The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12

! One would like it better if she had said
still more Of the experience she speaks of
in this: But a little word from the fingers
of another fell into my hand that clutched
at emptiness, and my heart leaped into
the rapture of living. $ My early
experience was thus leap from bad to
good.'' aana; s'H1t.a>sa-zt g5f 78tHlG .,ffJE
Optimism Within: is summed up thus
Il trust. and nothing that happens dis
turbs my trust. ~ I recognize the benefi-
cence of the power which we all worship
as supreme Order Fate. the Great Spirit,
Nature, God. Il recognize this power in
the sun that makes all things grow and
keeps life afOot. Il make a friend Of this
indefinable force. and straightway feel
glad, brave and ready for any lot heaven
may decree for me. This is my religion
of optimism 2
Are these merely schoolgirls brave
words, or. are they the. thought of one in
closer contact with divine influences than
She would have been with, the external
world beating in upon the mind thru sight
| and sound ?aH.< -
Miss Keller finding optimism fact
within her own heart finds also that
''the outward world justifies her inward
universe Of good AS a final statement Of
her creed. under1."The Practice of Optim-
ISM she says: 49,
! Il believe in God, I believe in man, I be-
| lieve in the power of the spirit, be-
| leve it is a sacred duty to encourage our
selves and others; to hold the tongue from
any unhappy word against Gods world,
because no man has any right to complain
Of a universe which God made good and
which thousands of men have striven to
keep good. I believe that we should so act
that we may draw nearer and more near
the age when no man shall live at his
ease while another suffers.
| Whatever Helen Kellers insight into
things may be, she has in her essay a
message Of hope and cheer hopefully,
cheerfully and lucidly stated
| The address of President David Starr
Jordan of Stanford university to young
men, The Cell of the twentieth Century
! is of the strenuous kind. The. character
of the twentieth century, he says, will be
conspicuously strenuous. complex and
democratic and he appauds Theodore
! Roosevelt for giving us the watchword
THE Strenuous Life The expression
/ indeed. was used long before Roosevelt
! used 1T. but he quickened and broadened
its use because he speaks for the youth OF
!, the later age. Here are some of President
Jordan's bright sayings:
1t is in the saving of the few who serve the
/ many that the progress of civiIiza ton lies Fl
! tile march OF the common aud in the influ
4 ence of The uncommon. who rises freely from
the ranks, we have all of history that counts.
The earth belongs TO him who can use it
4 and the only force which lasts is that which il
used to make men free. s
! The reward of la,re science will be in the flu
a ture as in the past. of its own kind, not fame
nor money, hut the. JOY of finding truth.
i Miss Charlotte Whitcomb Hampshire
I. Arms, Minneapolis, Mimi, has been a
work for several years collecting Whit
comb family records; her data added t
the fine collection she was so fortunat
as to secure from Professor Shepa son
aggregated about 5000 records. She 11a
devoted her entire time for a year and
half aided by a stenographer, to cor
respondence. thus adding to the collection
also to colating and verifying the i'm
!, now editing it for publication this winter
The work will be a historical genealogy o
the family.It will be- illustrated wit
) pictures of old homesIeads, old tomb
: stones, reproductions Of old portraits etc
There will be Included copies of Ian
grants, early English and American will
: and quaint inventories, and the text Wi
, be enlivened by anecdotes and incident
drawn from town histories, geographic
and tradition concerning this, one of tn
9 earliest colonial families. Tho attentio
I,of Whitcombs in Minnesota and the north
+ west is called to the proposed early publ
cation of the work, and the suggestion
. made that they send in soon, records, pho
Q tographs, or anything of interest and valu
e of the book.
Mr.. Johnson, in his An Optimistic Equa
ton. presents twelve theses. which he de
q tends almost entirely by citations from til
world s epigrammatic wisdom. His postu
late is that '.ti1e bright side of life is til
. natural SIDE and it lies within our powe
. to always look upon that side and ths
j. "the sum total of the forces at work j
: the world are making for Righteousness.
. and that the tear of despair has in it til
tqualities which may make it.reyeal to a