The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-11-03

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worlds goods; when man from
Youth TO hoary old age is absorb
cd in the struggle to get ahead OF
his fellow-man: when mercy, love
and truth-in q word all the timer
Qualities of human nature-are SUD
merged in selfishness, 1T is dl1ilcult
for the earnest seeker after truth
and tbe right life to steer course
which will not lead onto the rocks
Of a nisspent life. When the eye
IS blinded by fame and dazzled by
the glitter of gold: when his COM
mass needle is drawn from the pole
bv the magnet of greed, and ms
sails beaten forward and backward
nv the winds OF conflicting opinions
when the storms of wild sea TOSS
him about. and the harbor is hidden
nv the dark night of doubt; then
if is. that the wayfarer can welcome
and appreciate that truth expressed
thus beautifully by the peerless
Man of Nazareth:
"For what is a man profited II
he shall gain the whole world ana
lose his own soul"
Therein is contained the phIlos-
ophy of life. These lines interpreted
give the meaning which the great
Teacher again sets forth:
''He that findeth his life shall
lose it: and he that loses his life
for my sake shall find it.
Heinzelmann must have had this
thought in mind when he said:
''Be and continue poor, young man.
while others around you grow rlch
nv fraud and disloyalty; be without
place or power, while others beg
their way upwards; bear the pam
of disappointed hopes. while 9TH
ers gain the accomplishment oil
theirs by flattery; forego the gra-
cious pressure Of the hand for when
others cringe and crawl. Wrap
Yourself in your own virture and
seek a friend and your daily bread.
If vou have in such a course grown
gray With nnblemished honor, bless
God and die
He who seeks first the gratlflca-
ton of his own desires iindS worm
wood and gall: The beautiful run
rudely snatched from a weaker
hand turns to ashes on his lips;
the honors gained from pushing MS
fellow man cruelty aside prove 10
he only fragile bubbles which burst
at his first touch; the riches gath
erred nv grinding the labors "i ms
unfortunate brother into pIollt
hiring discomfort and misery u his
cherries old age: and the exalted
position reached by cruelty climb
ING upon the aching back q ms
fellow man and which rests on
fbe eroans and the tears OF dow
trodden humanity is never stable.
When the Angel of Death draws
near and beckons his soul, his last
moments are freighted with regrets
the dregs of his misspent life bitter
to his taste. his dying bed IS a
couch nv the awful shapes OF dead
Hone shattered Illusion, bitter De-
.snair cold Love, forgotten Mem
orv. lost Opportunity dread MIS-
deed tainted Honor, sordld selfish
ness horrible Sins. and in the back
ground his fast-dimmlng eye sees
the sorrowful ghosts of Truth, JUS
tice and Mercy, whom he IN ms
crashing greed has foully done TO
death. And the bright rays OF
Gods sun shut out from his use
less life by his own prevented Will
his last moments on Gods testing
ground must be endured III the
darkest gloom of black despair.
With his last breaths gasping III MS
throat. the terrible panorama 81 q
stained life silently passes before
his view, the ghosts Of lost happl-
ne.s sfernly reproaching him as
they fit by. And when the last
sands Of his life have been run,
conduoring Death gathering in his
t.
arms the withered soul, passes to
the great and terrible unknown.
He he's found his life only to lose
it.
Contrast this gloomy picture With
that Of the svmpaihi2ing man. le
with helpful hands and a loving
heart. Not his pleasures but the
Joys of others occunies first place
in his heart He disdains useless
reo'e empty honor and false fame
His is not to write his name in the
Hall Of Fame, but in the hearts OF
mis- counfrymen. He desires not TIC
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