Pocahontas star herald., 1911-06-09
What is Worth While
By
VERA MAYNARD
Graduate of Ouachita-M MAYNARD Academy

regalned, friendship broken may be
renewed, houses and lands may be
sold, but may be bought again.
but what power can restore the
moment that has passed, the day
whose sun has set, the year that has
been numbered with ages gone.
The important question of time
is not how much time have we?-
for we all have all there is. The
question is what shall we do with
ltE Shall we let the priceless gift
slip away In idleness and haphazard
deeds, or shall we use it for good in
our lives? We are spending time
well when we are paying it out to
God. Suppose each of us should
resolve today that not a minute
henceforward should ever be wasted.
What energy there wenld be in our
lives! What strength! What noble
purpose! What grand results!
Therefore let each of US ask him.
self today, "How much of this
precious time am l going to waste
in idleness?"
Let us lay hold of work. With
out work nothing can be accom-
plished. If anyone wishes to achieve
greatness, it must be done by hard
work, not on fowery beds of ease,
as some would wish.
Blu: the question arises, "W hat
work are we best fitted to perform?"
Every individual has special and
particular work to do. Emerson
says, "Nature arms each man with
some faculty which enables him to
do easily some feat impossible to
any other. No two persons have
the same work to do.
Therefore each one of us should
examine our capacities and gifts,
find out what especial work God
intended us for and then perform
1t nobly and joyously. Certainly
the All-wise and Infinite One would
not have fashioned a human soul
for something that was not worth
while. Then surely this work
which we can do and which no other
soul can do so we'll as we, will pro-
duce some result upon our owl
character and the characters OF
others, that will last throughout
Eternity.
Another thing we would notice is
Present Happiness. ."What is life
that is void of happiness?" Some
of us go through life biindly, look
ing for happiness on the morrow,
but we should remember that "to.
morrow never comes" and that il
we are not happy today we shall
never be happy. Of course we en-
JOY a kind of happiness when kind
words are said to us and when we
are successful in some business af.
fair, but we can enjoy real, true
happiness only when we have done
our duty, when we have done what
God has planned for us to do, and
when we have been brave, helpful
and last hut not least lncomplain-
ing OF our lot.
Next we wish to mention as being
worth while, Love and forgiveness.
Love is the divine essence of oul
being, it flows from God into our
souls, and is our life. God is love
and it is from this fountain of di
vine love that the spirit of man re.
ceives the warmth of will, which
animates it into life and action.
1t is through love many things of
life are accomplished. In fact only
those things that are done through
love, will count for anything in
eternity. The soul that does not
love its every kindred soul for the
possibilities of good that are in
each of them and does not long to
pour out all its energies toward de
veloping this good, is warped and
contracted until In its llttleness-
it absolutely has not the power tc
see the good and beautiful-to see
, the face of God. Such soul is
devoid of the power of forgiveness
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