Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-01-13

Cooper, who worked on small wages IN
glue factory, living to give $500, 600
for the founding Of an institute that
has already educated thousands of the
poor sons and daughters OF America,
and Bowditch, the scientist, beginning
his useful learning and afluent career
by reading the books that had been
driven ashore from q shipwreck at Sa-
lem. There is, young man, a great
financial or literary or moral or reli-
gious success awaiting you il you only
know how to 20 up and take it Then
take it or get ready to take It, The
mightier the opposition the grander the
triumph when you have conquered.
There is flower in Siberia that blooms
only in January, the seyerest month OF
that cold climate. 1t is star shaped
flower and covered with glistening
speoks that look like diamonds. A Rus
sian took some Of the seeds OF that
flower to St. Petersburg and planted
them, and they grew. and Oh the coldest
day Of January they pushed back the
snow and ice and burst into full bloom
They called it the "snow flower, and
it makes me think of those whom the
world tries to freeze out and snow IN
der, but who, in the strength OF God,
push through and up and out and bloom
in the hardest weather Of the world g
cold treatment, starred and radiant with
a beauty given only to those who find
life a struggle and turn it into q vic
tory.
Again, IL you would master the stu
alton. when angry do not utter word
OF write a letter, but before you speak
a word or write a word sing verse OF
some hymn in tune arranged IN minor
key and having no stacoato passages.
If very angry, sing two verses II in a
nositiye rage, sing three verses. First
of all, the unhealthiest thing on earth
is to get mad. II jangles the nerves, en-
larges the spleen and sets the heart into
wild humping. Many a man and
many a woman has in time Of such
mental and physical agitation dropped
dead. Not only that, but it makes enc
mies 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 a rage. There is
one man you must manage or one WON
an YOU must control in order to please
God and make life a 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 il
be a divine defense. Out Of the millions
of the human race there Is only one
person who can do you permanent and
everlasting harm, and that Ia the being
that walks under your own hat and In
your own shoes
The Conquest of Self.
The hardest realm that you will ever
have to govern is the realm between
your scalp and heel. The most danger
ous cargo ship can carry is dynamite,
and the most perilous thing IN ones ma
ture is an explosive temper. IL your ns-
ture is hopelessly irascible ard tempestu-
ous, then dramatize placidity. II the
ship is on fire and you cannot extin-
gnish the flames. at any rate keep down
the matches When at some injustice
inflicted upon you or some insult offer
ed 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 II the meanness done you is
unbearable or you must cypress yourself
or die, then / commend plan that
have once OF twice successfully adopted
Take sheet Of paper Date ii at your
home or office. Then put the wrong
doer's name at the head Of the letter
page, without any prefix Of Colonel
or suffix Of ID. D., and begin with no
term of courtesy, but 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
il the strongest terms Of execration you
can employ without being profane- Sign
YOUR name to the red hot epistle. Fold
il. Envelop it. Direct il plainly to the
man who has done you wrong. Garry
the letter a week, or two weeks IL need
be. and then destroy it, In Gods name
destroy il. | like what Abraham Lin
coin said to one Of his cabinet officers.
That cabinet officer had been belied and
misrepresented until in fury he wrote
a letter Of arraigDment to his enemy,
and in tersest possible phraseology told
him what he thought Of him. The cabi-
net officer read it to Mr.. Lincoln and
asked him how be liked it. Mr.. Lin
coin replied: at is splendid for sarcasm
and scorn. never heard anything more
complete in that direction. But do you
think YOU can afford TO send itf" That
calm and wise and Christian interroga'
tion of the president stopped the letter,
and il was never sent. Young man, be-
fore you get far on in life, unless you
are 10 be an exception among men, you
will bo wrouged, you will be misinter-
preied, you will be outraged All your
sense of justice will be in confagration.
Let me know how yon meet that firs'
great offense, and will tell you wheth-
er your life is to be triumph or a fail
ure. You see, equipoise at such time
means so many things 1t means self
control 1t means capacity to foresee
results. 1t means a confidence in your
own integrity 1t means faith In the
Lord God that be will sec you through.
Again, il 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 malfeasancs In ofice. There II
much IA life to make men suspicious OF
others, and when that characteristic oi
suspicion becomes dominant man hai
secured his own unhappiness, and h'
has become an offense In all circles, re-
ligious, commercial and political. The
man who moves for a committee OF in
vestigation is generally moral derelict
The man who goes with his nostrils in
fated trying to discover something NAL
odOrous is not man, but a sleuth-
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