Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-15
q. a5e] ~
lo1)(lp|it
THE RICHES WITHOUT COST.

Come buy wine and milk without
money and without price."-Is w., /.
Did You ever stop to think that all
the best things In life come without
cost to ourselves? They are given
freely. The things that in their value
are without money and beyond price
are also In the method of their acquisi-
/ ton without money and without price.
! Every life is rich In the measure that
1t has discovered and possesses these
| treasures
A man may pay many thousands of
| dollars for the painting of a sunrise,
and yet 1t never will be nearly so beau
tiful, so inspiring, so valuable as the
sunrise itself, spectacle which the
poorest may enjoy without the expendi-
| ture of so much as a cent All our
works of art, costly as they may be,
| are but limitations of the originals
which, while far exceeding them in
beauty, mag he ours for the taking.
| The real pleasures of life are not to
be bought. Amusement is for sale: but
Joy comes without price and without
bargaining. There are no figures set
upon happiness; 1t springs up In the
| pathway like flower the seed Of
which has beeen waited from some 9th
er world. The quiet, deep joys Of life,
BENSON like, fall from heaven upon
our hearts. None can command them,
none can corner them.
You may purchase assistance and in
terest, but affection and love come
unsought, unsolicited, unbought What
wealth have You greater, more worth
| to you, than the tender kindness, the
sympathy, the spirit Of self-giving that
goes out to you from other lives? These
assets are not on our Office ledgers,
but on the great ledgers of life from
which our final balances are struck
they are writ large.
When we make up the inventory of
our lives, IL our hearts have any appre-
citation of true values, If we have learn
ed to distinguish between life's tools
and It's product, we find that those
things we could least afford to lose
are those that have come upon us with
out our labor, perhaps without our de-
serving. always beyond our powers of
| purchase.
! How foolish then are we, who have
the greatest, the enduring treasures
by simply taking them, If we waste
| our powers and our time In striving
after the things that are not worth
/ vrh ~ aacf =
livlng-one is to try to make enough
money to be able to buy pleasure or
| affection or whatever you may most
desire, the other Is to keep the life
ever open to all the joy and love and
enriching that Is about 1t
| This world is full of beauty. We
alone, with the enginry of our greed,
make il ugly. But we cannot alto
gether succeed in hiding all It's beauty,
| and the open eye and appreciative
heart still, without going far afield,
may catch glimpses and often behold
| the full glory of field and flower and
starry heaven.
How deeply must we pity the life to
which the beauty of the world brings
| no enriching, he who does not take
| deep breath and feel thrill of pleas
ure at sight of mountain, prairie. or
sea. And all the prodigal beauty of
this world is but a message to us of
| the greater love of the life that up
holds 1t all, of the riches of him that
| inhablteth eternity.
! And fafrar vaf than fatH IN Hnxuny.
treasures greater and more enduring
are ours for the taking, the appreciat-
Ing. In friendships, human love, and
comprehensive. The peace that broods
| from a mothers face, the strength of
fathers life, the light in our chill
drens eyes, the joys of home and
heartside-are not these the best rich
es of life2
/ What would VIC think of a man who
maintained an orchard for the sake of
the soil, or the grass or the frewood
in the trees? Yet are we not even
more foolish who seem to live only for
the means of life; for its agencies and
not for It's ends. We prize the soil, we
treasure the trees; we toll for leaves
and twigs and slight the fruits of life,
humanity, character, love. friendships.
Sometimes we say life is getting
more complex; It's demands are becom-
ing greater. No man can be rich with
out immense material resources. How
foolish 1t all is. LIES essential de-
mands are still few and simple; life's
real riches are within the reach OF ALL
We have but to lift up our eyes, to
open our hearts.
The darkest fate that could come to
any is to be so immersed In the strug-
gle for things, so absorbed In the means
of making living that we are blind
altogether to the meaning of life itself.
and so lose altogether the enduring
riches. the lasting. sustaining joys, the
fair fruitage of life.
MAN SHOULD DISCOVER.