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

anu 1SSAS with It's scent.
Between an optinist and a pes
simist the difference is rather droIl.
The optimist sees the doughnut, the
pessinist sees the hole"
Boosting is called the religion OF the
west, and when they decide to boom a
town they first have a funeral OF all
the knockers"
America is lacking in many of the
best gifts because We are too super
fetal. Recently the English have DEM
onstrated in certain world gatherings
that they Sare better educated than
Americans. We are. in many essen
tiaIs OF real culture, behind the jap
anese and Chinese. They are more
polite and think more, less noisy and
more complacent and contented.
We are suffering from the calamity
of an intense conmercialism.
Compare the America Of the red man
with that of today. Then it was in
habited by a few half clothed, half
starved sAvages; now it is filed with
great cities. factories, railroads and
well filled and well fed.
Money Isn't All.
Money is good but 1t cannot buy the
best gifts-character, blood, culture
Paul writes three chapters in Corin-
thians about giving and never men,
tons money once. He calls it charts
ma, grace.
Money cannot buy religion. It can
not actually produce culture. Men
must give themselves. Here is blank
paper, but a man must give himself to
it before it becomes a book. Haw-
thorne was twenty six years writing
Scarlet Letter. A certain business
school used the fact to advertise, by
saying under our method it can be
written in seven minutes!" There is
still no royal road to these best things
The acres of diamonds are under our
feet and only need drill and bucket
and brains and energy to bring them
up!
There are two laws which control
the physical universe--the law of the
centripetal force and the law of the
centrifugal. One cannot exist with
out the other. Christ likewise has
these laws in His spiritual kingdom
freely you have received, freely give
When God wanted to save world
| He gave Himself.
His wife was not conditioned upon
| gratitude, and neither must yours or
mine be. One to follow Christ as
model must be willing to lose his life.
He must know how to give himself
Taking pains" is the price of all true
service. All great work is mixed with
blood and sweat Jesus sends His dis
| ciples to be givers.
| Here is a boy with a sum he cannot
work. He has struggled with it, and
| dug his fists into his misty eyes until
| he is begrimed, and now he takes the
| greasy slate to the teacher. She cleans
off the slate and works it for him, line
| by line, and then rubs it all out and
| sends him to his seat to work it out
Jesus came and made the sacrifice and
| became our teacher and said, Now, &c
work out this salvation"
Henry Grady put himself into strug-
Cling paper, and behold both great. Il
one bore with an augur at beginning
! it is not surprising he has to use gim-
let at the end of life! Burn the can
die at both ends
Mr., HENDERsoNS TALK.
The Folly of Being Satished.-Suc-
ces is achievement: achievement is
the result of activity; activity is life
| Failure is lack of achievement; lack
of achievement is the result Of mac
tivity: inactivity is death.
Success is not a matter of degree or
station.
1t may be just as complete in set
| ting type as in managing a system OF
| railroad.
Achievement is no more the pre-
| rogative Of kings and presidents than
OF clerks.
| Whenever there is activity in nature
we find life. Whenever and wherever
there is life, there is great and cease
less activity. This is just as true in
the human body and in material
affairs.
| Must Work to Live.
A young man said to J. Pierpont
Morgan some years ago: ''Mr. Nor
gan, YOU have more money than you
can possibly spend if you live to be
two hundred. Why don't you gut
work."
t'Tom," said Mr.. Morgan, how ole
was your father when he went out
of business and stopped work .
"seventy-two," said Tom. How ole
was he when he died?" Seventy
three replied Tom. Said Mr.. Nor
gan: That is just it. If quit, would
die in a. year
When a person gets to the place
where he thinks it is not necessary
for him to strive and to get better, h.
should be transplanted. He has th'
root rot or white fly. or some othel
insiduous disease sapping his life. H
is dying.
A Wrong Conception.
With these few suggestions I thinl
we may safely agree 1t is not well t
be satisfied. Or at least not to b
satisfied short of the results desired
as expressed in the word Of song b.
Mr.. Cohen:
There are a few things that I need
II had them would want for nothing
more.
"An 1 want is fifty million dollars
And seaIskins to protect me from tn
cold,
If I only knew how stocks would go il
Wall street,
And was living in a mansion built o
gold,
If the Vanderbilts would let me spen
their money,
II univ had an heirASs for wife