The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-25
Tomorrow and Tomorrow

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Tomorrow and Tomorrow.
Let us eat and drink for tomorrow
We shall die" How glibly the mock
cheerfulness Of It runs off the tongue
and is uttered. in a semi-boastful spirit.
by many who do not realize how little
genuine truth there is in IT, ''To-mor-
row we shall die!' Who can assure US
.Of fhe truth of thate To md solace in
such thought is but the makeshift
.of the coward The strong probabilities
are that instead Of finding rest in the
grave tomorrow. YOU shall ind the day
filed with bustling cares and anxieties
with strenuous need for labor and for
strife, and that il to-day has been hued
only with eating and drinking and
merrymaking, you shall find yourself
nightly unit for the business you are
called upon. by the exigencies Of living.
TO perform
or course, the saving is from the
Scriptures, but not all the Inspiration
that is needed by the soul of man need
De looked for there, In the Hindu yedas.
written in sanskrit long before the
Scriptures we accept were known. you
shall find the ancient philosopher writ
ing:
''look 90 she eKhoriatlou Of the dawn.
Lock to this day.
For il is life the yery life Of life
In ITS brief course lie all the yertss
All realities of soar existence;
The bliss II growth.
The glory Of action,
The -rerdor Of beauty;
For yesterday IS tsit d dream. and tp-morrow only
vision blt TODAY vel lived makes every yestpT-
diy a dream Of HAPPINESS and ever tomorrow
vision Of h0Ia.
I0ok well. therefore. 10 this DAY.
such is he salutaJim o. ihe dawn
That. YOU will md. is a trumpet-cau
Ito the duties that lie near at hand. the
duties that too often We fatter our
selves, because they seem SO common
place are easy Of accomplishment We
all of as have dreams Of the things
We should like 20 do, the worlds We
could conquer if only We had the op-
portamues; the lives We would save
the heroic deeds we would perform But
all these things are the dreams Of that
o-morroW-thaf lever never comes
The fact is as il is stated in the vedas
Tomorrow is in our own hands-to-day,
Are We wasting our hours. throwing
away our golden moments. sliding and
falling back instead OF pushing bravely
on the road? Then by so much as we
fail to-day, that bitter 10 the taste shall
be to-morrow's regret and bewailing. T.
is in our power. if We viii. so to SOW
the plowed fields Of to-day that to-
morrow We may reap a wondrous har-
vest of golden memories.
TO any philosophy Of spiritual hope, to-
morrow is essential II is tomorrow
that the good for which We tight so hard
to-day will come to us-perchance, The
IH1h tiiai nov ~ Noll>oiNt ana steep ana
hard 10 travel. shall it not be green with
velvet grass and fair and rolling with
gentle downward sIope-to-morrow. To-
day We are discouraged and lonely and
our spirits fall: shall not our friends
cling, our discouragemeuts fee. our
spirits bound-to-morow?
Tomorrow holds the prize OF hope: to-
morrow sees the ghosdy phantom Of
despair fleeing in the distance. Voices
that we have missed and loved shall
cheer US once again; faces that we saw
yesterday only through a mist OF tears
shall tomorrow smile encouragement on
our way.
20 fair to-moroV what our souls have missed.
Art thau rot keeping for us somewhere. still
The buds Of promise that have nevar blown
The tender Ups thar We have neve- kized-
Tie song, who's high, sweet strain eiudes cur skin.
The one white Pearl that life hath never known 70"
That marine officer who is to be court
martiaIed for swearing at lazy bugler