The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-03
The Steadyiing Power of Purpose
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TeNt-ThIs ono thing I do.
The finest example of purpose history
affords Is Paul. Beyond all other great
men he knew the Importance OF the single
eye. His achievements AZ author, orator.
reformer, philanthropist and missionary
make UP a bright page in history Won
derful that experience OF the heavenly
vision on the way To Damascus. Hence
forth Paul determined to do one thing
spread tho story Of that vision through
the world. When doubted, he answered
Look at me-once l was q murderer and
slew these disciples, and now for nate.
have love. Explain me- For three years
he told tho story OF the vision TO the
Sheiks and Bedoulns of Arabia Then he
determined to capture the world. STANG.
ing on tho steps OF tho synagogue IN
Jerusalem he told the story of the VISION,
as he did later to the multitude IN
Ephesus. To the philosophers grouped Do
fore the Parthenon, to tho mon at l1ySia,
10 tho sailors at Malta, to the sotd,STs
mans career has filled the world. bn.
PaurS glorious lifo represents ms Single
purpose, written large on the pages Oh
history.
Purpose Unif1es Life.
The great advantage OF purpose comes
through the unity IL gives. The success
fuI man must concentrate. Scattering TO-
day means failure tomorrow EVERY PowtI
OF mans being must be cast fully INTO MS
enterprise. Every fragment must be Sutn-
cred up, every moment OF timo focallzeur
ever, atom OF strength made to bear up
on tho work I'm hand. All the hours an
conversation, all friendship. all rcuecuon'
must be pointed toward ono end-the sli,-
gle purpose for which man Is liNlnE II Is
wonderful what unity VIII accomplish On
a bright winters day the sunshine nus al
the air, and yet, IL Is so bitterly cold thot
ice Is constantly forming on tho river
Now take your stand on that Ice, hold
sun-glass in your hand, and put piece
of paper under the glass, In few MIN
utes at the point where the rays OF inc
sun are localized, tho heat VIII become so
Intense MS TO first blacken tle papei, siLo
then kIndle IL into flame, and yet All inc
time the heat OF the sun Is there IN inc
keen nipplng air. only IT was not Ioc5iiHeu I,s'i
What the rays needed was unity OF alIl'
Success is always relatlNei WAdt IS our
cess for q two talent man Is not the same
as success for a fve-talent man. success
means that the youth has made the pest
posslble use of tho talents given 10 MN.
Life Is a problem in three, MULTIPLY youF
birth-giGts by your opportunities, ana ul-
vide by your circumstances and inc re-
suit spells the career. From thnt view
rfts is possible TO every youth VINO HVSs
or ever Will live, But II can come oLiIy
through concentration, NlthSss IiiS' I,
young Hebrew In the house ol SoIuulo's.
Anxious to have at least one Hepre"
name that stands for statesmansnlp' nc
won his seat. Men teered at inc con conclu-
sion of his first speech. Pale. In that hour
when he was stung by taunts and sneerS,
Disraens face was at once marble ana
fire '',Thc time Will come when you VIII
hear nc" he shouted. From that night
his whole being was organized by n sin.
elc purpose Every thought fed toward
that coming hour. travelled to gather ma ma
tcTial for that hours speech, 5auH H ~. s
wept, dreamed loved. prayed-and all Tor
that one hour At last the House OF
Commons heard him. and heard MN ss sIa1
ly. IL was conquered. and then governed,
that statesman. The VICTORIOUS Seche
that defeated Sir Thomas Upton rode
firmly through the water because OF sew
eral tons of lead fastened to the bottom
on the keel That load held the boat hrm
kept II upright, gave steadiness TO inc
sails smtten by the wind. Ihete Is no
ballast like noble ambition no svSIaS svSISS
ing force like purpose, nothing that unlhes
lfo like singlenesS OF thought ana OF
plan The first and the second, the laSt
advantage of purpose is its power TO UNI,
" ones days focnlize one thouShtS uhu
organize ones deeds and habits!
Purpose Conserves Mans Energies.
A unit purpose has further a9yan-
tage-that 1t conserveS hiS ei.ei ,9mst
The time has come when n9thhE mus
he lost The Oriental working IN pre-
cious extracts and liquors, guards thgn' en-
against the loss of single drop 9l the the
sweet ointment or altar. lie dreads the
hour when he must commit the soldeii
liduor to the cask that ie TO pear II
across the sea He knows that an en- en-.
emy can bore tiny hole through the
! cask and that drop by drop ms sWGet
! ointment may all ooze away. oh, the
wastes of life! The housewife wastes
tho food the seamstreSs wastes tne
odds and ends. the fireman wastes the the
coal in the furnace. tho Woodman wastes
| the top of the tree In the forest the
| farmer wastes the fields, ana Ine e+,oSI, i.SIe
ness TO Want poverty and heartDrcak
| one purpose to see that hothihG MWSS
| lost would nave changed the whole hie
| Little things make up success. put SUE
ccss Is not n little thing. We arc ~
| familiar With men who In their YOUR
! gave promise of great career but VINO
| sea altered their energies. TIC youth ttlet
| the store and gave that up, tried the
| office and left II. turned to the scnonl'
| room, made his way To the farm de-
cided he liked the village, ana. neT,l, n
| none Even OF the dead Fiver. like Tho
| Rhine. u narrow channel Is necessary ioi
| the turning of mill wheols once IN
| Rhine spreads out. With mouth tWehtN
| miles Wide, It becomes n bog, an lniant
/ sea-its breath Miasma, lts winds death
tie waters ippotent for INDUSTRY, m
| Rhine is too widely dinused. IL mas
| wasted Its current by scattering II. Pau
| had one purpose-to tell the story or the
| heavenly vision that changed him iron
| a had man to good man, and broke I'M
power OF passion and sin. Sometimes h
| told his story speaking. sometimes il'
| told IT through the pen; sometimes nc u
| iuetra,ed il by his life; sometimes h
| dung out his challenge to philosophe
| and disputant; but always VI was on
stcry-the love of God 10 sinful man th'
power OF Christ to deliver the soul IRON
ain That conserved all his energies
saved ell the wastes. safeSuarded agains
every loss or time or strength Their
was no wastagc In this man 5 NE by rea
son OF his steady purpose.
Purpose Gives Life It's Momentum
Air students Interested I'm the intellec
| ual life understand the importance o
This principle We learn to think b,
thinking: We learn TO love by loving, w
learn to pray by praying. The more th
author creates the more poems and ora
iions he can create. The construotiv
in,ae(nation and the creative lntellec
| can he cultivated 10 almost any degre
whatsoever Every author knows tina
Nv nractice the Intellect viii gain sue
| Strength and facility that when tho cloc
strikes . in tho morning the mind WI
begin to work. glowing and sparkling
| And as every minute passes the move
ment of the mind becomes freer, ferti'
jty increases, great vletass of truth !, OPP ope
| 80. au.a,- until the man feels that h