The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-06-23

chandise sold and bought along that
way. Here you will find your proper
place In the world, your proper en-
y:ronment. And In that congenial
land you will grow and develop the
very best within you; you will reach
the highest SUBMITS OF your capabili-
ties and render unto the world your
best possible service. But miss that
path, miss it, | say, and God only
knows where you may land. You may
1--we perhaps the full allotted life of
men but 1t will be dwarfed existence.
You will never be full-size, we'll
rounded human being as God intended
that you should be. You will never
shine and accomplish great things.
And now you ask, how may man
find his path, his proper place, his
calling in the world. | will answer
this by referring again to my open
ing remarks. | spoke to you Of the
master spirits of the times Now for
the question. How did these find the
path and accomplish so great things?
What unseen presence was 1t that led
them? What invisible influence was
it that guided their course? Lincoln
was born in a log cabin and found
his calling in the presidential chair
of the United States. | find the
answer to these questions in the Day
star of the text | believe that there
is such a thing as day star in the
lives of men. In my reference to this
star, | must be careful lest You mis-
understand me. | do not mean that
morning star hanging over the gate
way of the sun waiting to kiss the
new born day. | do not mean yonder
evening star twinkling in the western
skies clad in all the splendors of ey-
ening sunsets. Nor do ask you to
scan the midnight skies and investi-
gate the myriad bright spots of the
milky way. For this star is not there.
And in my reference to a star in the
lives of men | do not mean the lucky
star of astrology. Speak to the as
trolger and he will tell you of such
a star. He will locate it somewhere
in the stellar universe and will tell
YOU that your history is written over
it. This pseudo science Of Astrology
has quite a grasp upon us. The news
papers are full of it. Look up the ad-
vertisements and you read like this:
Send us Toe and we will tell your
fortune" You send along the ten
cents and you receive a letter from
the astrologer in which he claims that
you were born under very lucky star
and that it speaks well OF you. Some
day you will be very rich and very
happy. There are many people who be
lieve in this. have friend who used
to be quite carried away with fortune
telling. | was with him once in Mass
achusetts and in the town where we
stayed he heard of an astrologer who
was considered very smart in his
representations of the future. He
said to me, I'm not going out of this
town until | see that man viii you go
with me?" Go, yes" said; go any
where If there is any good in it." And
so we went to have our fortunes told.
My friend went in first. and stayed
with the astrologer for a half hour
or more, do not know just what
was said but | know that it must have
been something very good, for my
friend had a hig broad grin on his
face and smile as bright. as we'll
rounded as a full moon. Then | went
in and had my fortune told. wish
you could have heard it, 1t was great,
tell you. | only wish it would come
true. Among lots of other things. he
said | was born under a lucky star
That at the time of my birth the sun
was entering into the third sign of the
zodiac, namely the constellation OF
Gemini, the house of the twin broth
ers, Castor and Pollux. and some day
{ would be very rich. Hoor mani
didn't tell him | was minister or
be would never have made the awful
thunder of saying that | would be
rich. If he knew how small a pit
lance | was getting as a salary |
t, ink he would have told me that If
ever expected to get rich | must
change my job. Please remember
therefore that the star | have refer
ence to is not the lucky star of Astrol-
ogy.
And yet | do believe that there is
such a thing as "A star in the lives of
men, yes a star guiding. influencing
moulding and shaping the character
of the individual in whose armament
| it doth shine The star | refer to is
the day star of the text. Here 1t is
represented as rising in mans heart
! in my heart, in your heart, rising
higher and higher, climbing over that
sky of yours, traversing the firma-
ment of your little world, flooding ii
with light and beaconing you on
ward and upward, up from the low
lands of mental stagnation and use
lessness, up to the hills and from the
hills to the mountains, from the noun
tains to the highest and loftiest sum
units of usefulness and grand accom-
plishments. | know not what influ-
ence those stars which travel yon
fields of blue have upon human life
and destiny, but this | do know that
when the day star rises in a man S
heart that man will know it, and If
he follows on he will accomplish
something in this world for the good
of his fellowbeings. Shakespeare puts
1t In another way. There is tide
in the affairs of men, which taken at
the flood leads on to fortune 1t is the
day star, and once a man sees this,
that man will know it. He will see
visions and dream dreams. Like Luth-
er Burbank or Thomas Edison or
Marconi he may invade the uneXplor-
ed regions of the great God himself
and make known some of their mys
teres to men. Genius lies in the
path of the day star. Great accom-
plishments and lofty achievements are
executed in the flashes of the day star.
What is ambition with its visions
and dreams and future glimmerings
. ~. Il. sx,t.