The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-07-18

of what is to be and consequence of
what has been. This is the main thing
to learn.
The law of compensation is, that you
may have whatever you pay for. You
may have as much money as you are
willing and able to pay for. You pay
with economy, industry, persistence,
time, nerve-force, concentration, some
times by meanness, cruelty, sordidness;
sometimes the price is so high that when
you obtain the money, you find, or others
find, that you have exchanged for it
truth, sweetness, generosity, faith,
hope, love-your soul. This when you
want more than you wish to spend.
Money is like the mama of the wilder
ness; sweet and wholesome if it is gath
cred and used by faith each day: breed
ing worms if boarded by doubt. Money
is great blessing when bought with
something of no great value, and for
spending in faith knowing that more
will come. But it must be paid for
somehow, even when it comes by inner
itance. Then the price is the death of
some one. And the price of keeping it
must be paid. Envy not the rich. They
pay for all they have. They are play
ing fair.
It is in the law of compensation that
your lot is as good as any other. Is
your neighbor rich? There are offsets
to that. Are you poor? There are adj
vantages in that. Is your neighbor in
health? There is discount somewhere.
If you are willing and able to pay for
popularity or fame, you may have these.
Fame falls into no ones lap. Alexan-
der, Napoleon, Grant, each paid. Soc
rates and Jesus paid, and not too much
for what they became. Did you think
you could gain the high privilege of the |
hemlock or the cross without paying? |
Did you think men would worship you
unless you gave them something for it?
Shakespeare was not an accident. He
paid. Does the popular orator, or
statesman, or politician. driving behind
the band, carried on mems shoulders.
excite your envy? Do you wish you
were looked at and talked about like
that? Pay the price. He pays.
1t is in the law of compensation that
no life is failure. That you do not get |
what you want is an illusion. You may
not get what you lightly think you want,
but you get what you actually want.
If you have come short of material
wealth, or whatever else you have fan
cied you want, it is because you have
not been willing to pay the price. The
universe gives you infallibly all you pay
for. You may always know what you
really want by taking stock of what you
have. Do not rail at others for having
what you have merely imagined that
you want. Do not think that you are
not being fairly treated. Nature knows
no partialities, is no respecter of per-
sons. Would you have something for
nothing?
You cannot 1t is the law of COM
pensation that you get all you need,
and precisely what you need. We are
like roots in the ground. We select
from our environment exactly what is
necessary for our health and growth
1t does not always seem so, but it is so.
Fret not about the hayward boy, the
thoughtless girl, the drunken husband,
the criminal in the open or in the prison, |
the poor man, the poor woman, the be-
reaved, the dying, the dead, the pride |
full, the despairing. Love them; but |
fret not. Love them, and learn that it |
is not your affair but theirs. God does |
not interfere nor fret. You need not. |
Learn his way. Do not NEEDLE. Be |
quiet and observe. Something good is |
occurring; something needful. Fret not |
because of your own weaknesses, mis-
takes, failures, sins. Love yourself,
forgive yourself, believe in yourself,
have faith. You think nothing, do
nothing, bring nothing to yourself or
upon yourself that is not needful.
What occurs is good for you, not less
good because it is ignorantly called evil.
The law of compensation is as sure
as the law of gravitation. Trust it the
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