Charlevoix county herald., 1908-06-06
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VaiediCtOry.
by Mics Flora Porter. J

lOuR cuOuSu a pdSSiIk luuldu Will
be seen adding another stone TO one OF
these mounds. Ii the Indian is old,
unspoiled by schools, the traveller may
know that the Indian is pious man
and as he adds his pebble to the heap,
he is thanking God that he has been
allowed to come that far and praying
that he may go farther. Just as
these trails are marked In the wilder
ness, so they are marked In our lives,
as we leave our experiences upon the
pile beside the way.
Thus, this day as we are laying our
stone on the pile. let us not resume
our journey until we have asked our
selves what those things are which
we desire most to acquire. We all
concede that there are three things
which we cOvet most in life-happi-
ness, character and influence-the
greatest factors In the largest aud
richest life. There are no short cuts
to the best things and so there are
none to character, happiness and in
fuence. Education proves this old
truth. In education there are no
Snort cuts to wisdom. There are no
easy ways of learning the valuable
lessons but only the toilng ways
which others have had to use, Work
will always be the price set upon
everything which is valuable. But If
certain conditions are oheyed they
will lead us gradually, but surely, to
happiness and character. Time given
and conditions fulfilled, we can count
on results.
One Of these conditions is self-for-
getfulness for we find both happiness
and character best by not seeking them
directly. Often when we deliberately
prepare for good time it has failed
us and how often too, our good times
take us unaware. Here the pleasure
seeker, and those seeking character,
their attention too much upon them
selves. Both character and happiness
require selfforgetfulness. Aud so
there are two ways Of attaining char
acter-one which looks at everything
to discover it's bearing on the develop
ment of self-the other. losing itself
in a great work. Neither the highest
character, nor the greatest happiness.
can be won with self so continually in
mind. Our work must be so great
that we can lose ourselves In 1t. A
man really counts with us who shows
he believes in his cause, or 10 his
friends, enough To forget himself In
them. To do this we need many in
terests in life and so one of the most
important results of education is to
broaden us, taking our views from
things Of smaller Importance to larger
ones. Wordsworth's verse is typical
of the uneducated man when he says:
"a primrose by the rivers brim
A yellow primrose was to him
And nothing MORE"
Work, because we can express our
highest activity in it, is one of the
means to happiness. Our work should
be something In which we can express
our best self, work great enough to
absorb us. 'Get work" said the
apostle of WORK, blessed be the man
who has found his work. Let him
seek no other happiness.
1.-THE best way to live well' Grand
vile says. lis to work WE'LL"
The common task great enough To
lose ourselves in is our greatest edu-
Gator. In Gannet's famous sermon,
Blessed be Drudgery, he says:-"Be-
yond all books, beyond all class work
at school. beyond all special opportun-
tiles of what / call my education, it
is this drill and pressure OF my daily
task, that Is my great school master.
NV daily task, whatever it is, that is
what mainly educates me. All other
culture Is mere luxury compared with
what that gives.
"But that which educates me makes
me more y y y able TO be more, to en-
Joy more, to count more. We are all
made for activity and we eau never be
happy in idleness."
Carlyle has so vigorously said
Produce! Produce! were it but the
pitifulest intinitesmal fraction of
product. Produce it in Gods name.
IT'S the utmost thou hast In thee.
Out with It then! Up. up! Whatso-
ever thy hand findeth to do, do it with
thy whole might. Work while 1t is
called day, for the night cometh when
no man can work."
The last but one OF the means to
happines and character Is friendship,
association with persons around us.
In the first place, IL must be from
within. AS Miss Bracket says of
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