The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-23

thing, for affectation springs from con-
scious inferiority.
III be doesn't understand a statement
he says so. II he doesn't believe IL. he
will not make believe. He is Eever so
ashamed OF his ignorance as he would
be OF not taking pains To correct II.
He does not feebly acquiesce. In
fact he may not be always counted an
agreeable man, for he cannot agree
with everybody. He believes that men
learn from their differences. THE ex-
istence OF one man." says Goethe. lis
not hindered by that OF another; and
who resists not. exists not
THE TRUE MANS BELIEF.
The true man believes that he has
right To existence, and like the sturdy
tree en- the mountain, he pushes up
among the stones.
There is no self-sufiiciency about this
man because he h never satisfied with
what he has already attained.
He has learned the value both OF con-
tent and OF discomfort.
What he has is good for God gave II,
ana having IL in full poHession and
diligent use; more shall be given to him
every day.
Manifestly the self-reliant spirit. IL
IL would amount TO anything must be
connected with hrm Will. Decision Of
character, as John Foster has shown In
his classic essay. is one OF the grandest
elements Of strength.
A VIII that can take into considera-
tion all the facts and motives that have
TO do with a given action. that can
hold itself In reserve till the time for
decision has fully come. that can sum-
mon the highest claims of duty, and
sift them with calm and candid mind:
and then after the whole matter has
been resolved. like the sling which
rounds the whole circle of reason and
experience. shoots forth it's answer.
with unerring aim, this Is the force
which makes men powerful To act,
which gives their life in whatever field.
meaning and momentum that af-
fects mankind.
THE mind" according TO the great
Rhode Island philosopher. r. q. Haz-
ard, who both himself and his de-
scendants are held in highest honor
among US, THE mind has but one real
faculty or power to do ANYTHING and
that faculty is the wiz" Whose has
not the capability OF decision i'm the
right time and wav. cannot be at rest
In himself, nor a strength to others.
Against this indecision. the poet
Dante arms himself and describes the
misery and inefficacy OF II In these
lines:
And as he is, who unwills what he
willed,
And by new thoughts doth his inten-
ton change
$50 that from his design he quite with
draws,
such I became upon that dark hill
side.
Because In thinking I consumed the
emprise,
which was so very prompt in the be-
ginning"
To depict such a state OF mind and
warn against it's frenzy and its failure,
the greatest Of English poets has
drawn his most mysterious and yet fas-
cinating character, in whom
The native hue OF resolution
rs sickiied DER with the pale cast of
thought.
And enterprises of great pith and mo-
ment
with. this regard their currents turn
away
And lose the name OF action.
DANGER TO YOUNG STUDENTS.
There is danger with the young stu
dent before whom time seems TO
stretch out almost TO infinity, that he
should think II we'll to hold decisions in
abeyance and TO cherish no strong con-
victions OF duty or OF truth. The
strenuous life. OF which we hear so
much OF late. must Yet be a free life
In which purposes and resolutions are
crystalized as in the processes of ma
ture in quiet and often unnoticed ways.
ways.
To know the prevailing wishes OF a
man Is TO know his character. All that
is highest and holiest in human attain
ment finds birth here.
The eminent oxford professor. j. H.
Moyley. has discoursed eloquently on
the strength OF human wishes and has
built thereon the best argument for
prayer. for that only is or can be prayer
which man wishes in the depth of his
soul, and IL there be such strength OF
wishing, as can set all the faculties In
motion. and this wishing Is brought 70
the test of conscience and all highest
beauty and truth, then is II a divine
wish Ginning In with the power that
makes for Righteousness. and the very
stars in their courses fight in it's behalf.
We take the life out of our wishes by
the careless way I'm which We speak OF
them and use them, while the truly ac-
knowledged wish which Is but another
name for the firm will. leads on to all
that can he worth having or doing.
College life and education are the OPP
portunity OF forming grand wishes.
Goethe says, What man wishes i'm
his youth he has the fullness of i'm his
old age"
Youth must not be blunler II old
age would not be a regret. and though
ii be true indeed that some men do not
awake TO life's value till the freshnsss
of It's morning has passed. and that
there Is in the after life OF few
richer fruitage than their somewhat
inactive youth appeared TO promise as
st. Pierre beautifully says: THE tardy
flowers OF my Spring promise yet some
fruits for my autumn yet in the gem
eral truth established the strength
Of human wishes has its germ in
youth.
NO FUTURE FOR WEAK wILLED.
1t may gather force and fibre as the
years go on. but the man infirm OF
viii, doubling ever whether the iron is
hot enough To strike. and having no
faith that he cars make IL hotter by
striking to him there Is no future be-
cause there In no present. Such man
lacks courage. for the elements of high
character are close kindred, and the
man who takes himself in hand and
sets before him high aims which, he
means 10 accomplish. will be moved by
them TO lofty enterprises. He has q
heart for his work and like Sir Galahad