The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-02
THE COMFORTING BELIEF
IN HELPING FORCES
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"a ing and talking and gone to
work. Doing 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
1t is worth living to old age to find
out this secret of life. Many never find
it out. Those who have learned it are
those who shove this world along. To
keep silence and work for some worthy
aim-that is what makes the successful
life.
There is a difference. however, in the
way we labor. We are not to toll as the
OK does or the time server who works
while his taskma ster's eye is on him, or
yet as the individual who labors 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 produce something
that will give satisfaction in itself to
and to others. 1t is not of the
slightest consequence whether Mrs.
Grundy considers our work honorable
or mental Grundy is the craziest,
blindest authority in this universe, will
fully blind. Our task may be the doing
of domestic labor day by day What
then? Let US do it perfectly and ar
artistic perfection. Because one does
housework now does not mean she shall
not aspire to something else.
1t is the perfect doing of present tasks
with the perpetual aspiration toward
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 obliged to assist in
the homely daily household tasks of the
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the girl did cooking, dish washing and
sweeping artistically, not slapbang,
head foremost. i'll naturally. While she
did the homework perfectly, however,
there was always in her soul the long
ing to express herself in what the
world calls art" She knew what was
in her to be expressed; she held to her
great desire and waited opportunity.
The opportunity came. The girl is
now 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 it is a worthy one the forces of the
universe will in time lend themselves to
the achievement of that aim. Many
who have tried this testify to it's abso-
lutte efficacy. They believe that some
how and somewhere are powerful in
visible forces that bring to them oppor-
tun1ty and means to achieve their plans.
Before steady aim, held always with
out wavering or encouragement, obsta-
cles in time must yield. It sounds like
magic, but it is the operation of law.
Some call these forces vibrations of the
universal mind; others call them this,
others that. Emerson has noted them
in his essays. But, whatever they are,
they are there to help US. We have
only to do our best with the tasks we
have, keep our thought on our ulti-
mate aim, then trust that opportunity
will come to us to achieve it. Here is
the meaning of the Scripture saying
BE not weary in well doing" There is
no element of time in this unseen
working out of our plan. Years may be
required; again, it may come quickly.