Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-24


lend of a single score of years. There
are only a few who start wrong that
4 ever succeed in finding the right path
Ito those who do not ind it their
lives prove, even to thd last burdened
/ years a milestone about the neck.
Life will be Il milestone about our
neck, or diadem on our brow. We
should decide at once upon noble
purpose, then take it up braYely. bear
it off joyfully and lay it down tri-
umphdntly. Life is grand and not
mean. If it is mean we make it so.
1t is the firm conviction of many that
we are to blame ourselves if at any
time life appears void of interest and
pleasure.
We may make our lives what we
please and them as much worth, both
for ourselves and others as we have
energy for: for our sway is complete
over our moral and intellectual being.
a great mistake is that we do not use
/ truth and good sense in judging what
we are fit for. We generally choose
the things we wish and not the things
we need. We aspire after things that
are pleasing to our ambition rather
| than after things to which We are
adapted. And when by our false am
! bitiOn we are brought into q sphere
for which we have not the requisite
powers, and where are goaded on every
side in the discharge of our duties,
our temptations is at once to make
up by fraud and appearance, that
which we lack in reality. We should
strive to make the most and the best
of the powers which God has given
US If We are drifting lazily down
stream after an object borne along by
the same current as ourselves, we will
never Overtake it. We must ply the
oar and increase our speed by our
| labor in order to attain that, we are
in pursuit of. Thus in our voyage of
life we must not drift but steer.
Human life is said to be watch
tower, and we should all take our
stand on this tower. Many pass
through life without a consciousness
Of where they are, and what they are
doing. They gaze on whatever lies
directly before them, SIN fond amuse-
ment lost"
We should think out our work and
then work out our thought. 10 one
can pursue worthy object with all
the powers Of his mind, and yet make
his life a failure We may work in
the dark, yet some day light shall
arise upon cur labors: and though we
may never, with our own lips, declare
the victory complete, someday others
will discover in our life-work the
traces of great and thinking minds.
We should lock, listen, and learn
wherever we are. Our eyes and ears
should always be open, for often in
| the slightest incidents, materials of
advantage and means of personal i'm
provement may be observed. There
is always something transporting to
reward our attention.
The difference in manhood and
childhood, is often distinguished in
this way-that child has no purpose
and no plan of life, not even will by
which his energies are directed. He
lives merely to enjoy the present time.
If his life is governed by a plan, or a
purpose it is the purpose of another
and not his own; while on the other
| hand, the man has his own purpose,
his own plan, bis Own life and aim.
If not, he is not man but child all
his days. Words refuse to tell how
much life means. The very doorway
of life is hung around with flOWery
emblemS, to Indicate that it is for
some purpose. The mystery of our
! being, the necessity of action, the re-
lation OF cause to effect, the depend
ence of one thing upon another, the
mutual influence and difficulty of all
things, assure US that life is for a
purpose to which every outward thing
doth point. We should never despair
or sink in diScouragement, even if we
do meet with rebuffs. We should re-
alize that our own errtrs may often
teach US more than the grave preceptS
of others. We should never be cast
down by misfortunes. If II spider
break his web over and over again, he
will mend it each time. We should
not fall behind the very insects on our
walls. We should always press on
| and never falter or fear. If we wish
to establish ourselves in life, we must
take time to lay the foundations of
reality and gradually, and stealthily
build thereon. We should rely upon
ourselves instead of others and be
prudent, careful, honest, painstaking
and last but notaleast, always cheer
full and hopeful, remembering that
more than half of the trouble of life
is borrowed, and that the blacklist
cloud loses its terror when fringed |
with the golden tintings of the sun
light.
"Life to youth is fairy tale just
opened Ito cid age q tale read
through, ending in DEATH
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so live that when thy summons comes to join
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