Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-01-16
1t Is the Mighty Energy Within
Which Enables Man to Accom-
pIish Things.
T0 MAKE MOST OF YOURSELF
The World of Mans Making is the To-
tai Result of His Determinations
Mind Is Mans Master, but
Will Is the Executive
Officer.

Your Will Is your practical faculty.
your naughty servant. and your strict
master Your will is the active ener-
gy of your being. 1t is the might with
in you which effects the highest &C
complishments. The spirit wills and
the body must" said the old Stoics
The will is the essence OF your in
dividuality. There is no more sugges-
tive description of any man than that
which says that he has a strong will
or that his will is weak
Natural philosophers declare that to
be a man is to have a will Am
born man? Being born man by pos
sibility may be pope! SO, pope
meant to make myself. by step and
step" And he did
Will is the key to all achievement
in life The world of mans making
is the total result of his determine
tons. Pyramids and tombs. castles
and cathedrals. canals and railroads.
the great merchant marine, manufac-
tories which tower to the skies or
make up a town. businesses which
reach out in the uttermost parts of the
earth-all those achievements are the
results of great determinations.
The story of the life of a great man.
the story put into his work. is the
story of what will can do. By will
power the sufferer becomes an ora
tor. the one handed man becomes
more skilled than he with two hands.
the blind man becomes accomplished,
the deaf and lumb-through willing
themselves 10 power-attain unbelieY-
able success.
You may say that these things are
phenomenal rather than normal You
want to believe in the normal power
of will. Do so. Instances are as COM
mon as day and night But it is the
marvels of will which stand out in his
tory and life, stand out as ideas, in
centiyes. effective examples.
The marvels of will astonish US,
and not the least astonishing of these
marvels is that so much has beeh &C
complished and is every day accom-
plished with wills at war. What has
not will done even under the most try
ing odds!
All ethical philosophy is concerned
about the will-the will is the center
of all moral systems-and the philos-
oEhy of religion makes just as much
of this form of mind
The transcendentalist says that will
is The divine power in man given him
to control his vagrant impulses; that
will is not only the discriminating
judge and the commanding power but
that ii is the creative power as well.
You imagine your ideal and then day
by day by means of your will repro
duce part of it in your life
To the practical man will is the de-
termining force within him-his vo
htional power He sincerely believes
that where there is a will there is a
way. and that if he has the will he may
find it,
The mind was made TO be mans
master. with the will as its executive
officer. VIII, however, too often falls
into the beaten paths made for it by
sentiment and desire 1t leeds to be
controlled by strong reason. Ana here
We have a round robin. Men do not
reason strongly without willing them
selves to do so.
Strangely enough. the world is full
er OF prescriptions for weak wills than
o precepts for strong ones. Pre-
ventive measures are just being fully
worked out for this field of mans life,
and truly here an ounce of prevention
is worth ten pounds of cure
Indecision often demoralizes man
more surely than does a moral offense.
although they often work together.
VIII is a profound sort of energy
that can master every other energy
within US Like every other energy
Il increases with use and decreases ii
not used. With decrease of use it be-
comes subject to disease. Diseased
wills are among the colGmonest of
phenomena You can often see them
go with a galloping consumption. But
there is one hopeful thirg about the
ashes of dead will VIII has the
phenix-like power of rising out of its
own ashes.
In all willing there is question Of
commanding end obeying You who
VIII do both have ever a charming
prospect In yourself You are your
own commonwealth and your own gov
ernor. and there is bound to be a
happy state of things when the gov
erning class thus identities itself with
the successes of the governed