The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-06-08

awake. Many of us live like poverty
scourged beggars while great inheri
lance lies available at hand. Prof
James, in a delightful essay on "The
Energies of Man shows that most Of
surface. Every one knows that there
are energies slumbering in him which
the indictments of the day do not call
forth, but which might be displayed if
these were greater. We are making
use of only small part of our posi-
BILE mental and physical resources
Call Up the Reserves.
"There are in us all deeper levels
of power than we have yet touched.
Grant as tanner, as farmer, was a
failure, but when the exegencies of
war made him bore through the real
man of action, ability and power stood
revealed. Many man allows himself
line is driven in, and he never calls
up his reserves. Most of us are utiliz-
ing less than fifty per cent of our cap
ital. What might we be and do did
we fling our entire self into the game
of life 1t is not enough to be active.
We must be active to great purpose.
masters.
1.-THE whole land of life is before u.s.
The man of will moves on despite foes
and mountains Every Alpine pass can
be crossed. Every Drake smiles at
danger, and every Columbus cries,
Sail on, sail on and on 1t is our job
to conquer the wilderness, harness the
unframed, utilize the present, take the
high road of the stars and prove our
selves masters.
what kind of mastery shall it be?
AS you subdue the forces of nature
and of life what are you going to do
it for? Is it to satisfy some purely
personal ambition or is it to secure
or further some larger social good?
AS you discover the secrets of nature,
to what end is the discovery? Is it
collective or personal? AS you come
and are selected for positions of lead
ership, how will you regard it? Will
you see in it only personal triumph
or will you see in it the privilege of
larger service?
Two Kinds of Mastery.
There are two kinds of mastery and
they may be distinguished by the mo-
tives that prompt them.
There is the mastery of self inter-
est. Within certain bounds self inter- |
est is mighty propelling force. A
man ought to be interested in his own |
life and success. A man without some |
measure of self interest is a jelly fish |
sort of an individual. But when man
makes helf interest the dominant note
of his life, he becomes self conferred.
He loves his poise and bearing and
imagines that the world revolves
around him. When that happens
man has become selfish.
"There is a mastery which selfish
men win. They gain it sometimes by
brilliancy, sometimes by effort, by log
rolling, by contrivance, collision. But
this is to be said of the mastery of
self interest: 1t is unsatisfactory.
Selfishness is the blight on the fruit
Of time; it is the worm in the rose of
success; it is the mildew on the petals
Of victory Selfishness robs the day of
It's splendor and honor of it's true sig
lificance. Selfishness corrodes the
channels of happiness, takes the heart
,ut of poetry and the harmony out of
music. There has never been a great
poet prophet, or statesman who was
selfish. Literature, history, life repeat
he strain The mastery of selfshness
S unsatisfactory.
1.-THE matery that is built On self in
crest is like the house built on the
and' 1t is not abiding.
Voices are crying from the desert
of Tyre,
From Baalbec and the stones of
Babylon;
We raised our pillars upon self I
desire
And persisted from the large gaze !
of the SUM-. a
The Unselfish Kind.
But there is another kind of mas
cry. 1t is. the mastery of ministry. I
t is unselfish. 1t is social as we'll as