The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-12-28

reading the books that had been driven
ashore from shipwreck at Salem:
There is, young man, great financial
or literary or moral or religious success
awaiting you if you only know how to
go up aud take it. Then take it or get
ready to take it. The mightier the op-
position the grander the triumph when
you have conquered. There is flower
in Siberia that blooms only in January,
the sevefest month of that cold climate:
1t is star shaped flower and covered
with glistening specks that look ike
diamonds. A Russian took some OF
the seeds Of that flower to St: Peters
burg and planted them, and they grew:
and on the coldest day in January they
pushed back the snow and ice and burst
into full bloom. They called 1t the
:'snow flower, and it makes me think
of those whom the world tries to freeze
out and snow under, but who IN the
strength Of God push through and up
and out and bloom in the hardest
weather of the worlds cold treatment,
starred and radiant with beauty given
only to those who find life struggle
and turn it into victory.
Again. if you would master the situa-
ton. when angry do not utter word or
write letter, but before you speak
word or write a word sing verse OF
some hymn in tune arranged in minor
key and having no staccato passages.
If very angry, sing two verses. If IN
positive rage, sing three verses. First
of all, the unhealthiest thing on earth
is to get mad, it jangles the nerves, en-
larges the spleen and sets the heart into
wild thumping. Many man and
many woman has in time OF such
mental and physical agitation dropped
dead. Not only that, but it makes enc
mics out of friends, and makes enemies
more yirulent, and anger is partial or
consummate suicide. Great attorneys,
understanding this, have often won
their cause by willfully throwing the
opposing counsel into rage. There IS
one man you must manage or one NO.
man you must control in order to please
God and make life success and that Is
yourself. There are drawbridges to every
castle by which you may keep out OF
your nature foreign foes, but no man has
defense against himself unless 1t be a
divine defense. Out Of the millions OF
the human race there is only one per-
son who can do you permanent and ev-
erlasting harm, and that is the being
that walks under your OWL hat and IN
your own shoes. The hardest realm
| that you will ever have to govern is the
realm between your scalp and heel.
The most. dangerous cargo ship can
carry is dynamite, and the most perll-
Gus thing in ones nature is an explo-
sive temper. If your nature is hope
lessly irrascible and tempestuous, then
dramatic placidity. If the ship is on
fire and you cannot extinguish the
flames, at any rate keep down the
matches. When at some injustice In
Aicted upon you or some insult offered
or some wrong done, the best thing for
you to say is to say nothing, and the
best thing for you to write IS to
write nothing. If the meanness done
you is unbarable, OF you must express
yourself or die, then ! commend a plan
that / have once or twice successfully
adopted. Take sheet Of paper. Date
it at your home OF Office. Then put the
wrongdoer's name at the head of the
the letter page, without any prefix OF
colonel" or sufix Of I'D. d." and be-
gin with nc term of courtesy, but a bold
and abrupt Sir" Then follow it with
statement of the wrong he has done
you and of the indignation you have
felt. Put into it the strongest terms
of execration you can employ without
being profane. Sign your name to the
redhot epistle. Fold it. Envelop 1t.
Direct 1t plainly to the man who has
done you wrong. Garry the letter a
| week or TWO weeks, if need be, and then
! destroy it. In Gods name, destroy it!
like what Abraham Lincoln said to
one his cabinet officers. That cabinet
officer had been belied and misrepre-
sented until in fury he wrote a letter
of arraignment to his enemy and in
tersest possible phraseology told him
what he thought of him. The cabinet
officer read it to Mr.. Lincoln and asked
him how he liked it. Mr.. Lincoln re-
| piled: ''It is splendid for sarcasm and
soote. never heard anything more
con1olete in that direction. But do
you think you can afford to send it"'
That calm anu wise and Christian in
ret-ogatien OF the president stopped the
,atter, and it was never sent. Young
nan; before you get far on in life, un-
less you are to be an exception among
| men, you will be wronged, You will be
misinterpreted, you will be outraged.
| All your sense Of justice will be in con-
hagration. Let me know how you
meet that great ofense and I will tell
you whether your life is to be a triumph
or failure. You see; equipoise at such
time means so many things. 1t means
self control It means capacity to
forsee results. 1t means confidence
in your own integrity. 1t means a
faith in the Lord God that ne will see
you through.
Again, if you would be master Of the
situation, put the best Interpretation
on the character and behavior Of others.
Do not be looking for hypocrites In
churches, or thieving among domestic
servants, or swindlers among business
men, or malfcasance in Office. There
is much in life to make men suspicious
of others, and when that characteristic
of suspicion becomes dominant man
has secured his own unhappiness, and
he has become an ofense in all circles,
religious, commercial and political.
The man who moves for committee OF
investigation is generally a moral oere-
lict. The man who goes with his nos
trils inflated, trying to discover some
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