Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-10-18

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truth which II you destroy you make
yourself gloomy and dull to others.
In choosing your way Of work 1t should
be your aim as far as possible to
bring out all these faculties--not one
merely, but all Of them. The way to
bring them out is to concern your
selves attentlvely with each faculty.
To cultivate sympathy you must be
with living creatures and thinking
about them. TO cultivate admiration
you must he among beautiful things
and looking at them" But some peo-
pie have "a stagnating mental cos
mos" They are never willing to read.
They are never willing to study. They
care nothing about the great wide
world and its dongs. They literally
would not go across the street to see
the most beautiful picture ever paint
ed or hear the most exquisite har-
monies ever sung, while on the other
hand some men are never satisfied
with their present mental condition.
They are always reaching up and
reaching out. They will go to any
trouble to learn. No work for them
is too difficult IL they can only i'm
prove themselves and learn something
new.
"Drat that boyw the farmer says.
"IIe is not worth two pinches of salt.
I can never make n man out of him.
He is always idling his time away with
some study. send him down into
the fields to plow. and as soon as din
ncr time comes he opens his tin pail
and book at the same time and then
begins to read. Then he forgets every
thing but his book. I am just as liable
to find him there reading an hour later
as not" No, farmer. you will never
make man out Of that boy If your
definition Of n man Is to be hedged in
by cabbage patch. That boy has
higher visions Of life than planting
corn. He is dreaming He Is looking
ahead to the time when, as a minister
Of the gospel, he shall save men for
Christ, or when as physician he can
relieve the pain of the fevered brow,
or when as lawyer he can defend an
innocent man in the clutches Of the
law. Through the disorder Of corn
crib he sees the work which God is
calling him to take up.
Not Lonfcr.
"You miserable, lazy loafer." cried
the peasants angry wife to the stran
ger brooding at her ilrcside. Did
not tell thee I would give thee thy
dinner if thou wouldst watch that Il
did not get burned? Now by thy neg
ligence thou hast spoiled everything
| 'Tis true that the man who was sit
| ting Hy the PEASANTS fire had neglect
ed the task the peasants wife set hin
to do, but was he lazy. contemplate
| loafer? That man was the fuctiv,
| king of the English throne. That mar
/ was Alfred the Great He may hav,
/ been blind to the operation of the peas
ants fire, but those smolderng enber'
suggested the dream of the fame o.
liberty he was soon to ignite. He wa:
dreaming, like Moses, of the people h,
was to lead and the country he wa:
to rule and the mighty kingdom h,
was to establish, which would be Il ref
/ unc 10 all tle uDN utlOuutll WIN NOult
come to its shores. Do not grumble
| o wife because thy husbands thoughts
are sometimes wlnging their flight :
thousand miles away. Do not com
plain, O mother. because that daugh
! ter Is neglectful of the little thing
when she is reaching up for the higher
When Cardinal Chgi told the grea
Cardinal dc Retz that for three year
he had done all his writing with on
pen and the pen was still as good a
new, Cardinal de Retz came to the con
clusion that his brother cardinal wa
a man of very small mental caliber NJ,
friends, in your mental life live 70
something higher than the point of
pen. Struggle, strive. push. Turn. /
necessary, your study into very bed
lam of confusion. BY thy upheaval
seek for new mental cosmos. Re
member the broad sweep of the Solo
monte proverb, where no oxen are. tn
crib is clean, but much increase is b.
the strength Of the OK"
1t IS only the ignorant. the stupid
the slothful the stagnating mind. tina
Is satisfied with its present conditions
Progress Is not like a swamp, wit
fctid air and surface Of slime. Their
everything is still and quiet. True men
tai progress is like the commotion an
disordcred waters OF a brook. Their
the waters are pure and sweet, becaus
one moment they are tumhling over
cascade, the next they are being daSl
ed into foam against some howldel
and the next they are as a waterfall
lcaping over some cliff. They are neve
still. They are always moving, Away
readjusting themselves to new cond
tons.
AS ! note the restless connections Q
the individual mind, so note also tn
restless conditions OF the social worl
and the conflict Of the classes again.
the masses. The socialstic upheava
Of the present time are not Il sign tbs
our present governmental life is to /
destroyed. They are sign, and a SUI
sign, that ont If these upheavalS ther
shall come forth better truth, a be
Ter honesty, purer social life. Ho'
many wrongs there are to be righte
on both sides Capital, with its va:
resources and machinery, frequent
has more mercy upon it's iron and ste'
bars and its leather bands and its hug
pile drivers than upon the bone an
sinew and muscle OF its workmel