The Washington herald., 1912-04-28
WORTHY LIFE WILL,
RADIATE HAPPINESS
DO Your Work, Never Forgetting
Power Is Within You.
~ ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

BY ELLA WHEELER "ILCOA.
Cease wondering why you came;
Stop looking for faults and flaws;
Rise up to-day in your pride and say,
"I am part OF the First Great Cause
However full the world,
There Is room for an earnest man;
1t had need of me, or would not be;
am here TO strengthen the Plan"
The memory OF a tired young girl
who took her own life because she saw
nothing ahead OF her but poverty and
hard, Hl-paid work, has been over me
all day.
I never saw the girl in life; never
knew her name until she was num-
bered among the suicides.
But the thought OF her frequently
comes to me with insistence. Perhaps
she herself comes, drawn by the sym
psthy which is strong in my heart for
her and all like her.
Drive Away Ugly Thought.
Perhaps it is her wish. rather than
my own thought, that impels me to say
to-day to every tired and heartsick
toiler to drive away all thoughts Of sui
eide as you would drive away a wild
We did not make the universe; we
did not bring ourselves into life.
Some Power greater than we did
both.
Believe in this Power.
Believe II is a Great Friend, and that,
despite all the sorrows and hardships
and misery which hem you in IT stands
ready to help you out into better and
fairer conditions, II you are patient and
keep on trusting ana praying and
working.
Do not expect this power to do all the
work for you.
When you went to school and found
your lessons hard your parents did not
learn them for you.
Because II they had done so you would
still have been left in ignorance.
Must Do Your own Work.
Exactly 50 this great power does not
perform the work given you to do.
Your parents urged you to keep on
studying, and told you the lesson would
be learned if you did. and that the hard
ships would pass and you would come
home radiant and glad, and they would
rejoice. So this great power stands wait
ing for you to do your work. to study out
the problems life gives you; and II will
welcome you with love and pride when
you succeed.
But never forget for one moment that
the POWER Is THERE.
Near you, loving and courageous and
faithful.
There is no such thing as failure for
any soul that has this faith and this
knowledge that it must ITSELF be the
-toiler.
Just as sure as you work and believe
and keep your life worthy of such a be-
lief in the invisible helpers, just so sure
you will be able TO overcome the most
adverse circumstances and come forth
into the light of success anu independ-
ence. Listen to no man, no matter II he
Is the greatest genius on earth, or a pro-
found scholar II he tells you there are
no invisible helpers, no great power
that helps those who believe and ask
for help.
Turn away from him; he can never
give you what you need in your dark
hour Of disbursement.
HE DOES NOT KNOW.
He can only say what he thinks.
Go along your own way, and SEEK
AND YOU SHALL FINp.
KNOCK AND IT SHALL BE OPEN
ED.
Work and Wait.
No man ever made a universe; no man
can make the sun rise or set. or hinder
Il from doing either.
No man can bid the bilIows OF the sea
10 fall or rise.
No man can explain any OF these mys-
teries satisfactorily.
Rely upon the unseen power that made
all things.
1t made you; there was need Of you
or you would not be.
Pray, seek, believe.
Work and wait.
And all things shall be given which
YOU seek.