The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-22
ouR NECESSARY BURDENS.

NOT VERY LONG AGO in one Of the
~ big eastern cities a prominent mer-
chant, who was heavily involved fred
a bullet through bis brain. The only
explanation he left was the single line,
hastily scrawled on a half-sheet OF note
paper: Il am tired of carrying bur
dens' And a good many tears were
wasted over the body OF that man,
though the burdens ne evaded So easily
were merely transferred TO shoulders
less able TO bear them.
Have YOU ever looked at a station
airy steam engine I'm operation? OF
course you have, and Of course you
have noticed two heavy balls set i'm a
sort Of triangular frame on a spindle.
AS the engine works these balls re-
volve, slowly or swiftly as the speed
Of the engine varies. If you ask the
engineer what the balls ere for he viii
tell you they are The governors. They
regulate The speed OF the engine. When
the machine moves too rapidly the balls
swing outward and depress a lever
which cuts Off part OF the steam. When
the machine moves too slowly, the gov
errors raise the lever and let in more
steam.
Did it ever occur to you that HUI
man burdens perform very much the
same functions as the engines govern
ors? Did you ever stop to think that
burdens of some sort are as necessary
to your wellbeing as the governors are
to the engine2 You get tired of carry
ing burdens. We all do. but life would
not be worth living if we didn't have
them Show us a man who has no bur
dens and Wen show YOU man who is
numbering the earth. His room is much
more TO be desired than his company
Tired of carrying burdens2 Why, IL
everybody who grows tired Of carrying
burdens should adopt the towards
method of shifting them there wouIdn't
be enough people left IN this country
to elect a constable And those who
were left wouldn't take enough interest
in the Office of constable to elect one.
More, they wouldn't be able to find a
man ambitious enough to run for con-
stable. As the finest gold is the gold
that has been through the fiery fur
mace. so the worlds greatest men are
the men who have been through fiery
furnaces Of trial, OF temptation. OF
many burdens.
One of the most renowned thinkers
this age has known died in England
the other day. His name was Herbert
Spencer. He lived to be more than so
years old. and almost from his boyhood
he was engaged in a continuous battle
with i'll health. If Herbert Spencer had
spent his time complaining Of his bur
ders, how great would have been the
worlds lossl Ralph Waldo Emerson
was another Charles Broadway Rouss,
merchant prince, was blind for more
than half Of his life. William Z. Glad
stone was England's Grand Old Man"
because he kept at his work, success
fully combating the inhrmities Of adj
vancing age at a time when he could
not have been accused OF cOwardice if
he had laid down his burdens. And so
instances could be multiplied.
Your burdens seem very real to you
and at times they seem unbearable; but
your would be lost without them, as
surely as the engine would fly to pieces
without its governors. Bear that in
mind when the way is hard Square
your shoulders to your burdens. Look
to the future and march into it with the
serene consciousness that you are
marching into your kingdom.