Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-09
All You Possess Is Hope.
Keep 1t Alive; Do Not Let Incidence Overcome You.
Hope and Work
Man is mental machine The devils that live in man

Man is a mental machine The devils that live in mans
mind interfere with the machine
You have got your head white ivory temple
brain inherited from thousands that lived
this earth ahead Of you.
That wonderfully formed skull from which you
the world simply and development the
most joint in your backbone.
In that developed physical thinking machine lives the soul
which YOU And it is constantly with the attractions
the temptations the all the troubles that has inherited
from animal ancestry and savage ancestry through millions of
years.
Your fight against evil has got fight carried inside
of your mind.
The wall that you build around your thinking machinery
around your WILL be mental wall built up of regular
thought of good thought suppression of evil and the exercise
of qualities that give results consistency justice
Sometimes the building of a wall such need
diOus the building of the great Chinese Wall.
The Chinese built that huge wall around their kingdom to
kesp the Taars and other hOrde Just they build the lit
tie walls front of their keep evil spirits
Both walls foolish and useless For
in and ruled In China for just the evil spirits dodge
around the little brick walls and into the Chinese house.
Your mental building may be resOme and slow the
Chinese Wall But at least when the wall is built your mind
it will do the work for which it built
who discouraged whose years of failure repeated eff
forts ending in lack of have discouraged him the
time realize that hope lost while lives
and that long hopes CAN build wall
keep failure and keep down the weaknesses inherited
grow up the brain and destroy useful thought weeds
destroy the useful growth in garden.
The one thing to keep alive in the mind is HOPE
Carlye's wonderful old character Teufeldroch says
Man is properly speaking based upon Hope he has
other possession but Hope this world of his emphacay the
Place of Hope"
This world world of hope. And this is hopes blossom
ing Hope and courage practically the We
should keep mind Goethe lines Courage gone everything
gone better thou vert born"
If at the end a you find courage failing hope
DIM go out into the country and look at the weaker animals
that share this earth with you
Watch some patient bird build for the third
tenth time the nest that has been cruelty destroyed
Watch the spider work the web-patent
discouraged
See feeble blades of grass struggling against heat and
drouth and the pressure of weeds and other enemies
All of Nature is hope courageous struggle perseverance
the animal the feeblest the least persistent
awhile considers himself the ruler of the globe full
Of pride and conhdenCe-he is in reality, in transitional
changing stage halfway the animal of the past the
real man who is to be this earth in the future.
Our only Just been acquired Man has been
able think in the feebs of for thousand centuries at
moand the animals have been here for ten millions of years.
and
Man has had a language for only few centuries AS
race he has reading animal ONLY DURING THE PAST
GENERATION
Our minds easily become tired all other organs work
splendidly The unatc walks feels and hears 1t is the
weak mind that goes first.
As you struggle to keep alive hope and courage and try to
up of your brain such wall of self protection
the builds outside of his house remember that
alone is worth while
The very that happen to you is THE ENDING
OF THIS LIFE.
That a serious thing And while the life lasts
you might well keep working at it, planning fighting your
self and building