The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-01-23
IDEALS" PRIZE WINNERS.

for they are filled with beautiful and up-
lifting thoughts. all contributed by the
members.
Remember the topic for next Sunday is
Concentration, and there ought to be
a fine opportunity for some original
thoughts inspired by this subject The
contributions should be on my desk not
later than noon OF next Wednesday,
when entries for the contest are closed.
The topic for the week is always an
nounced in Wednesdays Herald. l don't
know whether all Of you know this. but
If you will look for the announcement
for optimists each Wednesday YOU will
find it in good heavy tyne. so there will
be no chance TO overlook it. This is 70
give YOU plenty Of time, week. in fact.
in which to prepare your contributions.
In the contest on ideals" have
awarded the first prize or s. TO the fol-
lowing:
These are the gifts ask OF Thee, spirit
serene:
Strength for the daily task.
Courage TO face the road.
Good cheer TO help me bear the travel
er's load,
And fer the hours of rest that come
between
An inward Joy IN all things heard and
seen.
These are the sins 7 fain
Would have Thee take away:
Malice and cold disdain.
Hot anger. sullen hate.
Scorn Of the lowIy, envy OF the
great,
And discomfort that casts a shadow
gray
On all the brightness Of the common
day.-Henry Van Dyke.
1t requires the exercise Of lofty ideals
TO sincerely voice petition ike this by
Van Dyke Nz D,vrs
20 Harvard street northwest.
Second prize. 50:
Give me the man who gets results,
Who tolls while others talk,
Who plans his work, then works his plan,
Whose records white as chalk
The man who has no AK to grind,
And SCOTS at fattery.
Who helps the fellow next 20 him.
All, he's the man for me-
I've praise galore for gentlemen
Who hold their mothers dear,
For mamma boys" as they are called.
Have hearts that are sincere.
But best Of all-my true ideal
Is he who harbors love.
And from the fuIlness Of his soul
Gives praise to God above.
CHARLES ALBERT BREWTON.
IS 5 street ncTthWest-
Third prize. g:
Doubtless all Optimsts have IN their
inds visions or conceptions OF their
standards of mental and physical per-
fectlOn in men and women, which may
be properly called ideals. Again, in our
daily work If we are IN earnest we may
conceive ideals for the results desired
and which we strive to realize.
Though It may be impossible TO give
our mental conceptions a material form.
we can. by having ideals. achieve more
excellent results than would be possible
without them. When that which seems
impossible to-day IS grasped tomorrow,
still higher conceptions will be had and
revealed. and as the ideals OF the past
are the real OF to-day, the ideals Of the
present VIII be the real of the .-ture
Outside of nature ali that there is OF
use and beauty we owe to ideals, and the
ideals serve in the preservation as well
as In the creation Of these objects.
In times of war conquering armies with
high ideals have on entering a city re-
Trained from desecrating things of beauty
and spared the lives of human beings
who took refuge I'm the splendid temples.
On the other hand, a people with low
ideals, or with none. frequently shatter
the finest works Of art As a result OF
having no ideals and no ideals above the
commonplace. when the Mohammedan
fanatics profaned the sacred precincts of
the Acropolis. the worlds most beautiful
temple. which had defied time for twenty
centuries, became a ruin.
r. ". FARREIIY,
Al5 First street northwest.
Five 81 prizes:
All men need something 10 poetize and
idealize their life a little, something
whIch they value far more than it's use
and which is a symbol Of their enamel
patton from the mere materialism and
drudgery OF daily life What we need
the most is not so much TO realize the
ideal as TO idealize the real A large
portion OF human beings live not so
much in themselves as in what they de-
sire to be. They create what Is called an
ideal character in an ideal form whose
projections compensate in some degree
for the imperfections Of their own.
p o. Box IA
What is it stimulates desire and crowds
past every doubt?
What is it laughs 10 scorn defeat and
puts all fear to rout?
What is it gives one courage when hope
seems lost to sight?
Ideals! deathless, promising, cleaning
through darkest night
There's not principle extant nor known
10 human ken.
There's not virtue ever loved among
the sons Of men,
There's not an active Charity beneath the
vaulted skies