El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-21
'NO Talents Are Useless"
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Says Ambitions
May be Realized Through
Reincarnaticn.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
o earnest effort, no use Of brain


L-By Ella Wheeler WiflcOx.-
O earnest effort, no use of brain
n power, no application to study
i Is ever lost. 1t is never wasted
Somewhere, some time, that error L
that power, mat knO"IeoSe' VIII COlliS
ny Tbie one fact alone is enough to
make the belief in yreincarnatlon OF
inestimable value, asa source OF nap.
piness to every soul here IN TINS DrleL
and troubled life span.
Christ taught reincarnation.
1t is well known to students OF TINS
philosophy that few souls remember
the old lives at least not until they
have studied for that purpose.
This explains why John the Baptist
when asked art Thou Elias2" replied
..No." But Christ knowing all things,
y saw unto you he (John) is Elias,
who was for to come" (Mat XII, and
xvii, 10 and 49,
Solomon says, 7 was a witty child,
and had a good spirit; yea being Sood
I came into body undefiled-"
Josephus said to the Romans:
"Do We not remember that all pure
spirits who are in conformity with the
devine dispensation live in the lOveliest
of heavenly places, and in course or
time they are again sent to inhab1t
sfnless bodies? But those who commit
self destruction are sent to a region Of
darkness"
Origen says, Every soul is intro
deserts and former action.
All this is very encouraging to right
action. to right thinking, to high as
Diration. and to the use of every faculty
and power we possess while here on
earth, no matter how limited our out
look.
Business Man LOnged to BE Scholar.
a man who has been obliged to fol-
L. earrff liz hrr-T inn or
yet who has lO1ged to be a scholar,
and who has spent all his spare mo-
mentS in the study Of law or Itera-
ture, viii come back to earth IN his
next life with a precOcious mind, ready
to attain the heights of learning with
small effort A woman who has all
her life lOnged to be musician began
after she passed the meridian to.~study
the rudiments Of music She viii not
live to achieve more than a beginning
in this life; and the uninstructed mind
might think she was wasting time The
knOwer realizes that she is preparing
musician
This preface answers the following
letter received recently:
Talents which are useless.
since a youth the writer has been
a member of that despised profession
the theatrical-in various capacities
actor, playwright, manager, agent
and for the past three years has been
fraternity as actor and producer. Dur
ing this entire period the good God
has kept his brain busy with mechani-
cal problems dealing with Lost Power
which il has been his divine will to
permit him to perfect; but, do what he
may he cannot get a market for his
discoveries Why was he given these
thoughts, and why was he permitted
TO bring them to a successful issue,
if they were not intended for the
worlds uSe2
Il fear that in the above I have not
been over clear in presenting my case.
What meant to say was this-with-
out mental effort on my part I have
succeeded in perfecting the following
in theory and practice motor to
utilize the hydraulic power IN the
water surrounding a vessel in such
manner as to furnish light, heat and
power to the vessel; a fifth wheel on
an automobile which would furnish a
certain quantity of electric current to
the storage batteries, resupplying them
automatically, and thus saving energy
a hydraulic pump to be attached to a
fire plug and utilizing the force of
water as power, pump the water with
out the necessity Of a fire engine, and
a number OF other methods of utiliZ-
ing the Lost Power which is all about
US. In this manner I am using talent
which so far has proved useless
Il cannot go ahead and promote these
inventions, as my time must be given to
earning a competence for my wife and
self so that We can live. I cannot
get assistance from the outside world
so that L can go ahead and put these
necessities on the market, as I have
tried and dismalIy failed. Hence the
question, Why does God give talents
which are useless2'
If this young man Is as determined
to succeed as was Robert Fulton.
Cyrus Field, Marconi and a score of
other great inventors and discoveries
he will find the way. Nothing can
stand in the way of a divine soul which
IS burning with an all compelling re-
solve.
Mans Efforts and Hopes Never Lost.
1t burns away the obstacles which |
lie between it and its goal.
1t brings into the visible realm the |
invisible helpers
Meantime, all that this man is doing
viii count for great value when he :
comes again to earth.
His efforts, his ambitions, his hopes I
are not lost
We VIII be what we viii to be: If !
not here and now, then later on. when !
we viii bring new powers and new
strength from the spiritual realms .
through which We viii pass en- route 1
to earth again.-Copyright by Star 1
Company.