The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-10
Live Your Life
TO the Fullest
Extent You Can
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

ANDERING over this big little
NJ world ano studying the people
in many lands. one must be i'm
pressed with the vast preponderanee of
living dead creatures, who cumber the
earth with their bodies, and rob the air
OF its oxygen, and disturb the silence win
their complaints.
People whose minds are dead to every
thought save the needs OF the body;
whose souls are asleep so soundly that
They are deaf to the call continually
sounding through space to each immortai
spirit on every sphere-the cali come
higher and WHOSE bodies are IN con
sequence. sources of discomfort. pain,
misery and disease, or else Of trivial
worry.
With thoughts bound to the wheel Of
physical anxietiez, the DAYS go around
and around. ana their minds rise never
beyond what TO eat, what TO wear, what
10 do 10 find amuse nient, what to do to
get even with somebody for a fancied
wrong, or TO get ahead of a rival; how
10 get well OF this and that ailment.
what to take 10 obtain personal strength;
and, for slight variation Of thought
how TO make d fortune in a hurry.
For mental recreation, they indulge in
criticisms o. others who have erred. who
have fallen by the way SIDE, or who nave
risen too high on the wave Of fortune.
There are thousands and tens OF tnou-
sands-yes, millions-of such people Oh
earth.
Are you one Of 'these2
If you are, know yop are that which
you live in dread of becoming, You are
dead. The real you is already like Jonn
browns body, ''m0ldering IN the grave
or your own digging.
But II you are willing 10 roll tho stone
OF self away and bid the Christ within
you rise, you can bring yourself to life.
You do not need any conversion by q
IL orb,
10 any creed you do not need any change
of heart, save the getting rid of your
selfish. narrow, dull way OF looking at
life.
All you need is to say TO yourself Il
awake; l am alive to every glorious
truth in this wonderful world; l am an
immortal soul and there is nothing but
light joy. health and power for me-
Then begin your morning with resolve
TO find the beautiful and good things in
the Gay, in the weather, in the work you
have to do. in the people you meet.
If the weather greets you with buster
and wind and rain and snow and fog,
light it up with your own spirit Of sun
shine.
If your work is distasteful, love it into
shape. and keep in your mind desire
for something better and more cOngenial,
and make yourself worthy of such work
when IL comes your way. No matter how
uncongenial your task is TO-DAY, consider
ut a blessing that you have employment,
and push along 10 better things.
Everything comes when we are lulis
ready. Tht law never fails. You may
believe yourself worthy of better things
than have fallen 10 your lot, but there is
some reason, some cause IN yourself, L
you have not what you desire.
If YOU encounter people who are diss-
greeabic, ne so agreeable that you force
them into a pleasant mood. BrinE ou'
the best in everybody by giving them the
best that IS in yourself.
It was Madeline BRIDGES that GIFTED
poet who has said so many beautiful
Inings. who put this great truth into sim
pie words:
Give TO the world the best you have,
And the best shall come 10 you"
Just so sure as you live these lines, Sc
sure shall be your reward. But TO do al
this you must b alive
Alive every hour of the day, and all Of
YOU; brain, soul and body must be alive
once YOU roll tiie stone away and come
forth, alive, you viii vibrate at such q
rate that worry, disease, poverty de-
sIondency. gloom aud melancholy VIII b'
unable To stay with you.
They can only attach themselves Il
atoms in "A slow ana low rate OF vibration
Ito minds that are virtually dead
There is no excuse Tor idlenessl de
spondency and despair in this world, 81
long as you are alive.
seem TO you, however dincuU the pau
before you. you can find the way 10 N
dependence and success If you neVe
let go.
on the road riding in an AUTOMOBILE
while YOU walk, do not at once jump q
The conclusion that ne IS your enemy ant
that he has robbed and cheated his fellow
men TO procure his method of easy loco
motion.
vitality away from the object YOU have II
view, and viii harm you, while they ma
wrong your neIgbbOr. 1t would be well TO
you to find out how he came 10 own Al
automobile before you condemn nm as
greedy monopOlist Perhaps ne built
with MS own skill and labor, paying non
est dollars for the materials.
l have known fisherman 10 get alon
& lifetime with a leaky boat and one oar
and go about 'sculling' thin. .ng II wa
the only way he could do; Whlle anotne
sherman, with no greater advantages
used his spare hours IN studying ma
chinery, ana quilt himself small lSuncn
with which he explored deeper water
ana caught larger fish. The man wa
rot a monOpOhst ana owed no poore
.,,efehpors an apology for having bette
means of locomotiOn than they
Ii mas grown 10 oe the haot OF IN
successful to class all people who posses
comforts and cOnveniences IN one mas
with the idle, selfish, and Ofttimes ais
honest Tlch.
There are millionaires who came h
their wealth through criminal methods
There are capitalists who grind IN
moor and wrong their fellow men, Blu
il is well to remember that there are ais
honest. noble, unselfish people with for
tunes and capitalists who are Diessin
10 the world, to the laboring classes an
TO humanity.
No more unjust and absurd idea eve
existed than that mistaken impression G
the very poor that ell ricn and even com
Portable people are their enemies and thei
despoilers.
There are men who have become th
pogsessors Of large fortunes through hoT
est industry and perseverance, and VIII
are bowed TO the earth by the cares an
RESPONSIBILITIES of life, and who lie awak
nights while poorer men sleep, trying I
decide lust which is the Kindest. wises
and most unselfsh course Of action
pursue.
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