The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-21
ENCOURAGEMENT.

struggles. r we lllSll SSPOClpiAJ AAS AAN"u seen and talked with on the subject of his future work He suggested to one man of wide experience in multiplicity of affairs that perhaps it would be good thing for young man just rising in the world to invest some money i'll the land of the Territory which is now the State of Washington. The old hand discouraged him in every way America was so vast, and there was so much room, that the wilderness the North west might not be settled in our time, and perhaps never. Another adviser said, when questioned about a certain kind of business, that to attempt it would be folly. So many business men failed anyway, and this business was precarious. Another wise man counsell- ed that certain methods of handling credits which approached a cash basis would be ruinous. In fine, all the five were aganst al the proposals. As the young man, who latter became a great figure in America, said, they all preach ed the gospel of Encouragement. I rid myself of them as quickly as possible" he said, "and my fortune and my suc- cess. such as 1t is, was founded on the five ideas which the discouragers froWn ed upon."
 No good ever came from the people who are always discouraging effort and trying to repress hope and enthusiasm. The people who give encouragement to worthy endeavor and aspirations are the safe, comfortable and useful people to be thrown into contact with. One fatalist some time ago wrote that 1t was quite idle to tell people to be hope ful or enthusiastic or sanguine or en- ergetic or industrious. Different men, he said, have temperaments, minds and quantities of energy; they are thus born. Naturally, men are born Wlth varying equipment, but IT the doctrine of fatalism is to be accepted all effort might as well be relaxed at once all over the world, and all efforts to edu- cate and train to be relinquished. Every one knows that training and habit and education and well-directed effort are the mighty forces of the world When the disputation man men toned the theory of the nonexistence of matter. old Johnson said I deny it thus" as he kicked heavy stone with great force.
 1 It is also within our common knowl- edgfe and experience that the spoken word, the appeal to emotion and intelll-
 gence, the appeal to passion and pre- iudice, all exert controlling influence
 on the lives of men. A multitude goes i into a hall, and when the ompassioned
 orator has finished movement has been set on fott. An ordinary man walking along the street and thinking of nothing but the freshness of the May morningf will, at the mere recital Iof a wrong or injury done to his city
 or his friend or his family, be seen tc olinch his fists, walk forward with
 great rapidity; and he will arouse his
 slubering energies and work with great effort from that time rorward until he lhas expended all his powers in the di' rection of his desires.
 This tremendous influence isexertet lin single instances; it Is also extertet
 all our lives long by the mental an( spiritual forces with which we comt Unto contact. The youth associates witt people who have no hope, who see nc good in anything, who have no encour Iagement to offer, who look constantly lupon the black side of the world, will by imperceptible degrees, come to hav' lbut a sorry view of the world and { Imost discouraging outlook upon Tiff,
 Hope is my strength" says an olt Ioat-of-arms, and hope is the grea
 power of the world Many people wht lhaye the hopeless attitude are in i'll health, but there are also myrids who lhave formed the pernicious habit 0 ldespairing.
 Habit, says Carlyle, is the deepes flaw of human nature, and Bacon, in hi lessay on Custom and Eudcation," say lof the formation of habits
 Many examples may be put of of tn force of custom, both Wpon mind am body. Therefore, since custom is tn principal magistrate of mans life, le
 men, by al means, endeavor to obtail
 good customs. Certainly custom is mos
 perfect when it beginneth in youn
 years; this we call education, which is lin effect but an early custom"
 Whatever enlarges hope will exal lcourage," and courage, like cowardlct
 is contagious. A well-konwn actor sal lhalf humorously that was his settle
 policy to live with prosperous people lTTs 0f ,rrlxs 1,oa
 Hess and selfish philosophy was a goo lone. He could not bear the hopeles, Ipessimistic, discouraging plaints an , lmoans of those who saw only the ev and forbidding aspects of the world lThey depressed him and spoiled his act , ing. It is a good rule for young men t avoid those who have nothing to offe but Encouragement, One ought to shu | the fatalists and the hopeless, exceI
 for the single purpose of heartenin them and leading them from the cours
 which means settled misery.
 Wse men who wish to make a res luccess of their lives will choose not or ' | It would be interesting if anybody i
 the world were to attempt to tell u
 just what good influence has been c
 ever can be exerted on humankind b the pessimistic writings of, say a Schc . lpenhauer. The pessimistic philosophe ! Iare undeniably cleaver and intellectua, ly strong, but what avail, is it to prov . to the world that mankind is destine to misery. and what do writers of tht school accomplish beyond creating at