The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1902-11-21
THOUGHTS.


any OF VI. unless We hold dear some
purpose above and beyond the work we
are doing or the earning Of bread.
This is true Of girl doing homework
for her mother to save the mothers
hands, or Of boy trying to help his
father carry a heavy load, or Of clerk,
or worker Of any kind, toiling long
hours at work as full Of repetition as
the ticking Of clock. The love Of a
child for parent makes the work done,
glorious in itself 10 matter how insig-
nificant 1t may appear to be as work.
The love Of a man for his race will
make any kind Of toll bearable; for he
knows that he is one of the cogs i'm the
great machine Of humanity that is ever
moving forward though sometimes i'm
perceptibly.
The measure Of a sleeps existence
IS the 70 ID in which it is interested.
The measure Of VOLTS existence is the
tearing and the rending OF weaker
creatures than ITSELF In other words,
the measure Of every creatures exis-
tence is the range Of interests that it
has. 1t is possible, and often times a
fact, that men and women with the
capacity for interests as high as the
mountains, as broad as the seas, as vast
as the universe, are nevertheless, as
narrow in their interests as the down.
looking Sleeper the raying wolf.
He who would live must more than
eat and drink and be merry; he must
have a purpose, line to hew to, a
chosen straight way to walk in, a mo-
tive in life to cherish and to serve. He
who would rise must set 'his.iideal
bigh-nOt necessarily so high as to
be unreasonable, not "hitching to a
star" as Emerson suggested, for that
might lift him to supernal inefiec-
tivencss far above the world that owns
him and his effort. He who would |
rise must know that there is no get
Ting near TO an ideal without giving up
something that Is lower lie who
would dwell on mountain top must
needs forsake the valley. He who
would live the life Of highmindedness
must needs forsake lower things.
The whole principle Of the world
hitherto has been that men and wo-
men have yearned for something better
than they had, have striven towards
il, and often died before its realization,
but the effort they made has been the
strength Of those that came after them,
who in turn forced the world still near
er to the ideal. In this sense no good
effort is ever lost, no striving Is ever
wasted, no heart-throb Of enthusiasm
in the direction Of betterment is ever
foolish. In this sense there is i'm
granted to high purpose.
Take the Declaration of Indepen-
ience as an illustration. We, the
Of the fathers, still strive to-
wards the belief that all men are born
free and equal. 1t was untrue in the
line Of our fathers; il is unattained
yet. But we move. Enlightened
women in mothers Congresses and in
he privacy Of life contend for the right
# child to have good parents, believ- {
ng that good parentage will quicker 4
make free and equal men than will b
Declarations after the child is born.
II is Of no importance that we should g
.ttain our ideals We can enjoy the
leat and light Of the sun without grasp =
ng.it in our hands, or holding il to our I
elves. An ideal has done its perfect y
york for us in the very fact Of striving 4
Or it. 1t lifts US above the sOrdid d
hings, clarifying the most obscure \
oil, and making us one in heart, one T
n hope, one in triumph, with all who /,
Ike ourselves having little to give the
'orld except Of our hearty good will, Y
i've largely out Of our little. K
AN IDEAL. Fl
10 live for something that is high above a
he earthly life we all to dearly love: ;
or something that invites by subtle charm
o religions softly stepped In sunny calm. n
nd lures rs onward by a lovelness,
hat lighter, brighter grows as on we press ,
o live for something that we ne'er attain; q
nt, ever seeking, by the effort gain 81
prize more precious than the world can n
give
prize that proves at least our right TO live n
n planes that step by step ascending rise, =,
nd form ladder to the skies. "
s he who wanders through the desert Wild,
nd sees The distant snow capped crests up
piled,
nd braves u e brlstllng dangers bat to find
he misty mountain still but dimly lined. NJ
Is labour is not vain for now, behold, te
be cold grey peaks put on their crowns OF 10
gold, al
nd nearer, clearer, IN the sunsets glow, =,
he rosy radiance hits across the snow. n
nd though he may not scale those stain.
less slopes,
win the lofty summit Of his hopes; %
Il has he won a vision strangely sweet; by
I'd seen a true-proporiloned world beneath w
his feet. l.,
There is no cough medicine so popular or
Foley's Honey and Tar. 1t contains
opiaies or poisons and never fails to
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