Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-21

in the thing we will not be. an In the
failure to sense the value OF what we
may be. Men fail TO register essential
success and greatness not because life
holds no opportunity. but that the soul
Ia blind to privilege. The supreme OBJ
portunity OF life lies In service and saw
Ing. A man may not have the onpor-
tunity to do tho great thing. but no lie
lacks thnt Of doing and being the brave
the unselfish, tho loving, for the great
human need. The richest thing In the
age is human life. The Hottest hero
isms those which dare for Its sake. An
age that had not come TO sense a
shaftesbury's lofty IDEAL OF service and
appreciation of the human race smiled
bit al the Tennysonian assertion:
".Kind hearts are more than coronets.
And simple faith than Norman blood
"put the age now echoes that which
the laureate echoed from the earlier
song of Robert Burns. Carnegie with
his comprehensions OF life and
wealth and service, begins TO be wise,
for his. latest dictum Is only q new
way of asserting that the supreme
value lies not In taking from, but put
ting into life.
THE great things of life its prizes
In the market and on the forum are
not to be derided or passed by care
lessy. Ambition has its legitimate
field. But a man may pass all these
things by and not fail. The only
failure the world holds Is that man
who has failed to find the good in him
self and his fellows. Life's high oppor-
tunity Is here. And on the plane OF
Jesus' teaching and life lies our su-
preme opportunity. He sets the final
mark In this, Inasmuch as we did IT. or
did II not unto the least OF these.
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is opportunity. II is in the laughing in
nocence OF chld-eyes, In the rich sweet
ness of youth I'm the weakness OF wom-
manhood, the folly of mankind. For
all life--the Christian has a message
and in IL an opportunity. II on the
Plastic clay of youth or the hardened
surface of age we fail to leave the mark
Of our own best. fail to key up the
views OF life and duty, the obligation of
the soul to it's best we are falling. fail
ing, and lies opportunities are value
less.
However securely a man may
hedge himself with material success.
however high his monument may be
builded and his achievements acclaimed
by the voice of his time, unless the
worlds atmosphere is a bit clearer and
sweeter it's light and hope bit In
tenser, some soul set on q higher
pedestal through his service, he has
failed. Find the highest and tmpart
1t. That is life's solemn duty. And the
roll of swift-moving days Is carrying
you by the privileges of help and serv-
ice Soon YOU will wake to the pain
of vain and regretful longing because
you shall see the opportunities no more
forever
THAT despairful face that mirrors
tho gray vision of broken hopes you
might have lit with the Joy Of life.
That ruined thing that is the center
of an hour of horror might have been
stayed by your hand from the plunge
into the pit. That brilliant mind go
ing out into blackness you might have
helped keep afiame by loves ministry
and the help and light of that truth
which saves and ennobles you. As the
days pass let US be ousied with the
light and Joy and love of life. finding
the highest service and the keenest
gladness of the days, In meeting the
blessed privilege of present opportunity
10 do good service in man-helplng and
man-saving.'