The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-12-25
Success or Failure.

morally or socially. The man who con-
tinually changes his business loses more
at each change than he has made. A
companion who is angelic a portion of
the time and then allows evil tendencies
to control, is not conducive to human
happiness. Tickle mindedness is the
ruin of love, home, happiness, fortune
and character. A noted author has said:
''There is only one good thing in the
world and that is good will" The will
shapes our destiny. 1t seizes or rejects
the little incidents which make or mar
our happiness. 1t is no uncommon thing
to hear person humming tune or hear
them say they always feel like singing
when coming into the room, and then by
some very trifing occurrence they will
lose the happiness out of their hearts.
This is very short piece off the same
piece which causes a man to take to
strong drink when overtaken by mlsfor-
tune or disappointment. A lecture re-
Gently given by Pres. Campbell of the
University of Oregon before the stu
dents at the Normal school sheds much
light on this subject of success or fail
ure. He extolled the Importance of hav-
ing perspective or ideal and courage to
attain their lofty ideals. He also advo-
Gated loyalty to their cause and union to
secure the inertia necessary to carry
them to the summit. He recounted some
of the wonderful resources of the land
a I'd mentioned electricity as a coming
force to increase vastly in Importance.
Our individual freedom was mentioned as
the cause of our progressing so much
more rapidly than the ancients whose
freedom was constantly restricted. 1t
is for US to cherish an unlimited faith in
the nobility of humanity. We have be-
fore US the past experience of the race
for correction We are realizing the
dreams of the ancients. Who will real
ize century hence our dreams of today?
We inherit some of the traits of our
thousands of ancestors. Some were
small and some large of stature. They
differed in native talents and disposition,
The scientific nature of our Christian
equality was dWelt upon and the science
of the poetic mind was so prominent
that we might almost imagine that the
speaker had in mind the dawning of a
day when the poetic and the common
mind might be drawn into closer relation
ship. The spontaneous action of the
poet is more correct than science. We
should accept our work not as duty
but as privilege, as an opportunity.
Schools should move as an army together
to promote one common purpose. The
wealth we acquire may never make US
capitalists but it will keep US from
misery. The work may be lightened by
bright visions of happy, cheerful home.
He might have added that the ideal home
of the average lady teacher is so high
that she seldoms attains it until near the
border line of the future world.
not mention. A young lady compliments
an eloquent young preacher when he has
been devoting whole sermon to the
subject of death. Evidently it was not
the sermon she admired but the preacher.
As a matter of fact death is the least
important incident connected with this
life. The all important thing is the
thought, the act, even the expression of
the countenance at this present moment.
The time to compliment the preacher is
when he discourses of this present life
at this present hour and not when he
talks of a dead past or a dead future.
But to return to our discourse: We are
warned to beware of encouragement.
Never give up hope. If the church is
cold, take for text MANY are cold but
few are frozen" An illustration is Civ
en- to show that we should present our
best thoughts This is much advocated
by educators. If best thoughts are much
encouraged, less valuable thoughts will
die of neglect or be choked out by those
of superior quality. AS we proceed along
this road, pleasures of intellect are sub
stituted for pleasures of sense and thus
man proves himself worthy of his divine
origin. He told of little woman weigh
ing less than one hundred pounds who
proved herself big woman. She taught
a country school in the mountains. She
realized the needs of the country teacher
and went to school and qualified herself
to meet those needs. She returned and
was made supervisor of the whole re-
gion. Thus her dream was realized and
she was able to furnish the needed aid to
the country teacher. One not familiar
with the situation has little conception
of the task the single individual teacher
has undertaken when she goes into the
district alone and attempts to remold
tradition as we'll as character. This line
of thought would lead US to believe that
the steam engine and the mosaic law
have a common origin in one Supreme
mind; also that one of the chief reasons
why brute instinct is more accurate than
human is because it is more trusted.
Man reasons the spontaneous thought
away while the brute does not. A stu