neighbor lives. | find myself in
sympathy with Count Tolstoi. IT
there is such a thing as an aristocra-
cy which is not based upon wealth
or blood, but honesty, tolerance
and fellowship.
How one earns a living de-
termines his higher life. The two
are usually one problem. When a
young person determines how he
shall earn his livelihood, he has de-
cided most OF the great problems OF
life.
Rousseau says in Emile: Nature
has destined us to the offices OF
human life antecedent to our desti-
nation concerning society. To live,
is the profession | would teach him
when have done with him; it is
true he will be neither a soldier
lawyer, nor divine. Let him just
be man, and Fortune may remove
him from one rank TO another as she
pleases, he will always be found in
his place.
Differences OF rank and wealth
gives every man his part to play on
this worlds stage, but this by no
means implies a difference of reward
or happiness. The actual happi-
ness does not depend upon position
or money. To vulgar person il
may, but to a thoughtful man it
does not. Our condition in life
may improve, but we do not ask
much of it if we are inwardly rich.
On the other hand a fool remains a
fool-a dull block head to his last
hour, although he were surround
ed with all that a Rockefeller
could buy.
Long ago said Epicureaus:
"The happiness W receive from ourselves
is greater than that which we obtain from
our surroundings. The thing that determines
"A mans happiness is what he Is made of-his
inner constitution. The world In which one
lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which
one looks at 1t, and so II proves different sc
different men; to one II is barren. dull and
stupid. to another rich, interesting and
full of meaning"
AS Thackery says: "The world
is looking glass, and gifcs back
to every man the reflectioh Of his
own face" ~
To the cheerful person this is a
bright happy place, fullof care and
trouble, but worth living.
To the sour person il is ugly and
mean.
To the greedy person it is strug-
gle for money.
Happiness is within. What a
man is within himself, what ac-
companies him when he is alone,
what no one can give or take away,
is more essential to him than any
thing he has in way of possession,
or what he may become in the way
Of a public officer, in the eyes Of the
world. A wise man cast upon an
island like Robinson Crusoe would
find himself surrounded by happi-
ness.
"The lives of great men all re-
mind us, we can make our lives
sublime"-but it must be from
mental and spiritual manhood, and
not by accumulations Of natural
things.
Teach me, 0 Lord, to do thy
will; teach me to live worthily and
humbly in thy sight; for thou art
my wisdom; thou dost truly know
me, and didst know me before the
world was made, and before | was
born into the world.
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