The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1899-09-29
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TIE GREAT MENTAL DRIVING
WHEEL.

NiiAAtLbs
The wheel is the king of the mind,
and is superior even 10 brain power.
1t is the great driving wheel of the
mental engine.
How many strong, even mighty, in
tellects suffer the humiliation of see.
ing one-talented men, but with great
power OF decision, forging ahead in
the race of life, while they, with pom.
derous intellects and colossal abilities,
fioundcr about. creating great expect
atoms, only to disappoint, simply be-
cause they lack the power of resolving
vigorously. Thousands OF men sleep
in obscure graves because they lacked
this power. 1t has been well said:
1t will not do To be pe%rpetually cal.
culating and adjusting nice chances:
1t was all very well before the food,
when a man could consult his friends
upon an intended publication for one
hundred and fifty years, and then live
to see 1t u success for six or seven
centuries: butat present a man doubts
and hesitates and consults his brother
and bis uncle and his first cousin and
his friends, until one day he finds he
is sixty-1ve years OF age. and has lost
ST. much time consulting his friends
that he has no time to follow their
advice"
We all know people who are forever
asking the advice of everybody they
meet and getting the opinion Of 9TH
ers upon every step they take in life,
thinking that ''in the multitude Of
OF counselors there is safety" These
people are like d~issolving views thrown
upon canvas. For the time being the
opinion OF the one they are consulting
Is their opinion: they feel firm in it.
and think they will adopt it; it seems
to be painted indelibly upon the can.
vass screen. But, alas! when they
meet another person, the picture
which stood out so plainly upon the
canvas grows DINNER and DINNER,
dissolve, and is replaced by the next
one, and SO on through life.
Undecided, vacillating men are, as
as a rule. %overilopeful men. They
hesitate to-day, believing that to-
morrow will surely bring some new
motive that will help them to decide,
without "A doubt, and will, perhaps,
bring the object even nearer to them.
But, alas! Tomorrow, the chance
which was golden to-day will be with
in the realm of the impossible. 1t is
astonishing how much faith undecid-
ed men put in ''to-morrow." To.
morrow is the talisman, the lucky star
which is tn bring the object nearer,
make decision easier and success more
possible. How many men have been
cajOled and led on to ruin by that
fascinating word, ''To-morrowm But
to.morrow-men never do anything. 1t
is to-day men, the now-men, who &C.
cnmplish the great things in this
world. The men who chase that will
o'-the-wisp, that phantom deceiver,
"to-morrow," never arrive anywhere,
never come to anything but failure.
There is nothing else which will fix
a floating life. and prevent it from be-
ing tossed hither and thither. like
forming a habit of prompt decision,
and thus putting oneself forever be-
yond the temptation of vacillation
from the influence of others. The
will being the king of the intellectual
Kingdom, when the leader is democrat
lied, anarchy must reign. Every youth
should early learn that, both in BUSH
ness and morals, ''He who hesitates
is lost"