The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-15

as good for him as success, smoothness,
joy and all the other pleasant things of
life. God puts everything into the
hopper and it comes out nutritious.
An opimist is one who looks IN the
bright side even when everything is
dark; he sees the silver lining to the
cloud. He knows there is a rainbow
coming long before it arrives.
Forget the Devil Bugaboo.
But 1 do not see how anyone can be
an out-and-out optimist who believes
in fate or a devil. 1t would be like at
tending a baseball game and trying to
cheer Justify for Newark when you
knew the other nine was going to win;
that the umpire would throw the game
to Buffalo or Jersey City. Fate is an
unfair umpire every time, n the
devil is a scallawag. and If l believed
in either of them I would never feel
certain of. anything. But I gave up
those dogmas when I Vas about 16
years of age, and / have never had
anything to do with them since.
SO far as l can see, every man is his
own fate or devil. and if he wants to
fail or get into trouble he can do 1t.
But if he wants to succeed and have
llllIl5S 81 DltdSdIllD. 4 Is up W llllllt
as we say in golf,
There is a God in this universe, and
he is on mans side from the cradle to
the stars. If we tried a little harder
to learn exactly what he wanted us to
be and do, we would not need to try
so hard to keep q stiff upper lip when
things are out of joint. Our nation
is down in the slough Of depression
1900. TO- ,a,nxy ~ 80 fA~rAt hot
there was a Goo who loves honesty and
fair dealing. The ~workingman, no less
than our captains of industry, must re-
member that things will only go right
when they and the rest of us are right.
An optimist tries to love his fellow
men and to deal with them on the
level and part with them on the
quare And when we all get to doing
this thing prosperity will fly back and
perch upon our banners.
Anger Isn't worth While.
l do not get angry because it is not
worth while, and l do lot worry be-
cause it does no good. Like Lincoln,
I keep pegging away, and like Brown
ing l keep saying:
Gods in His heaven,
AIS right with the world.
One of the %jolliest doctors of our
city wears a ring which bears this in
scription: Care will kill a cat" lie
reasons thus: IF care will kill a cat
which has nine lives, what will it do
to me with but one life?"
Here is a great secret, and | will not
charge a cent for it, namely: we get
what we reach out for. If we reach
out for trouble by worrying we will
get trouble, and it never comes alone.
If we reach out for success and hap
piness by being optimistic, success und
happiness will come our way. The
Good Book says: 1.-THE thing l great
ly feared has come upon me-" 1t also
"a merry heart doeth good like
a medicine" Try a change of thought,
try a little ~hetsrodoxy by c~easing to
believe in a devil who is logging your
footsteps or a fate that has doomed
you to failure and hard luck: try be-
lieving thai God is on your side and
that you are your WI destiny. 1t
will change you from gloomy to a
sunny man and make your home a
paradise instead of an inferno.
REV. HENRY r. ROSE.
Church of the Redeemer.
The happy smile of optimism was
exemplihed today before THE EVEN
ING STARS camera by Miss Jennie
B%omenblied, a pretty hat-designer for
Hahne & Co.
why am l am optimist?" she said.
'Why should / be anything else? Isn't
this world a pretty good sort of place,
and cannot we make it a whole lot
better and brighter If we try? 1 be-
lieye that If a great many persons