The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-18
Southeast Pike if you want to find Gods country.
THE COMFORTING BELIEF
 IN HELPING FORCES.

A friend writes: T have quit read ing and talking and gone to work. Do- ing is the great and important thing, after all. Talk Is easy. but it takes work to move things. The life of work is the only life that counts and gives satisfaction.
 It is worth living to old age to find out this secret of life. Many never find 1t out. Those who have learned it are those who shove this world along. To keep silence and work for some wor. thy aim-that is what makes the suc- cessful life.
 There Is a difference, however, in the way we labor. We are not to toll az the OK does or the time server who works while his taskmaster's eye Is on him, or yet as the individual who la- bors only to accumulate wealth to spend on mere animal delights. We are to work as the artist does, as the Creator of the universe works--to pro- duce something that will give satis> faction in itself to us and to others. It Is not of the slightest consequence whether Mrs. Grundy considers our work honorable or menia1. Grundy is the craziest. blindest authority in this universe, willfully blind. Our task may be the doing of domestic labor day by day. What then? Let us do it per fectly and artistically and find satisfac- ton in that artistic perfection. Be- cause one does homework now does not mean she shall not aspire to some- thing else.
 It is the perfect doing of present tasks with the perpetual aspiration to- ward higher and nobler results that achieves progress. A girl who was an inmate of a charity home and school longed to be an artist. She was oblig- ed to assist in the homely, daily house. hold tasks of the institution. Being at heart an artist, the girl did cooking dish washing and sweeping artistical- ly, not slapbang. head foremost, ill., naturedly. While she did the house. work perfectly, however. there was always in her soul the forging to ex- press herself in what the world calls art" She knew what was in her to be expressed; she held to her great de- sire and waited opportunity.
 The opportunity came The girl is now a beautiful, cultured lady, known for true and noble work in art.
 Here Is the point of this whole writ ing: Hold fast to your souls desire and if 1t is a worthy one the forces oi the universe will in time lend them selves to the achievement of that aim Many who have tried this testify tc its absolute efficacy. They believe that somehow and somewhere are powerful invisible forces that bring to them op- portunity and means to achieve theil plans. Before steady aim. held al ways without wavering or discourage ment, obstacles in time must yield. Il sounds like magic, but 1t Is the opera tion of law. Some call these forces vi brations of the universal mind; others call them this: others that. Emerson has noted them in his essays. But whatever they are, they are there tt help us. We have only to do our bes with the tasks we have, keep ou thought on our ultimate aim, thel trust that opportunity will come to u to achieve 1t. Here is the meaning of the Scripture saying: Be not wear! in we'll doing There Is no element O time in this unseen working out of ou plan. Years may be required; again. | may come quickly. We are to ignor, time altogether and watch for the cir cumstances that make for our sue cess.
 In this way of looking at life one ex perIences a buoyancy, an inspiration that nothing else affords. It Is th' most comforting doctrine ever preached to mortals--that working with us ant | for us are powers of light which hell us to the attainment of all our worthy consistently held desires and purposes | Katherine Blades