The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-04

does he discover, till i'm the end this
assembly of the wretched appears 10
him like a great black world. i'm whose
presence the individual and his means
OF relief are reduced to helplessness. II
is true that he feels impelled to run
60 the succor of these uufortUnates. but
/ at the same time he asks himself,
/ What is the use2" The case is GER
tainly heartreudiug. Some. in despair,
end by doing nothing. They lack nei-
Their pity nor good intention. but these
bear no fruit. They are wrong. often
I a man has not the means TO do good
on a large scale, but that is not rea-
son for failing TO do it at all. 50 many
people absOlVe themselves from any
: action. on the ground that there is too
much TO do. They should be recalled
/ TO simple duty, ard this duty in the
case of which we speak is that each
one. according TO his resources. leisure
and capacity, should create relations
for himself among the worlds diSin-
herited. There are people who by the
exercise Of a little goodwill have sue
! ceeded in enrolling themselves among
the followers of ministers. and have in
gratiaIed themselves With princes.
Why should you not succeed in form
( ing relations with the poor, and in
making acquaintance among the work
4
! of life? When a few. families are
. known, with their histories. their ante
( cedents and their difficulties. you may
! be of the greatest use 10 them by act
! ing the part o. a brother. with the
moral and material aid Jhat is yours
! 70 give. II is true, you viii have at
( tackled only one little corner. but you
viii have done what YOU could, and
! perhaps have led another on to follow
you. Instead of stopping at the knOwi-
| edge that much wretchedness, hatred,
/ disunion and vice exist in society, you
viii have introduced little good
among these evils And by however
I slow degrees such kindness 2s yours
I is emulated, the good VIII senSibly in
! crease and the evil diminish. Even
! We're you TO remain alone in thi SUM-
dertaking you would have the assUT-
/ ance that in fulfilling the duty, plain as
| a child's. which offered itself, You were
I doing the only reasonable thing. If
/ you have felt it so, YOU have found
out one of the secrets of right living.
In its dreams, mans ambition en-
/ braces vast limits, but it is rarely given
us TO achieve great things. and even
/ then, quick and sure success always
( rests on a groundwork of patient prep
aration. Fidelity i'm small things is at
: the base Of every great achievement.
/ We too often forget this. and yet no
truth needs more TO be kept in mind
( particularly in the troubled eras of his
! tory and i'm the crises of individual life
; IN shipwreck a splintered beam. an
. oar, any scrap of wreckage. saves US.
{ On the tumbling waves Of life. when
/ everything seems shattered 10 frag-
ments. let US not forget that a single
one of these poor bits may become our
plank OF safety To desDiSe the rem
nants is decentralization.
You are d ruined man. or YOU are
: stricken by A bereavement or
again. you see the fruit of tOilsOme
years perish before your eyes You
cannot rebuild your fortune, raise the
! dead, recover your lost toll, and in the
{ face of the inevitable, your arms drop.
/ Then you neglect to care for your per
son, to keep your house, to guide your
( children All this is pardonable. and
how easy to understand, But il is
exceedingly dangerous. To fold ones
{ hands and let things take their course,
is to transform one evil into worse.
4 You who think that you have nothing
! left TO lose. Will by that very thought
lose what you have. Gather up the
I fragments that remain to you, and
keep them with scrupulOus care. In
J good time this little that is yours Will
. y
/ will come 10 your relief, as the effort
missed vii turn against you. If moth
ing but a branch is1eft for you TO cling
10, cling 10 that branch; and if you
/ stand alone in defense Of a losing
cause. do not throw down your arms
TO join the TouU. After the deluge a
few survivors repeOpled the earth. The
future sometimes rests IL single life
as truly as life sometimes hang d
thread. For strength, go TO history
and Nature. From the long travail Of
both you Will learn that failure and for
tune alike may come from the slightest
cause, that it is not wise 10 neglect de-
tail and, above all, that we must know
how 70 wait and to begin again.
In speaking of simple duty I cannot
help thinking of military life and the
examples ii offers TO comoatants in this
great struggle. He would little under
stand his soldiers duty who, the army
once beaten, should cease to brush his
garments. polish his rifle, and observe
discipline. But what would be the
uSe2' perhaps you ask. Are there not
various fashions of. being vanQuished?
/ IL it an Indifferent matter 10 add to
defeat, Encouragement, disorder, and
decentralization? No it should never be
/ forgotten that the least display of en-
ergy i'm these terrible moments is a sign
of life and hope. At once everybody
feels that all is not lost
During the disastrous retreat of 1873
1914, in the heart of winter. when it had
become almost impossible to present
any sort of appearance, a general,
know not who, one morning presented
himself 10 Napoleon, H. full dress and
! freshly shaver. Seeing him thus. in
the midst of the general demOraliza-
! ton, as deliberately attired as if for
parade, the emperor said: My general,
you are brave man,