The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-10-08
KEEP WORKING
KEEP SMILING
AND YOU'LL WIN

IT'S long lane that has no turn.
Ing
MS long day that never comes
10 evening.
ms long night that has no morn
Ing
lta a long storm that never finds
IA clearing,
it's q long voyage that never finds
a hnrbOr
The fact Of the matter IL. friends.
there Is an end 10 all things
Sooner or later the sun viii peep
out from behind every cloud.
sooner OF later all wrongs viii be
rlghted
To-day ~ a thousand times better
than this day 600 years ago.
Think yourself back into the con
ditlon Of things 500 years ago.
what a strange age you would
find II 20 be.
An age without printing presses.
books Of any kind
An age without a telephone and
teiegrapha and not such a thing
dreamed OF az photographs.
An age before the invention Of
the compass and the astrolabe.
when men we're afraid 10 push out
OF the unknown. the unexplored. the
uncharted ocean. when men must
hug the shore Ia all voyages When
far distant lands. that some day
should be peopled with a great and
progressive race. were unknown.
An age when there were no con
veniences 81 any kind for anybody
when kings hardly knew how 10
write and queens were uniettered
aud uBlearncd
Darkness may endure for n sea.
son. but llght cometh at last
Even IN those dark ages there
ware men and women who heard
tie lark song Of hope singing In
their hearts. Even then there were
men and women who caught the
first faint glimpse Of a brighter
day coming and looked and lived for
the day that was 10 be.
We arc the inheritors % all the
past. We lay not our own founda.
tons. Life ~ continual series OF
foundation ihyings. On our work.
coupled with the work OF other men.
will the great temple Of truth aud
peace and purity be established.
To-day we hear the ring OF the irow-
II and the blow Of the hammer
Some day, because we and our an
cckiorS have iAbored wisely, we
shall Join In the chorus that shall
rise when the temple Is completed
We are just iaborcrH I.ab0rcrs
with the men OF the past. Of today
and the days that are 70 be. Our
lives llnked with theirs. and all
linked In harmony with the Great
Architect 81 the Universe. will pro
duce the result that He desires.
All we need do II keep working.
keep smiling. knowing that wen
win Work done In the spirit of
faithfulnssE brings its own reward
work done with a smile born ~ con.
seriousness % work we'll done never
falls Though hard be the work.
though long be the march. yet
there's dayhrcak somewhere.
He who works and smiles and
smiles and works wins.
Don't forget that.
They wcrc IN darkness. but they
knew that sometime, somewhere.
the light would break. and they
lived for the light breaking. Like
Abraham OF the centuries far down
the hills OF life. they looked for a
city that had foundation. whose
builder and maker was God"
They kept faith with themselves
and their ideals. They incorporat.
ed their faith and their ideals and
worked In the faith OF their ideals.
People laughed al them. called
them dreamers. Missionaries and
malcoutenis.
People said 10 them. From the
beginning things have continued as
they are. 20 the end they must so
continue"
But these "dreamers" who were
70 be- the fathers and mothers OF
the oncomlug f4uthers. Columbuses.
Halboas and Guttenbergs Just kept
working. hoping. smiling. and down
the long aisle Of the years saw the
golden beam OF justice" turn TO
the side Of downtnodden and pow
ertystricken common people.
They lived In faith and they died
In hope. They had not seen the
full realization OF the things OF
which they had dreamed. yet they
we're persuaded concerning them.
and the invisible became peopied
with the new race OF their creation,
and teeming with the new inven-
tons OF their genius.
Theirs was hard camping place,
but they persisted in the fight.
They continued In the march.
They pitched their tents OF their
camping where the first CLEANS OF
the morning star would fall upon
them They lived, suffered and
endured. but they lived, suffered
and endured not in vain.
Their hopes became realities,
solid foundations. eternal estab.
lishmonts. Others followed In
their footsteps and buIlded better
than they kuow unon the f,unda.