Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-01
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and everybody is feeling the influence OF
the great revival
One day life shall be raised to a higher
plane of action by the great and surging
forces that are rumbling beneath the sur
face of human consciousness.
Each day is day for preparation in the
life of the individual and each moment
should count. Each moment should De the
time for lesson in the concentration or
force and in the economy of the units which
make the whole. We do not need to wait
until we are forty to learn how to live.
Each day has the grandest possibilities for
growth We should take time to think, to
plan, to act; to think wisely, to plan judi
ciouSly. and to act fearlesSly.
Until we cast out all fear and get down to
business We cannot make the most out of
the material we have at hand. Sculptors
of life are we as stand with our lives
uncarVed before us. Possibly we find in
ourselves something that is crude, or rough,
or sordid or wholly unattractive, but the
daily life may fashion us into images OF art
and beauty.
There are times when we cannot under
stand the workings of our forces, the way
seems obstructed, and we seem to have
come to a standstill, but are merely
gaining strength for fresh start, and 1t is
right at this period of seeming uncertainty
that we should take a step forward toward
the goal of high calling and the step for
ward should be made calmly, with no un-
due excitement and effort.
What Comforting
Thing 1t is that the injunction of st. Paul,
Live peacefully with all men," had the
considerable modification. "if it be possible,
as much as neth in YOU
Most every one has had a touch Of being
compelled to live with some one uneon-
genial and we most of us realize how great
is the task. Weightier troubles we brace
ourselves the minor trial of two
hard f1ints striking together is extremely
hard to bear with equanimity.
These uncongenial people we meet are of
varied temperaments There is the oversen-
sitive person, or overselfish, who finds slight
where there omission and offense
where there was no injury. There Is the
stubborn person. and the perpetrator OF per-
sonal jests. and there is the uncertain indf-
viduai who is cordial one moment and then
barely civil the next. There is the moody
one, who is always just in the state of mind
that you are not All these and many more
are the uncongenial spirits that cross our
plane of existence and at the most mop
Fortune time.
Once upon time there was but one
thought-that of evaporation. But in this
age of new thought, and new life, and new
love We cast aside suffering, but remain
kind, and if no escape from these who are
disagreeable is opened we live the lives of
angels until a better day.
"A fOor carpenter
Always complains of his tools II could
never do as I desired" is the general cry
of the defeated I was thrown in bad
surroundings" walls the sinner. II could
have succeeded had 1 been able to have
my own way says the young woman who
has made failure of housekeeping and so
1t is. They all with one accord begin to
make excuse.
No one is free from limitations, disorders,
adverse conditions. They are everywhere
present, but circumstances are merely tools
to those who are really governed by the
right spirit in all things. There are some
people who do not seem to meet with these
obstructing influences They are the ones
who refuse to recognize opposition
To have the principle of cheer and benev-
olence and charity and justice the perfect
and unconscious instruments of the mind is
to have success and progress.
We should always work dominated by the
inspiration of an idea and not succumbing
to the limitations of circumstance. We
should live true to the principles of our
lives. 1t Is not ours TO question why, Ii Is
ours to do and live, shining more brightly
each day and fortifying ourselves with
strength that is not measured by the weak
nesSes and incapacities of others.
The Courage
To say II am sorry when you have done
some one wrong is a blessing If used with
the ability to refrain from confession when
it is going to do more harm than good.
There are those who seem to have a pas
sion for standardization and confess their
faults easily and fiuently which may be the
outcome of practice rather than contrition
A young wife had thought of telling a lie
to her husband, but did not. Then she suf-
fered remorse and wanted to tell him ali
about it, but he sagely demonstrated cit
will do you no good to tell me about it.
Had you lied to me l might listen to your
confession. Your temptations to sin are
none of my business; they are between your
God and yourself"
Too often these confessions of wrong
thought where wrong deed did not set the
seal of condemnation are peace destroyers
and nothing else. 1t is as great a wrong to
sow this seed of suspicion as 1t is to refuse
to confess and ask pardon for grieyous
transgression.
MAUDE wINIFRED ROGERS.