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.
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Man is mental machine The devils that live in man S
mind interfere with the machine.
You have got your head that white ivory temple
inherited thousands of different animals that lived
on this earth ahead of you
That wonderfully formed skull from which you
the world simply expansion and development of the
most joint in your backbone.
developed physical thinking machine lives the soul
which YOU constantly with the attractions
temptations the all the troubles that has inherited
animal ancestry savage ancestry through millions
years
Your fight against got a 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 good thought suppression of evil and the exercise
of qualities that give results perseverance consistency justice
Sometimes the building of a wall such need is te
diOus the building of the great Chinese Wall
The Chinese built that huge wall around their kingdom to
keep the Taars and other hOrdes just they build the lit
tie walls in front of their doors to keep out evil spirits
Both walls foolish and useless For the Tartars
in and rueddn China for centuries just the evil spirits dodge
around the little brick walls and go into the Chinese house
building may tiresome and slow the
Wall But least when the wall is built your mind
it will do the work for which it was built
who has been discouraged whose years of failure repeated eff
forts ending of success have discouraged him 1t
time realize that hope while lives
and that long hopes and tries he CAN build his 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.
Carlyles wonderful old character TeufedroCh says:
Man is properly speaking based upon Hope; he has
other possession but Hope this world of his emphatcay
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 born
If the end of week you find courage failing hope
DIM go into the country and look the weaker animals
that share this earth with you.
Watch patient bird build for the third fourth
tenth time the that has been cruelty destroyed
Watch the spider work and web-patient
never discouraged.
See the feeble blades of grass struggling against heat and
drouth and the pressure of weeds and other enemies
All of Nature hope courageous struggle perseverance
the weakest animal the feebest persistent
awhile he considers himself the globe full
of pride and COnfdenCe-he is in reality transitional
changing stage halfway between the animal of the past and the
real man who is to be on this earth in the future
Our brains have only just been acquired Man has been
dule 70 III Aeepst VI ways Io THOUSAND centuries
animals millions of years
and
Man has had a language for only few centuries AS
he has been reading animal ONLY DURING THE PAST
GENERATION.
Our minds easily become tired all organs work
splendidly The lunatic walks hears 1t is the
weak mind that goes first
As you struggle keep alive hope courage and try to
build up inside of your brain such protection as
the Chnaman builds outside of his house remember that
alone worth while.
The very worst that happen you is THE ENDING
OF THIS LIFE
That is not such serious thing And while the life lasts
you might well keep working at it. planning fighting your
self and building.