The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-10-08
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travel abroad see sights. learn won
derS. and acquire wisdom. hat from
an individual vie~ point ! have made
the remarkable diBcoveFy that her"
In Wsxahaohsc all roads Lead To The
/ Sims Library The nice. uttle smooth
path from my corner IN real estate.
up through Getaendancr Park. to
the broad doors Of the library, would
discount the split-log drag any time.
and the number three feet In num-
Der two and a half shoes have made
/ IT so straight and plain that the
wayfarer though fool could not err
/ therein For the past two years
have never started out anywhere.
north, south. east or west. that !
do not land At the library In due sea
son, and stay there until the little
lady OF the books gives me gentle
hint that the season is undue, and !
had better hurry along home and
feed the chickens. Even then | tarry
awhile 10 consult the poultry books
for the best method of feeding fowls.
and to see If It would't do just as
well to call them up-or down--for
midnight lunch as to feed them
before shutdown. The New Thought
crs are quite right when they teach
! we have the power to achieve what
ever We desire. II you set your mind
will soul-or whatever IL is William
Hanna Thomson, and the rest OF the
great scientists agree we do our
thinking with--upon a certain OBJ
ject. and hold to it long enough,
strong enough, tenaciously enough,
enough. that object is as certain 10
come within reach as the sun rises
and sets. and as far as | am indiyidu-
ally CONCERNED ! have no reason TO
doubt it would come anyhow, even
though Joshua once more arose and
commanded the sun TO stand still. |
believe it was Joshua--it might
have been Job or Jonah. 1t was by
that same drawing power of the soul
that the library came to me, and
though it was considerably delayed
until | got trained up to the point
where ! could use il, | suppose-yet
| was not in the least surprised when
it dawned into a beautiful reality. |
knew it was coming all the time,
And when / went over there one au-
tumn morning | found hundreds and
hundreds Of books | had been long
ing for, though many Of them were
wholly new and strange, and | had
e.. known there were such things
a all the world until | peeped into
enchanting pages and suddenly
realized they contained exactly what
had, subconsciousIy, been dream
ing of all my life They were not all
there. however. for when ! read one
If suggests others. but the suggestion
doesn't more than get into good
working order until the others move
ont of some dusty literary corner IN
BOSTON or New York. and when the
box gets here the Librarian permits
me the undying fun of helping to
unpack the books, cut the leaves,
and sharing the first glimpse OF
what they contain. ignorance is not
only bliss. it is blessed and heauu-
/ ml for then We have so much TO
learn. and the more We learn the
more we find to learn. In like man
'u.r t- the library came. $50 came the
librarian Miss Irene Dahuey Gala.
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