Connecticut western news., 1910-06-16

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BY w. H. SPEAR.

"He whom thou meetest reJoiceth. " Did you ever think how much meaning there is in that simple sentence? There is world of optomism in those five words. Transpose the sentence and thus learn it's double meaning: "He rejoiceth whom thou meetest !'
 You meet this man on the street. There is joy in his eyes; animation in his every act; delight in the very tone of his voice. Why? because he is an op- tomistic man. He sees some good in life. He is in rapport with its surround ings. His heart is attuned to the joys of existence. His mind is at rest, because his conscience is clear. He looks upon life with joyous anticipations. He, brings to bear upon it the breeziness of his own personality. He makes that personality felt, because of the man be- hind it.
 Shake hands, and the grip he gives is expressive of kindliness. He shows 8 genuine interest in your welfare. You feel the better for coming in contact with his magnetic presence. There goes out from his grand personality an inde finable something that stirs your very life blood and sends it coursing through your veins with bounding energy. He gives you the impression that life is worth the living; makes you feel that underneath all else, there is a solid foundation of genuineness that fairly draws you out of self and makes you de- sire to acquire what this man has, and which you realize you do not possess.
 "He whom thou meetest rejoiceth. What over? Why? What for? Has he any more to rejoIce over than you have :? The one man may be poor and the other rich, yet the rich man would give every dollar he is worth to acquire the secret possessed by the other is such marked contrast to his own shriveled up, pessi- mistic nature. What has developed the one man along those grand lines into such striking personality, and has dwarfed the otker in comparison? What is it? Need one ask? Does not the very fact in itself show the cause? One has made the best use of opportunity has cultivated cheerfulness has learned to govern himself. He looks behind and beyond the dark clouds, and sees the glorious sunlight, and it's warming rays fill his very soul with the effulgency of glory, which, shining through him, penetrate to the hearts and lives of those around him.
 The other man sees no good Tn human ity. The dwarfed spirit of seltishness subverts his soul to its own selfish ends, and the man becomes grabbed. soured and disgruntled the very embodiment of pessimism. Do you wonder that such a man fails to agreeably impress his fel- lows with his personality. The world wants sunshine and the smiling face, not the chilling shadows and the frown- ing scowl That is why the one man is blessing and the other a curse.
 How shall you attain this disposition {? Transpose your sentence, then strive to make it real. "He rejoiceth whom thou meetest l" Why? Because of the real interest you show in his welfare be. cause of the kind word of encourage ment he receives through you because your touch is life, your presence hope, your smile a gleam of heaven. No longer does pessimistic doubt hold sway upon your heart, nor it's deadly miasma poison the air you breathe. You have surrounded yourself with new atmosphere, and its perfume is tonic i; its breath 8 joy, and he who breathes it, is filled with new ambition. Which would you be? You have it in your power to be one or the other. Perhaps you are. Which is it? Which shall it be?
 One need not go far to find these na- lures. They abound right among us. Perhaps you have recently come into con- tact with these two personalities. They are not of dual nature that were inn possible, for the one poisons the other, for the higher and the better cannot ex- ist in the atmosphere of it's dark and morbid enemy. Young man let you1 optomism shine forth; let it glow and scintillate like the dew of the morning under rays of the rising sun, moistening the heart with the balm of it's tender ness, and making life nobler and better for its presence.