The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-03

affairs.
This qualification will. cost some
thing, but the more = it costs the
greater will be our development.
Money is one of the lowest evil
dences of achievement of success. The
money element should be the second
airy and not the primary motive in
what is undertaken.
Construction.
Never tear down.
Always build up.
Give good measure.
DO not grudge.
Rejoice as much in the progress and
prosperity of others as in your own.
In fact your own success largely de-
Ponds on the prosperity Of others.
Traitors.
Never be a traitor. The man who
makes an obIiagtion and fails to keep
it is traitor. Keep your obligations
If you lose money thereby. The loss
is gain If you save honor.
Engagements, promises to pay,
social, domestic and moral obligations
should be kept without fail. and the
SPOKEN word should be observed even
with greater care than the written.
Patience and Self Control.
Be patient. 1t was the patience of
Washington that won the Revolution,
and the patience of Columbus that
discovered the new world as much as
other attributes. This was not the
patience Of Indifference or idle wait
ing, but of ceasless activity without
fretting. effort without evaporation.
The man who is not at constant war
with his impulses and passions, en-
deavoring to master and control them
instead of being subject to them, is
not safe at large.
A man who does not try to control
himself is as uncertain as an orator.
An orator has been described as a
person who can talk for an hour with
out stopping to think once.
Personality.
I used to wonder what It meant to
develop personality, and how to de-
veIop my own. I wonder now, but
believe one practical way of develop
ing 1t is to do everything we can find
to dc, and do it in our own way.
Thereby we at least learn, and make
effective, the motto Learn by doing"
Then the body must be kept active
and fit. 1t should be clean from dis
ease, clean from superfious and
poisonous food and drink, clean from
bad habits, and clean with muscular
activity, and pure blood. The thought
of poliuting the body should be OBJ
royious to US.
Besides purely personal improve
ment, there is work for every one in
the home, the church. tho school, in
business. in politics, in civic matters.
in society, in every avenue and walk
of life.
There are races to be run and re-
wards to be won.
There are loads to carry and burdens
to lift.
There is good to do and evils to over
come.
Life is too short to accomplish what
IS before us. Let US fill every mo-
ment with progressive, aggressive,
beneficial endeavor.
We have been given the right to
possess the world.
May we quail at no heights.
May We not be satisfied short Of
perfection.
If we do not reach that good, what
matter, so long as we have tried.
THE man worth while
Is the man who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong"
Good and Evil.
There are two great invisible, in
tangible powers about us-one is evil,
and produces sloth, inactivity, envy,
hatred, jealousy, meanness failure,
| death. The other is good, and pro-
duces energy, activity. good will, de-
velopment, progress, life.
These forces war against each other,
| yet are our servants; that is, we have
| the power to harness to ourselves for
| own uses and purposes either OF the
| powers.
| We make evil and it's result death,
| our ally by mean, narrow, selfish citt-
zenship, by Indifference, self satisfac-
| ton, and lack of endeavor; or we
may make good, and its result life
| our ally by endeavor to better the
| condition of ourselves and those about
US, oy cooperation, by giving more Ia
| the world than we take from it. by
| ceaseless striving until nothing is left
! undone whereby the lot OF mankind
may be improved. believe all of value
that has been given to this world, and
all individual achievement has beer
soley the result OF work. God worked
when he made the world. He COM
rIanded man to work six days each
week. Government, law, literature
science, invention, discovery, are al
the result of work Work is some
thing all of US can perform. True th'
work should be intelligently directed
We are not TO wait until we can secure
something which satisfies US befor'
we begin to work. But work a
everything we can find to do, Iittl
| things especially
Work for works sake. Do some
thing also without expectation of pay
II expended the best part Of seyera
years of my life in civic and com
munity interests, knowing 1 could no
receive any money for it, having n
expectation of personal benefit othe
than that of the satisfaction of help
ing a little to push the load. As a re
lSBk = eEsb@ed uae ta become work