The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-26


To see your feathered friend
And so many goodies grow there
on would ike to comprehend.
Speed. little dreamers, your winging,
10 the land across the sea.
Where the Dinkey-bird is singing
In the Amfalula tree.
1 also know the ganlut out of which
youths cynical critics make undying
noise. Listen to the cynic's tom-tom:
'Pitiable younglings, inexperienced Wis
lonaries, sickly dreamerS, builders of
air castles, rainbow chasers. dupes IF
expectancy, children of inOrdinate e
sire, springtide lovers. indiScrimina
admirers, self-deceived aspirants, I'M
practical idealIsts, treaders on air,
blowers Of bubbles. disciples of the
mirage, lambkins of hope, deluded en-
thusiasts.p Who does not know the
cynic's song and dance? 7 am not here
10 twang such savage chords. This is
no slaughter Of the innocents.
On the contrary, 1 am here to main
tain that youths hopes and expecta-
tiOnS, its visions and dreams, its de-
sireS and lOngings. its quick admira-
tons. its glimpses of the ideal, it's hun
CRY affections and its ardent purposes
are the best original capital of the
new born soul. These Iongings contain
promise and potency. They are full Of
the spirit of prophecy. They are youths
programme of life's possibilities.
This is what Goethe suggests when
he declares that what we desire in our
youth we possess abundantly in our
old age Let me float my theme with
a page of sage comments on this wise
mans saying. Our lives are eventu-
ally stamped by our ideals. In youth
we form the ideals which we labor to
body forth in our lives. What we
yearn for with all cur beings in these
growing days is at once the truest eX-
preston of our nature and the most
potent agency in developing its powers.
The thing one hopes to become is al
ready a power and decides not only the
thing one will be, but the thing one
is" As Phillips Brooks was wont to
say, "The power of any life lies in its
expectancy. What do you hope for?
What do you expect? The answer TO
these questions is the measure Of the
degree in which you are living"
CWordsworth's Wishing Gate, Rob and
Wishing Ships.} If were called upon
to tell the fortunes of you young folks
I'd rather hear the innermOst desires
of your hearts as you bend over the
Wishing Stone, than examine your
heads or your palms; for as John Eos
ter has said, Our wishes are present
ments of our capacities.
"The thing We long for, that We are
For one transcendent moment,
Before the present, poor and bare
Can make its jeering comment
stiu through the paltry stir and strife,
! CLOVIS down and wished ideal,
And longing lrOulds in clay what Ire
Carves in the marble real.
To let the new life in, We know
| Desire must ope the portal;
| Does not the longing 10 be so
Proclaim the soul immortal?
| Let me start for you list OF men
and women who have been instructed
as to what they might 90 ana IN
! spired to attempt the doing of 1t by
Youths reckoning visions. 1t took
J Goethe more than fifty years to work
| ont the Faust vision which came to
his youth. Milton was a boy Of i
when his aspirations gave him COM
mission to write a poem which the
/ world would mot willingly let die
Luther was a lad OF - when the ange
of longing began to trouble the waters
| of his life spring. Wesley, while yet
! in college. set out to become the good
man he afterwards was. Victoria was
a girl of 10 when she received the
/ crown of England, with no other pro-
| srar1me than the simple words. u
/ will he good" And our own greatest
/ known American woman, Frances VII
| lard. was as aspirant and hopeful II
/ the DAYS Of her girlhOod as she was
active and helpful in the days Of hel
! wOmanhOOd.
The lire of children is full of sucf
prophetic programmes. The child
who. seeing a drunken brawl outside
the window. and who, turning To he1
little brother. said. Just wait till W.
get big. and we viii make them quit
won't we. Jamie?" had begun to- reaC
ont her programme. She was a pos
| sibIe reformer. This recalls the de
Iicious brag of one OF Shakespeare
boys;
A. shall not tread on me:
IN ran away till 1 am bigger, but the
III fight
| Another child. of whom Charle
Kingsley tells. declared that when sh
grew up she was going to help Coo
Dsint the sunsets She. too. had he
| glimpse OF a programme; she was
POSSIBLE artist. The little girl who
while attending one of our commence
ments. said. as she listened TO am
locked with admiration at her grad
uating sister. I wish I was like that
was also reading Ihe first lines OF he
programme. She was already pos
sible sweet girl graduate. As sure
" as the first fruits reveal the char
acter of the tree which bears them, s.
surely blossoms, mere blossoms o
youthful aspiration. contain promise o
Hfes first as We'll as of LIES ina
fruitage.
The createst of al revelations of III