The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-08-08
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WACA NAf1SI That He came
mat men might have Life more album
dainty, He did not mean longer life.
but life o~verfowing, rich in content
and extent, with far horizons and
wide outlook. Just this Browning
embassies when he says:
God gives each man one life, like 4 lamp
Then gives that lamp due measure of oil:
Lamp lighted, hold hi III wave wide.
All very fine, you say, for the man
who. happens to have been endowed
with personality! But how about the
hundred men who do not strike an
observer as being somebody, who
havent the gift of personal magne-
t1sm Well, my answer is that per-
sonaltty il not all endowment; it may
be acquired, or more accurately yet,
aeveloped. When the spring comes
and the suns rays fall more warmly,
the grass and leaves begin to grow.
There are seeds in the ground and
'~l1fe-dormant and waiting to be
stirred The u might shine q mill
lion years, hot as midsummer, and
Without those seeds lying there wait
ing. no fair garment of Yerdure
would ever cloths the bare, brown
body OF earth. And vice versa. Just
so,we notice now and again a former
stenOgrapher and private secretary
to presidents becomes a Cabinet off,
GER Partly it is from native endow-
mentssand partly from the Weakening
inhuence OF association with great
men. Character is not taught, but
caught; not fully Unborn, nor spring
fngs full armed, like Minerva from
Jove's head, but wakened, reused,
kindled by the contagious touch Of
another of a little longer develop
kments and maybe, of larger growth.
Yet after all, this is the fine funda-
mental truth of life. Every man is
of unique value, has a rare CLEAN Of
virtue for his own, his point of view,
his Individual work and message,
which no other man can have had.
His business in life is to live that
out, build 1t up utter it, make it eff
fective.
How shall he do it? By getting
out where the sun can strike down
to those seeds that are waiting in
him; that means: make helpful
friendships, listen. to wise teachers,
Keep high company with. men who
have deeps and heights about them.
Read Pau1's prayer written to the
men in ~Thessalonica: tsThe very God
of peace sanctify you wholly (set you
apart, distinguish you in. every great
Way, and 1 pray God your whole
body, soul and spirit be kept without
blemish even in the presence of
FChrist. Faithful is&heA who hath
promised, who also will do it." Just
to this point was Emerson speaking
when he said: Follow God, and
where you go men shall think they
walk in hallowed cathedrals." Phil
lips Brooks puts it: 'HThe influence of
a man whose heart God hath touched
is like a breeze of fresh air let into
a heated and sitting room" You are
a lamp of three wicks-body, soul
(mind) and spirit. Let God light
them (most likely He has %already);
now you. turn them up; keep them
trimmed, let them blaze wherever
you are, throwing out your cheer,
your light, your beacon message in
/ your time. Then, "as one flame kin
dleth another nor groweth less there
by" so shall your life kindle, waken,
rouse others.
In everyday terms, what does it
mean? My body; honor it, build it
up, keep it undiscovered. By noble
uses, make it to become a sanctuary.
Build thee more stately mansions, oh my
soul,
While the swift seasons roll,
I Leave thy low-vaulted past.
Let each new temple nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven by a dome more
vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell
By Hfe's unrestlng sea.
My mind; mediate, store 1t with
true thoughts, pure thoughts,
thoughts fit to treasure up; let it
keep company with the noblest men
of the ages, whose wisdom, vision
and profitable experience may be
made my own by an hours reading
every day; let me prepare myself to
Recognize, appreciate, respond to and
. succeed the truest, most devoted and
helpful spirits of all the days past
and present, and finally keep my
reyes on the stainless peaks where
Christ is.
My spirit; how great a word it is!
All generous impulses, all chivalrous
motives, all noble aspirations, all
love of beauty and truth and good
ness. every hatred of weakness and
wrong, every fine portrait of mem.
DRY and ideal! Oh, match this spirit
with all the best about you; open II
to Him who knows what is in man
and who alone has grace to bestoN
and loving power of mastery to de
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always remember how He reckons il
the yearnings, the unuttered and un'
utterable aspirations there:
! All instincts immature, all purposes un
sure,
That weighed not as his work, yet swellec
the mans amount,
Thoughts hardly to be packed into a single
act:
} Fancies that broke through language ant
escaped,
All I could never be, all men ignored il
~ 4 me, E&AK& IL
!, I This I was worth to him,
Whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Special Anointings.
! If Jesus was anointed to preacl