The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-16
kEPOSE or SOUL is SIN,
New York Herald.

In quietness and In conaas,, h
your strength.-Isaiah XXX Il;
In my early youth | watched y
chess played by Two experts. u, =
sou / learned has lasted me ia
Mnlle the chances were sv,.
would have been rasn 10 prouu.s }
SUIT. Inc victory nung IN a. b
ana | was breatuless. Al IA,
tillt one OF the players Wa, ~
quietness, ana then 4 made n. \
discovery that IN mis- case. Al 4.
loss OF quietness was the Ioss u y
Impulse anu rashness toox ~ \
CAIN wisdom. He made nasty NM
ne SHOULD have been especlaily Il
IN thirty minutes The end can,
quiet payer won and the bar,
was defeated.
from tnat incident I teduc.a
principle which has served n,
turn III many an emoarrsuz.s
heiped me TO overcome many
ton. In life, as in chess ottr
beng equal, the man who ~
measuring the consequence Of Vii
poses to do, Is apt IL gain his ii
the man VINO is governed ty
Eather than reason does hInps
slender justice and fails In the d
ment of his ambition. One Of !,
things in life is to have undispulsi
sion or yourself, and one Of d
things-indeed it is positive
tune--is to let yourself gst ,sv
yourself.
revert again to the Christ M
your theological opinion may BE- n
all agree that in character, ia ID
ner i'll which He met the expi.f
life, He serves as our guide al ID
the north star serves the matx
furnished a perfect ILLUSTRATION n d
for the quletness OF His soul q
strength of His soul. No haste, ID [
no wild or rash activity marftd
reer. He could say to the Sea d
Peace, be still" but He had 10
command Himself to be quiet.
The ideal man is not the pAg
the Indifferent or sluggish MAI
man is like a pile OF green vrx
which You can get no blaze Thu
him neither heat nor good chez
The ideal man is the man Of ND
sions. impulses, ambitions, but Y
control of a central will. II you NJ
engine to do good work you ma
plenty of coal in the CRATE and
steam in the boiler. But you .
master of the steam, for 1t Is Oh
to do your will If rightly dire,
omnipotent to destroy you unl.H
rected.
There is a great deal Of religIcs
ply keeping quiet. 1t is the ks
for you to do, and at the same
hardest. The rash people III ID
spend most of their time 10 r'r
what they hSve done. Friendsala
been broken by words which no q
reserted your real sentimeps
houss on fire represents the npp
the family that lives In 1t. Donesi
cry has been caused by langual
and unconsidered Language, even
Bile of which falsified the true M
the person who uttered It ih
was simply obsessed, bad lnnusD
him into mental chaos. and Dis w
a blizzard-a cyclone. He cou0
irol it because he had not leafla
the important secrets Of Success
More and worse than thai
man has made a failure OF nn =
The same reason. The New Ies
worth studying if you would NV
way to get on in life ana V ~ v
most of the varied experiences "
10 you.
You are too much like the yea.
n o storm. You need sons 0 IN
tide to cry constantly. be -, y,
,ou ought not to need this iol X \.
,e your own ruler and uI's'
nand to yourself. LA Il
We are in state OF mn.
SANITY perturbed and re ,An..
hings throw us OIL our /, q
envioua and iss' y
Uttered. ,,Md
Keep quiet. Get into the ns~ N
ng before speaking or actihs "A
IN hour in serene nedltanvan n
skiing what 1t is worth wnlis n
Why it Is worth while TO 40 y
viii reach the conclusion "a n.
ONE things which it Is wo''n
Tot to do. d. Md
All this is included in the ~. III
'eligion. 1t teaches you ~ r,i,.
within yourself a spin. o. !. sr
tain that self-poise which = M
o happiness, and thus 70 o. Il Il
then some unusual struggle III Y ~
The laws Of the universe sht u
our side, ard YOU VIII ~ sr,,s
ONE without effort, for 'ns ,,,,ss,s
re made harder by the ,es ~
'hich we meet them. ana .v u
,ade less harmful II we wou ,snia
uietly and accent them az a' raliss
!, be cut into shape bv ,ns n'rsa .
a nature which IS oet'-
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